
This little guy has been hissing at me for a few days, but we managed to get a picture of the feral kitten yesterday. I understood his mood as we had been trying to get a new 5G cell phone working for a few days with no success. It all started when our cell phone provider informed us they would longer allow my 3G antique cell phone and stopped support.
So they sent a brand new 5G cell phone, complete with instructions to the house. Once I opened the box and took out the contents I realized it was going to be trouble. Three days, and five hours of talking to a tech on the phone later, it was still a paperweight. A supervisor finally concluded that the problem was not on their end and the phone was bad. Said supervisor told us they would send us another phone in 4 days.
So I went out to the local cell phone provider store to see if someone there could fix the phone or give me one that might work. Boy howdy, I hate progress. This store did not have any cell phones on site and shipped all phones by Fed Ex the next day. And I was told I couldn’t just get another phone from them but would have to deal with the main office. Or I could wait and one of the stores techs could take a look.
Told it would be around a 15 minute wait I decided to see if they could get the paperweight to accept calls. An hour later I was taken back to a little desk with a sneeze guard down the middle and the told a tech would be out in a few minutes. 15 minutes later the tech graced me with his presence. He figured out the wrong SIM card was in the phone, made some calls, put in a different SIM card, and got the flip phone from hell working.
Not sure how I’m going to like it but do know I like it a little better now that it’s working. I want to thank the wife for putting up with my attitude during this trying time. Now I just have to figure out 9,462 preference settings and I’m good to go. Enjoy our Saturday since it’s here. Now for more coffee.