Big day today. It’s gameday for UK v TN, UK at home in another high-stakes SEC slugfest. I sure hope we don’t have to hear Rockytop after this one. And I sure hope Doug Shows isn’t one of the refs.

And it’s the day before we leave for Cabo. Last minute packing to do. This will be our first flight using the new Southwest boarding process with assigned seats, so that’ll be interesting.

And…it’s the day I finished the incredibly tough iPhone switch. Yesterday we went to the T-Mobile store to give them lots of money in exchange for two shiny tech bricks. That turned out to be very, very hard. We spent 3 hours at the store as the techs there fumbled through the account/plan and device changes. I can’t tell you how many times I heard “we have a new system, and it’s much harder to use”. We managed to get K’s device switched and the data transferred, but my phone simply would not allow us to copy its data onto the new one. We tried several methods, but….nope. So we took my old phone and the new one home, where I worked on a manual process of transferring all the data, apps, and settings from iPhone 14 to iPhone 17.

I spent most of the evening and another hour or two early this morning, but I’m finished. The 14 is now clean and reset to factory, and the 17 is working fine. But what a slog – I’ll think twice before the next switch, hopefully in 3 years or longer. Every step of the process was difficult and slow. It’s amazing how much of life is now packaged up in one’s phones, apps, data and passwords.