Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
The other day Verizon upgraded the Port Swiller Manor communications package, giving us not one but two new routers.
My laptop is perfectly fine with the new arrangement, but my phone absolutely hates it. Tried catching up with Sistah yesterday and even when I found a good reception spot, after a few minutes it would fade out on me again. Same deal happened when Middle Gel tried to call me to chat. (On the other hand, I don’t seem to have any problems with either text-messaging or accessing the Innertoobs from it.)
It’s an older iPhone, a hand-me-down from Mrs. R, but I wasn’t noticing any particular problems with it last week before the service upgrade. Is this issue some kind of clash between levels of technology? Or is my phone just dying? I have no idea.
I actually dislike talking on the phone more and more the older I get, but I dislike shouting, “Hello? Hello?? HELLO???” in baffled, futile fury even more.
UPDATE: Oh, and any wag who wants to make a deafness joke here gets a night in the box. In fact, I am getting deafer, but it’s the kind of deafness where I can’t pick out an individual conversation in a noisy environment like a party. I’ve seriously started to consider whether a hearing-aid might not be a bad thing to check out. And yes, you can get off my lawn now.
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August 20, 2019 at 12:00 am
CaptainNed
Robbo, your update meshes perfectly with my recent experiences (I do believe we’re but a year apart). My tolerance for crowds and crowd noise has fallen off a shelf in the past couple of years. What’s worse is that, to me, a crowd is basically any gathering of 4 or more.
August 20, 2019 at 7:57 am
Robbo
So when are YOU going to get the chain for your reading glasses to keep them from falling out of your shirt all the time? Mine fell into the washing machine the other day without my realizing it and I almost ran them through a cycle!
August 20, 2019 at 5:02 pm
CaptainNed
Thankfully I’ve not yet reached the stage of needing multiple sets of glasses, as I can still read with no correction (a/k/a glasses off). I have no expectation that this happy situation will continue on much longer, as I am awaiting my first pair of “computer glasses” from a recent trip to the eye doc.
And yes, there will be a “chain”, though it’s likely to be much more string-like (and not entirely unlike tea).