Look, Ma, no...

[jay]

On the way to National Airport this morning, I was (typically) running a half-hour late. Then became mired in slow-moving traffic on I-66E. My weekly vehicle health management telecon with a large aerospace company was rapidly approaching, so I found myself booting my Mac G4 laptop, unzipping a file, and reading the contact number and password out -- all while still driving. =:-}

Then I joined the conference call via cellphone, while still driving. Sigh.

Otherwise, I had a lovely afternoon with Nancy in Minneapolis, picking up Land's End items in their outlet store for $6-8 each. patgreene is getting a new top and pants for $12 that lists in their catalog for $116.

After a bit of cuddling, we went to dinner and to Augsburg College -- Nancy belongs to an ice-dance club that meets there every Thursday. It's a graceful-but-strenuous sport... and males are much in demand as the female skaters outnumber them 2x-3x (contemplative look)...

I'm back home now.

Comments

[trinker.livejournal.com]

-wince-

I am very, very glad that you are okay. I trust that you realize just how lucky you were that the stupdenous risk you took in taking your eyes and concentration off the road like that didn't result in something awful.

May I suggest that if this is a *weekly* conference that you program the number into your cellphone?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Peripheral vision was my friend :-). As far as programming goes,the given large aerospace company uses different numbers and sends a new package out every Wednesday with the next morning's contact information... a bit paranoid, but they also do defense work.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Ah. I had a feeling that was the case.

Completely unsolicited GAS:

Please set up the handsfree set when you get into a car. If you're going to use the phone at all...and maybe you might think about programming that number in right when you get it? Maybe that's not practical.

Again, I cannot reiterate strongly enough, I am very, very glad that you made it home in one piece, and nothing awful happened around you.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Good idea. But there is evidence to indicate that using a handsfree mobile is still significantly more risky than chatting to passengers whilst driving - perhaps because the people on the other end of the phone can't see the road, and so will 'talk through' any potentially dangerous situations which leaves the driver less able to react to the hazard?
By the time you've said 'Hang on a sec...' it could be too late.