So last night we had a mini flood in the basement. Turns out that our sewer to the street was blocked by roots and other “stuff” So its 9 PM at night, what do you do? You Call Speedy Clean to make a house call. They used HUGE tunnel boring machine to snake the pipe between the house and our street. Took him no less than 20 minutes to solve our water filled problems.
Things in life go so much better when you have the proper tools.
Kids, its Tommy and for today’s TommyLog Tech, I’d like to tell you a little story. For those of you know me, you know I work in the IT field. In case you were wondering, the 2 things that keep us IT types up tossing and turning at night are losing data and power outages. Well this past week, the latter came true. As I was on my 30 min commute to work, I received a phone call saying that the power was out at work… Aaaaaag. My mind immediately flooded with all the problems and troubles associated with power outages. Mainly will the power comeback on before our UPS runs out of juice? Well, as luck would have it, the UPS didn’t last that long and all my servers powered down. Double Aaaarg.
By the time I arrived at work, full power had been restored and quickly most servers were back online. Everything seemed to be in good shape with the exception of our internet access. That was dead in its tracks. In this day and age, no internet access = no work being done. YUCK! And to top it all off, in between support calls with our data provider and dealing with individual users needs, the US Postal Service calls with an urgent need. Kids lets be fair, when the USPS calls, you must answer this in a timely manner.
So a huge customer shipment had one detail that needed to be altered with the USPS paperwork. This required internet access to be able to finalize the change. {Enter Superman theme music here} To the rescue comes my Droid TURBO by Motorola- provided by my good friends at Verizon- and its mobile hotspot feature. I was able to pull the TURBO out of my shirt pocket, turn on the hotspot, and in less than a minute I was on the internet getting the post office the exact info needed to keep this customer happy.
Leave it to my Droid TURBO to save the day. I never thought having a mobile hot spot would be part of my disaster recovery plan, but thanks to the Droid Turbo, it is now!
The mobile hot spot feature on my DROID TURBO is totally Tommy Approved!
For more information on how to get your very own DROID TURBO by Motorola, Here’s a link http://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/droid-turbo/
[DISCLAIMER — I’m one of the cool kids who has been asked to play with and test technology for Verizon. They asked me to test and share my thoughts. All my words are original and my own.]
This morning I received a phone call from an old friend and she told me that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I have known both her and her husband since grade school, and even though miles separate us, she thought enough to contact me and tell me the news. What really set me back in my seat as I’m listening to her story… she could only think about her husband and asked me to reach out to him.
What an amazingly powerful woman. She wasn’t sad as she told the story, she was as peppy and happy as I have ever heard her. She wasn’t worried about herself… she was worried about her husband. How amazing is that?? THANK YOU for thinking about me and bringing me into your circle. Now I can cheer you on as you enter a new stage in life and see if i can help your main man a bit as you work through this together.
So it’s Dad and Emma again and as you guessed it Emma takes over and leaves me little to say in the matter 🙂 We answer from hard hitting user submitted questions as well as talk about a video series Emma watches called “Kids React”
Got any more questions for Emma to answer?? Comment below!
Received the BEST handwritten note today from a local social media acquaintance. SO THANKFUL for this much needed lift of my spirits. The card was signed BEST – I love that. Is there any better way to sign a note like this? This is just awesome.
Do awesome stuff!!