1/28/2026. Battery

          Took back the battery to Auto Zone. The battery was no good according to their machine. And their records said I got battery in the beginning of October so I'll try it this morning. Always something. So DS said to chill, so I'm chilling with a little less hair. Oh and it ain't fun. All last year since February I have struggled with this car. A lot of times get in and it would not start. Always thinking what to do next. I thought I was set. Almost all new parts and then to have my expensive brand new battery fail. That is weird,  even for me. But there is nothing left to do than persevere. And to look for things to be greatful for.

         Edit: I was waiting for road service a from by insurance Co and they weren't showing up. I said DS you handle it. 10 minutes later I see a guy in parking lot giving some lady a jump. I run out there and he's putting the cables back in his pickup. Can you give me a jump. Yes. So I got the car running and left it run til I got to Auto Zone. Do the ask then the action by me looking out the window. Get  DS  working for you. I'd probably be still waiting another hour or two if I didn't call on DS.

1/27/2026. God Chill

         So there was a plan. It was working and then 1 day the apple cart gets turned over. Do that's where I'm at. Quite frustrating. Then one day I'm in Walmart and I see a gal wearing a pink hoodie that says God on top and below that Chill all in caps. That there is what you call a waking dream. Big letters for me so I didn't miss it. Got it. So I've been chilling figurtively and literally with ,-4 degrees out there. Thanks to Fern. Tried my car dead as a doorknob even though I bought a $ 220 battery back in August. Sucks. So Divine Spirit set this up and now I have to be patient to see it get resolved. Tomorrow I'll get this battery checked out by Auto Zone. Never a dull moment around here. I knew 2026 was going to be tough but I didn't see this coming. The only thing you can do is trust God. So be it.

1/14/2026 Black Oil

         This is the best bird seed for our our feathered friends. We have 2 Wallmarts nearby. Store 1 close by and the other (2) 15 min away. Last year store 1 didnt't have the 40 pound bag,  but at store 2 it did.  It was tucked away near camping supplies for some reason. They would have about 3 bags there. I would get 1. This October I noticed there were no more 40 pound bags to be had. Now it was 20 pound bags. Last January I paid 18 dollars for a 40 pound bag. I went to store 1 no 40 pound bag. I found a agriculture store like Tractor Supply where I got it for 18 dollars on sale in October. This store was about 35 min away though. So end of December I bought a 20 pound bag at Wal-Mart for 17 dollars ( store 1).

         So, I was thinking of finding a 40 pound bag again. Which started the end of December. Two weeks later I'm in store 1, where I just bought the 20 pound bag. There on top of the 20 pound bags was a 40 pound bag. This the store that never had a 40 pound bag. I bought the bag, $21.00.  Way cheaper than 20 pounds.  3 dollars more than last January.

        So, I just thought about the 40 pound bag briefly. And it appeared a week later. Only the one bag. Well that is what I call a gift. Thank-you DS.

        

1/07/2026 Duh

        December 2025, I'm at an Aldis in a checkout line. I'm doing the scanning and I'm almost done when a woman comes by and grabs her phone from the little shelf next to the pay station. She came back from her car to retrieve it. I didn't even know it was there. I took note. January 4th, my first trip out in the new year. Off to Wallmart. In the parking lot I exit the car check my back pocket and yep you guessed it,  no wallet. Duh, left it in my other pant's pocket. After all that talk about mindfulness. Humbeled once again. Drive back home and start over. When I'm cashing out with a person checker, they have a small shelf at a pay portal, where I put my wallet and sometimes my phone. Now, this time I put more concentration on that small ledge. After the sale, I get both items back into my pocket. So, the Aldi experience was a refresher course for me. I do need re-freshing.  Still messed it up. That''s ok,  still go forward. I think I will put a note to me and tape it to the dashboard.

        Today I got around to fixing that leaning coat rack. I thought of a better way to make it work. Now it stands straight.

        Also been working on these puzzles made with lego bricks. They come with books on how to put them together. The first one was a big O gauge  steam engine called a Big Boy. 1818 parts to it. Took me a month, off & on. I learned more about patience while doing this. Made some mistakes that required back tracking. It is fun though.

                    

1/1/2026 Happy New Year

         This year is going to be something alright. Maybe this year rely on  DS even more than ever. I know that I will be taking my own advice.

