Tech transfer

And speaking of technology, at the moment I’m quite chuffed that I managed to set up my new Pixel 3 mobile phone, including transferring my data and apps from my old Nexus 5x. And removing the SIM card from the old phone and installing it in the new.

I had to acknowledge that the Nexus battery was just draining to quickly, even after I had a new one put in. It’s more than three years old, and (as someone pointed out to me WRT my laptop touch screen freezing, which also happened yesterday) device manufacturers would not survive if they couldn’t gouge the user with nearly annual regularity. So last week I ordered the Pixel from Amazon.

(Google Fi is my carrier, so I’m limited as to compatible devices. On the other hand, I used that phone for weeks in Europe over the past year, and my monthly bill has never been more than $35.)

Bit of a kerfuffle, because the Amazon driver delivered it to my neighbor. And by the time she brought it over to me, she was slightly chagrinned because she’d opened the outer package before realizing it was for me. (Look—have you never found a smiley package at your doorstep and wondered, “Huh, what did I order from Amazon?”) But it was fair dues: a month or two ago I got her mortgage statement with a bunch of my own bills, and it was only after I’d opened it that I realized it was hers.

But I was concerned about doing the transfer and setup, because one of my colleagues at my old job used to be my wingman on that sort of thing. However—as you might have surmised—I went to YouTube and figured it out. I did it at work so the help desk could set me up on the mobile security app we use for two-factor authentication. And I charged it via the most excellent LED lamp facilities got for me, which has a mobile phone stand and a USB charging port integrated into it.

Now I believe it’s wine o’clock.