Phone

I got a new phone in the mail because my last one drowned.  It didn’t drop into a standing body of water either.  You know how they have pictures on buckets and other vessels saying that it only takes a small amount of standing water in the bottom of a container for someone to drown?  That’s apparently true with cell phones as well.  It was in the door of my car and my car only had a sun shade (that’s just a roof with no walls) when we got more rain in one afternoon than we had in the last six months combined.  I was in a room with no windows so I didn’t even realize it was raining.  By the time I walked out in the evening, my car already had a nice little lake on the floor and my phone, which was in the door, no longer worked.  It was hard to make it through those five days without a phone, but I managed without too many problems.  I now have around 25 voicemail that I will not ever listen to.

Two nights ago we got a big enough storm that my power went out.  I don’t think I would ever have noticed save the fact that the stupid microwave and my alarm clock are both flashing their time.  I wish they had small batteries in them to keep that from happening.  My alarm clock does, but I’m convinced it doesn’t accomplish anything because it always resets when I unplug it or the power goes out.  I could replace the batter to see if that’s part of the problem but I haven’t seen a 9V batter on sale for a pretty long while.  True, I haven’t really been looking for one but I feel I would have noticed those things if they were hanging at the checkout line of the grocery store.

The shelf of my entertainment center was sagging because it was from WalMart and I don’t think these things are made to the highest quality standards.  Basically, there is about a quarter inch of space between the shelf and the top of the drawer and in the very middle, the shelf was resting on the drawer.  I don’t really use that drawer so I was trying to figure out a way to make this whole drawer-shelf-contact thing go away.  Conveniently enough, I got a cardboard box in the mail a few days ago so I just tore a piece off, folded it in half and jammed it between the drawer and the shelf.  Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor I am not, but it addressed the problem; that’s all I was really looking for.