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Aug. 31st, 2013
The next day
Aug. 31st, 2013 07:10 amYesterday turned out to be new phone day... all day long. Turns out there's a T-Mobile store that is easy to get to from here. The folks there were very nice. But they don't sell, in the store, the kind of service I wanted. The kind of package I wanted is only available on the web. The sim card, which is required, takes for.ev.er to get. Turns out the one I ordered several days ago won't be here until Thursday and I wanted service NOW!
So that led me to buy a sim kit that was not correct but got me the card and then I came home and did some fancy footwork on several customer service calls to get it switched to what I wanted. All this was exacerbated by my own cluelessness. While I was in transition, I had a trickle of data service which I took for a true T-Mobile data signal and was really bummed.
But, finally, I got it fixed. (Props here to all the customer service people I talked to yesterday. In retrospect, I was using all the wrong terms and talking to the wrong groups and still they were patient and respectful and didn't ask me to repeat my DNA a million times.)
Once I got it fixed, all is good. The data speed here at the house (needed mainly for occasional network backup) is perfectly adequate. Verizon may be a little better but not that much. It's blazingly fast compared to Sprint.
The phone itself - Google's Nexus 4 - is a good phone. There is a short list of things I knew about and things I am discovering that I will really miss over my Note 2.
- no removable battery
- no removable/expandable storage
- the very highest volume is still way too quiet
- the camera (some of these might be fixable w/ another camera app)
- no sound
- no burst
- not the greatest pictures
But, I love the size, the screen, the weight. There is no crap on this phone and it is snappy. And it has the latest and greatest android.
My plan is to use it exclusively for several days or a week and then decide whether or not to switch.
Today is swim and aqua aerobics. We have a substitute teacher today. It's someone I've heard about and always wanted to take a class from but never had the opportunity. Today is it! My plan is to get there before class for some laps.
Apres swim plans are currently loosey goosey. I'll be playing it by ear. I don't really have any must do/have to things on the list.
So that led me to buy a sim kit that was not correct but got me the card and then I came home and did some fancy footwork on several customer service calls to get it switched to what I wanted. All this was exacerbated by my own cluelessness. While I was in transition, I had a trickle of data service which I took for a true T-Mobile data signal and was really bummed.
But, finally, I got it fixed. (Props here to all the customer service people I talked to yesterday. In retrospect, I was using all the wrong terms and talking to the wrong groups and still they were patient and respectful and didn't ask me to repeat my DNA a million times.)
Once I got it fixed, all is good. The data speed here at the house (needed mainly for occasional network backup) is perfectly adequate. Verizon may be a little better but not that much. It's blazingly fast compared to Sprint.
The phone itself - Google's Nexus 4 - is a good phone. There is a short list of things I knew about and things I am discovering that I will really miss over my Note 2.
- no removable battery
- no removable/expandable storage
- the very highest volume is still way too quiet
- the camera (some of these might be fixable w/ another camera app)
- no sound
- no burst
- not the greatest pictures
But, I love the size, the screen, the weight. There is no crap on this phone and it is snappy. And it has the latest and greatest android.
My plan is to use it exclusively for several days or a week and then decide whether or not to switch.
Today is swim and aqua aerobics. We have a substitute teacher today. It's someone I've heard about and always wanted to take a class from but never had the opportunity. Today is it! My plan is to get there before class for some laps.
Apres swim plans are currently loosey goosey. I'll be playing it by ear. I don't really have any must do/have to things on the list.
Tonight I'm going to a gadget event (I honestly don't know what it is exactly either - I'll let you know after). It starts at 7. It's 2:30. I'm starving. I am pretty sure the gadget even will have munchies and probably sweets but also sure, no dinner. I was trying to conjure up a heavy snack when the phone rang.
It was Madaline - one of my swim peops. She and I have been talking about getting a burger at this one burger restaurant since forever. It's a place near her and supposed to have great burgers. I had told her that I was totally up for spontaneous last minute so when she had an opening in her schedule, give me a call.
She had an opening but wanted to go early. Totally perfect!! I'm picking her up at 4. Plenty of time for everything and I won't starve plus we'll finally find out if this place (The Oak on Beacon Hill) really does have a decent burger!
