Gliffy and cell phone problems

The Case Study has been really difficult for me. I knew what I wanted to say but I have had problems getting it on paper as a diagram without lines pointing in every direction (this happened on my second graph on my rough draft to which I received an 'Oh my God' from my brother, after that I assumed I needed to change it :). I finally completed something that looked decent using Word. I had looked at gliffy.com but was a little apprehensive to use it. I played with it a little tonight and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use. I made my graphs in half the time it took to make them using Word and they looked really nice.


Last Friday night I tried dialing on my cell phone and there was nothing on the other end-no attempt to make the call. All I thought was 'what now.' I called my boyfriend on my house phone (something I rarely use) to see if he had tried to call me. He said he did and it went right to my voice mail. At this point I was freaking out because I had dropped my phone at work a few days before on the nice hard floor so I thought it was broke. But I checked my parent's phones and their phones did not work either.

Saturday was still much of the same; my mom called Verizon to find out the tower in my area was out. However the Verizon person said if we had updated our phones (you are supposed to dial *228 every so often) we probably would have been able to go off another tower. Umm yeah I didn't know I was supposed to update my phone. Maybe I'm the only one.

The phone was down all day Saturday but by the time I woke up on Sunday it was working again. It was not that much of problem for me because if I needed to use a phone I have my house phone. I do however have a few friends who do not have a house phone, just their cell. Someone like this would have not had a phone for a over a day.

So all in all I found a new piece of technology I enjoyed but also had some technology problems this week.