Much to the chagrin of my geeky side, yesterday while trying to figure out how to remotely check messages on our new answering machine, I accidentally erased the greeting instead of the message and had to record a new one. I recorded a new one, but in the course of telling Angela about this little mishap, she suggested that maybe I should “RTFM”.
Ouch… 🙂
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