It was Madaline - one of my swim peops. She and I have been talking about getting a burger at this one burger restaurant since forever. It's a place near her and supposed to have great burgers. I had told her that I was totally up for spontaneous last minute so when she had an opening in her schedule, give me a call.
She had an opening but wanted to go early. Totally perfect!! I'm picking her up at 4. Plenty of time for everything and I won't starve plus we'll finally find out if this place (The Oak on Beacon Hill) really does have a decent burger!
Nothing a krispy kreme donut can't fix...
Aug. 31st, 2013 08:09 pmMeeting Madaline for dinner was great. I picked her up at her house. I'd never been there before and it's adorable. It's a tiny (800 sq feet, 2 bedroom) brick house with devotedly tended front and back yards, a garage and carport and a half finished basement. She's lived there for 40 years. No dishwasher. No microwave. I told her, in her place, I'd long ago have traded in my fridge and stove for a dishwasher and a microwave. She's 82. She laughed at me.
The place turned out to be a bar/hamburger place. It had a lovely review in the paper. It was decidedly ok but that was really only because we had the place to ourselves. The burgers were a 5 on a scale of 1-10 and the frites were a 7 so not terrible. We, however, had a great visit.
We went back to her house after and had coffee and some way too healthy cookies and extended our visit. It was just lovely. We must figure out an excuse to do it again.
By the time I left her place it was perfect timing to get to the tech event. The line was long when I got there (it got way longer after) which would not have been bad except behind me were 2 children - 2 little boys about 7 and 10. WTF???? They had apparently been shut in the house since they were 3 and this was the first time they had ever been allowed out around people. Yes, squealing and jumping around and bumping into me repeatedly... all fine and dandy with their parents. Not that much fun for me...
I put a very snarky entry in G+ about it using the event hashtag. When we got into the event, they had a dozen giant TV's mounted up high so everyone could see them and they were showing tweets with the event hashtag. My G+ goes to Twitter... I walked in with the two jackass kids still kicking me and the first thing I saw was my snarky entry up on a screen in front of me. Cracked me up!
The event really just a dozen companies with mostly uninteresting products at tables where people who crowd around. There was no swag to speak of, the line for ice cream was huge and the booze was not free. It was dark and crowded and I could not really see a reason to stay so I didn't. Krispy Kreme was on the corner by where I had parked so I stopped and got a half dozen and came home.
Lovely evening. Really, it wasn't bad. And I got to test out my phone and T-Mobile in a bunch of different situations in different places and both preformed beautifully. I think this test is not going to take a week.
The place turned out to be a bar/hamburger place. It had a lovely review in the paper. It was decidedly ok but that was really only because we had the place to ourselves. The burgers were a 5 on a scale of 1-10 and the frites were a 7 so not terrible. We, however, had a great visit.
We went back to her house after and had coffee and some way too healthy cookies and extended our visit. It was just lovely. We must figure out an excuse to do it again.
By the time I left her place it was perfect timing to get to the tech event. The line was long when I got there (it got way longer after) which would not have been bad except behind me were 2 children - 2 little boys about 7 and 10. WTF???? They had apparently been shut in the house since they were 3 and this was the first time they had ever been allowed out around people. Yes, squealing and jumping around and bumping into me repeatedly... all fine and dandy with their parents. Not that much fun for me...
I put a very snarky entry in G+ about it using the event hashtag. When we got into the event, they had a dozen giant TV's mounted up high so everyone could see them and they were showing tweets with the event hashtag. My G+ goes to Twitter... I walked in with the two jackass kids still kicking me and the first thing I saw was my snarky entry up on a screen in front of me. Cracked me up!
The event really just a dozen companies with mostly uninteresting products at tables where people who crowd around. There was no swag to speak of, the line for ice cream was huge and the booze was not free. It was dark and crowded and I could not really see a reason to stay so I didn't. Krispy Kreme was on the corner by where I had parked so I stopped and got a half dozen and came home.
Lovely evening. Really, it wasn't bad. And I got to test out my phone and T-Mobile in a bunch of different situations in different places and both preformed beautifully. I think this test is not going to take a week.