On Dec 10, 6:57*pm, Kalmia > wrote:
>
> I guess I will treasure my loose-leaf, tabbed, extra blank pages in
> the back, address book. *I think I bought it about 15 - 20 years ago.
> I didn't realize those were now dinosaurs. *I have never used ink in
> it *and am more determined than ever to keep it going. *I prob. have
> 200 entries in it - and I'll be damned if I ever wish to try to put
> all of it into any cellphone. *It goes with me on trips and if I ever
> need to evacuate, it's going. *You may have to buy a plain notebook
> and make your own.
>
> As to graduation to 'harder stuff' *- uh-uh. *In fact we downsized
> from a pay per month cell (some months we never made one call) to one
> of those deals - pay 100 bucks for a year, 25 cents a minute.
> Rollover feature when you re-up for the next hundred. * I don't think
> we've used 20 dollars worth of it since July.
>
> I hate it when a friend calls to gab from a cell - bad transmission
> and echo etc.


It's funny, even though I agree that cellphone sound is inferior,
sometimes I'll be talking with someone who is on a cellphone and I
won't even know it. Depends on where they are, I guess.

But I'm more interested in discussing the loose-leaf, tabbed,
address and phone book. I bought a cheap day planner, no tabs, at the
dollar store. I don't like it much, but I sat down and copied all the
phone numbers I deem still useable to the new book. The old one was
great - black with tabs - and it like yours was at least 25 years
old. There was room for more stuff, but I just got tired of looking
at the scribbling. I made the mistake a few times of putting
temporary numbers in there.

But now the funny part. As I was copying these numbers and some
addresses from the old tabbed book to the new dollar store one, I
found it to be quite a chore, which I knew it would be even before I
started. But some of the numbers were no longer valid, so I didn't
have to copy those to the new book. Then I started coming across some
people who have since died, and it filled my heart with joy as with
each new dead person's number I cried, "Alright, don't have to copy
that one!" I'm serious. A lot of people I know have died in 25
years. The downside: They're dead. The upside: No need to copy
their now useless phone numbers into my new dollar store address book.

TJ