This year is a very historical year for me. It marks 10 years of working in the telecoms/mobile internet industry. Yes 10 years. Can i believe it? No i cant. So to mark this monentuous landmark occasion i have turned into a Techno Ludite and brought myself a non push button, non memory store addressbook, non sms, non wap, non 3G, non music, non videostreaming fixed line manual dialling antique bakerlite telephone. Voila !
Very proud of this 1930s replica telephone set i am.
So far i have dialled 5 wrong numbers and on average taken approximately 10-15 sec to dial any non local number. International numbers ?? heaven forbid. It really makes me think how we never grumbled, never tutted, never cursed in the "old" days or did we?
On saturday i visited Mr Taylor. Mr Taylor is a 90 year old man who lives on his own and i pay him a social friendly visit evey now and again. My job is to just sit and have a chat with the very spritely 90 year old. Sometimes I talk too much, im sure i do. I am supposed to be listening, but Mr Taylor is well up on current affairs. We discuss space shuttles, the internet and motorbikes. Such a delight to visit Mr Taylor i learn so much.
Last night i watched The Shawshank Redemption - such a beautiful film . How it never got norminated for any oscars is beyond me.
"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies"
oh if you are reading this on the 3rd Oct. Then its my birthday. Happy birthday me. Im still @ a Dangerous Age...
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Shawshank redemption DVD is always in the bargain-bucket at out local Woolworths. "Must be a crap film" I always thought to myself. I might just buy it now that you mention it!
Happy birthday by the way!
yeah the phones great.... just took some getting used to. Now its cool - no more wrong numbers