Creature of habits.

I really am a creature of habit.  I like my routine.  Especially when it comes to computers, gadgets, and phones.  I like to look at my phone and know where everything is. 

I got a new computer in October and I still am trying to get comfortable with the layout of Windows 10.

I was eligible for a new phone a while back, but tried hard not to get a new one.  My phone was having problems.  I looked at it one day and I was on military time.  I fixed it back to regular time.  The next day, I was on military time again.  A feature that I liked best was the ability to speak a text message.  I went to do that one day and I had smiley faces where the speaker prompt was.  I lost that battle.

We were going away a couple of weeks ago and I decided that I just needed to bite the bullet and get a new phone.  Everyone is always saying to get an Apple.  I walked into the store with Apple on my mind and I walked out with an order in for the new Galaxy  7S. 

I know that Apple products are incredible and there are sweet little bells and whistles with them.  It occurred to me that I don’t have any desire to learn a completely new phone. 

The phone is just now released and I got mine mailed to me on Tuesday.  I opened it yesterday, looked at it, and decided that today was as good as any day to inconvenience myself and downloading stuff and entering usernames and passwords and trying to familiarize myself with the layout of the new phone.

Last night, 6 hours later and I was still irritated over the whole thing.  I can’t find the cloud to get my pictures. I can’t remember my Gmail password.  It seems that I wrote all of my passwords down with my usernames, with that exception. 

I am supposed to be able to open it with my fingerprint.  I haven’t accomplished that yet.  However, in the grand scheme of things, I guess I’m doing ok.  I only had to call a support tech one time. I learned two things in the call.  First, I was congratulated for being a Verizon customer for 10 years to the day yesterday.  That got me nothing.  If I was still at the Verizon store when I learned that is was my 10-year anniversary, I absolutely would have left with a new car charger or something.  I would have shamed the manager into something.  I did learn that you shouldn’t charge the phone all night because it shortens the life of a battery. 

I was thinking about my old phone on my way home and was realizing all of the texts that were on it.  Texts about my mom and grandmother and trips to the hospital.  Random pictures that were texted to me.  Oh well.  Time to move on. 

For the record, I will be complaining for a few weeks about this phone.