So I had an old Handspring Visor Edge laying around, pretty basic as far as PDA's are concerned, but at the amazingly low-low cost of free...who wouldn't love to shove it in their purse and go? Classic aluminum styling, (reasonably) big storage, and it meets my employers requirement for not using using any internet on the job other than theirs. Unfortunately it was deader than disco. I'd put it on the charger, reset it five-times from Sunday, but notta. It wasn't turning on. A few $20 "diagnostic" trips to the PDA repair store yielded nothing other than getting mentally undressed by the burly man at the counter (****** didn't even buy me dinner first), but no PDA love. Still I wasn't about to throw the towel in, so I risked a cool $3.82 on ePay and bought a battery. Got it in the mail yesterday and, thanks to some itty-bitty eyeglasses screwdrivers, managed to install it. Nope. Still nothing.

Grrrr!!!  

Not one to be outdone by 7oz of plastic and glass, I took it apart again. Three cans of compressed air and a half-hour later, I'd given it probably the best blow job I'd given since before getting married, but no...no dice. I took it apart again and checked everything. "beep" Huh? Are you alive there little fella? The screen was still blank, but it'd given me a small audible grunt of satisfaction, so I knew I was on the right trail. Once again I took the top off and checked all its jubbly bits. Oddly enough, it started working once it was topless. Go figure! I re-clothed it and tried it again, but once again it was squarely in dead-fish mode. For the longest time I didn't get it. I'd turned it on, touched it in all the right places, stripped it naked, and still it refused to perform. I'm reminded of my ex-boyfriend.

Performs when topless but goes limp fish when clothed, what gives? I started researching online a bit and came up with nothing...that is until I picked some heart stickers off my shirt. The whole time I'd been working on this infernal PDA, my 5-year old was sticking little heart stickers all over me. Hmmm. I took one off and used it as insolation between the exposed circuits and the backing.

Success! Naturally I wasn't sure just how many heart stickers to put on the back of my PDA, so I employed the proven girly-tech method...I used an entire sheet's worth! Up down and all over the back end and underside of the PDA. Not only did my little 6" wonder come alive and start working, but thanks to the backing securely screwed on...I'm PDA-ing in style (and now with protection too)!

I wonder if this approach would fix my car? 

Today's Positive: While I can't drop the oblitigory "I'm back" ball on the blogoverse, I can say that I'm making an effort to do so. Things have been absolute hell last few months, sadly not in a funny way.

Today's Negative: It may be a few more weeks before I'm ready to tackle the everyday grind of daily blogging again. Bear with me and, while I won't promise you won't be disappointed, I can promise I won't leave a burning bag of very stinky kitty poo on each and every one of your doorsteps...

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