the week that was
Oct. 7th, 2021 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThe good news is, I got my new phone, and I got to spend time with some good friends. Other than that, meh.
Westjet had cheap flights to Vancouver, and then they had a sale on top of that, so I said "sure" and booked a weekend trip for $130 round-trip. Zee had caught some sort of head cold in the week before but it was showing mostly head-cold-symptoms and not plague-symptoms. In the event his test result came back negative on Saturday night shortly after he picked me up at the airport. And there was boardgaming and general hanging-out with Zee and Holly and James, and it was good.
On Monday, when everyone else had to work, I went into downtown to get my phone. Last time I got a phone they had this awesome machine that puts a screen protector on it without causing any bubbles or misalignments or anything, and that was cool enough that I wanted to do that again. Which is why I went physically into the store to get a phone instead of just ordering it online like a normal plague-year person.
Only they were sold out of the screen protectors.
So that was frustrating. More frustrating was that I knew, knew, that I wanted to do the "device to device transfer," and let myself get talked into "restore from icloud backup" instead, because device-to-device would take a long time. The restore wiped all my login information and still took most of an hour, and I'm still not completely logged back into everything (I need to remember to send a video to BC Health). Locked me out of my work VPN for a day while they reset the MS Authenticator app.
On the bright side, the Apple store person who was helping me communicated entirely by typing, as did I. Unsure if it was language or hearing or what, but it wasn't a problem and was kind of neat. I showed her Paprika (my recipe app) and she seemed interested, so that was neat too.
So after three years of too-large phone I now have an iPhone mini. It is very slightly larger in all dimensions than Royce, my late lamented iPhone SE; this is acceptable. Mostly I am still marveling at how well it fits in my palm, and how usable it is for one-handed operation.
It is red, like Faris my previous phone, but this time I got a dark green case for it, which makes it a Watermelon. A minor problem is that the dark green case is much less eye-catching than the red, so it takes me a bit longer to locate it against, say, the dark green couch.
Overall, now that it's set up, I'm glad I have it, and I wish I'd just preordered it. Oh well. At least I got to see people.
I also went and looked at a couple of condos. Or tried to, anyway. The one I was most interested in already had two offers prior to the open house on Sunday. I did get in to see the other one, but it ended up getting multiple offers as well, and sold for ten percent over list. Bah and double bah. At least Rhonda the realtor remembers me fondly and still wants to work with me, so there's that.
To top it all off, I woke up Tuesday morning feeling kind of tired, and by lunchtime it had hit the head-wrapped-in-cotton stage. I took the afternoon off work and drank a lot of liquids and was surprisingly functional on Wednesday. Still. Insult to injury.
This weekend Erin and I pop down to Kelowna to look at trucks for her. I am looking forward to this. At the very least it will be less frustrating on a personal level.
Westjet had cheap flights to Vancouver, and then they had a sale on top of that, so I said "sure" and booked a weekend trip for $130 round-trip. Zee had caught some sort of head cold in the week before but it was showing mostly head-cold-symptoms and not plague-symptoms. In the event his test result came back negative on Saturday night shortly after he picked me up at the airport. And there was boardgaming and general hanging-out with Zee and Holly and James, and it was good.
On Monday, when everyone else had to work, I went into downtown to get my phone. Last time I got a phone they had this awesome machine that puts a screen protector on it without causing any bubbles or misalignments or anything, and that was cool enough that I wanted to do that again. Which is why I went physically into the store to get a phone instead of just ordering it online like a normal plague-year person.
Only they were sold out of the screen protectors.
So that was frustrating. More frustrating was that I knew, knew, that I wanted to do the "device to device transfer," and let myself get talked into "restore from icloud backup" instead, because device-to-device would take a long time. The restore wiped all my login information and still took most of an hour, and I'm still not completely logged back into everything (I need to remember to send a video to BC Health). Locked me out of my work VPN for a day while they reset the MS Authenticator app.
On the bright side, the Apple store person who was helping me communicated entirely by typing, as did I. Unsure if it was language or hearing or what, but it wasn't a problem and was kind of neat. I showed her Paprika (my recipe app) and she seemed interested, so that was neat too.
So after three years of too-large phone I now have an iPhone mini. It is very slightly larger in all dimensions than Royce, my late lamented iPhone SE; this is acceptable. Mostly I am still marveling at how well it fits in my palm, and how usable it is for one-handed operation.
It is red, like Faris my previous phone, but this time I got a dark green case for it, which makes it a Watermelon. A minor problem is that the dark green case is much less eye-catching than the red, so it takes me a bit longer to locate it against, say, the dark green couch.
Overall, now that it's set up, I'm glad I have it, and I wish I'd just preordered it. Oh well. At least I got to see people.
I also went and looked at a couple of condos. Or tried to, anyway. The one I was most interested in already had two offers prior to the open house on Sunday. I did get in to see the other one, but it ended up getting multiple offers as well, and sold for ten percent over list. Bah and double bah. At least Rhonda the realtor remembers me fondly and still wants to work with me, so there's that.
To top it all off, I woke up Tuesday morning feeling kind of tired, and by lunchtime it had hit the head-wrapped-in-cotton stage. I took the afternoon off work and drank a lot of liquids and was surprisingly functional on Wednesday. Still. Insult to injury.
This weekend Erin and I pop down to Kelowna to look at trucks for her. I am looking forward to this. At the very least it will be less frustrating on a personal level.