On 2012-09-22 7:09 AM, Jean Parrot -> Alan Zisman wrote:   
      
      
    JP>      You will not believe this, in July, I cancelled both our cell   
    JP> phones, we never used them, we had 40 minutes free each and some month,   
    JP> used 2 or 3 minutes. I got a call with an offer of a smart phone, free,   
    JP> yeah ! The girl calling for Rogers was some surprised that not only I   
    JP> did not want the smart phones but I cancelled the cells.   
      
    AZ>> Me, I'm mostly using Android devices these days.   
      
    JP>      I nearly got a Toshiba tablet, I forget its name now. Jeff had one   
    JP> and thought the world of it. I just do not want/need this stuff. The   
    JP> THRiVE it was called. No judgement on your opus operandi , you must need   
    JP> to be so connected, I like being left alone. The Air does a lot of   
    JP> surfing, I do not.   
      
    JP>      Have a great Autumn. We will be back in the boonies before winter   
    JP> hits here. Do you miss the Sechelt house ?   
      
   I don't miss Sechelt, but Linda say that she does... our daughter's husband's   
   mother   
   recently retired (from near Toronto) and with both of her kids - each with a   
   new baby - in Vancouver, decided to move out here... selling her house didn't   
   give her enough $$$ to buy in Vancouver, however (and she didn't want to live   
   in the city anyway) so she bought in Sechelt - only a few blocks from where we   
   had been... so we have a place to visit with almost the same view - and none   
   of the responsibilities.   
      
   Linda and I are travelling for a week - hopping on a cruise ship   
   'repositioning' from the summer-season Vancouver-based Alaska cruises to the   
   California-based Mexico cruises; we get off in San Francisco, spend several   
   days there (we have old friends) then fly back to Vancouver - all for about   
   the cost of a Vancouver/San Francisco round trip plane ticket. A deal!   
      
   As 'tech gear' I'm bringing just two Android gadgets - the 7" Google Galaxy 7   
   tablet and a Galaxy Nexus smartphone... I'm carefully removing the CDN SIM   
   card from the phone before we leave port and will see about getting a low-cost   
   temporary one in SF... (When we were in NYC in the spring, I got a week's data   
   service from T-Mobile for $10). I've found that a phone is handy when   
   travelling - but not if you have to pay expensive roaming charges! In a pinch,   
   I can use Skype on either the phone or tablet from any place with WiFi.   
      
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