        In 2025, I tried to live in the moment. It is very hard to do. But I did have some successes. Mainly concerning the wallet keys and phone For the most part. Saved me time and money. I go a new microwave. It has a feature that the other one did not. You have o press a button to unlock the door. So I' ve been yanking the door to open it and you can't. Have to press the release. But it seems I forget on a constant basis. This shows I'm not living in the moment. Or yesterday I drop my keys on a 4 ft cabinet on the corner but this time they hit the floor. Lack of focus. So what does that mean. More than likely it means to slow it down and actually think what am I doing in the moment. Say you have a kid and they come up to you with a question and your busy or stressed. Well no matter what you slow it down and you listen to them. They will feel valued by you and trust builds. This is your priority. So this day is a reflection on your life from the last 365 days. I've seen improvements fir myself and I am happy about them.

       . This year I will continue the same course. Always work with DS and continue to focus in what I hope to accomplish.

Dec/31/2025 A Weighty Decision

         NYC. A guy was heading to a comic store with his young son. He hears commotion down the street and heads that way. People are struggling to get a pitbull to release it's grip on a one year old's leg. The dog will not let go. The horrified onlookers were screaming for help. Richardson who is a body builder attempted to get the dog in a choke hold inside his bicep. He used his other hand to press the other side of dog's neck. He presses with his bicep and hand with all his might against the dog's arteries to pass him out. Still the dog holds fast. Ruchardson starts to worry that his technique will fail. The worry is spreading throughout him. Near the end the dog drops it's grio and passes out. The child is rushed to the hospital where the hole in his leg is fixed up. Richardson then continued onto the comic store. Yep, that's a hero alright.

        God put him in that situation as he was the only one who could rectify this emergency. He had to walk down the street to meet this danger. During the choke out, his doubts started to form and spread. So, right here is when you the reader switch your focus to this will work no matter what, as well as calling on DS to help you out in getting the job done. When that negativity peeks in, you say NO. And in your mind you throw the switch; it will get done.  This can arise in any aspect of your life. Focus is key.

Dec/25/2025 Bell Ringer

         Last week I approach a bell ringer for the Salvation Army. I place a buck into the plus sign slit of the kettle. As I enter the grocery store, I think I'll get the bell ringer a large navel orange. I see in store the large navels are on sale for a dollar each. I get a 5 lb bag if Idaho potatoes 2 for 7.00. Get to the self checkout. So I see that the potaoes are $4.30 and the orange is $1.50. Call the gal over. The potatoes should be $3.50. She can't get it to work either. Si dhe rings up a small navel orange $.70 cents. So between the potatoes and orange the price works out fine. I get ready ti hand iff the orange to the belly ringer an older guy, but he isn't at the station. I wait a little but he's a no show. The next morning, I get out the orange. Slice it but it looks off. Yep, it's a grapefruit. I like grapefruits. Ok then. So in my mind I had a plan and it didn't come to fruition. I'm glad I didn't hand him a grapefruit. DS  ( Divine Spirit) moving in small ways. A lot of people would dismiss this,  I do not. We like to think we can control events and we can by our actions. But once you try to align with spirit it takes on a whole different time frame. It gets done when DS deems the time is right. It happens on the micro scale and the macro scale. This here was a micro scale event. My intent was to hand over a large navel orange to the guy.  For what ever reason spirit wanted to go another way. Spirit can see ahead of the game.

        I told this story before. 40 years ago, I got my lunch from a deli. I made a pay phone call at a phone stand nextt to the bldg. I noticed a young woman nearby in distress. I got in the car and went to my job and would eat my lunch there. Well I noticed I left my wallet on top of the phone stand. Back to the store, and it was there. Also there was the same woman. This time I ask what's wrong. Boyfriend troubles. She has no money or car. So I drive her 15 miles to her house. Lost time snd money but I knew I was being of service to the DS. Happy to help out. So the first time I saw the woman I was going to say something but I didn' t, DS found a way to bring me back for the second chance.

            Merry Christmas to all.

Dec 19/2025 Hang Up

        So there is this coat rack in the house, on it's last legs. It' s  made of metal and can't stand upright. It leans against the wall. I tried to manhandle the metal legs into a better angle to touch the floor. It didn't work ofcourse. My next guess was to get wood involved. I thought of ways to do it. I thought  of a way to position the wood under the legs. Then as an afterthought I asked spirit about another way.  A couple days later I'm looking at it. Then I get idea to bring the wood pieces in towards the center a little bit and change up the axis as well. This is what I'm going with. When I get around to it.

        So I had my way about thinking it out. Then I asked spirit for it's input.  My guess is DS put that thought in me, because I Asked. Something as trivial as this. I go through life......figure it out...figure it out. And I forget about DS. Which is in my  spiritual toolbox. DUH!!!!

