I woke up—on what I hoped to be a fine Monday Morning—to find that my phone touch screen behaved weirdly. I couldn’t type “y,” “v,” and “g.” I managed by using the one-hand keyboard dictation option on the keyboard. It is actually a great feature and I’m unable to go back to the old days of punching the screen with my fingers to type a text. Why didn’t I find it all these days?
But then I couldn’t accept calls as well. I couldn’t right swipe the arrow in one go, as I lost hold of the arrow mid-screen. I managed by using the AirPods. Whenever I get a call, I put on AirPods and nod my face to accept the call. I didn’t like this feature. I missed calls before I removed AirPods from my pocket.
After a lot of procrastination, I sent my phone for repair.
Do you remember the simple days when you removed the SIM card and gave the phone for repair? But now we are in an eSIM era fighting for the “Right to Repair.” Removing the SIM card won’t work. I thought deleting eSIM on the phone was a cyber-safe method. I erred there.
To reactivate my eSIM, I went to the Jio store. I realized I had taken the SIM in my aunt’s name, as I didn’t have the required ID back then. So I took her ID to the store. The Jio Store person said that he’d reactivate my SIM only if my aunt comes to the store and gives biometrics.
My aunt was in a hospital to get her knee surgery done as I hassled with the Jio store person.
For a week, I remained without a phone number and hence without access to net banking and everything that verifies my existence through OTPs. In that week, I had to file my ITR and travel to Bengaluru.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Well, a good person from another Jio store agreed to come to the hospital to take biometrics when my Dad hassled with him. So, it’s a happy ending :)
I wrote a short stats blog: Statistically significant divine interventions. It is about how we draw silly conclusions from significant observations.
I am finally able to do a full-body pull-up without any assistance. I have been hitting the gym for a decade now. But it’s only in the last 4 months that I saw gains. And my gym frequency is actually the least in these 4 months—only 2-3 visits per week. And I only do 3 exercises per visit, with progressive loading, as suggested by the Starting Strength book.
A fine balance between consistency and intensity is where things seem to work :)
I’ll be at IndiaFOSS this weekend. This is the first time I’ll be spending both days at the conference. Looking forward to meeting a lot of old friends and alumni!