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This story comes from the Palm Treo newsletter:

A Pizza Worth 1,000 Words
I was in Northern Italy at an Italian restaurant and could not order off the menu as I do not speak Italian. Nobody in the restaurant spoke English. So, I pulled out my Treo 650 and went online to Google and downloaded a pizza image. Showed the picture to the waiter who proceeded to show it to everybody in the kitchen (and rest of restaurant!). A pizza showed up a half hour later!

Are you KIDDING me?! This guy doesn't know how to say PIZZA in ITALIAN?!

And the silly part is that he's apparently got a better PDA than I do.

I told this story to my executive director and concluded with "He could have at least said 'I want pizza' in English and the waiter would have understood the important part. This guy isn't even trying!"

He said, "Trying? He's downright exasperating!"

Well, somehow I managed to crack the screen on my PDA. Since it's my employer's PDA, it's getting fixed at their expense, but I'm buying an aluminum case made specifically for the Tungsten C at my own expense so that it won't happen again.

I've backed up all my data, including my latest hazmatspotting, methyl bromide and chloropicrin (#1581, a soil fumigant transported as liquid but used as gas). I've removed my SD card, stylus and cover, and shipped it off for repair. Now I just have to wait until they send it back.

I opted not to spend $40 for the advance replacement option, as that would have guaranteed my MAC address would change, and I'd prefer to keep the old one as it's in a few different whitelists already.

So now I just have to wait... and wait... and use a laptop or desktop to VNC into my work machine to consult Outlook whenever I need to know something. Sigh.