Everybody does that sort of thing, Tom. I left my regular glasses at home last week, which wouldn't have been a problem, except I was out after dark and had to drive home wearing my prescription sunglasses. That was fun!

I have so been there.

Sorry it's been a rough 24 hours, Tom. Hugs.

I've been without a landline for many years. My cell is now the number that I had for decades as a landline.

My contacts don't get lost because I leave them in my head for a month at a time, but if sunglasses were any indication, I would lose glasses often and everywhere. Can not count how many times I have left my sunglasses places.

We haven't had a land line in 7 years. Can't say we've missed it.

I cut my landline in 2007. Now I just have one voice mail to forget to check.

My cell is now the number that I had for decades as a landline.

Huh, I hadn't thought of that. But I've had this cell number for a few years and I've begun training people to call that instead of the house. No biggie, I'll let people know as I go along.

edit: and since the landline didn't have voice mail, this is a step up.

I haven't had one in...12 years? The only reason I miss it is because our house has the WORST reception. It's just a dead zone so often. But I never missed it when I lived at my apartment.

And now that M is old enough to be left home alone while I shop or run quick errands, I would feel better if he had a phone for the house. But I imagine he will have a phone very soon, and anyway, the longest I've left him was about 45 minutes -- and there's tons of neighbors he could hop to.

I had a landline ages ago, but it was only connected to the Tivo.

I haven't had a landline in about 10 years either. My mother worries about power outages, but that doesn't seem worth the cost.

I can't really lose my regular glasses because they are on my face (as Jesse says) and I can't see without them. The only way I can deal with glasses and prescription sunglasses is to put the other pair on my head. However, I have lost the sunglasses a couple of times. And once I lost my glasses while I was asleep, and it was very difficult to find them because I could not see.

Oh, and I am a little stressed because of a work drama that has almost nothing to do with me, except that I want to bop my friend in the nose.

My BFF's brother worked here before I did, and he is an hourly educational media manager. He helps people with blackboard and teaches us how to do things, and also set ups media equipment in classrooms and edits video and sound etc. He is really great, but has no sense of urgency and cannot remember anything. Seriously, I tell him he should make a list, or put things on his calendar, but it never fails that if you need something, it will mean nagging and nagging.

The problem is, he has no idea that people are dissatisfied with him and his output. I think his manager has never told him or he has never heard it correctly or something.

So, they hired a person with the title "Production Assistant", to help people pedogogically with their courses in blackboard. My friend is under the impression from his boss that this is not a higher position, just different. However, I was applying for the job and it is actually 2 grades higher than he is, and requires a masters degree (friend has no degree) but my friend thinks he is this person's manager and is annoyed that this person isn't reporting to him. But new person has no idea! In reality, I think this person might have been brought in to replace him, but he is totally not seeing it!

Now he is very angry because a THIRD person has been assigned to manage both of them and he thinks he should be the manager, but he can't really manage himself outside of a paperbag! But his boss needs to tell him that, not me. I only know how frustrated the faculty are because I am on the online learning committee as the staff representative and complaining about how bad IT support is is their #1 priority AND because my boss requested he be put on a performance improvement plan for a certain thing that he did not handle well. So now my friend is going to talk to his boss and he's angry and I imagine may quit in a huff when he really needs to keep his head down and do some improvement on his time management and customer service skills.