My Phone Went Bad...Gone, All Gone

 

18 months ago I picked up this phone from Amazon to replace a phone much like it which was still working, BUT the keys stuck so it was hard to operate, especially making text messages.  Knowing that the cell phone companies were moving away from 3G phones, I figured the $40 price tag was worth it.  Funny thing, had I waited six month I would have been able to pick one up for under $20, which is what I did when someone tossed their cell phone towards me and it landed in a pool of water.  Well, now days, you just can't hardly find them anymore for the Verizon Network.

Sunday morning the phone was working around 7 am...by 8:30 it was gone...totally died, nothing except for heat coming from it when I opened it up and took the battery out.  RIP little flip phone, along with ALL of my notes, ALL of my calendar info, and a few picture of Skruffy which I will never see again.

Now I was holding out for the new, 4G Razer Phone coming out this year...it is a folding smart phone which, when you unfold, gives you a large smart phone screen.  Then I saw the price...$1,500!!!!   Nope, just not going there.  Besides, I am so hard on phones, which is why I have not bothered with a smart phone so far...and this new phone is a Kyocera DuraXV LTE E4610 Verizon, Rugged, Waterproof, Flip Phone for $150.  Besides the price, the only down side is that it's twice the weight of the old phone because it is twice as thick.  However, it is 4G, and I can actually browse the Internet with it, and I can actually get those 'smiley faces' that some people, names not mentioned, like to respond with which, with the old phone showed up as two small empty boxes.  Called mom, and she said it sounded like I was right in the room with her.  Connected it to our home Internet and to our Aircard for when we are traveling, and set the cellular data to off so I won't use any cell data on our main Verizon plan, but can use data on our prepaid Verizon Aircard with unlimited data for $65 per month.  Now, adding some of my old notes and calendar date will be a long process...but since I transferred my phone numbers to Marcia just 12 months ago, I re-transferred them back to my phone through Bluetooth and I was back in business.  This phone also has a better camera, has a SD Card to store pictures and back up your phone numbers to, and did I mention how rugged it is, and waterproof???  I am counting on it lasting for many years...time will tell.

It has been over two weeks, and no word from the Association pertaining to Bubba.  As far as we are concerned, Bubba is legal, and if they want to officially say otherwise, bring it on...we will win hands down.

Next Wednesday we are going on a two night trip to visit friends and family over in the Orlando area.  A friend of Marcia's who lives in the Chicago Area is down in Orlando for a few weeks.  We visited with her last back in 2017, and we have an early lunch date with her in Orlando on Thursday.  Later that afternoon Marcia's brother Dean and wife Caryl will meet us at a Cracker Barrel in Sandford for dinner.  So on Wednesday we are going to get into the motorhome, car in tow, and go over to the east end of Pasco County and get the motorhome washed at a Blue Beacon Truck Wash, fill up with gas and stay at the Rest Area along I-75.  Thursday we will head over to Orlando and have lunch with Gladys, and then move to Sandford and meet Dean and Caryl at Cracker Barrel in Sanford.  Dean, by-the-way, needs to visit Orlando for a VA Doctor appointment, so they will pass right by Cracker Barrel on their way home.