A typical day for me is waking up around 6:00am. I stumble around for a few minutes and attempt to figure out what planet I am on. Within a few minutes my Blackberry Bold 9000 is powered on and 3 email accounts are pushed to my device. By the time I drive an hour to the office, I know my bank account balance, have received my daily Google news updates, and know what I’ll face that day at work in terms of schedules and emails.
My lunch usually happens somewhere between 10:00am-2:00pm. During that short break I am answering emails that I did not have time to address while at my desk. When the weather is nice I try to walk about 30 minutes during lunch. This is also a nice time to answer text messages or catch a quick bit of news as I walk.
By afternoon, I am letting emails that do not need an immediate response sit on my Blackberry while those needing immediate attention get answered at my desk. In the meantime I get a call and while on that call another beeps through. I am prompted for a choice, ‘to answer’ or ‘not to answer’. I choose ‘not to answer’. I continue my call with caller #1 as caller # 2 is speaking to my voicemail. I finish my conversation and realize I have 3 unanswered voicemails. I love Visual Voicemail. I scroll through deciding which voicemails need immediate attention. I scroll to voicemail # 2 and listen to part of it and then fast-forward to the end.
It’s now later in the afternoon. I leave for home. There’s usually at least one stray phone call for the ride home. I finally make it home and go for my daily walk/jog. This is the only time during the day that the Blackberry takes a rest from my side. I finish up my exercise, have a bite to eat and spend time with the family until their bedtime. Then it is one final check of the Blackberry and onto the PC to work another hour or 3. By this time the Blackberry was placed on the charger and the family is snoring. Usually around 11:00pm-12:00pm I wind down and remember just why I love my Blackberry. It is a working man’s tool. How I managed before my Blackberry is beyond me.
Guess what?..........we get to repeat the cycle all over tomorrow.
Your thoughts?
kml
2009
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