I've waited twenty years for this

 

This may seem like something of a nothingburger to most people, but I just made a phone call.

I've avoided the phone for most of the last twenty years.  The most frustrating moments in my life have been trying to hear and understand on the phone.  It affected me personally and professionally (I actually used to have people who worked for me come to my conference calls with me so we didn't miss anything).  Once I was on a call about a contract that directly affected my site, and the legal team was asking me questions about how to structure it and I couldn't participate in the call functionally.  I had to pass it off to my colleague from corporate sourcing - and then I hung up the phone and quietly lost my %$# for a few minutes.  I've had co-workers on calls with me, and when I was trying to schedule my CI surgery, I had our HR manager, who was a friend, on the call so I could hear.

I LOATHE telephones.

But I needed to make a call today.  We booked a trip for next year and the timing of my passport's expiration is after I need to fill out a form with it on their website but before I can possibly have a new one - you can't renew a passport until less than a year from its expiration, and in any case we'll be going on a short trip in January and I'll need it then.  So I needed to call and ask them how they preferred me to handle it, and I decided to make this my first bluetooth phone call with my new Sonnet 3s.  

And it worked!  I had to ask the nice woman at Viking to slow down just a bit and explained that my hearing is poor, and she did, and I got my questions answered, and now I'm all verklempt.

I mean, dang, this is cool.