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The big news: I have a start date! It's the date I expected, but still, it's official. I feel like I can start spending money for things I'll need for work on the trust that I'll be able to pay for them.
Smaller news. My phone has been one of the lingering things I would have to deal with before the end of the year, since the 2G and 3G networks are shutting down and my phone is on at least one of those. Not sure. I bought the prepaid phone in November of 2008 and it's been reliable enough since then, even though they took away the perfect-for-me prepaid plan and switched it to a cost-per-month plan that I don't like. Replacing the phone with something was a thing I figured I could deal with when I had income again but since that wasn't happening I started looking for alternatives.
My father found among his contacts someone with a surplus iPhone 7, though, and who was happy to send it along. That arrived on Monday and I took it to the Verizon store and learned ... that it was still carrier-locked to AT&T. It's not hard, in principle, to jailbreak a phone, but the owner of record has to confirm it. So I e-mailed my father to ask if he could get in touch with the donor and go to the web site for requesting unlocking. But he hasn't answered. I don't know if this is him waiting to hear back before responding, or whether he's just not seen my e-mail. He often complains that I don't answer e-mails and the plain fact is I do too.
I suspect this may reflect the thing where his phone's set to block me. Not as a personal matter, understand, but a couple years ago some Verizon tech upgrading him to a new phone decided the two people with the same name and Verizon phones must be the same person and merged our accounts. That was a very slight bother to un-merge, but ever since then any time I call him it goes right to a voice-mail he doesn't get, and he claims he called my cell phone and I never got any notice. I don't know how this would have spread to e-mail, but it's what I suspect. It could also be that he's just missed the e-mail.
My plan is to remind him of this when we talk this weekend, and I hope we'll get this sorted out. I suppose I could move my account to AT&T, as an alternative, but that's probably an equal hassle.
Here's a bit more of the Merry-Go-Round Museum.
A better look at the menagerie figures in front of the MC Ilions panel there. The zebra in front isn't decorated for Christmas but somehow looks like it naturally is.
Elephants were rarer figures than you'd imagine. I don't know how the skeleton rated a ride on this one. Notice in back the door window sign for W H Dentzel Carrousells [sic].
And here's the tiger, a fine and proud-looking beast, right?
Seen from front, uh, the tiger looks pretty solidly boxy.
The camel must've been a heck of a mount to get on. I like the matching crescent moons around the saddle.
An antique hippocampus in faded park paint; I don't know from where it came originally. There's a plaque above it from the National Carousel Association honoring the museum.
Trivia: Apollo 17 was the only Apollo lunar mission from which the crew could see the Earth's south pole. Source: Apollo By The Numbers, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029.
Currently Reading: Peanuts Dell Archive, Charles M Schulz.
