Thoroughly Modern Average Jane

Let me run you through a little scenario to explain the way my cell phone has been behaving over the past seven months or so:

[Phone rings]
Jane:  Hello?
Caller: Eh oh a oh eh ooh…
Jane:  I’m sorry, hang on.  I can’t hear anything you’re saying – I’ll call you back from another phone.
[Hangs up.]

If this had happened with every call, I might have addressed it sooner.  However, it happened randomly enough that I might have a day or two of acceptable call quality and start to forget what a piece of junk my phone had become.  Then it would go bad again.

Last week I finally informed my phone company that I am taking my business elsewhere.  My contract expires early next month and I knew I had a small window of cancellation opportunity before they sneakily renewed me.  I ordered a fancy new phone from another company that’s small and shiny and has a camera and a color screen and fun ringtones (some of which aren’t too annoying).  In other words, it’s the kind of modern phone that everyone else already has.

I left behind my old phone number in the transition, but I don’t anticipate that being a problem.  Sometimes it’s kind of nice to get a new cell phone or a new e-mail address and have a fresh start.  It doesn’t take long before the unwanted calls and e-mails return, but there’s a brief respite in between.

Now that I have a camera phone, I’m planning to start a moblog.  I’ll try to get it set up this weekend or next weekend and I’ll post the link as soon as it’s up.

Have a great Wednesday!