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Tuesday
Sep242013

Some days need a health warning

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Here’s a nice picture to cheer me up.

Some days are great. Some days just grate. Today was in the latter category. Nothing too much, just lots of things going wrong when they really shouldn’t. Like me managing to delete a file rather than copy it to a USB key. I didn’t know this was possible, what with the the recycle bin and all, but I managed to achieve this magical feat and flush a couple of hours of careful Powerpointing down the toilet. By the end of the day, as I pulled up at the traffic lights on the way home I realised that one more thing had gone wrong. My phone wasn’t in my pocket where it should be.

So it was time for a frantic U turn back to the office, where of course the phone wasn’t. At this point something nice did happen. I met up with a couple of early first years (we start next Monday) who were taking a look around the place so they know where things are before the madness of Fresher’s Week kicks in. I said hello and welcome, but I must have seemed a bit distracted as I was wondering where my lovely Lumia had got to.

Finally I found it, down the side of the car seat where it had dropped. And the really, really annoying thing is that of course if I’d thought to check the Bluetooth on the car (which was lit up on the dashboard as usual) then I’d never had any of the panic. It just goes to show that if you expect bad things to be happening, you can then go on to make them happen yourself.

Oh well.

Reader Comments (2)

Funny. Just to pile to the Bluetooth clue: You do know there's a "Find my phone" page on the Windows Phone site, right? You could have had the general location of the device in no time and then even had the phone ring to give you and extra clue.

https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/my/find

Glad you found it in the end.

Ben
September 25, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterBen Riga
Good thought. Just something else I didn't think of.

I now have this vision of me getting out my phone and firing up "Find My Phone" to work out where it is.
September 26, 2013 | Registered CommenterRob

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