Using my PDA more

When I first bought my PDA, it was a gift to myself to celebrate my promotion to assistant manager at my work. Being that I worked at a swimming pool and 3/4 of the people who worked under me were dripping wet 3/4 of their workday, I also purchased a BodyGlove wetsuit case to go with it. It was great, because it was not only water resistant but shock absorbing. However, it muffled the sound of a speaker in the PDA in the zipped-up case in my purse under my desk. (Except for when I pulled it out to use it, of course.) So I only saw it when I had business with it, and alarms were pretty useless to me.

Now that I’m not working, and not in a wet environment 40 hours each week, I’ve had my eye on a PDA case that would make it more accessible. I bought this style this week at CompUSA. I’m loving it- it’s smaller than my old case and replaces both the old case and my wallet. And, I have to look at my PDA every time I make a purchase. So, I’ve deleted several applications I don’t need, cleaned up the categories so they’re more intuitive, and even downloaded some free eBooks to read.

At first, I thought that reading books on your PDA would be silly, but it’s actually quite good, because a good book never fits in your purse, and you never know when you’ll have a spare 10 minutes in your life when you’re waiting for something… I’m half way through reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz already!

Now I’ll actually start using the tasks, address book, calendar, memos, and other nifty PDA features that I used to use only for work-related purposes before. This is a big step for me!


Yay for wallet cases!

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