So about 5 yesterday I headed to the Saucer for a beer, and my buddies Chad and Chuck showed up shortly thereafter. I told them that I missed the Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament because I had a flat tire. “Well, why didn’t you call us back?” they asked. “We tried calling you around 11. We were all fired up about going! We were going to drive you out there! We left you several voice mails.”
“What?” I asked. “I haven’t had any calls all day!” I looked at my phone, which indicated no new messages.
“When we called, it went straight to voice mail,” Chuck told me. “Hang on, I’m calling you now.” My phone did nothing. “See, it went to voice mail.”
I clicked the green “call” button on my phone. A window popped up on the screen. “Call mode is currently turned off,” it said. “Would you like to turn it on?”
Then I remembered. Back around Wednesday, I was trying to figure out how to reboot my phone (it’s one of those Pocket PC phones) so it would install an update and figure out that it’s Daylight Saving Time. I couldn’t find a “Restart” option, so I tried putting it in “airline mode” (which shuts off the phone feature so it’s safe to take on airplanes). I never put it back in call mode. So that’s why no one has been able to reach me!
Dammit! I could have made the tournament, and with someone else driving, I would’ve been able to drink as much free beer as I wanted.
In other news… Clay, the captain of the Mormons for Gay Polygamy trivia team, is upset that I bragged about beating his team this past week on my blog. Most of all he’s annoyed that I have the Comments feature turned off, because he wants to talk shit back to me and can’t. “Fine then,” he told me. “I’ll start my own blog.”
Um. Dude. Come on, what would you write about? “Today I’m going to brunch and after that I’m going to the Saucer. Monday I’ll be going to the Saucer for Pint Nite, and then Tuesday night is trivia night at the Saucer.” Do you really think that kind of stuff is going to draw hundreds of readers a day?
Congrats to my friend Otto, who’s purchasing a condo this month. He has pics of the new condo, which is still under construction, on his blog.
All right, time to get out of here. Today I’m going to brunch and after that I’ll probably go to the Saucer, which opens at 4 today. Tomorrow morning I’ll deal with the flat tire, go to work, and then in the evening I’ll do Pint Nite at the Saucer. And then Tuesday it’ll be trivia night at the Saucer, where the Rapscallions plan to hand Clay’s team another devastating loss. Happy Easter everyone.