Better Blog than Never department
2009-09-01 Tuesday
Arrival in Stockholm, seriously jetlagged, on the day that 100-watt incandescent bulbs became illegal.

Mamacita lost her grip on a sweatshirt she had just bought in Chicago (a closeout super deal) while getting off the plane. It did eventually turn up in "hittegods" (lost & found) and they shipped it to her in Denmark, eventually, for more than it cost.

I bought Telia SIM cards for our cell phones; selected that carrier on my cousin's good advice that their coverage was much better than the two others in the north where he lives. We put them into the Motorola W490s that were sold to us at a T-Mobile kiosk as being unlocked. Just plain unlocked. Ha. More on this later. (The difference between a cell phone salesman and a used car salesman? The used car salesman knows when he's lying.)

We were pretty jetlagged. Did I say this already? On the bus from Årlanda airport into Stockholm, due to putting on the seatbelt in the bus, my 490 came off my belt -- hey, no more belt clips, only loops -- hold me to this -- so we were down to just one nonworking phone, except for -- voila!! The Palm Treo 650 that friend Howard had given me. It is a great PDA, rather schizo as a camera (sometimes it tells me there is no camera) and reluctant as a phone. It does work, but after about 8 minutes it overheats or something and just goes bonkers. And it does other things in fits when the phone part of it is turned on. But it was truly an unlocked quad mode phone. But it was such a pain in the zad that I eventually bought a dumb Nokia for the journey.

(Later: The phone did eventually turn up in hittegods at the central station, and that hittegods office won't ship out of the country. I think I'd better call my sister's friend Tony. Later yet, did that, and he retrieved it and shipped is to me. Phew.)