Picking Up Where We Left Off

Sam’s new phone was waiting for me when I got home from work on Friday afternoon. This arrived quicker than I expected, but about as quick as I was hoping for. In the couple of days since the demise of his old phone, Sam’s frustration, while not gone entirely, had subsided greatly.

Now all that was left (hopefully) was to install the old sim card and then set up the new phone. I was dreading both of these things. The old sim card had gotten wet when the old phone got wet. Does this ruin a sim card? I had no idea, but we were about to find out. I installed the card and it only took a few tries (it’s too small to easily manipulate with my fat fingers). The phone started right up.

Now, onto setting up the phone...

As I mentioned elsewhere, when I had to replace my old phone, setting up the new one took several frustrating attempts - and this was using my old phone as the backup. As I also mentioned, Sam’s old phone was fried.

Amazingly (and thankfully), the setup process went more smoothly for Sam than it had for me. I think one of the reasons was that Sam didn’t care so much about retrieving his call history and his texts. If he had, I’m pretty sure we would still be working on it.

Sam’s primary concern (aside from having a phone to actually make phone calls) was to make sure he still had his Santa Tracker and his Pokemon Go app. The Santa Tracker was no problem. The Pokemon Go app took a little more work. But with a little fiddling with some of the settings, he was back in business- THANK GOD!

Out of all of the things in this process, the thing stressing me out the most - by far - was this Pokemon Go stuff. Not only was there a Pokemon Go “event” coming up that weekend, but the prospect of Sam losing his Pokemon collection - well, it would not have been something that he would easily let go of.

But it all went as smoothly as I had a right to expect.

By bedtime, things had pretty much returned to where they should be. Gone was the stress and the worry of a few nights before. Sam climbed into bed and I gave him a kiss. We each said "good night" and "I love you".

Then, I shut off his light and I went downstairs, to sit for a while, alone in the quiet - before finally falling asleep.