Hello. Hi John, how are you?

Hi John, how are you?

Hi, Merlin.

I'm fine, except that my Bluetooth keyboard is dead for some reason probably out of batteries

and you know and I was my iPhone has decided now that it has this new text feature this

eye message that's different from texting some somehow it's blue instead of green.

Right. But if it can't send its eye message over whatever proprietary airwaves it uses, then it just sits there like a dumb lump.

It's like I have a plastic brick in my hand.

So I was trying to communicate with you,

Yeah, but my keyboard was down and my phone was I messaging

incompetently. So... It must be very frustrating for a verbal man. It's hard for a verbal man.

It's hard for a verbal man not to have anything to type on.

God, you know and so I was I got on Skype and I saw down at the bottom I was trying to like figure out how I could send a send you a Skype message and I saw a little smiley face down at the bottom of the message area and I clicked on it and it was all those emoticons the little the little smiley face with a

halo and smiley face with the eyeballs the googly eyes and little smiley face with

the devil horns and I was like yeah I'll send him some

smilies and he'll know that I'm he'll know that I'm here so I clicked on all these

smileies and and without being able to push return.

Oh. I couldn't send, it couldn't even send a smiley.

Let me see if I can do that.

I'm going to send you a smiley.

Musical. Oh yeah, i see your problem right right so i just

i they were just all these smiley emoticon things were we're piling up down in the

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