Dec 16/ 2025 Eighty- two and Much More Work To Do

         In 2022 in New Jersey at a Wallmart,  a guy working as a phone rep for an outside company, first saw her in the break room. She looked exhausted. She was holding down the job there to cover the mortgage payment on her house. Her husband had recently had a serious ailment, preventing him from working. She loved her house and wanted to stay there. The phone rep took a video of her at the break room unbeknownst to her. He put it on Tik Tok expecting a hundred views. He got over a hundred thousand. His title was .life shouldn't have to be so hard. Someone told him to do a Go Fund Me page, which he did. Hoping for a hundred dollars. He got 111,000 dollars. He contacted the woman's daughter and both of them went 'to the Wallmart parking lot. Eventually she went to her car. He introduced himself and told her what he did and would she accept the money. She said she would. However, she would still have to work since it wasn't enough to pay off the mortgage. She needed 160,000 dollars. He went on  Gi Fund Me again and explained the new update. He eventually got her 185,000 dollars total.

        So this 82 year old women clung to her dream. And in this case  her heart's desire came true. She did what she could to make it come true. With an assist from DS,  it came true.

        Me,  I wouldv'e probably downsized. Take action when formulating your dreams. Put your all into it, age does not matter. It also goes to show that there are a lot of kind people out there. Way more than the other kind.  Dream it,  believe it,  then accept it.

       As result of taking that video and posting it; he got fired from the phone job. But he said he was good with it. Good karma for him down the road.

Nov27/2025 Thanksgiving 25

         Today is the day we give thanks for the good we have received throughout the year. Each week we should reflect on this gratitude because it sets us up to receive even more. Not only to be thankful to God for the stuff we got but the stuff we don't get. We pray for stuff but sometimes we don't get it because we weren't ready for it. Find that distinction. It is an important one. When stresses come it shows us who we are. How do we deal with it. Do we lash out in exasperation. It is at that time  that we take a back seat and see what would be our best course of action. Our reactions is what matters. Whether we are wrong or right it doesn't matter but how we respond does matter. I fail on this scenario, quite a bit. Got to learn to bite my tongue before making things worse. Learn to put that pause into your interactions with others. Will the action promote healing or not. Use this in every aspect of your life. There is allot of discord out there, let's see if we can do our part in healing it. We want to keep our equanimity in tact. Our life will be more peaceful for our future days. 

        This day more than any other is of great importance in bettering our lives. But only if we live it every day and not just the last Thursday of every November. Be thankful and embrace it everyday.

Nov 22/2025 Rolling Pepercorns

         One day  I'm in  St Vincent Depaul thrift store and I see a glass pepper grinder with black and silver overlays. I snap it up for  $2.50. At the Dollar Tree, I buy $1.25 pepper grinders and take these corns and transfer them into the new pepper mill. On the plastic pepper mills the grinder part does not screw off. So, I take it outside and rest it on concrete and give a medium hit with the hammer to the side of grinder. I finish it off by prying it off with screw driver. Takes 1 minute. I put some corns in the new grinder then add red pepper in then the peppor corns again. Then the red pepper. I fill the grinder to top this way.

       This day I didn't want to go outside. So, I used a heavy duty steak knife to cut the plastic cap. Then switched to a butter knife to finish it off. It popped off in a couple minutes. But not in a controlled matter. Corns on the floor , in the sink and under the microwave. Lost about 1/8th of a cup of corns. Aa I picked up the microwave it was stuck to the hard formica. Got 3 feet loose after some effort but the 4th didn't budge. I worked the microwave from left to right while still lifting it up. It finally let go.

       So this negative event turned into a positive. The floor got a good sweeping in which it needed. The sink got a good scrubbing and that microwave problem. Now when the first of every month comes. I will lift the microwave so it doesn't become a problem. The seal is good to prevent the microwave from slipping around. 

         So when negative things happen in life, don't get mad or try to get even' look deep and find the gift. It is there. Is it always easy,  NO.

         This year I have been trying to be mindful. Yesterday I walk out the door and check for my stuff. No wallet. Back to the house. Well at least I didn't get to the store and buy stuff and then find no wallet which I've been known to do. So a 2 min mistake instead of a 40 min one. This mindfulness has been working out for me. Happy about that.

         I read where a lot of nutrients are located in the skin area of veggies. So I decided to try putting a grapefruit peel in a blender,  an added lime and lemon juice. It blended into a pink juice. Looked good but tasted lousy. Bleech! Good thing I had pineapple juice in the fridge. It doesn't always work out.

