Still Waiting

Last Monday came. No calls from the ENT’s office. So Tuesday morning I called. About 2 hours later I get a call back.

To my non-surprise, of course nothing has gotten anywhere. I began to tell her that if they cannot coordinate by the end of the week that the surgeries/procedures that Hepworth needs to do must move forward regardless of not finding an oral surgeon to help.

It’s almost like I’m just telling people what to do at this point. I’m pretty sure that if I didn’t do this and advocate, nothing would get done. August 31st is coming faster than you think. This needs to include the surgery and recovery. Now that I’m doing the port, I guess let’s chuck that into the pile.

With that, she said she would call back and let me know. And you guessed it. It’s Friday tomorrow. Guess who I’m calling tomorrow @ 8:30?

It’s gotten harder and harder to occupy my time. For awhile I’ve gotten pretty sick of Apples bullshit. It started when they removed 32bit app support. Then started removing the ability to tune the OS. Then the new hardware came out, it was absolute dogshit. $3,000 for a machine that can only run certain things, and can’t be tweaked. Sweet.

When COVID hit, I decided to go back to Windows. Finally, an OS I can do what I want with it. But surprisingly, they added a feature of the Linux Subsystem. So basically a VM running on your machine, full control. Boom. No need for Mac anymore. It was nice getting rid of my MacBook. I went with Alienware.

To my surprise, Windows 11 was leaps ahead of Windows Vista (the OS that made me switch to Mac). I haven’t bought a Windows box in a long time, but it was nice installing all my old games and do work. It was nice I could finally do everything on a single machine.

As each iPhone release came, same shit different year. Nothing groundbreaking. Nothing that screamed I NEED THIS. Since I’ve been trying to find things to do, I decided to give Android a shot. As I looked through the different brands, kind of the same thing as apple. Everything looks the same. Or it’s just a phablet.

Then I laid my eyes upon the new Moto Razr+. Woah. Now here’s a really cool device. It folds. Has an outside display that you can actually use. I then began reading reviews. I guess maybe this is the android phone I try.

The past week I’ve been trying to navigate the maze of trying to get out of the Apple ecosystem, and yes, it’s a fucking labyrinth. App for this, app for that. I can see why people don’t switch. It takes a concerted effort to do it. But I managed to get everything out, and into the Google services. The only bummer is abandoning the years of health data in Apple.

This morning all my photos finally finished copying, probably almost 500gb of shit over the years. The only thing left to do is move all my data off of iCloud since I no longer really have a need for it being there.

SIM card is out for delivery this morning. I’ll run the Razr in parallel to the iPhone until I feel comfortable with how things are working, but I can honestly admit android has come a very long way since the last time I tried to use it back in 2009. If everything seems to be good, I’ll swap my main number to it, and that’s it.

The only thing I’ll really miss is iMessage. But that’s about it. It will be nice to use something different. I mean let’s be real, the iPhone hasn’t substantively changed design wise in 10 years. Same phone, marginal upgrades year by year.

Maybe if Apple comes out with a new design I’d consider it, but I’m pretty sure that won’t be a thing until 2024-2025.