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First, keep the battery charged. I got to the airport last Friday, our flight was delayed for a good long while, and so I called the pastor of the church we were going to (Eastpoint Community Church<\/a>), and realized it was my last call of the day: the battery went out on me. Now what surprised me was that I hadn\u2019t even made a call, though I did occasionally flip it open to see if anyone called \u2014 and they hadn\u2019t. Somehow the battery wore down, and Kris thought it might have had to work extra to stay in touch with a cell while we were in the airport.
\nSecond, you have to get used to the \u201cring.\u201d I dropped Kris off at the grocery store and I went to pick up our dog, Webster. I turned on the radio and was coming home when I didn\u2019t like the song, since it had some background sounds coming through, and then I switched it to another channel, only to discover that it, too, had the same background music. Well, as it turned out, that background music was my phone and I didn\u2019t know it. There it was, my first real phone call and I thought it was background music to the radio!
\nAnd I was sitting in Ginny Olson\u2019s office chatting when the little phone started to vibrate, which jolted me for a minute, but by the time I got the flipper open the caller (Kris) had hung up. And then I got another call, flipped the flipper open, and pressed the little green button, which must have turned the call off. So, I\u2019ve got a ways to go just answering the little bugger.
\nThird, my son called me while were in flight so I would have a message when I flicked open my phone, which I forgot to do on the plane \u2014 which would have made me look like a cell-phone veteran \u2014 but I did do on our way home. Sure enough, it made a funny sound and I went through all the steps necessary to retrieve my one and only Voice mail message.
\nThat\u2019s progress.
\nMy fear: that I\u2019ll drop the thing in the toilet when multi-tasking, which I did do to one phone. Details omitted; imagination clear.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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