Breakfast Wednesday 11 October 2023

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12. Big celebration, finally got the new SIM card installed, having a whole syrupy can

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sugary can of pineapple chunks (20 oz). EDITED TO ADD: the can says "no added sugars", but I bet its full of sucralose or some other chemical sweeteners.

Consumer Cellular told us back in August that my SIM card is obsolete so I ordered the new SIM card (free). The instructions were lousy and I had a long phone conversation with customer support with no luck. I broke the little tool that one pushes into some hole to eject the SIM tray, and they wouldn't send me another, but said a paperclip will do.

I eventually ran across some how-to videos. But when I tried, nothing happened, the tray wouldn't budge. Another long conversation with customer support.

Customer support said I had to get it done before the end of the year or it would stop working.

Then I googled what to do if the SIM tray won't come out, and basically the solution is to apply as much force pushing in the tool (or paperclip) into the hole as possible. It worked! (The phone is 4 years old this October, and the videos say that in older phones the trays tend to be hard to get out).
 
The instructions were lousy on what to do next, but eventually I figured it out.

So at last a great reason to celebrate. With a dab of cottage cheese on the side.