Got the Phone Fixed

My phone is working again. I'm happy, but I honestly don't get what the problem was.

I rushed into Sannomiya (Kobe) after work last night to talk to the English-speaking staff at Softbank before they closed. Luckily, the same guy who helped set up Ben's phone on Sunday was working (so he remembered me) and he merely pressed a few buttons and had my phone sending messages again in about a minute. Eh?

My email has been blocked essentially every afternoon since I started using the new phone, but as long as it's fixed, I suppose I'm happy. Maybe it was a security thing (kids phone...), but if it happens again, I am definitely just going straight to the shop to have them fix it.

Also sort of surprising, but I think the new kiddy phone is growing on me. Even the pink color, which I was not wild about at first. I originally wanted to get something a little more hightech (like, for people over 13) and I am a little annoyed that the model doesn't have a function that tells you if you have messages/calls on the outside (ok, it has a blinking light but no text), there is no info-red technology (to transfer information between two phones) and that there is no clock on the outside, but I'm starting to get used to it. The 3.2 mega-pix camera is pretty good, too. Granted, the phone doesn't have English so I can't read all the messages or functions - yet - but I think it's like anything else... takes time :-P It's probably good for learning Japanese, too... I've already learned one new kanji from figuring out the menu!

For those of you in Japan, my old phone is shut-off, so email me if you need the new info.