Not Christmas Shopping

December 21st my iPad decided to become private. It stopped showing me what it was doing. I could hear things happening. iTunes would connect and say it was backing up my iPad to my laptop. But my screen was blank.

It looked much like a window with the top half being a slightly different gray tone than the bottom half. And someone keep pulling down a window shade that was a another shade of gray.

So, what did I do? I called Dave, of course.

We tried this. Then we tried that. Then we tried another thing. Until finally we decided we couldn’t fix this ourselves. I would need to make a trip to the local Apple Store.

Since I took my van to Texas I don’t have a car here. The Apple store is less than 10 miles away but that’s a nearly $30 taxi ride each direction. So, I showed some friends here what was happening and word got around that I needed a ride to the Apple Store. Fortunately, a woman, from Minnesota no less, was going that way December 23rd.

So I hitched a ride to the Apple Store. Sort of. If you look at the mall map below you will see an entrance on the upper right between Macy’s and section D.

I was dropped off there with instructions to walk to the central court then right on out the other side and a block up a pedestrian only street. Unfortunately my definition of the other side did not match that of the giver of instructions and I did not see this map before I went. So I walked all the way down to JC Penney. Wrong. I was supposed to turn between sections B & C and go out that side. Instead I went out the side of Penney’s and walked through the parking lot to the “Lifestyle” mall on the north side of this mall.

I did eventually find the Apple Store where I traded in my broken iPad and a bunch of money for a new one. But they were out of the SIM card I needed to make the cellular part work. They said there was a Verizon store by the center of the mall I had just walked through. And I remembered seeing it but had no idea where it was. So I found this map. Guess where it was?

Right. All the way back by the entrance I had come in. So I walked all the way back again, taking rest breaks along the way because I was totally exhausted.

But my new iPad works. And it is lighter than the one I had so I won’t get so tired carrying it around. And the taxi picked me up at that door and brought me right to my door here.

Still, I took today off and stayed home. I don’t feel a need to do any exercise classes today.

Merry Christmas.

TTYL,

Linda

ps. My FitBit says I walked almost 2 1/2 miles yesterday. It has been years since I walked that far which I’m taking as a sign of my increased health.