Administrivia

My mobile phone number is the same as it's always been. (Same as it ever was.) Only the service has been improved.

As a result, I now have a reasonable expectation of being able to make and receive phone calls using my mobile phone when I am home in the Zeppelin Hangar at Toad Woods. Early evidence suggests there's cause for my callers to have that expectation, too.

Happy dance.

beamjockey will be reassured and perhaps amused to know that I've confirmed my camera settings are set where I want them to be, and I know how to change them as desired.

As for the rest, well, there's a lot to learn. I stayed with the Samsung Galaxy model line. Reasons include but are far from limited to the supposedly easier learning curve given my 3 years of experience with the Samsung Epic 4G (a Galaxy S phone, 1st generation, I think).

Talking about first world problems....

The brand name "Samsung" is at the top of the screen on my new phone. It's on the bottom on my old phone. I am not counting, so there's no use running a lottery for how many times I'm going to orient it upside down before I learn not to.

In a similar vein, the "OK" button to unlock my screen is on the left side of the way I do my unlocking code. Yep, on the old phone, using the exact same unlocking method, the "OK" button was on the right.

Bills are paid. (Early, so I don't have to worry about any while I'm at Detcon1, or right after I return.)

I need a nap.

Okay, this is now on my list

Noted here as a place to find it since I'm not ordering it yet:

Along Those Lines: The Boundaries that Create Our World by Peter Cashwell.

"A delightful and curious book about borders, boundaries, fences, and lines." Complete with bird-watching.