Samsung Galazy J7

Hey!

My whole deal Wednesday was cell phones. I had a phone quite awhile back that I used just for emergencies. It was a dumb phone. All it did was make phone calls. After I started writing and going to events, it became clear that I needed a smart phone. After all, not only did I want to be able to use the Square for taking credit card payments, but I wanted to post to social media about whatever event I was at. That was a, um, three years ago.

Since I’m old, I’m also cheap, er, um, thrifty. I was not going to pay $700 for a phone. I tried using a smart TracPhone and that was fine for a bit but didn’t really meet my needs so about two years ago I went to Consumer Cellular (they use AT&T as their provider), and bought a phone, a Moto 3G. I got it set up, struggled to learn all the stuff the phone could do and all was fine for about a year. Then the sim card filled up. I couldn’t update my apps, including my Square app, which was going to be problem. I futzed around for over a year, trying this, that and the other thing and finally, about three weeks ago the phone started telling me it couldn’t do system updates.

I managed to make it through the Payson Book Festival with the phone operational but Wednesday, I finally went to a local guy, a Verizon seller, and asked for help. What a great guy! I told him what I use the phone for and he did some searching and ended up telling me to go to Amazon or back to Consumer Cellular and buy from them. Right! A wonderful fellow. Anyway, I searched Amazon, and the CC sites and finally called Consumer Cellular. Nice young woman talked to me and I finally sprung for a new (I was considering refurbished) Samsung Android 7. It should arrive Friday. I did not spend $700. I didn’t have to change my service plan. When I get the phone, I’m going to take it and my old phone to my local seller and pay to have him transfer everything over to the new phone. The least I can do, am I right?

So that’s my phone story. I’ll let you know how it goes.

That’s it for today!

The Gulliver Station ebook box set released July 30th, 2018. You can buy it at Amazon today. You can also see all my books on https://conniesrandomthoughts.com/my-books-and-other-published-work/. If you’ve read any of my books, please drop a short, honest, review on the site where you bought it or on Goodreads. It’s critical to help me promote the books to other readers. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for reading my blog. Like all of the other work I do as an author, it takes time and money. If you enjoy this Monday blog and the Friday free story and the recipe I put up on the 25th of every month, consider donating to https://www.paypal.me/ConniesRandomThought. I appreciate any donation to help support this blog.