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Losing your entire list of phone numbers

Rage

14:32 / 06.07.02

I remember the days of Nofriend. The days when I didn't have a phone number list.

It's weird, how I finally start getting social, and how I lose every single phone number I've gotten since I've been to NY.

So many conversations and drugs that Will Never Be.

If you lose all your material posessions you become a strong motherfuck. Lose all your contacts and you become what? Socially liberated? Someone help me see the good in this. Is there a good?

w1rebaby

14:41 / 06.07.02

you get to remove all the details of people you'll never see again, or don't ever want to see again, as well, so you'll never be reminded of them while skimming through your phone numbers

otherwise no

Ellis says:

15:01 / 06.07.02

If you don't remember their number/ address? Were they really that important?

The answer is of course yes...

But huggles anyway.

Turk

18:48 / 06.07.02

It's an experience with which to increase your emotional depths, you'll become a better friend, poet, writer and lover.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

19:23 / 06.07.02

See? That's not a bad deal.

Matthew Fluxington

21:55 / 06.07.02

You should keep a secret database online somewhere. For example, make a email with all the info, and send it to yourself.

Sax

06:20 / 08.07.02

If they matter that much to you, they'll get in touch.

Cherry Bomb

07:58 / 08.07.02

Rage, what you do is, make a phone list, tape it to the wall by the phone and then you can keep adding to it everytime someone else calls you. Not only will you have the list at easy access in general when you get someone's phone number, but you'll always know where the numbers are.

In general I have seen that this does work for stoners.

bio k9

09:06 / 08.07.02

But when youre moving from place to place, sleeping on friends couches, that doesnt work so well does it? The whole thing (esp. the stoner part) sounds nice and condesending though, I doubt I could have done it better.

Flux=Mr.Operator's idea is the best so far. If yr friends read your journal maybe you could tell them you lost their numbers there...

Cherry Bomb

09:45 / 08.07.02

I actually wasn't trying to sound condescending; I was speaking from personal experience. It is the *only* thing I've seen work for people who consistently lose phone numbers - the only thing that has worked for me.

And even if you're moving from place to place, you can still just put them all on a piece of paper and maybe carry it in your purse or something, maybe make two lists and put one someplace else in case you lose the one.

The secret online database would be too much work for me, but that's me.

Loomis

10:07 / 08.07.02

When all else fails I suggest calling Kevin Bacon. Man, that fucker is well-connected...

w1rebaby

10:40 / 08.07.02

I keep my addresses mostly on Yahoo. It's got fields for everything. Mind you, if Yahoo ever goes down unexpectedly, I'm fucked, but that's much less likely than a brain malfunction on my part.

Matthew Fluxington

13:44 / 08.07.02

Wait a second - if you have a cellphone, why weren't you just adding the numbers to the phone database? Virtually ever cellphone allows you to add loads of names, phone numbers, etc... I don't need to have a phone # list, cos I have it all stored in my phone.

netbanshee

13:59 / 08.07.02

...but having a cellphone to keep track of the numbers is bad because you don't remember what the actual number is, just the name you gave the number to call Jimbo. At least if you're used to putting in the number manually or have a written copy, you'll be more capable of remembering it. Then say your phone dies or something...no record and no idea how to get in touch with important people sometimes.

If it's dire to get in touch, do you have a caller-id log or can you check your previous or current phone bill?

Rage

01:12 / 09.07.02

I won't have a cell phone until later this week.

I hope I don't lose it.

BioDynamo

07:32 / 09.07.02

My cell phone broke yesterday. I bought a new one, and so I could transfer 250 numbers (100 of which were totally useless) to the new one as they were stored on the SIM-card (do you have those? a little card that is the actual "connection"?). But 50 numbers are still stored on the dead phone, presumably lost forever. Damn, that makes me angry. So full sympathies, Rage, and don't trust the cell phone when you get it. You will, anyway, because it is so damn handy, but don't.

mondo a-go-go

09:02 / 10.07.02

boo.

i was just going to post a new thread saying that i've got a new phone and need peoples' numbers again, but instead i'll hijack this one.

i've got a new phone and need peoples' numbers again. that is to say, if all the people who gave me their numbers before could let me know their numbers again, that would be brilliant. i can't get them off the SIM card of my old phone because i can't remember the pin number. (bah) and besides some of the people whose numbers i had have bought new phones themselves...

so email me your numbers:

kookymojo at yahoo dot com

and i can somehow stay in touch with some of you again. yay!

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