Nov 12/2025 Stairs Can Bring You Up or Bring You Down

        Last week, I waa looking for my other slipper. I always had 2 , now I'm down to one. The one I found was in my bedroom. Been a week and I still can't find it. So I was wearing my heavy duty sandals and I'm near the basement steps and the door is open. For some reason I'm looking to my left away from the steps. I turn to my right and the sandal catches the tile sideways causing me to tilt to the open staircase. I put out my hand to catch myself on the door jamb. Saved myself. It waa a lack of focus on my part. A family member in their 80s took a misstep on the stairs recently and put themselves in major pain. Waited 2 weeks for the operation on his shoulder. In pain for 2 weeks before operation and now after. Pain meds weren 't cutting it.  I am very greatfull that I didn't go down those stairs the wrong way.

        What did I learn, to be more focused and having gratitude. A small thing could've become a very major disruption to my life. Spirituality plays the long game. No need to hurry anything. It is the accumulation of many, many small events over the course of a life time. Recognizing it as truth will definitely make your journey a lot smoother. If you are obsessing about anything, you can change it by changing your attitude about it. You can say what am I missing here. There is a lesson here for me. So these little potential problems could of turned into something major and unpleasant big time. That little thing gets mega gratitude from me. See how these little occurences in life have saved you from major harm. This is real contemplation. Learning from other's misfortune will also help in developing gratitude in you. This way their lesson becomes your lesson as well. Take 1 day a week and look for the lessons you experienced small and big and write them down in your journal.

Nov 07/2025 Pancake

         I wake up around 5:30 am. everyday and pick up the phone and scroll the apps. Around 6 take care of the cat. Then exercise with the 20 pound dumbell and various body stretches. After 21/2 years I have muscle tone in the arms. Which was my goal. I took the slow road. It worked out really good. Last month I got a free flu shot without insurance. Lucked into that one. The last 4 months I was hearing about the shingle shot. Each year I would hear about it. But now it is even more so, for me to take notice. I take that as a nudge from DS to get it done. This one will not be free.  300 from a drug store 200 from the county. My mother once had the shingles and it was not fun one bit.

        Now, for the pancake. I would alternate between eggs one day to cereal and to something new a pancake, around the first of the year. Got a mix and used water. It didn"t go to well. But I kept trying every 3rd day. Making them too thin, over done and not too tasty. Then I decided to add, buttermilk. The results were not that good as well. In April I found a mix with Bluberries im it at Wallmart. I pour the mix into a small square bowl. Just a little shy of half a bowl gives me 3 small 4 inch diameter pancakes. Now, these blueberries if you can call them that were little blue micro  balls that could pass through a fork's tines. In truth you can't really call them Blueberry pancakes. By June my abilities were 4 out of 10. One day I saw blueberries at the store and got them. Added them to the mix, big improvement. I stopped with the buttermilk. I take a non- stick pan and strike it with a butter stick unsalted butter. Then drop a loose batter into the pan. Another improvement I made was adding a little more water. I was always making it too stiff. Another hard part was staying focused in not over cooking the pancake. If it got overdone , I would scrape it with a serated knife. I use a wooden spatula to limit my use of plastics with food. Today I made the best pancakes ever, looks and taste. All in all it was worth the effort. This endeavor helped me in perseverance as well as keeping focused.

        When I eat breakfast I like to listen to chants I find on You Tube. One of the chants is HU. I keep the volume low, it's a nice pleasing effect. It starts my day off with a positive spin.

       Have a great day!

Oct/ 30/2025 DS in Action

           Stands for Divine Spirit. With me it is with my efforts in fixing some problem I have going on. I do what I can and then ask DS to intercede for me. Then I get to see how it does things.  You can say coincidence but I do not. It operates on it's schedule. Alot of times I would like it to be  quicker though. 

      When I'm in a store, I have a couple things in my hand. The person that is front of me has a cart of stuff. My thoughts are let me go ahead but I say nothing, then the person would say go ahead of me. I do. Then I say to them May God do something good for you before the sun sets. I also let people go ahead of me at stores. So, yesterday at Wallmart I park behind a car. There is a faint bumper sticker that says may something good happen to you today. A verification of my own thoughts. Greeting people with have a nice day can help them out during their day. A little upliftment who knows how that can benefit them. I know one thing it makes me feel good. 

        So I push through the problem at hand. Like the problems with my car since the beginning of February. It still ongoing. But many times DS has helped me out of a sticky jamb. When a  new problem comes up, I say I will get through this. And I do with the DS help. When you can see it for yourself. Your world will change. Don't sit back and wait for divine providence but do take action. Then your eyes will be opened. This is what these Blogs are about. Every Sunday look back at your week and see if you can spot it's help. Also how many times did you call on DS to help you out. Answers can come in seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks. Take note. So worth it.

