2024 Life Logs, Day 46: Phone Success
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Weather: Sunny Day, A Little Snow Tonight; High Temp 37, Low 32 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
It is after 10 pm and I just took Shadow outside and found there was a light snow falling. But the temperature is rising tonight by a couple of degrees and the snow is supposed to turn to a mix and then to a bit of rain. We are certainly getting a taste of winter this season but not too extreme. The snow is beautiful, but I am not liking the ice that comes with it because it interferes with my walking. Jed came over this morning to take Shadow for a walk. I was already outside with Shadow as I was going to try walking in the neighborhood. We decided Jed would take him first and report back to me the condition of the road and sidewalks. The report was not good. The sidewalk that runs in front of this property and on down the street is one snowy, icy mess. That meant I could not even do the short loop around the block because of the icy sidewalk. And I can’t walk in the street on Lakeview as it has too much traffic. So, Jed suggested that I stick to the roads and walk where there is very little traffic. He recommended a loop walk through a neighborhood that is not far from here. I did that walk and then drove it to check the mileage. It was almost a mile. Hurray! It was my longest walk since the surgery and my goal. I just reached the goal a week sooner than expected. That same neighborhood has another a little loop that will extend the walk to more than a mile. Until the sidewalks are cleared, I’ll stick to that walk for the next few days.
Next on my agenda was going to T-Mobile in Mashpee. As soon as the young man helping me heard me say that incoming voices on my phone sound garbled, he thought he knew the problem. He asked me some questions about battery life and internet search speed, both of which are fine. He then went into settings and started turning things off. I cannot explain to you want he really did, but whatever, my phone is fine. I think that somehow, probably when I was on a public wifi network, something he was called a free wifi network attached itself to my phone and was constantly monitoring everything I do and then placing marketing ads to match my needs on my phone. Somehow that was overloading my phone and interfering with calls. He turned the setting off that allows these networks in and somehow erased my phone’s memory of that network so it cannot return. If none of this makes sense to you, welcome to the club. I’m sure I got most of this wrong, but at least my phone is working fine. Phone success! And he told me my phone is not “too old”–that actually I probably have two more years before I will have to replace it. And now I know where to go to get help if the same thing happens again.
