It didn't used to be like this.

[J Peters]

So, my son's cell phone died.

<Gemini starts channeling her inner fogey.> Back in the day, we didn't
have cell phones. If you wanted to call home, you had to find a pay
phone, and use a calling card.

It just happens that his older sister got a new phone for her birthday,
a fancy texting monster.

<fogey> Phones only need number keys. Why, I remember rotary dial
phones. When we got a touch-tone phone, we never used the * or # keys.

I just got done activating the left-over phone onto my son's number. He
was grumping about losing all his information, so I did a little bit of
trickery.

<fogey> Activating a phone? Why, a phone just plugs into the wall,
doesn't it?

[Software engineer trickery]

I saved his calling activity from the last to bills. You can download
it to a spreadsheet from the online account.

Then I created a data source using the spreadsheet file, and used a
query tool (which I happen to work on for a living) and made a report of
his most used phone numbers. So, he got most of his contacts back.

Hey, what are engineer moms for?

gemini

[Diana]

In article <VxkCj.20566$0w....@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
J Peters <gemi...@nospam.com> wrote:

Hey, yeah, it's interesting to be on the cusp of the fogey-techy
continuum isn't it? Good job, Gem!

Diana