Wednesday, May 14, 2014

May 14 – “That’s good news”

Guess I need to finish the saga of the cell phones.  Believe me, the story is way too long to include all the crazy details, but here are a few. 

After we sufficiently recovered from our shock and consternation over the demise of Chris’ phone (with the help of the phone call from the grief counselor, of course), we headed back to the AT&T store to get a new phone.  Well, two new phones.  Hey, if they are going to live in the same house, they need to be compatible, right?  It’s a basic principle of marriage.  Of course the salesman was happy to hear of our decision.  Until we asked for the great deal they were offering in their TVads that would save us almost a hundred dollars a month.  It seemed to describe our situation perfectly.  But no.  If we bought new phones, then we kicked ourselves out of the plan.  The only way it would work was if we bought the phones for $600 each instead of the $99 upgrade price.  Believe me, it was way more complicated than that, but bottom line was, they figured out a way to save us something like $30 a month … maybe.  Thanks for that anyway.  We got the iPhone 5c rather than the supersized 5s.  I can do without thumbprint identification.  I figured there would be enough of a learning curve.  Plus it was $100 cheaper. 

Our next task was to restore the backup copies of our old phones that were existing somewhere in the bowels of my computer.  See, apparently they no longer can simply remove the sim card and stick it in the new phone.  Oh, no.  That would be too easy.  So I fired up the computer and plugged the brand new phone in.  And nothing happened.  Didn’t recognize that there was even a new device plugged in.  Wonderful.  Another phone call to Apple.  We started the process all over again with the new junior techie.  Uninstall again.  Reinstall again.  Nothing.  Finally, around 9:30 or so (yep, that’s p.m.), he transferred me over to the guy who was apparently Mr. He-can-do-it-when-no-one-else-can.  He couldn’t.  Well, not at first.  It took him a while, but he finally figured out a way to sneak in through the back door of our old computer, install the backup files there, and then run the restore on the phones.  We lost all our aps, but we did save the pictures and other data.  We’ll take that trade-off.  The bottom line though?  We can’t use our “good” computer to do anything with our phones.  It has lost the capacity to see them.  So now do we forego vacation and get a new computer, too?  Not happening.  At least not the forego vacation part.  The phones work.  We didn’t lose the pictures.  That’s good news.  Buckees, here we come.

Proverbs 15:30 says, “A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.”

Father, thank you for that taste of good news to send us on our way.  We could use a few more if you have them up your sleeve.  Amen.

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