Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

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Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:33:25 GMT

And now for something completely different: more comments reposted from elsewhere (including but not only other Dreamwidth journals)

( an interestingly phrased question, old technology I use , 'the twentieth century,' being out as queer and poly, non-gendered relationship term to include 'aunt' and 'uncle, white women and white privilege' )

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replacement phone

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:52:41 GMT

I have spent too much time and energy dealing with a warranty replacement for my iPhone.

The phone started misbehaving on Sunday evening or Monday morning, rebooting itself incredibly frequently. I thought it was doing better Monday night, but Tuesday morning it showed symptoms again, so I took it to the T-Mobile store where I'd gotten it last fall.

After eliminating a couple of known issues (low battery charge and cold), and confirming that there was no water damage, they gave me the choice of going to the Apple store to see if they could do anything, or paying $20 for a warranty replacement, plus an optional twenty more for overnight shipping. Tuesday was a raw day, windy and rainy, and taking the train downtown and back, with a fair chance of winding up back in Harvard Square at T-Mobile, only wetter, didn't seem like a good use of my time.

I got my new, or as it turns out refurbished, phone after lunch today. If this ever happens again, I will make the store transfer my data over to the new phone, even though I have it backed up. (They offered, but it seemed to make sense to just come home.) If I'd done that, they would have had to install the OS upgrades, rather than me doing it, via an iTunes upgrade I hadn't bothered with, and worries about whether the backups I needed were there. (Before the upgrades, the only backup iTunes would show me for the phone was the basically null one it had done twenty minutes earlier.)

So, back to normal, for whatever "normal" means these days (which is a comment both about the larger world and about the fact that I have a $500 pocket computer and communicator that comes with a one-year warranty), but I'd rather have spent that time on paid work, or been playing with the cats.

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Still getting used to my new phone

Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:39:31 GMT

Sometime in the last few days I apparently turned the ringer on my phone down almost to silent. When I didn't answer a couple of calls from cattitude on Wednesday, I thought it was because I'd had a closed door between me and the phone, and was paying attention to other things. But he tried half an hour ago, didn't get an answer, and we checked when he got home. It is now at a reasonable volume again, and I am going to hope I didn't miss any other calls.

Meanwhile, it appears that the way to sync Evernote and reach the OneBusAway app while in my apartment is to turn the wifi off. I tried that, even though it made no sense, because I had already tried everything that did (including reading the manual).

Also, it appears that the trick to actually reading more than a few pages of book at a time is to sit in my comfy chair, not either at the computer desk or in bed.

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Dentistry, part 2 of 3

Sat, 01 May 2010 02:14:27 GMT

The good news is, the dentist says I only need the one crown replaced. So, I have had lidocaine, had a mold made for the new crown, and have the temporary back on. The tentative schedule is I get the permanent crown a week from Monday. In the meantime, the painkiller has worn off and the swelling hasn't entirely; I've had a naproxen and may take another before bed. Dinner soon, and apple pie for dessert: the lidocaine has worn off, so that side of my mouth is no longer numb or swollen.

It turns out one advantage of reading books on the Palm is that it fits in a jeans pocket, making it much easier to read while waiting for the tooth-molding stuff to set, because I didn't have to worry about where to leave my book while the dentist was doing the stuff before that. (The stuff doesn't taste as horrible as I remember, but that doesn't mean I like it, and peeling it off my upper lip afterwards was annoying.)

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