4 January 2018 – I got up about 7:00 a.m. to start washing
my clothes. I didn’t want to have stand in line waiting for the machines. By
8:15 a.m. I have my clothes washed and dried. I threw the hotel towels into the
drawer to help the clothes tumble and dry.
I tried several more times to get my
cell phone to start up. No luck there. Mary had suggested I ask about the
Marriott courtesy shuttle, so I went downstairs and paid for another day and
asked if anyone knew where I could take my cell phone to be checked out. They told
me there was a place in the City Mall Alajuela that is within walking distance
from here. I asked if Jose, the porter I met the previous day could accompany
me to Samsung Store to interpret for me. His supervisor said it was ok. We took
the Marriott Shuttle to the Mall at 11:00 a.m. Jose took me to the Samsung
Store where he explained to the guy working behind the counter what the problem
was with the phone.
We removed the SIM and S/D Card and the Samsung guy crashed
my phone then rebooted it back up. He downloaded everything back into the phone
which probably took an hour. Then Jose and myself worked to get all the apps
working again. I lost all my contacts and all my notes I had written along the
way including people’s addresses. That part bums me out the most. For the most
part between the 3 of us we got my phone back to 90% plus. I can’t thank Samsung
Guy and Jose for all the help they provided enough. That phone would have never
worked again had it not been for them. I tipped them nicely for all their help.
I could have never gotten it going.
Later that night, Mary and I got the Skype working
again. So that works. My AOL account on the phone isn’t working correctly. That
ticks me off and I have yet to get the Whatsapp working so I can communicate
with my friend Jim Meurer in Brazil. Otherwise, I got everything else pretty
much straightened out. It took the vast majority of the day trying to get that
phone up to speed. I sure wish that once in a while there would be one day when
I didn’t have to think about some insane problem like the cell phone. I watched
one of my favorite old movies from 1971 called “The Hard Ride” with Robert
Fuller. I liked the Harley-Davidson Knucklehead chopper. She’s a beauty. With visions of the chopper in my head, I
went to bed.
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