We bought a new, for us, home

December 20, 2023

We closed on our new, for us, home in Trophy Club a week ago. Now the hard part begins:

  • Move into the new home
  • Prepare our current home for sale
  • Selling the house – mostly stress and waiting

The Number 1 reason for our move is to be closer to our youngest daughter and her family who promise to help with Gwen more. Briefly Gwen has fairly advanced PSP (Progressive supranuclear palsy).

Off the top of my head here’s a few other good reasons for the move and also some reasons we should have stayed in our current home:

Good

  • Easier access for wheelchair – Can get in and out of minivan in the garage
  • No water heater
  • No pool

Bad

  • View from back yard not as good
  • Loved our neighbors
  • Very familiar with the area
  • Costs us $$$

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My new iPhone 15+

December 18, 2023

It’s been a week now since I gave up my old iPhone 8 for a brand new iPhone 15+. After using it a week I’m wondering why I waited so long to upgrade. It’s like I transitioned from a VW Bug to a Bentley.

Features I love so far:

  • Replacing the home button with Face ID was brilliant.
  • The increase of speed is very impressive.
  • The battery life blows me away. Of course the iPhone 8 was 6 years old which is equivalent to 90 years in human terms.

I had been backing the iPhone 8 to iCloud so setting up the iPhone 15+ was a piece of cake except for I am having to log into all the apps again except of course for the Apple apps. Maybe if I had used the Apple keychain this part would have been easier.

I picked up the new iPhone at the AT&T store and am paying it off interest free for 36 months.

When I was growing up on the farm back in the 50s and 60s we had a huge phone that hung on the wall. Our service was the Burgess Community phone service. There were 15 of us on the same party line. Everyone’s phone rang for each call. However, each of us had our own ring so we knew the call was for us. Now I have the equivalent of a Cray Computer in my pocket. Sometimes progress really is good!

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