There was a
simpler time, a few cell phones ago, when I created ring tones and had a
specific ring tone for various people. When Char called, it was the
Cal fight song, for example. I can't remember what other ring tones I
had. It was really kind of silly, actually, because I almost never get
phone calls. It's either Jeri or Ned or very rarely my mother's step
son or Tom.
I have lots
of numbers in my phone, but if I get three phone calls in a week, that's a
big week. But I sure had fun picking out "meaningful" songs, creating
ring tones, and using them.
Now that I
have this super-duper iPhone, I don't have a clue how to add my own ring
tones, or how to make them. Oh, I'm sure that if I spent a lot of time
searching, I could figure it out, but I just go with the ones that came with
the phone. (And I suspect you can no longer get a program to make your own
ring tone for free.)
Char gets a
ring from a bell tower, which is like the campanile in Berkeley. Not
as meaningful as the Cal fight song, but the best I could do.
For Jeri
there is a duck sound, since I remember the duck boats in Boston.
Walt has a
dog bark, which seems logical.
Ned has a
"boing" sound (I don't know why) and Tom is set up for the sound of a
motorcycle (because he once had a motorcycle), but in all honesty, I don't
remember ever hearing it.
As for the
rest of my contacts, they just get the generic ring tone. Which is
fine, if boring.
How I'd
love to think long and hard about what would be the perfect sound for each
person. Jeri has a home made sound on her phone...it's Phil saying
"Short Stack!" On her old phone she set it up so it was the
notification of a text message from Phil, but now she can't set up separate
ring tones for separate people when they send texts.
But all the
advances in telephone technology have taken all the fun out of having a cell
phone.
For that
matter, when we got our new land line, years ago, I found out I could choose
personalized ring tones. Whenever Walt calls, it plays the William
Tell Overture, but I no longer know how to do that or where to find imbedded
ring tones if they exist. But since Walt calls me more than anybody
else, I suppose that doesn't really make a difference.
In
Beauty and the Beast, all of the household servants who are gradually
being turned into pieces of furniture or other household items, look on the
blossoming relationship between Beauty and the Beast and have hope that the
curse will soon be lifted and they will be "human again."
That song
has been running through my head all day today, as the couple of doses of
cold medication and dozens of throat lozenges have worked their magic and
other than a few bad coughing spells, I have been cough free.
I am
feeling so well that I am going to Atria tomorrow. I can't remember
when I was last there, but it might have been before Christmas. My
mother came here, but I haven't been there. When they called to
say she needed toiletries was about when the creeping crud began descending
and I just bought a bag of soap and stuff and dropped it off for her at the
front desk.
I feel
guilty for not calling to explain, but if she figured out how to answer the
phone, she wouldn't understand and if she understood, she wouldn't remember
so there didn't seem to be any point. But I will load up my pockets
with throat lozenges and make up for lost time tomorrow.
Yesterday I finally figured out to do a setting on our smart TV. It is supposed to have closed captioning and I have tried several times to use it, but to no avail. But with spending the day in front of the TV yesterday and determined to sleep my way to health, I checked out some settings and by golly, found the right control, not the one I had been using. So I can now turn closed captioning off and on and I watched the latest episode of Last Tango in Halifax (a show I love) and understood everything Normally, I miss about 3/4 of the dialog because of the northern British accents and I merely get the gist of what is going on. But yesterday I understood it all. This opens up a whole new world of British drama for me.
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