[AGL] 2019 Not Dead Yet party

[Frances Morey]

My unlimited talk, text and photo use is $45 a month with Cricket. No
contract or anything like that but you have to promptly pay or you get cut
off even a few minutes late. That is why I have an automatic system set up
with my bank. Unlimited is the keyword in this plan.
Best,
Frances

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:53 PM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We have a cellphone now finally. It is a smart phone but we're only
> contracting for phone calls. Supposed to be $15 a month from Consumer
> Cellular but they lay on the $15 $3+ in phone taxes, so it costs over $18 a
> month just for phoning. Actually any smart phone can access the Internet
> even with just basic phone service if in proximity to an open wi-fi access
> point.
>
> Big news. You have to wait 3 rings before answering an incoming call while
> the phone and phonecall do a handshake by setting the parameters of their
> data flow. We discovered that just this week. That fact is NOT called to
> your attention in the manual for the phone. Can you believe? We only found
> out from a YouTube amateur video on how to answer an incoming phone call.
> Sliding your finger towards a green phone icon - but not visible if phone
> is black and shut down - and not sliding your finger the other way towards
> a red phone icon to not accept the phone call and press on that. The
> YouTube guy mentioned the wait 3 ring instruction at the beginning of his
> video about the green and red icons. Aha! We tried it out and it works
> infallibly. Imagine that not being in the instructions!.
>
> You can see folks who have mastered 2 thumb typing on a virtual keyboard
> which is a very classy act. I can touch type fast which I taught myself
> during the summer before going to college. The general rule which Sandy
> Lockett taught me is that multi-purpose tools are a *pis aller* to
> single-purpose tools. So Charlie, if you have a computer at home, and you
> do, you're wasting your time trying to get up to speed on a teeny tiny
> muli-purpose Swiss knife-ey smartphone.
>
> On 10/9/2019 10:33 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
>
> Dropped my cell phone in the creek. Dead. Got a new cell phone, a smart
> one and I can't figure out how to make it do anything. I try to call people
> but it doesn't work. Called Consumer Cellular abd they worked it for one
> call. Am I too stupid to have a smart phone?
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:16 AM John Moriaty <moriaty at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Great idea!
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 7:40 AM, Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I AM GOING TO PETE'S SATURDAY. MAYBE WE CAN MEET FOR A DRINK.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:41 PM J. David Moriaty <moriaty at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Not a birthday party—Saturday November 2, 4 pm until. 4903 Red Bluff
>>> Road, Austin TX 78702, 512 799-7224— BBQ, beans and booze, plus soft drinks
>>> or whatever you want to bring
>>>
>>> <Not Dead.final2.jpeg>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>> <oct 12.jpg>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Charlie Loving
>
>
>
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