Impromptu Phone Experiment

   Here is my motorcycle advice for the day. If you are going to carry your cell phone in your pocket do one of three things; make sure it is off, or make sure the keyboard lock is on, or make sure it is in a pocket in which keys are not going to get randomly pushed without your knowledge!!!

   If you haven't figured out where this is going, let me tell you. I for some strange reason placed my blackberry in my front pocket as I hopped on my bike for a quick hop of to the gas station. Now my phone rarely rings, but by the time I pulled into the service station it was vibrating away like crazy. I pulled it out to find multiple messages from people asking if everything was okay in one way or another. Many of the messages came from people I rarely talk to. This had me totally baffled. What did they know that I didn't?

   A little digging revealed that while I was cruising down the highway my phone had somehow had the right set of keys pushed to send out a text message consisting of a sad face and an angry face to many of the people on my contact list. For those on my list I do apologize for this, but it did turn out to be an interesting experiment of sorts. Of the numerous text messages my pocket sent out I got responses from only a few who were concerned about me and the contents of the text they just received. A couple of the responses came from people clear across the country and a couple from people I may have only spoken to a time or two. What was more telling was the ones who did not respond. Curious results to this impromptu experiment and I am still not quite sure how to interpret the results but I would like to say a deep thanks to those who responded with concern.

On a different subject, part of moving forward in my life is developing some new, healthy habits.  In the process of researching this I came across Zen Habits Blog .  It is worth taking a look at as you tour the internet.