The text that binds

How many text messages do you send daily via your cell phone?
I admit that I am an addict, but like all addictions, they must be eliminated before there is a serious problem at hand. I find it an inexpensive way to talk to my friends and family across the miles.
And it is also a portable friend when you need one. Minus all of the fee's as I signed on to FIDO at an early stage of the life cycle of SMS. I have a bundle package deal that lets me send pretty much as many as I want for almost nothing. Like I said, I signed up for it in its infancy and they SO hate me for this old package that I am allowed to keep. (ha ha ha)

I write this to say that lately I have taken a break from this medium. I have always wondered about the microwaves pulsing back and forth. If you are wearing an iPod or personal entertainment device of any sort that has headphones, you can actually hear these
buzzing waves of messages coming in and out. Take a listen it is kind of scary.

This could be like X-rays when they were the cool thing.
My grandmother once told me that in Vancouver they had this fancy shoe store that had an x-ray machine that you could indeed stick your feet under to see your bones!

I wonder if the same sort of thing goes for the whole new text/cell usage. It isnt safe by any means. But you will never know that via the corporations feeding you. I wish this information would come out. As if we would stop using them, it would however just be nice to know the truth. But if it is a large secrecy, then maybe it IS better to take your own precautions.

This past weekend David was sitting on his 11th floor balcony and his cell fell off and down below onto the 10th floor balcony.

Luckily not ALL the way down!

He could see it and hear it sitting down there mocking him.
He felt disconnected without that ability to text. And also the large list of phone numbers stored were laughing too.
I would feel the same if I were in his position.
Part of the reason I got rid of my PALM, what if I were to drop it or get it wet? all of my info would be gonzo.
So he still has not gotten it back as the woman that lives below is much like that troll that lives under the bridge.
She must be using the components to build WOMD or to get cable reception.

So this is day three that we have gone without it.
We have started to wake up and see that its not SO bad.
But it is like I said to my friends on the weekend:
"its like having a portable boyfriend, and my phone vibrates too!"
Then magalie stated:
"Note to self, do not borrow Patti's cell."