Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Wed
-- 12:15a  Bed
--   8:35a  Up
--   9:00a  Leaving to get oil change with coupon.
--   9:47a  Arrived to pickup breakfast at a McD near the oil change place.
I couldn't get any wifi in the parking lot, but inside, I was able to get the login screen to work  for the first time.  
At this point, I don't know if they fixed a general problem, or if there was a reason it worked at THIS McD.  
However, I couldn't order the burritos without cheese on the app at this location.
So, I had to order it at the counter.

-- 10:46a  Inside after biking 2+4;  Breakfast @home: 2 sausage/egg burritos
-- 12:12p  Inside after biking 2+2;  Also stopped at the Xfinity store and made an appt to come back.
--   1:20p  Arrived for 1:30p appt at Xfinity store
--   1:35p  Started process to obtain new Galaxy A14 5G smartphone.
--   2:05p  Headed home to get e-mail password.  Turns out that I knew it, but I got the cases wrong.
--   2:20p  Returned and discovered that they needed my Google password.  
But I had brought my laptop so I had all my passwords.
--   3:08p  Arrived at Five Below to get a new cellphone case.
They no longer have any generic cases and they only have iPhone cases.
I neglected to look at the selection at the Xfinity store.
Then went to pickup dinner @BK, in the same shopping center, since it was Whopper Wednesday.
--   3:31p  Home
Used new cellphone to call home and let machine answer.  Then listened to message, so it worked.
--   4:27p  Inside after biking 3 mi and talking to neighbors;  Dinner @home: $3 Impossible Whopper on app
--   5:11p  Inside after biking 2 mi (Total 15 mi today);  I'm totally discombobulated.
--   5:18p  Plugged in new phone at 51%.  I had to buy a charging brick separate from the phone.
--   5:24p  "Inside Edition"
--   6:30p  "ET"
--   7:10p  Phone is now at 100% battery
--   7:35p  I tried to use TiVo app on new phone which requires me to login.
It said that there was no such userid on file.  I logged in on my laptop and it worked.
Now I'm confused.
--   7:40p  There is a link for trouble logging in.  It said I should contact my
cable provider regarding my credentials.  I don't know how my cable provider would be 
involved in this.
--   8:24p  Just finished online chat with a Comcast agent with poorly-worded sentences.
He indicated that he has escalated the problem and I need to wait for a call back.
--   8:27p  "The View";  Preempted at :30 for police officer funeral
(I had expected the whole ep to be preempted.)
--   8:51p  "Grey’s Anatomy"
-- 10:17p  Skim Ch5 news


*To activate screen, I have to find and press power button.  Old phone used double tap of screen.
*On-screen buttons on bottom of screen use different icons and have swapped possitions.
*I can't find the settings icon.  The guy at Xfinity showed me but now I can't find it.
However, I can ask Google to open it.
*Accidentally found list of all apps by swiping and found Setting there anc copied icon to main screen.
*Googled and found how to set screen to wakeup when I double tap.
*Didn't realize that the phone was using Xfinity wifi.  So, I had to set it up to use my home network.
*Tuned off mobile data.  I didn't know that it was on by default. 
The meaning of the gas gauge is ambiguous.  It's one color, so I don't know if it means
0% or 100%, or if I was charged for data usage already.  It was confusing on old phone, too.
*New phone doesn't say how long it will take until fully-charged, but it might take some
charging cycles for it to display that.

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