I Can Haz Signal!

Since I've moved to our current building, (ohhh maybe 5 or so years ago) I've had zero cell phone service while inside. I dunno. It's some sort of anti-cell-signal eater building.

It was annoying to try to train people to just call my work phone to reach me while at work. Some people felt awkward about calling my desk phone and I guess hearing my "professional" voice answer instead of just calling my cell. My brother has been an exceptionally slow study in this task. On the plus side, annoying sales calls or head hunter contacts automatically get shuffled to voicemail without me ever knowing they called.

I had pretty much resigned to my fate that my cell phone was darn near useless once I entered this building. It was irritating (especially when trying to post something about Matt) but it wasn't crushing my soul or anything. Besides I could still use it as an ipod for music so it wasn't a total waste to continue to carry it.

Last week I noticed a strange device on the ceiling here at work only about a cube away from mine. It looked like a small pop can sized traffic cone. It was all white and stuck to the ceiling upside down. I stared at it for a while. Asked Matt what it was. He stared too. No one was sure. We guessed maybe work was getting with the new century and giving us wi-fi. I picked up my iphone and searched for a signal with no luck. Shucks.

Today though I noticed that my cell phone actually buzzed when Ed sent me a text about this weekend. Activity from my phone at work? How odd! I checked it and wonder of wonders I had a full 5 bars of signal and connection to the Edge network!

It's a miracle and I'm very happy! Thank you work people that decided we needed this!