Sunday, 29 October 2017

Since we went off of summer time last night, I was able to sleep in and still get up fairly early. I then ate breakfast a bit early.

After breakfast, I walked over to Pelephone in the industrial area to see what could be done about a problem I've been having recently with my iPhone 6 Plus. Most of the time, it works fine, but sometimes the touch screen quits working entirely, not registering touches or swipes. Turning it off and on again, perhaps several times, usually fixed the problem. Sometimes, it has the opposite problem, where it registers touches or swipes even when I didn't do anything at all. This can also be stopped by turning it off. The only things they could offer there was to send it off to their lab in the Center, which would mean I'd be without it for about 10 days. I could, of course, borrow a temporary phone, but none of this would be free (and I didn't even dare ask how much it would cost).

While I was over in that area I bought a couple of things at the health food store and then headed back into town. I went to Mors Computers, and they told me it was likely to be either a problem with the screen itself (which can be replaced for 300-some shekels) or with the motherboard. If it's the latter, there's really nothing to be done (either impossible or WAY too expensive). They took it to check it out, and I told them to replace the screen if that turns out to be the problem. In any case, I'll be without my phone until at least tomorrow and probably until Tuesday, since I'll be too busy tomorrow to pick it up even if they do finish.

After that, I took the bus back home.

I finished the rest of the work for my synthesizer course except for a couple of reviews of the work of fellow students. We are required to do 3 each week, but there was only one available so far. After a few days, there will be more.

I had a salad and cheese wrapped in tortillas for lunch.

The rest of the afternoon I was lazy, but in the evening I walked down to Fay's for our weekly play-reading group.

Since I left my phone at the shop, I don't know how far I walked today, but it WAS quite a bit.

I did take some pics today, but I didn't upload them before I dropped my phone off, so today's pic of the day will be a pretty flower from last Wednesday: