Monday night I took the plunge, I ordered my very first smart phone. I have had major reservations about it. Various groups i belong to have IT persons in them and the talk has been about how they have tracking devices that record everything you text or do that you can't get rid of. My final analysis is if they have nothing better to do then spy on me, our country must be pretty safe, as the rowdiest thing i do is get into some serious sailing sites and maybe do a bit of research for writing on my other favorite subject.
Wednesday it came. There are days a good healthy scream is what is called for and Wednesday after noon was that day,. It was that or throw this brand new smart phone against the wall. NOTHING was going right,. It would not let me sign into face book or yahoo. Forget Google. I either got a message saying that the email address I gave been typing for years was bad or the password was bad or if those both passed muster then the server was having trouble, I gave up. Tonight i called customer service, at first they thought it might be a bad phone. As it turned out, all it needed was a bit of reprogramming which was OK with me as i really did not want to have to wait on a new phone to arrive,. '
'Why did I take the plunge? INTERNET!
The silly thing has its own hot spot and it can tether to my lap top. If I had known that I would have done this LONG AGO! The lack of a physical key board bothered me at first but this one is actually not all that hard to use like the first virtual key board I had, so its all good. It takes time to get use to applying the right pressure and holding my fingers right to tap the key board but it is not impossible. The cheap service is only 2 gig of data a month which means I'm not going to be watching a lot of video and I kind of miss that. I like my YouTube instructional videos but I'll make do. AS long as Mickey D's and Applebee's are open I'm good. The sale rep explained to me the government made a law, data carriers have to offer you one of three choices which is why no more unlimited data. plans. You either get cut off and pay more. or get cut off period or you can get throttle. I can live with the slower speed as long as it is not to terribly slow. 3 G in this area on the phone is not to bad. I tried to watch a YouTube video last night on the computer. It was buffering immediately . Hopefully with the reprogramming we did today that will be improved. Time will tell as I have not checked it yet. Get a 32 GB micro card and I'm going app happy. Active Captain is on the list!
Went kind of nuts on getting the equipment for galley. Assuming the stuff in storage down south is still there I am good to go. Got a 2 burner Coleman camp stove and the oven that sets on top. As soon as that stove arrives I am baking me some biscuits and brownies! I am surprised at how large the oven actually is. Not sure yet but it looks like I could bake a small chicken in it. Got a lot of things that have been on my wish list. Once I make sure a few technical details are taken care of I am getting a couple of gallons of resin, cloth etc and figuring out how many stainless steel screws , bolts etc I need for the deck hardware. Then its down to the red oak for the backing plates, what ever wood I get for mods and deciding if I am going to send the sails out to be reconditioned. They are stained by mud daubers and look kind of tacky. Well I'm off of here. Typing this out reminded me I want to down load the Active Captain app before I forget it.
Sail safe but OUT THERE AND SAIL!
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