I'm Not Smart Enough for a Smart Phone

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About this same time last night I was putting the finishing touches on a blog post I had hoped to post today at 1 am. I finished it about 11:30 pm. Normally I would schedule it to post at 1 am automatically, but I expected to be up then so I thought I'd just post it manually. Big mistake! As I was typing away here at myLot, trying to finish my notifications, one of my comments on a response wouldn't post. I tried a couple of times but kept getting an error message. At first I was upset with how slow myLot was. Then I tried another page and got the message that I had no internet connection. Then I noticed the phone and TV were also gone. My cable connection had stopped and dropped me offline. I called Charter and discovered they were doing maintenance in our area and there was no telling when they would be finished. I could have them call me between 8am and 5 pm when they got everything fixed. But that would have been too late. I went to bed and read until I fell asleep. When I woke this morning, the connection was still dead. Now this blog was not for my own site. It was for the cooperative blog at Review This! -- a site where many ex-Squidoo women each have a regular posting day we are committed to. The others were relying on my post going up today. So there was only one thing to do -- try my husband's cell phone. It's an Android. I learned something about Google. It's not all that easy to log in on someone else's device if you've never established your identity. I know almost nothing about how to use that smartphone. I did make it to Chrome and to Blogger, but I couldn't log in. Typing in my user name was hard enough, but then I managed to leave the last digit off the password and when I saw that, I didn't know how to get back to fix it. So I started over. Then they wanted a verification code so I had to chase my own cell phone, turn it on, and wait for the code. I couldn't get it written down before the screen went dark on both phones. To make a long story short, I tried a different way to verify and failed that, too. So Google not so kindly told me I'd tried to many times unsuccessfully to verify I was me so they were locking me out and I could try again in a few hours. Great! Just great! How was I going to get my post up in time? I prayed. I went back to the PC. I noticed the lights were lit on the modem again. My PC was connected. Praise the Lord! It had just come on. You'd better believe I sent my post where it needed to go right away! I was very thankful. But I did learn I wasn't smart enough to operate that phone. Or maybe I should say my reflexes aren't quick enough to use it. I'm going to have to take lessons. I'm going to need to find the way to use my voice instead of my fingers for user names, passwords, and communicating. And I've got to get that Google account verified to use on Hubby's phone if I ever need it again. Do you access the internet on a smartphone or do you use a PC or laptop? Do you like what you use or would you rather use something else for the internet.