Sally's GF3 thread

[fuzzi]

Yep, never had that one specifically but I liked my Motorola for a similar price.

Love my MotoG. I bought it new for about $120. It's 4 years old.

 

[Sally PB]

Yeah, I know new iphones are over priced. Sigh. Since we want to have the same phone, this is probably what we're stuck with.

Well, his will be black, and mine will be red.

 

[Sally PB]

Today is new phone day. A friend said that they had to pay $50 each for a someone at the Verizon store to set up their new phones (not the same store we're going to). She said maybe the store would do that for us, since we were buying new phones. She said their salesman was quite snippy about it too.

I'm guessing that they transfer all the contacts. I don't know if all my pictures and notes will transfer too, or not. I'll have to ask if my text conversations transfer... I still have the last conversation from my step mother who passed away last year.

I have several long running notes. Information I save about where in my garden I planted what, going back 2-3 seasons. Words that I find in the book I'm reading that I want to look up. The old shopping list from 3 years ago, eh, it can get lost. I like writing a paper list better. Maybe because I get a smug feeling from crossing things off lists?

 

[cavemanrich]

Sally,,, Your old phone,, though not be able to make calls, is still operational to read your texts, and such.
Only thing I had transferred when I got my new phone,,,
Pictures, and contact phone numbers.
T-Mobile did not charge me anything to do such.

 

[Sally PB]

Your old phone,, though not be able to make calls, is still operational to read your texts, and such.

Good to know, thanks. I wasn't sure and didn't want to assume anything. It seems like it's all electrons nowadays, and they can vanish into thin air!

The guy at the Verizon store said it was all included in the set up fee, thank goodness. It took about half an hour; he said he was "mirroring one phone to the other" so everything should be there.

My friend who was sure I'd be "paying through the nose, because it's an Iphone" seems to see everything in a negative light these days. Sadly, she has become an example of what I do not want to be in the latter part of my life.

 

[Sally PB]

For the half hour it took to do the phones, we went shopping next door at Goodwill. I found a CD of Rachmaninoff playing some of his piano works. It's remastered from whatever technology they had in his day, and I'm looking forward to hearing it! Hubby doesn't like piano music, so I'll wait until he's doing something else.

My mom got an album called, "Beethoven's Klavier," or something like that, when I was in high school. It was a couple of his sonatas played on a period piano (maybe Beethoven's?), and it sounded VERY different from a modern piano. She didn't care for it, but I thought it was cool.

The other thing I bought was a DVD of It's A Wonderful Life, which I have never seen. That's on my list of things I will do in the next week.

 

[aart]

It's A Wonderful Life, which I have never seen.

 

[Sally PB]

I know It's A Wonderful Life is shown on TV every year, but I just can't watch movies with commercials any more. So I've never watched it.

Gonna fix that this year.

 

[aart]

I know It's A Wonderful Life is shown on TV every year, but I just can't watch movies with commercials any more. So I've never watched it.

Gonna fix that this year.

TV commercials are reading time here.

 

[Sally PB]

TV commercials are reading time here.

Interesting!

When I am watching something I want to pay attention to (otherwise, why would I watch? ), commercial breaks are annoying interruptions to me. Maybe I'm "the gullible" watcher, but if I can suspend my disbelief, I will sit and listen.

If you sell me on the story -- as a story -- I will hang on your every word. If the story doesn't interest me, or the scaffold holding up my disbelief crashes down, I might not stick around for the denouement.

There are times when I've slogged through a book or a movie "that I was just waiting for it to be over." One was a book I borrowed from a friend. I summed it up like this (to someone else):
Me: The first 347 pages dragged a a bit, but after that, I couldn't put it down.
Friend: How long was the book?
Me: 348 pages.

The Tolkien Ring trilogy movies were movies that I won't bother to watch again. Hubby loves them, and I said I'd go to the theater with him. I went to see the gorgeous scenery (New Zealand?) where they were filmed, and I wanted to see that on the big screen. The entire hobbit thing does not interest me.