Every time I encounter a glitch, curiosity or system problem in any of my electronics I identify with Alice In Wonderland as she fell down, down into the rabbit hole finding herself in a world that made no sense and for which she was ill equipped to negotiate.
If you do not have the pleasure of knowing me you will not know that I am famous for buying a pig in a poke or, if you are not rural enough to understand that phrase, I am impulsive. Impulsive in spite of the many scenes of carnage scattered behind me from previous impulsiveness. Impulsiveness disguises itself as the brilliant deductions of a quick minded intelligent person. Or so it seems to those of us who possess this trait, in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
This is precisely the position I find myself in at the moment. I lost a phone. My phone to be specific and, though I complained about it, the phone worked and I could use it. I could use it because I had used that same type of system for years. The operating system operated as I anticipated because I did not know what operating system operated the phone. It was a given. It was one of those functions I expected to perform without a thought on my part. To be fair to myself I could have found the name of the operating system if I needed to know it. I did not, however, understand that one operating system can be quite different from the other nor did I pay attention to what I did know. I did know that operating systems are not always compatible. But the ones I used always seemed to like each other well enough so, like the renowned fictional character Scarlett O'Hara, I would think about that tomorrow. This is where I will admit that impulsive behavior operates out of a fictional assumption that things will always work out right in the end. At the time of making a decision based on that assumption I am blind to the assumption. At times I will sense a gut instinct that I am in dangerous territory but I scoff at that instinct. Remember, impulsive behavior operates on the belief that it is birthed from a quick-minded intelligent person. Which is exactly why I have spent an inordinate amount of time looking for a VPN for my new Windows based phone with the latest update.
There I said it and I cannot take it back. I bought a Windows based phone. For people who understand operating systems and acronyms of the electronic world and navigate from one system to the other this is not an alarming confession. I am not of that ilk. Every setting that needs adjusting is a lesson in extensive research for me. And so it is with my search for a VPN number.
I am going on the assumption that the internet article from Windows explaining why I am having difficulty sending text messages on my Windows based phone with the new, miracle update is accurate. I am pretending that I have a clue about MMS and cellular something or other. I have had multiple windows open on my laptop. My search has led me to a site from Microsoft who owns the Windows operating system and now all I have to do is understand the therory of relativity in conjunction with world peace and the mechanics behind a thermal nuclear reactor and I will have my precious VPN number. It will then, after multiple inputs and configurations, allow me to send text messages without interruption. The thingy will know when the something or other is going to block a text message from being sent and jump right over that block, which will still happen, and make a connection allowing my important, critical text message stating, "K" to be sent.
None of this would be an issue if I had paid attention to the "windows based" comment the sales person made when I bought my phone. I heard the comment. It was made in passing because the sales person was one of the chosen ones who is not intimidated by such verbiage. I laughed a cunning and intelligent laugh and impulsively bought and paid for a windows based phone. That is why I am looking for a VPN number which will allow the jump over the block and connect me whenever I need to be connected. And I so need to be connected.
If you need to contact me dial 1-800-Looking For A VPN! !
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