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About the only thing that remained stuck on my brain is in regard to this sliced thumb tip whose ''healing'' often has me re-evaluating whether trying to restore it was actually the better option rather than accepting the loss and living with the resulting scarring, because despite a seemingly successful re-attachment, it has resulted in nothing but continuous discomfort in the form of being this hardened bump that is constantly numb and simultaneously numb & painful when any pressure has been applied, particularly when using the typing keyboard.
December 1 - 4, 2025 (Monday - Thursday)
Woke up with a migraine and symptoms of a head cold Monday morning (Dec. 1) -- I thought that maybe they hit me when they did because the night prior I was considering returning to the bicycle to try to fix its chain... but surprisingly I was able to rest both of them off, which is something that is not typical.
Attempted to restore the ''CrapFone's'' apps' functionality, ultimately deciding to reset the ''App Store'' to the ''factory setting'' to try to address the problem, but not only did the reset still not eliminate the extant faulty operations, but the action resulted in my stored apps library and updates history inside the App Store being purged -- these would inevitably be find themselves restored the following day (Tue., Dec. 2), but any ''Outlook'' related program still refused to launch and/or be accessible from the phone app.
Later in the night I tried to expunge my ''ObamaCare'' information from the ACA ''Marketplace'' website, but it wasn't possible -- the only available option being to update the application and be deemed 'not qualified' for tax credit subsidies.
Spent Wednesday Morning (Dec. 3) updating/refining/restructuring my ''Pass Codes'' cheat sheet and copied them over to my cellphones, then strolled down to ''CVS'' to retrieve the first of my prescription pills refill that I'd ordered on Monday.
I'd arrived at the pharmacy just a couple of minutes later than their daily shutdown time (of which I wasn't aware) and decided to wait onsite. While there, I decided to check to see if CVS offered open-access Wi-Fi, and upon seeing confirmation for it tried to launch it... but each attempt would cause the system to glitch out and auto-restart. At some point, I came across some notification recommending?/suggesting? that I physically detach the phone's ''SIM'' card -- and to my surprise, reinserting it immediately following a full shutdown & restart seemed to clear-up all of the glitching problems I'd been experiencing... including the immediate connection to the LTE ''Mobile Data'' network! (which I'd immediately tested by placing a phone call to my mother's phone).
I did not have time to reinstall, let alone attempt to launch, ''Outlook Mail'' at that time, because the pharmacy gate was about set to reopen only about five or six minutes after everything on my phone got restored.
[Latest Journal Entry]: December 11, 2025
Unmentioned Highlights from Previous Quarter...
''Week in Review''
December 5 - 7, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
The quieting of ''MicroSux's'' phone apps' tantrum throwing on my ''primary'' phone did not last very long:
I'd waited until very late Friday Night (Dec. 5) before testing whether or not ''Outlook Mail'' would finally allow me back in... which it surprisingly did with no issues... until later Saturday Morning (Dec. 6), when not only did the mail app revert to causing me at-launch and bypassed access attempt headaches, but their blamed ''LostNote'' notepad app also later began contributing to the access-roadblocking conflict in its own frustrating ways.
These misbehaviors eventually resulted in my uninstalling not only ''Get-Out Mail'' on Saturday-- replacing it with a weblink and page icon to launch it from the ''Brave'' web browser (which I hadn't been using for anything anyways) --but eventually purging my system of ALL''Microsoft'' related programs from that phone on Sunday (Dec. 7), but not until I'd first found and installed a reasonably decent simple & no-nonsense replacement for their notepad program, which involved the immediate uninstallation of the first such program I'd considered when it was revealed that it would refuse to launch unless I had that creepy ''Google Play Store'' active in the background at all times (despite this particular program's selling claim that it did not require any internet access to use).
I then decided to carry my MicroSux purging efforts over to my secondary phone as well, again eliminating their notepad altogether and replacing it with my approved 3rd-party alternative, and scrubbing MicroSuck's ''OneDrive'' and exchanging it for Android's/Google's pre-installed in-house ''cloud-based'' storage hosting service, retaining only their ''Mail'' app, as it not only did not pose any sort of difficulties on the secondary phone, but I figured I'd benefit more from retaining its presence there after having learned that I would not ever be alerted to any new mail deliveries using the web browser set-up method... not even if the direct app was still installed and left ''enabled.''
