I recently had an embarassing moment when I forgot an appointment that I made verbally while I was at a park. No, it wasn’t with a 12 year old girl, it was with my client who wanted to set up a meeting for me to meet another person in her business in a casual setting over dinner. She called me 30 mins after the time I was suppposed to show up, and said “Jeff, weren’t you supposed to be here?” Thankfully the meeting was around the corner at a fancy waterfront restaurant, so I just ran there and there was no harm done.

Anyhow. The point was, I felt the need to be more organized and meticulous when it comes to my scheduling, task priorities, emails, etc.

I purchased a Blackberry - or, as they call it, a Crackberry. I purchased the 7250 - the free one on a 3 year contract with Telus. I extended my existing contract. I could have purchased the newer 8xxx series one for another $200, but the dealership guy frankly told me that they basically do the same thing - the newer one is shinier, has a talk/end button and speaker phone, with a somewhat better screen. But the same core functions, nonetheless.

So, the list of 8 10 symptoms you are a Blackberry user :

• You constantly check your message and emails. It’s an addiction. Really is.
• Your text messages get annoyingly long and your friends start getting pissed off. But why not? After all, you have a full keyboard now with a larger screen!
• Your thumbs get over-developed.
• Your clients are impressed that you type in their contact info and appointment data right away. Your friends start giving you shit for having to punch in a night at the bar into your fucking blackberry.
• Your friends get used to you responding to their text messages very quick. And when you don’t, they get pissed off.
• When you get lost, you don’t ask for directions. You just turn on your Google Maps software on your blackberry. Your girlfriend gets even more pissed off at you compared to the time when you would just refuse to ask directions as you drive in a strange place. You don’t get any that night.
• Even when you have your computer in front of your eyes, you read your emails through your blackberry. Well, I do that at least. It’s pretty much like having a dual monitor system. One with the email from the client, and the other with the actual work loaded up.
• You start memorizing more PIN ids for other Blackberries than phone numbers. And that’s really really really sad.
• The first thing you check as you wake up is your Blackberry, and you use your blackberry to check up on the comments on your blog, moderate/delete them as you wish. Seriously, you can manage your blog from your blackberry to a certain degree.
• Any machine that requires multiple strokes on one button for a letter (such as… cell phones?) are simply inferior and out-of-date in our snobby heads.

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