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Out to the Cabin

On boxing day, after my adventure in Walmart, two friends and I went out to a cabin up the Ingraham Trail here in Yellowknife. The cabin is owned by the Yellowknife Scouts, which we were once all a part of and still have a hand in in someway.

Although we only went for one night it was nice to get out of town and just relax. I’d like to say I was able to get away from the distractions of the Internet and technology but upon arriving at the cabin I found the I had full cell service on my iPhone. I was very shock, and well, pleased. We came to the conclusion that whoever deals with the cell network area, whether Bell or NorthweTel, put up another repeater around Prelude Lake, which is near by to where we were.

I took my small camera just for kicks and to give you all a sense of where I was.

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Just Call Me!

I have been thinking about writing about this for a couple days now and with me breaking my cell phone it only seemed right to write it now. The other day here at work I was taking the fleece blankets out of the dryer. Now I don’t use any dry sheets because we don’t have any so those blankets are some static. Well I was pulling them out and at the same time I pulled out my phone and ZAP! Ouch that was big! Right to my phone. I honestly didn’t really think that could break it but I guess I have been wrong before. Phone Dead, I put it on the charger when I got home and still nothing BAM. How does that make a person feel?

How would you feel if you phone broke? Lost? Alone? Shout out? Look around in today’s world who doesn’t have a cell phone. That’s fine I have nothing wrong with that. Good way for business, emergency, resource or what ever. It is test messaging through out teens that drives me nuts. Their whole lives are on phones. Messaging first thing in the morning, at super time, in the freakin bathroom. Where will it stop! What do they constantly talk about and why. I’m a “so, hows the weather today” type of guy, and that maybe one of my problems I can’t just chit chat with people on and on. I needed a purpose for conversation, business, work, family, etc.  Relationship are built and crumble through messaging. I know people who are just messaging people because they can, even if they are already with other people or doing something. It gets to a point where if no one replies to them, they send consecutive messages with question mark. Do you know how annoying that is on the receiving end.  It all so impersonal. If you want to talk to that person CALL THEM! That’s what the stupid things was originally made for. I work all night and sleep most of the day and I wake up to messages from the same people asking the same question over and over. If I’m not responding chances are I’m ignoring you or I’m sleeping. I don’t text people through out the night, although maybe I should start. What do you think huh?

Oh and to those who think its a bad idea to charge more than 10$ a month for unlimited messaging take a freakin hike. Its called business. The cell companies see that, oh, most of teens today have cell phone and have an outrageous amounts of messaging and I mean thousands. So why not charge a little more. Its the way the world goes. To the parents who would complain about this because they pay the bill, hears an idea make you freakin kids pay for it, their the ones using the stupid things. I’m the bushman and I’m leaving the 21st century, out to the cabin I go.

I felt like Lewis Black screaming writing that last paragraph!

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