Wet wet wet

I drove to the pool in the wet. I swam in the wet. I sat in traffic on the way home... in the wet. But now I'm safely inside and dry. I left home early-ish in hopes of getting home early-ish. But, there was a wreck on the bridge and the rain and so I sat.

But... while I sat, I listened to Ellen Burstyn interview Gloria Steinem on the Death, Sex and Money podcast. I almost skipped it. Ellen Burstyn kind of annoys me. But, I'm so glad I did not. She does an excellent job of interviewing. Both women are in their 80's - a decade older than me and it's fascinating to hear them talk about themselves. Gloria says that when she was young she was not confident in her future and assumed she'd turn into a bag lady. (This was my greatest fear for the longest time.) Ellen said she never did. Both Gloria and I were surprised by that. I'm only about a quarter into it so I'm really looking forward to more.

My new phone is Out For Delivery!! My last FedEx Home delivery (which this is) came about lunchtime.

My house cleaner should be here any time. And boy, is she needed today. The kitchen is a mess because I fried stuff twice this week. The kitchen (where I cut out the pieces) and the sewing room are full of minky droppings. I'm looking forward to everything getting righted again. She comes every two weeks and that's just about the right amount of time between cleanings plus it makes her affordable.

I bought some new goggles this week. I'm trying to find some that are very dark lensed but still meet my requirements - no back buckle, soft eye cups, no leaking, comfortable. The new ones totally failed. They were actually dark enough and had no back buckle but they not only gouged my eyes, they leaked like a sieve. Back to Amazon and the hunt goes on. Once daylight savings ends, part of my swim gets direct sun which is really annoying and when it's bad, it hurts.

Until my new phone arrives and maybe a little after, there will be doll making and, unless it gets rained out, baseball watching. I started the new Grisham novel last night so there will be more of that.

Now that I don't have the phone arrival to worry about, it's on to my new insurance company. Their initial response was that I'd get the papers (and number) in 5-10 business days. We're now at day 8 and crickets. I need the number to get my inhaler prescription refilled but, more importantly, to ensure my gym membership does not get interrupted. Come on, Humana! get your shit together and send it to me. Please?

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Phones and pesto and other stuff

My house is all squeaky clean and I washed all the dirty clothes so my closet is squeaky clean, too.

My house cleaner brought me lunch today. (She used to give me Christmas gifts - usually stuff I didn't need or want - but last year her gift was 'I will bring you a meal every time I clean.') Today was two sandwich halves on flatbread. One was beef and cheese and one was anti pasta-ish with pesto. Delish but I had the second one last and as my east Texas country grandmother used to say 'that lunch been repeatin' on me all afternoon!' Certain things, pesto being one (cilantro is another) just linger around long after they are welcome.

Just before lunch, my new phone arrived. It was love at first sight. It's just the very perfect size for my hand and the perfect weight for my pocket.

Old phone vs. new phone in my hand...



I had cleaned up my old phone yesterday. I deleted all the apps I never use. So today, transferring was a Piece O' Cake. EXCEPT I'm stupid. Twice. It walks you through the steps and says that if you want to transfer from another device, the fastest way is to plug them into each other. But are USB C. The cable is USB regular to USB C. But I need a USB receptacle to USB C. I got mini USB to USB C but not regular. So wifi transer it is.

Which was no big deal. Very very fast. It was up and running in 5 minutes and completely loaded in 15. Wild. It used to be such a PIA but now... easy peasy. But, I knew from having seen the phone everywhere that the default was to have the temperature on the home page. My phone has the date only. It bugged me. Another new feature of the phone was instant call for help so I tried it.

Turns out the only thing good about it is that it's easy and it's fast. But, it's still just a phone call and the person on the other end was not prepared for 'how do I get the temperature on the home screen'. I mean not prepared at all. She put me on hold forever and then told me several things that weren't necessary and were useless and then put me on hold and then hung up on me.

I factory reset the phone and went through the set up deal again. Still no joy.

Back to google and this tiem found the real answer which was 1. turn on location and 2. wait 5 minutes.

The case I bought for it is way to thick but I expected that. It was an elcheapo they rushed to market and I just wanted to make sure it was protected. Plus I use the cover to hold the magnet which holds the phone to the car mount. I ordered a better case today that will be here Friday.

But, mainly I really really like the phone. I had intended to not like it so much and, so, send it back. That's not happening.

The second dumb thing I did was... After I got the phone all set up, I went to put the box away and decided to pull out the charging cable and use it for my old phone in the bedroom. And, there, next to the charging cable was a little USB receptacle to USB C dongle! DOH

The baseball game is about to start and I have my brother's newsletter to edit. BUSY!

In all this excitement, I did manage to crank out one doll. More tomorrow.