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Aug. 31st, 2019 09:01 amLong weekend, which is nice.
Our Turkish faculty member left for Virginia yesterday. Her husband is a neurosurgeon and couldn't find a job in Boston (I assume due to foreign training, because otherwise how the hell can you not find a job as a neurosurgeon in Boston?), so is doing a fellowship at UVA for the next three years and then going to be faculty at Stanford. She couldn't stand another round of long distance marriage (she was a single parent to a baby daughter while he was at Ohio State for a couple of years, and now they have a 3-year-old and an almost-1-year-old). I understand completely, but I wish the people I can actually converse with would stop leaving. The coworker I used to talk about football with left two years ago, so now I have nobody to talk about football with and nobody to talk about books with.
If the Apple store tells you you can just swap the SIM card out of your old iPhone into your new one, and they're different models, don't you believe it. It took me three hours to figure that out on Tuesday night, because the Apple store said that was all there was to activating my new phone (iPhone 8; cheaper than XS and still twice as much memory as the 7 I was replacing) and Sprint wasn't having any. Not to mention the fact that when I swapped the SIM card, I suddenly had two nonfunctional phones, and Sprint wouldn't let me into my account without sending a 2-factor authentication code, which neither phone could receive. Massively frustrating. I felt somewhat vindicated when I went to the Sprint store on Wednesday night and the technician got three error messages in the process of activating the damn thing, so it's not all me, some of it is the process. At least this time I didn't lose anything when I put the old data on the new phone, so I didn't have to start Neko Atsume over from the beginning for the third time.
After the phone store I ambled across the street and went to Parlour for dinner because I had noticed they were open (finally) and had scallops on the menu. They were good, but overpriced, so I think I won't bother going there again. But I wouldn't have known if I hadn't tried, and now I know.
Trying to decide what the next step is, diving-wise. Obviously the next step in general is to go diving, now that I can do it for fun; the question is what gear do I want to own and what gear do I need to own and what order do I buy it in. I would love to own my own BCD, so I can get all the straps the right length and the weight pockets sitting in the right spots and then leave them that way, but there are several kinds of BCD other than the one I trained in and I don't know what I want. And I also don't really want to spend $500-900 right now. I also want my own dive computer so that any data in it is specific to me, but I kind of want one with a compass in it, just to keep all the information on one arm, and I don't know if the ones that do that are really what I need right now. The answer, of course, is to go to the dive shop and ask all these questions, but it's Grand Central Station in there these days and I always feel like I should come back when they're less busy. Which will probably be Christmastime.
Our Turkish faculty member left for Virginia yesterday. Her husband is a neurosurgeon and couldn't find a job in Boston (I assume due to foreign training, because otherwise how the hell can you not find a job as a neurosurgeon in Boston?), so is doing a fellowship at UVA for the next three years and then going to be faculty at Stanford. She couldn't stand another round of long distance marriage (she was a single parent to a baby daughter while he was at Ohio State for a couple of years, and now they have a 3-year-old and an almost-1-year-old). I understand completely, but I wish the people I can actually converse with would stop leaving. The coworker I used to talk about football with left two years ago, so now I have nobody to talk about football with and nobody to talk about books with.
If the Apple store tells you you can just swap the SIM card out of your old iPhone into your new one, and they're different models, don't you believe it. It took me three hours to figure that out on Tuesday night, because the Apple store said that was all there was to activating my new phone (iPhone 8; cheaper than XS and still twice as much memory as the 7 I was replacing) and Sprint wasn't having any. Not to mention the fact that when I swapped the SIM card, I suddenly had two nonfunctional phones, and Sprint wouldn't let me into my account without sending a 2-factor authentication code, which neither phone could receive. Massively frustrating. I felt somewhat vindicated when I went to the Sprint store on Wednesday night and the technician got three error messages in the process of activating the damn thing, so it's not all me, some of it is the process. At least this time I didn't lose anything when I put the old data on the new phone, so I didn't have to start Neko Atsume over from the beginning for the third time.
After the phone store I ambled across the street and went to Parlour for dinner because I had noticed they were open (finally) and had scallops on the menu. They were good, but overpriced, so I think I won't bother going there again. But I wouldn't have known if I hadn't tried, and now I know.
Trying to decide what the next step is, diving-wise. Obviously the next step in general is to go diving, now that I can do it for fun; the question is what gear do I want to own and what gear do I need to own and what order do I buy it in. I would love to own my own BCD, so I can get all the straps the right length and the weight pockets sitting in the right spots and then leave them that way, but there are several kinds of BCD other than the one I trained in and I don't know what I want. And I also don't really want to spend $500-900 right now. I also want my own dive computer so that any data in it is specific to me, but I kind of want one with a compass in it, just to keep all the information on one arm, and I don't know if the ones that do that are really what I need right now. The answer, of course, is to go to the dive shop and ask all these questions, but it's Grand Central Station in there these days and I always feel like I should come back when they're less busy. Which will probably be Christmastime.
