It's August and it's Samsung upgrade time. Samsung bring new phones out twice a year, January and August. I open the new Samsung store app, and look around. Mm.. nice. Wow, I love this new Samsung Fold 5. They have got the hinge sorted and it closes well. Ah, but I will stick with the S23.
So I wondered away from it. Then one day I noticed, that the case for the S23 is peeling on the edges. In all these years, that I have been using the Samsung phones with stylus, I have never had this issue with their cases. I started looking for other cases, but none have the Smart View.
You spend all the time in the world, looking at specifications, but you never think, how does the cases's corners wear out?
JerryRingEverything goes on about his cases, but I bet, he has never looked at the simple fraying on the edges. None of their cases deal with the Smart Window.
The old LED cases never wore out. This one is awful. It has a very rubbery feel to it. But you are stuck with it, because it has the Smart View, to show you the analogue clock and more importantly the messages.
I said, forget the window. I bought a cheap leather one. Guess what? The stylus wouldn't work. The leather or some insulation against waves blocks the signal. So back it went.
Now I am more annoyed, about the bleeding cases (literally, it is bleeding), than the phone. Madness. Can't sleep. Distrubed emotional balance etc.
"Is it in the Stars Ali", you are shouting at me.
Well yes it is.
"So, how come you didn't prepare for it, using your positive thinking etc"?
Sun opposition to Saturn. It happens once a year. This year it is all about detailed, fussy, finicky, stuff you handle with your hands, because Sun is in Virgo or Shahrivar شهریور ♍.
Saturn is in Pisces or Esfand اسفند ♓, on the other side, which deals with imagination, art, visualization.
Below is the situation right now with Moon making a perfect Square.
Designing images for Astrology diagrams, can get very taxing. You can feel the tension between the Sun and Saturn. Saturn is making life hard enough for us, going slowly through Pisces or Esfand اسفند ♓. So having the Sun opposition as well, does not help.
I kind of said, "that's ok, I can swing this". The rule is, see the forces and rise above them. Think outside the box, as it were. Go back to the Samsung shop app.
I went to the shop, to look at the cases for Samsung Fold 5. It is a one piece plastic. It won't fray and bleed. Let's see what Samsung will give me for my S23. Wow they would give a lot for a trade in.
I got excited. I have cracked the conundrum. At the check out, I realised the colour of the phone and case didn't match. So I went back and changed the phone. Got the stuff the next day in an unbelievable delivery speed.
The new phones were synchronized, and then realised that Samsung hasn't sent me the return details for the trade in.
So I called them up. They said I didn't get the discount. I told them what I did with the colour change. They said I need to return it and repeat. She sent me the email with the return label. Cool I will print it. Cinch.
Like most people, I rarely use my printer. In fact, the only time I seem to use it, is when I have to return something, because it is faulty. The irony is that, the printer is of course faulty as well, because I rarely use it. With all the upgrades to software and hardware, these devices rarely get updated - so the network just doesn't recognise them, and of course, the cartridges have dried up.
What began, as a simple curiosity journey for a case for my existing phone, has ended up with a massive replacement for a new phone, and a new printer.
Why a new printer you ask? Because it is cheaper to buy a new printer with cartridges, than new cartridges.
Luckily I managed to get one decent print after ten test pages, somehow Windows troubleshooter spat it out.
Wow. What a crazy story eh? Talk about a can of worms. I sort of saw it coming, but it was hard work with all the astrological aspects.
