It’s just a quickie for a Sunday morning.  Sheila was on her cell phone this morning with her brother, Randy, when they lost the signal and the conversation ended.  Like all of us used to being disconnected, she went to the window, looked for the 300 guys from the Verizon commercial ready to back her up and when they weren’t there, she just sighed and waited for Randy to call her back.

Think about how we communicate today?  If you Tweet you do it all in 140 characters!  U’v lurnd 2 spell evrything foneticly so that u can get in a gr8 message & do it in 140 spaces! And, when you realize you’ve been talking to dead air for the last ten minutes because the person on the other end lost the signal, you’re not upset, you just restate everything you said all over again when they call back.

Then there’s the nomad’s land of protocal on who calls who back.  If you’re disconnected on your cell phone is the person who made the call the one who has to call back or the person who was making the point at the time the call was cut off?   It’s a real challenge and takes the diplomacy of a junior Henry Kissinger to work out.

The bottom line conclusion to this increbily deep message this morning is actually there is no bottom line – we’ve become a society of abbreviations, unintentional bad grammar – we text, we tweet, we blog – all verbs that as little as a few years ago had totally different meanings.  Text was a paragraph or two, usually in a book…tweet was something a bird did, usually annoying in the morning when you’re trying to sleep and the window’s open and blog, well blog really is new – although it sort of sounds like it’s related to being bloated and should have been a good solid noun…”I’m so blogged up after eating corned beef and cabbage!”

Then there’s the new definition of “friend” and “follow“…if somebody followed you a few years ago it was rude, spooky and you probably called the police.  Nobody would ever try and “friend” you – it’s not even a word you would have used.  I have almost 4000 friends on Facebook – does that make me shallow, since 3900 of them I’ve never met?

On that note – it’s the right time to remind you that tonight we pick the first random follower for a Jill-e Designed woman’s bag and this week, if you’re following me on Twitter it’s the medium size men’s bag next weekend! 

So, enjoy your Sunday.  Tweet, follow, blog and friend anybody you want.  And when your cell phone loses the signal if the guy with the glasses is behind you with the other 300 people in your support group – be happy about it.  They used to hang out with me, but I guess with the storms in Akron they must have headed south!

Can you hear me now?