Not what I had on the calendar...

[susandennis]

I got to the library and then to the pool and then found out the pool is closed.  A burst pipe.  I am soooo weary of the pool being closed.  I decided to call Julie and tell her and see if she wanted to move lunch up.

I sat in my car totally unable to make a call. I punched in the number and hit 'call' and got the home screen of my phone. I tried 8 ways to sunday.  My phone would NOT make a phone call.  I finally went into a shop and got them to call me.  My phone received calls just fine, sent email, sent and received texts... it would just not... be a fucking phone!!!

Lunch was fun.  Julie was really interesting and interested. She runs a bed and breakfast - in her home, I presume, although I can't seem to find it in the Seattle B&B listings.  We were joined by another swimmer - the one who dries her flip flops with the hair dryer. Hoai.  Hoai is writing the second draft of her novel and she went into great deal about the plot of the first and second chapters. We ate at a place I have never been to before. It's really close to the pool and open for breakfast on Saturdays. It would be a fun place to try after a Saturday swim.  When the pool opens!  Arugh.

Apparently they closed the pool yesterday after my morning swim. Hopefully, they will be getting it open for tomorrow morning's swim.  Maybe pressure of the rental contract (the team that practices before us in the morning) will hurry the fix along.  If it isn't open tomorrow morning, then I'll just go somewhere else at mid-day.

When I got home, I dug into the phone issue.  Something somewhere was just very hinky. I thought about calling the Nexus help desk but decided that a factory reset would probably be better. It's good to do now and again anyway and has become relatively painless.  So that's what I did and now I can make calls again.  Weird - o.

It is now 3:30 - man, when your day gets hijacked it just disappears in a finger snap!

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Pools closed

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, Susan - I find myself thinking of you often as we travel from pool to pool in our region - my daughter is a year round swimmer on the verge of qualifying for Junior Olympics, and we have swum in places around town here that I never even knew existed. And I grew up here as a swimmer!

At any rate, I wanted to make you feel a bit better about pool closures… my daughter's team swims primarily at a nice facility run by the local parks and rec commission. They shut down for annual maintenance the last two weeks of August every year. Well, THIS year they found a major issue with the filters that required replacement of everything. Which required tearing up the entire deck. And excavation. They have been closed since August, and think they might reopen in January. It's been excruciating.

Meanwhile, you can imagine all the swimming lessons, private teams, masters teams, high school teams, fitness classes, and lane swimmers who have been out of business this entire time. Makes my head, er, swim just thinking about it. However, I knew you'd appreciate it.

Fortunately, we are in an area with a number of world class public facilities as well as several college and private school campuses with pools who have helped our head coach patch together time in the water for training, but it has not been easy!

Homely

Re: Pools closed

[susandennis]

wow. we have one city pool that just reopened after being closed for 2.5 years. I get it. And we swimmers have, over the past few weeks, been vocally thankful that our pool hasn't been closed more - they have redone the skylights and hit some heating problems. other pools have just shut down for months with stuff like this.

it's so not fun!

but, i'm not even a serious swimmer like it sounds like your daughter is. my very best wishes that she swims her dreams. what fun!! (and may you not be chlorined to death in the process!!)

[planetgeorge.livejournal.com]

My phone somehow got on emergency calls only a couple of weeks ago. I could receive calls but that was it. I couldn't call (other than 911), text, access my apps or anything. Long story short, after calling AT&T, then going to the AT&T store and having THEM dial customer service for me, I had to restore factory settings. Lesson learned: back the phone up as much as possible. Hope you got your phone figured out.

[susandennis]

Wild! Happily, I have an Android phone with auto backup and restore selected and a factory resent - which is what I had to do - fixed all. Took me about an hour to get everything exactly as I like it but I can make calls again - plus everything else. Whew.