3.5 years ago I got my first new PDA (Personal Digital Assistant aka Palm Pilot or just Palm). I’d had others before, but all used. And they all broke through various circumstances, usually involving kids. But I came to love them due to their ability to remember everything that my brain didn’t, and basically keep my life at my fingertips with, like, zero clutter.
I’m not kidding when I say I lived my life by the thing. At about 2.5″x4″x.75″, it kept my calendar, MANY lists (shopping lists, address lists, library lists, to do lists, etc etc), a Bible!, a dictionary, a few games, a program that kept all my serial numbers, website logins and passwords, photos, an MP3 player, internet and email, and off the top of my head I don’t even remember what else. (Just note that I have chosen every possible category for this blog post
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I had been saving up for a particular one made from Sony after my last one had broke. When I had finally saved up enough (about a year of being lost without one!) I found out that a newer better one had been released in Japan already! Who could know how long it would be before they were released here?? That was a Saturday. Well lo and behold, I found out on Monday that they were just, that day, getting released here! I had to travel clear down to Indiana to get one since they weren’t anywhere closer yet, but that I did, getting up as early as possible the next morning, to be (almost) waiting at the door when they opened. I took the demo one for a short test drive before finally purchasing it over the one I had planned to buy for so long. (Newer isn’t always better, you know.)
I brought it home, charged it up, and we lived happily ever after.
Until like a month or two ago. It was a Saturday morning and I was checking email before I got ready for church. Something came up that I needed to consult my Palm for (who knows what anymore) and I was in the middle of using it when it happend.
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The touch-screen went all sorts of wonky. Just out of the blue. I wasn’t even doing anything special! I touched the screen, but it ‘clicked’ on something a whole inch above!
Noooooooooooo!!!!
I tried resetting it. Then doing a ‘hard’ reset. No go.
So I’ve carried it around in my purse all this time, just looking at it sadly. My last hope has been completely draining the battery, and maybe when I charge it back up it will have lost whatever got into it. I checked a couple weeks ago and it wouldn’t turn on. So I’ve waited a while longer and am finally about to plug it in. After it charges up then we will see.
But the worst part of the story is, that I went back to the Sony site, and they stopped making them some time ago. And I’m soooo upset about that, because this one had some special Sony-only functions on it that no one else has or ever will. It was freakin’ awesome. And I can’t believe that just all of a sudden, it’s gone. I know it’s old as far as technology goes, but it’s still perfect in every other way and doesn’t even look outdated. It still looks quite sharp.
And I don’t have the money for a new one, and where would I even start if I had to start researching them all over again?? boo-hoo.
So please, please pray with me, that my Sony Clie TH55 (picture) will work right again, and we can live out it’s golden years without it having any more strokes. Otherwise the next closest thing is the new UX-something-or-other that is actually a PC the size of a Palm. Which is way cool, but definitely not happening at $2,000. (If I had that I’d just find and add the other $500 to it that I need to get the pimped-out laptop I want that would make me a Mac girl! “Just say no” to PC’s. Though I’d still need a Palm.)
Serious prayers, please!