Steve left me today. Ok, only for a week. He's taking a well-deserved vacation from work, and took off today on the Gold Wing, headed south. It would have been nice to go with him, but I've pretty much used up MY vacation quota for a while!
Anyway, he has his cell phone and has promised to check in every night. So about 9:45 p.m. he called. I was online on dialup, so callwave picked up the message. Unfortunately, something is wrong with the sound card so I couldn't HEAR the message. I got offline and decided to go fire up the big laptop which also has callwave so I could hear the message. Before I went online I tried calling his cell phone back. Went to voice mail. (aka he turned off the cell phone to "preserve power.") And you guessed it, just as soon as I was back online he called back.
So I stayed offline for over a half hour. Tried to call him a few times but got voice mail every time. He never called back. Figured I was safe so went back online. Yep, not five minutes later he called back again. Got offline and yep, the phone was gone to voice mail. Waited a little bit, then tried again and, lo and behold it rang...finally connected over an hour after he first tried to call.
I hope that he will keep the phone on for 5-10 minutes after he tries this again (if he gets callwave that is.) After we talked that part of the problem through we had a good talk about how his day went. He is in Berea, Kentucky and headed for the Smokies. Hope he has a great time, he deserves it.
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