Musings on a Small Life

There are too many choices when it comes to cell phone plans, be they prepaid (as mine is) or on contract. After going into the Telus store in the local mall, I came home and dithered for ages, then ended up just going for their basic add-on of 500 outgoing and unlimited incoming texts, plus 50 minutes of free local calling, at $15 plus tax per month. No data, at least not at this point. None of their prepaid/auto-renew plans has long distance, unfortunately. But at least I can send and receive texts Canada-wide and to the U.S. too. I don't need 500 outgoing texts per month, let alone international capability, but I wanted some voice coverage and this was the only way I could get it. And on the topic of "voice," I spoke with Mom a short time ago. She's found a private facility for Harry; he'll move there on Wednesday, from the hospital. The place is about 20 minutes outside of the city, in a quiet setting, rather like a lodge in the woods. Six or se...

So a few days ago I popped over to our computer store at lunch time and came back with a used Samsung Galaxy 3 cell phone, for $125 plus tax (and the $5 for the USB cable to charge it). Fortunately, the young guy at the store was able to use a little device to snap out the SIM card in the old phone and pop it into the "new," so that worked out well. I currently have an account with Telus (for the old phone), always have paid $100 per year and never used it up, not even close. However, I can see that I'm going to need a real plan soon! (I also now see why smart phones are such time-wasters. LOL.) I've since been stumbling along with it, as I don't have a clue about using these things, and have been pestering our summer student who happens to have the same phone. (Though he paid a lot more, a few years ago!)  Anyway, the bottom line is that I can text now -- though I'm really slow and really, really bad at it. Big thumbs, tiny keys.  :-) Still...