when i'm away from home, as i am now, i use my smartphone to blog. however, before we left i bought a new battery kit from ifixit, as the battery in my phone was draining too quickly and i often couldn't even run an errand without it dying. i read online that a kit was helpful and one could change the battery easily with it. i thought that with a few screws undone and the battery replaced, i'd be good to go again. not so. iphones are particularly, and probably purposefully, complicated and while the kit contained everything one needed, the procedure was much too intricate to do easily. i enlisted chanda to do the work for me, and while she read all the online instructions and watched the appropriate movies, the truth was that i hadn't read enough instructions to fully grasp how difficult the task was. what i'm taking a long time to say is that my phone now acts very funny from being opened and poked at, and, no, we were not able to even change the battery after all her hard work (they glue it in). now when i try to blog from my blogger app, i find that i can post pictures but i can't write anything. i have to go onto a computer to put text with the photos. right now i'm typing on greg's little computer, whose keyboard is tiny and difficult to use. i put up these pictures a few days ago, but haven't had a chance to write until now.
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on monday chanda and i left nyc on the train to join greg in florida as his father had died (he had been very sick with pancreatic cancer). he picked us up from the deland station and then we drove to orlando airport to pick up korrina and brian. the pictures below are from the train and the tuesday night viewing. i might not put up anything more until we get back home on sunday. it's hard typing on this little computer of his.
