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 )

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.

… …

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!

I posted earlier this week about caffeinated water that I had found online. Hmmm. And though it’s only in select areas, one of the grocery store chains that carry it is in my area! Of course a smaller version than most of their stores, but nothing to sneeze at. I determine to see if I can find it there next time I go… whenever that is.

Except when DH mentioned that he was stopping there on the way home that very same day, I told him about it and asked him to look for it. And he brought home a 6-pack! Woo-hoo! I put it in the fridge and decided I would try it the next day when I actually needed it, in place of Pepsi.

I must say, Water Joe officially rocks!

And that thanks in major part to it, I have been Pepsi-free all week! And the really, really amazing part of that is, that I had some Pepsi in the fridge, cold and waiting for me, the whole time!

Though I almost just broke down a few minutes ago, but forced myself to reach as fast as I could for the bottle of regular water that’s already right here on my desk. It would have already been too late because I really wanted it, but I hesitated because I didn’t want to get up and go ‘all the way’ into the kitchen. See? Laziness can be a good thing! LOL

What was discouraging, though, was when I saw on the packet of hot chocolate I had at Oneg (potluck) after church today that there is only 40 calories less in that, than in a whole can of Pepsi! Which has caffeine, too! *sigh*. I should have stuck with water then too, but the packet was already open. I guess I could have given it to A and only drank the water I had brought, but I thought I wanted it. At least I did drink the water too. I took a little less food than usual at Oneg, but the super-sweet carrot cake afterwards probably nulified that lol. I was successful at having a small dinner, at least.

Yeah, I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t go for the Pepsi. My bottle of water is almost gone. I should spring up and get another before I get thirsty again and think to get something else.