The weather is monumentally bad all over the Pacific Northwest. Kelly was scheduled to work in Oregon today for her job and just stay there after work today until the funeral. Lorena, Christian and I plan to fly to Seattle today, then drive down to Portland to start helping with all the upcoming events tomorrow. Since the weather did not cooperate and allow Kelly to go to Oregon yesterday, she will meet us in Seattle tonight and drive down to Portland with us. That is a very good thing. I will be nice to have a couple of meals and a night together as a family before we say good bye to Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah. Christian took the picture in this post through the window at his gate at the PHX airport with his new Google Pixel phone. To say the conditions were not optimal would be a wild understatement. So far the camera and optical system seem to be crazy good for a cell phone. I hope he remembered to pack his new Fuji camera, too.
Day: January 12, 2017
Christian uses his phone so much for the stuff he does at school that after two and a half years with his Samsung Note 4, he about wore it out. He wanted to get a new one, but the deals are so bad at Sprint these days for decent smart phones–about all they have available for a reasonable price are iphones, but who in their right mind would want one of those–that he decided to get the Google Pixel phone because he had heard good things about. The first thing he found was that, while the back camera is just awesome, the selfie camera is really pretty mediocre (see the picture below). The screen is great and the phone does everything he wants it to
do (which for him is a lot), but the main feature is that the phone is not so locked down you cannot do what you want. Christian says the phone is about the same size as our current Samsung Note 4’s and then he says the following:
It’s not as ‘impressive’ looking as some of the other phones because it has the bezels. It is also very bland, 0 features 0 bling, but that is the point. Its a good phone with no garbage.
I think that is the whole point. Most of the service and phone companies try to control what you do with “their” phones so much that you cannot use it the way you want. At any rate, it is great he got the phone when he did because I, for the third time, got him an AM ticket when I thought I was getting a PM ticket so he is getting in to the airport WAY early and will have something with which to entertain himself while he is waiting. I think Kelly will probably show up early and take him to dinner.