I hate starting over

Getting a new, "replacement" Blackberry is like starting a new relationship after you've been dumped without warning. Me and my old Blackberry? We had a good thing going. Or so I thought.

Nothing is familiar. The whole O/S is different. My Blackberry Restore failed. A lot good that did. Rogers said to call RIM. RIM said to call Rogers. For the first time in many, many, many years, I uttered the mother of all swear words. Yes, *that* one. On the phone.

The Rogers tech support guy asked me if I used Blackberry Protect. No, I said. I used the Blackberry Desktop Manager, which came with my first BlackBerry. He sort of chuckled and said it's not a backup, it's a Sync application. I was like, come again? There's a friggin' tab in the navigation menu of this software that says Device > Back Up. There's a Restore feature. I know how to RTFM!!! He says he doesn't support RIM products. So I said, if you don't support RIM products, why the hell are you asking me about Blackberry Protect?

I'd like to say at this point I threw my office chair through my office window so it shattered and that I stood on the ledge and dropped my replacement Blackberry. That I watched it fall 17 stories to the pavement below where it shattered into a million pieces. That when I turned around, an Apple Store guy was at my office door with a brand new iPhone 4G, but it was merely a Scooby-Doo dream sequence.

So having said all this, those of you who had me set up on Blackberry Messenger will have to add me again and those who don't, well you can add me too: 23737D42. The phone number for text messaging remains the same.