November 10

Today, a trip to Jeff is in bold font and pretty high on the list. I've got a dental appointment for a cleaning among the sub-titles, as well as a visit with Lena where we will try to explain to her how to use the cell phone. Another is the selling of our cans. No! We're not going into prostitution, we're taking along our bag of crushed aluminum cans hoping to get high dollar for them. I'm thinking around $8.00 tax free should be in my pocket shortly after stopping at the recycle joint.

I'm a little concerned about teaching Lena the paths through all of the cell phone's functions. Glenda and I played around with it enough to know how to make and receive calls but beyond that.........We did get her a voice mail set but there seems to be a problem with the password while trying to retrieve a message. Maybe I've got that mixed up with our phone. Anyway, all we can hope for is that a couple, in this case three, blind people can stumble through far enough to make the trip fun and successful. It's probable that Bob, a more knowledgeable person, will need to be called in before this inning is over.

Having a mobile phone for over twenty five years means nothing! A mobile phone is just a real phone while a cell phone, containing about the same amount of buttons is a very complicated form of commutations. I would say they're not for the slow or dim-witted but everywhere you go you see doubtfully smart people with the thing stuck to their ear. If it takes an fairly intelligent person to learn how to use one, there are millions of intelligent folks that prefer living poor. The phones seem to be pretty expensive yet we see people that in ragged clothing and their toes sticking out holes in their shoes, talking on one. Some of these people look to be only a step or two away from being a street person.

I've about come to the conclusion that the cell phone is addictive and once you get caught in it's web you can't give it up for anything. They are so expensive that the results of the addiction might be evidenced by the people on the street, looking like a street person in ragged clothing in shoes that allow their toes to stick out through all the holes, still with a phone to their ear. Poor folks using their money to keep the phone going while ignoring their basic needs.

Anyway, we are going to take the chance and hope for the best. OUR PHONE WILL ONLY BE USED IN AN EMERGENCY!

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." Eddie Cantor