On March 13th, I broke my collar bone playing rugby for my college. I went to the hospital, where X-Rays were taken, confirming the break. My house is only about 45 minutes away, so i snapped a picture of the X-Ray and e-mailed it to my dad, who is a doctor. He then passed the picture along to the orthopedic surgeon. I have a pearl, and thankfully the camera was of good enough quality that the picture was useful to him. Over easter break, i visited him, and he told me to keep it in a sling for three weeks and then come back. I went back last Friday, and upon further X-Rays showing zero bone growth, we decided to perform surgery. So yesterday, i had surgery which just so happened to be at the exact same time as my course registrations for the upcoming fall semester. Obviously, i couldn’t do them on my own, so i gave my roommate all the info to sign me up. However, because my major is overpopulated, the classes i wanted were all booked solid. However, while i was being driven to the hospital, another friend called me to say that the classes had opened up. Knowing that my roommate was in class, and his phone would be off, but his laptop would be on, I e-mailed him to get me in the class. Right there from his seat in class, he not only signed me up for the class i wanted, but got himself in too! The surgery went off without a hitch, and the sudoku application on my phone came in useful for many late night wake ups that night, when i couldn’t sleep. Now I have a nice titanium plate and 7 screws holding my collar bone together, and i’ve replaced the old X-Ray picture on my phone with one of the new X-Rays to prove my story to non-believers, haha

On March 13th, I broke my collar bone playing rugby for my college. I went to the hospital, where X-Rays were taken, confirming the break. My house is only about 45 minutes away, so i snapped a picture of the X-Ray and e-mailed it to my dad, who is a doctor. He then passed the picture along to the orthopedic surgeon. I have a pearl, and thankfully the camera was of good enough quality that the picture was useful to him. Over easter break, i visited him, and he told me to keep it in a sling for three weeks and then come back. I went back last Friday, and upon further X-Rays showing zero bone growth, we decided to perform surgery. So yesterday, i had surgery which just so happened to be at the exact same time as my course registrations for the upcoming fall semester. Obviously, i couldn’t do them on my own, so i gave my roommate all the info to sign me up. However, because my major is overpopulated, the classes i wanted were all booked solid. However, while i was being driven to the hospital, another friend called me to say that the classes had opened up. Knowing that my roommate was in class, and his phone would be off, but his laptop would be on, I e-mailed him to get me in the class. Right there from his seat in class, he not only signed me up for the class i wanted, but got himself in too! The surgery went off without a hitch, and the sudoku application on my phone came in useful for many late night wake ups that night, when i couldn’t sleep. Now I have a nice titanium plate and 7 screws holding my collar bone together, and i’ve replaced the old X-Ray picture on my phone with one of the new X-Rays to prove my story to non-believers, haha

We live in Cleveland, OH (for background).

Wife and I were scheduled to go on a cruise on March 8th, flying on Sat (the 8th), from CLE to MSY, where we were to pick up the cruise ship and go to Mexico. Well, for those of you who remember March 7-9th, there was a blizzard which dumped about 30 inches of snow on Cleveland and the surrounding areas.

I called my wife up at about 1pm on the 7th (Fri), and said “Start packing, we’re getting out of town today”. I left work, drove home, and picked her up, then turned around, and headed out to the airport hoping to switch flights. My wife used the blackberry to check out flight schedules so we knew what was leaving to get us remotely close to New Orleans. Our only hope was the 840PM flight to Houston.

We got to the airport, waited in line, and the Continental representative somehow found 2 seats on that 840 flight to Houston. BUT, you might say, Houston is 5 hours from New Orleans! After that, the madness ensued….

Using the blackberry, we searched for rental car companies using Google Maps, and secured a rental car to get us from Houston to New Orleans. My wife emailed a couple people we knew down there to see if we could crash on their couch for a few hours. We routed directions from the airport to her friend’s house, then routed directions from their house to New Orleans, and arrived on the ship, on time.

We owed our vacation to the blackberry!

We live in Cleveland, OH (for background).

Wife and I were scheduled to go on a cruise on March 8th, flying on Sat (the 8th), from CLE to MSY, where we were to pick up the cruise ship and go to Mexico. Well, for those of you who remember March 7-9th, there was a blizzard which dumped about 30 inches of snow on Cleveland and the surrounding areas.

I called my wife up at about 1pm on the 7th (Fri), and said “Start packing, we’re getting out of town today”. I left work, drove home, and picked her up, then turned around, and headed out to the airport hoping to switch flights. My wife used the blackberry to check out flight schedules so we knew what was leaving to get us remotely close to New Orleans. Our only hope was the 840PM flight to Houston.

We got to the airport, waited in line, and the Continental representative somehow found 2 seats on that 840 flight to Houston. BUT, you might say, Houston is 5 hours from New Orleans! After that, the madness ensued….

Using the blackberry, we searched for rental car companies using Google Maps, and secured a rental car to get us from Houston to New Orleans. My wife emailed a couple people we knew down there to see if we could crash on their couch for a few hours. We routed directions from the airport to her friend’s house, then routed directions from their house to New Orleans, and arrived on the ship, on time.

We owed our vacation to the blackberry!

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Another time I was vacationing in Englewood Florida. My wife left me at the rental with our 3 year old while she went shopping in Venice with our two older daughters. Later that evening she returns and announces that one of our daughters left her purse at an ice-cream shop in Venice, but she doesn’t remember the name of the ice-cream parlor.
Again, I pull out my trusty blackberry and did a “411 Beyond” search in Venice Florida for Ice-cream Parlors. There were only two of them. I read each of them off to my wife and she recognized the name of the Parlor. I hit the link for the phone number and spoke to the owner who told me that, indeed, the purse was there. I hung up with him and hit the map link which lead me 45 minutes away to the ice-cream parlor in down-town Venice where I retrieved my daughter purse.

The coolest part about these two stories is that all of the software is free. 411 Beyond and Google Maps. No GPS Verizon Navigator involved at all.

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Another time I was vacationing in Englewood Florida. My wife left me at the rental with our 3 year old while she went shopping in Venice with our two older daughters. Later that evening she returns and announces that one of our daughters left her purse at an ice-cream shop in Venice, but she doesn’t remember the name of the ice-cream parlor.
Again, I pull out my trusty blackberry and did a “411 Beyond” search in Venice Florida for Ice-cream Parlors. There were only two of them. I read each of them off to my wife and she recognized the name of the Parlor. I hit the link for the phone number and spoke to the owner who told me that, indeed, the purse was there. I hung up with him and hit the map link which lead me 45 minutes away to the ice-cream parlor in down-town Venice where I retrieved my daughter purse.

The coolest part about these two stories is that all of the software is free. 411 Beyond and Google Maps. No GPS Verizon Navigator involved at all.