Just Get With It!

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
                                                                                           Stewart Brand
I'm happy to announce that I've joined in with millions of others and just purchased my first iPhone.  I received it the other day and yesterday our middle son called and asked about it.  I told him we were going tomorrow to get it activated.  ACTIVATED???  Didn't I know that I didn't have  to go back to the cell phone store and that I could activated it myself?  He told me that a 5 or 6 year old could do it, it was that easy!  OUCH!!  At the time he called, we were with a group of friends and I told them what he said.  They all, almost in unison, said to "wait and go to the store tomorrow".  I told our son I would call him later.

Little did I realize that once I called him, that was the beginning of me getting my phone activated.  He asked me to call him back on Mr. Cottage's cell phone.  I told him at the beginning of our conversation that I had removed it from the box but the plastic was still on it and I hadn't really touched it or done anything with it.  I was just going to take it to the store and let them do everything for me.  Once everything was a GO, he asked me to make a call on my old cell phone.  To my amazement, there was no longer any service.  But when he called me on my new iPhone4s I could barely hear him.  We went through all kinds of maneuvers to try and get the volume louder, but nothing really worked....and then....I remembered about the plastic still being on the phone.  Could that thin piece of plastic really make that big a difference in the volume?  Yes, it sure did!

Our middle son is our go to techie.  He started his own business and built both of his own computers and he designed and developed his own website.  If you have nothing better to do, check out his business at Icon Filmworks and see his great web designing.  We're very proud of him, as well as our other two wonderful sons. 

Thanks, Mikey!