Public transport hates me

For the last week mum and I have been on holidays. We spent 4 nights with friends in Sydney at the bar of the blue mountains before jumping on a flight to Melbourne for and additional 3 nights. It has been a great trip. I have caught up with friends and I have relaxed all the whole spending time with mum.

Yesterday We rode the train to the outer suburbs for coffee with Some online friends of mine. Mum Now knows that they are real and that I am not cra cra crazy.. While it took only an hour to get there it took 2 1/2 hours to get back.

Well today I met up with some beautiful people for breakfast before I left Melbourne. We all forgot that it was ANZAC day and that the city would be chaotic with the anzac parade. Struggling to get to where we were meant to be meeting I finally arrived only 20mins late.

The atmosphere was amazing though and I am thankful that I got to experience it. Breakfast was a treat and the gossip was good too. Our reminded me why I got on so well with these people when I travelled to Europe last year.

At the end I said goodbye and promised to return. The crowds were still crazy so I planned to walk about half a km to get to a tram stop and use the tram to get back to the girl were mum was already checked out and waiting.

The plan sounds simple right? I watched the tram come up the road and stop. Everyone eventually got off and the tram suddenly went out of service. Time was ticking away and I needed to hurry back in order to get to the airport in time so I set off on foot. If it had been flat I think that I would have been alright but the hills on Latrobe st killed me.

After a quick call I had mum meet me outside and after getting my case off of her we kept moving towards the station. Now by this time my toes are cut and starting to go numb. I have never been so thankful that there was a shuttle bus waiting for us that I could get straight on.

So now I am here with numb feet hoping that when we get to the airport that I don't have to walk too far!

Things my Samsung sucks at!

It has taken me a week to compose this post, but I think that it is worth it. I own a Samsung S3 phone, and have done for almost 2 years now. I have never had an issue with it so when my sister needed to get a new phone I didn't hesitate to recommend the same phone as I had. Part of me regrets that decision now. Only because unlike my positive experience, my sister is having a bad one. I tend to agree with my sister that hers is possibly faulty, so she will need to deal with that herself.

In the midst of working out that it was a problem with the phone and not the user, I received the emails below at work, which I couldn't help but laugh at. It wasn't just the title of the email, but also the way it was written. I figure that it was a bit of a laugh and after sharing it around the office at work, I would share it here too.

From: My Sister
To: Me
Subject: Things my samsung sucks at
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 01:57:20 +0000

This list is in no way intended to be an exhaustive list of things I hate about this phone. It is just the beginning.

 

1. When I'm on the phone, the back screen goes blank.

2. It randomly turns itself on silent.

3. Even when it's not on silent, sometimes it makes NO SOUND when it rings.

4. Heck, sometimes it doesn't even bother to ring. I just get a voicemail.

5. I now have 564 PAGES of sent emails. Pages. PAGES!

6. There are so many blank screens to flick through to get to my apps.

7. In the phone log, it logs all the text messages and phone calls. My inbox logs my freaking text messages, I don't need the call log to do it too.

8. The volume settings are crapola. It doesn't seem to remember the settings I last left it on, so it resets.

9. I don't even know what the FIRETRUCK a widget is.

10. When I play music in the car, I'm singing my heart out to a song... and the damn thing just randomly         skips (mid bloody song) to the next one.

11. The camera makes the shutter sound when I take a pic even when it's on silent. I can't take sneaky        pics of the kids anymore.

12. There's a hundred bloody symbols at the top of the screen. I don't like clutter.

13. There is a distinct lack of autocorrect. I need to put in my own apostrophes now. You know me, punctuation is critical.

14. I still can't receive messages from anyone with an iPhone!

 

That will do for now... There is a stack more though.;

 

 

Things I like about my phone.

 

1. CaptureCam. This app is so freaking cool, I almost want to enter the wrong passcode in a few times to laugh at the photo it takes! Alas, this is an APP so it's not really something I like about the PHONE.

From: My Sister
To: Me
Subject: RE: Things my samsung sucks at
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 01:58:20 +0000

Make that 568 pages of sent emails now.

After searching the google play store for about 20mins without being able to find this app, I gave up. It wasn't until we were in the middle of her 2hrs training/introduction to how to use her samsung that she admitted that it is her anti virus app that has capturecam, and not an app specifically called capturecam. Seems that like widgets, the definition of an app is a little confusing too for her.