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My land line has become so polluted that I’m thinking about pulling the plug on it.

A vintage black rotary telephone with a volume control on a marbled tabletop next to an ornate lamp, set against a striped wallpaper.
Photo by Mike Hartley

Random Thoughts of the Day

  • If you focus on what few things really need to be done you will accomplish a lot.
  • The number of times I have to cut grass is down to single digits. Then again, I’d rather cut grass than shovel snow.
  • It’s only fitting that when two old friends reach out to each other that they would end up playing phone tag the first few times as punishment.
  • To the towns going to these parking apps. Guess which two letters I’m thinking of.


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It’s a phone

What are your favorite 5 apps on your phone? – Asks the daily prompt.

This is going to be embarrassing. I’m not much of a phone user except for using it as a phone. Partly because I hate reading on something that small.

  • Messages/text
  • Phone
  • News
  • Weather
  • Mail

And the mail part is only reading something essential at that moment. Otherwise, I read email on the computer. News and weather are also only quick checks.

I try to keep my phone use to an hour a day and I keep it pretty close to that. I’d like to make it less but with kids that is their communication vehicle. And looking at pictures and videos of the grandkids takes time because I don’t want to miss anything.

I hate having to use my phone for tickets.

A blue telephone booth with glass panels, showing a payphone inside.
Remember when it was a dime and a rotary dial on the ones in a booth? Photo by Mike Hartley


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I had the charger

I had my phone charger. What I forgot was the PHONE. I was away for 4 days without my phone.

The experience was friggin great. My better half had hers and I was with her the whole time so it wasn’t like I was out of total communication, but I didn’t borrow it once except to take a few pictures.

It has inspired me to make another concerted effort to leave that thing alone. Life is not about my face in that for more than a few minutes a day. I’m going to try to make another effort to get the daily usage of that device to less than an hour. If I limit it to just text, calls and a few photos, it might just be a few minutes a day.

Actually, it allowed me to have a better time with my grandson because I had no distractions from that device to interrupt us. It’s so easy to get distracted from life with phones. Yes, it has use, but it’s so easy to abuse.

I spend enough time on the computer each day working on this blog, and other writing as well as some photo and design efforts. But those are my activities/passions. And I think I keep a good balance away from them and participating in real contacts or experiences.

Come to think of it. When did I make the transition from putting a few nickels, dimes or quarters into a phone to make a call. Or just a few dollars ($2-4) per month for a landline. I think I’ve been suckered.

Maybe I’ll install one of these and get back to living life. Photo by Mike Hartley

Random Thoughts of the Day

  • There is a lot of beauty in the minutes before sunrise, just as there are after sunset.
  • I’m trying to figure out when I’m going to squeeze in some photography today.
  • Spring adds a soundtrack of nature that winter doesn’t provide. I love hearing the birds sing outside.
  • I hope it warms up quickly, I have a lot of outside work to do today.