''Week in Review''
December 11, 2025 (Thursday)
A couple of interesting things had occurred early this morning. First, while no longer certain when exactly it had taken place-- i.e. whether it was sometime while I was still working on the computer prior to trying to catch some sleep, or if I'd encountered it during one of my roused from sleep periods, or even if it had happened after I'd woken up for the day to prepare for my Optometrist visit --at some point during the [very?] early morning hours, as I had turned my attention to the fake-ass looking fake aloe decorative plastic plant which I'd (as an intended temporary placement) propped up in my little ''Lady Bust'' plant holder which had contained my mini Aloe I'd purchased at ''Lowe's'' and took surprising note that the plant which I'd written off as deader than dead for the past several months and had allowed to completely dry itself out was remarkably showing itself determined to hold on by shooting out a few tiny green but definitely struggling new arm sprouts: impressed by its determination, I gave it a few light spills of water in hopes of seeing it recover.
During my appointment preparation, close to the time we should've been heading out, I'd tried to spend a brief period on my primary phone to create a shopping list for when we'd be heading out to ''Sam's Club'' after my eye exam, only for the app to get frozen during the launch. After several additional failed attempts, I'd resorted to the SIM-extraction tactic I'd used at the pharmacy which seemed to work, but I was disappointed to learn that this method, and re-connection attempts associated with it, was not producing results... this time finally convincing me that either my failure to re-establish connection with Mobile Data meant that it was officially inaccessible and/or that there were definitely some internal issues with the phone that were signaling its impending demise -- but again, just as I was about to consider it a lost cause some 10-15 minutes later, access to the data stream was regained.
Finding our way to the location was murder and a half, despite first my plotting the route out on my own, then running the audible instructions ''GPS'' feature on the ''Google Maps'' phone app, which gave its own set of confusing and contradictory directions/instructions.
Despite arriving on-location over 1/2-hour ahead of my scheduled visit, there was still over an [additional] hour-long wait before I was seen by someone (supposedly short-staffed, according to one of the intake personnel).
At the conclusion of the exam, even though I did not believe them all that necessary, as the Optometrist recorded only minimal improvement, but improvement nonetheless, I let myself be convinced by the both of us that I should probably go on ahead and ''upgrade'' my prescription anyway, if for no other reason than to circumvent any potential blow-back from the Insurance Provider should I put off trying to request a new set until a later date.
My ''Shopping List'' after the fact wound-up being an adventure in more impulse purchases than I would've imagined possible, fueled in significant part to the fact that several specific items I'd gone there with the intent of purchasing either could not be conveniently located or were no longer available for however long of a time... so added to my basket (among other impulse buys) included things such as canned salmon, tempura shrimp, finally a pot pie set (even though I had little genuine idea how I was going to manage to find adequate space for them all), and a slab of ''baby back barbecue ribs'' in lieu of waiting 20+ minutes for a roto-hen to complete cooking.
God only knows how long I would've remained standing at the exit point waiting for my mother to either come through one of the lines with her stuff or to pull the car up to the front for loading... but for what felt to be something like 15 or 20 minutes of standing there, lamenting that my BBQ ribs were driving toward cold, I was going to send her a text asking her to provide me with the keypad code to unlock the car so that I could start putting my groceries away, which was when I'd discovered that she had sent me a (inexplicably inaudible delivery alert) text ten minutes after I'd informed her that I was literally grabbing my final item and would be meeting her at the exit: it was because of this conflict that she FINALLY came to the full realization and understanding of what I'd been repeatedly explaining to her, that I don't ever go through the checkout lines whenever we're at ''Sam's,'' stating that such is the only place whenever I do any kind of outside shopping where I specifically pay for all such purchases through the phone app -- she said she finally understood what I'd been trying to explain to her for [at least] the three prior times I'd informed her about this.
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