Oct 20/2025 HELL

         It is real. It is of your own making. You can choose actions here on earth, that will give you that experience. Also, you will judge yourself when you die. If you believe yourself to be unworthy, you will be in Hell as well. 

        To get out of that so called place, forgive yourself and ask for God's grace. You can do this on both sides of the veil. When you forgive others as well as yourself, you release the shackles that bind you to the lower realms. 

        When out and about, be kind to others even if they're not nice to you. Try to turn the conversation to a positive tone. Or you can ask DS to intercede for you. And the last resort is to walk away from the situation. Try to stay positive in whatever predicament happens to be in front of you. These actions will pay off for you in making your life better. Sow good seed for your future harvest. And Hell will no longer be of consequence for you. 

Oct/11/2025 They Hit the Mark

          On the Road with Steve Hartman, told the story how an Oklahoma high schools' basketball title win presented a quandary to the team that won. Team A won on the court. But it's coach felt an unease about it, because there was some problem in the score keeping. When he got home, he wanted to get the game film and review it. After the review he found that his team actually lost by 1 point. He told his team the bad news. He took a poll of the players and they all wanted to return the title to team B. Legally they didn't have to but morally was another story. Team B was given the plaque by team A.

        This story is what it is all about when the human race can shine bright. We can all aspire to do the same in our own life. Team A showed the world the right way to live life. Kudos to them! 

         Making the right decision in our life can get tricky but we can call on DS for guidance.

Oct/07/2025 That First Impulse

        My car has over 205,000 miles on it. But when I hover over the motor, I feel that the motor is good. Other things have been going bad though to be expected. So I don't get rid of it. That first thought worked for me. Now, I'm getting this new phone. I'm in T - Mobile, use to be Sprint. I've had a Note 9 since 2017. The case is messed up and new screen is 250 dollars. So I'll get a new one. My first impulse was to stay with the Samsung new phone. They had a new android phone Google. I liked it and it was also an android phone. I got that. Got home and it had a glitch in the software. Couldn't use it. Bring it back and they fix it. Good I 'm happy. Go home  find out latter that my notes did not transfer over to the new phone. Call them up, they say it should transfer since they're both android phones.  Go there and gal finds out the notes only transfer if it is a Samsung phone. Go home new phone is working. Juice up my old phone. Can't make calls but I can get my notes to come up. They want 75 dollars for a restock fee eventhough I had it less than a week. Now I'm thinking hold on to both phones.

         So there you have it. I listened to my first thought with the car and that worked out in my opinion. Then I disregarded it with the phone. Aaagh! So I'm at 50 %. I want to be at 100%. But in baseball terms I'm batting .500 which is way more than good.

        It's always something. But when we go through it. Hopefully, we still have our somewhat peace of mind.

Oct /6 /2025. More Car Woes

        I knew I had a problem with my starter. So when the car started in the morning, I would leave it running. When I stopped anywhere, I let it run. Then with my second key, I would lock the car. I would burn the extra gas. This worked for a month. I went to a store that sells used car parts. I called first to see if they had the part. I tried about 10 places before finding the starter. Years ago it would be 25 dollars. Now it's 65 dollars. Brand new one can be up to 400 dollars. I asked the gal how many miles on the wreck. 132,000 miles. Good that gives me 70,000 mi left on it, I hope. I shook it and it was tight. I left it in the car, til I would need it. This scenario worked out for a month. Until I was doing a job at somebodies house. I turned it off because I would be there 3 hrs. Get back in the car and it doesn't start. DS helped many times in the past with car troubles but not this time. This one was on me. I rolled it onto the street. The tow guy wanted 80 bucks. Nope. I ask a friend and he didn't want to tow me with a tow rope. Called AAA to join but there is a waiting period before you can use the tow service, like a week. Nope. Then I call my insurance company. Do I have towing, no. I put it on for 10 dollars a month extra and they let me have my tow right away. Very thankful for that. Tow it to my house. I called the service station prior and they wanted 250 dollars to put it in, tax is extra. Nope. I watch a you tube video in how to do it. I get the part out of the car. On it in a grease pen it says 2012, my car is a 2010. Uh  oh. I call an auto part store zo see if it would fit. They couldn't give me a definitive answer. I looked on line it said no it would not fit. Then I got smart, I called  the Hyundai dealer. I read him my part number from the starter. He said it would fit. Good. When I replaced starters before I would go under my truck and do it. It would take 40 minutes. Take out 2 bolts and disconnect 2 wires. This car,  to do it, you do it from the top. Now that is a pain. I got it out, and had to thread it through the tubing and wires at back of motor.  Putting the new one back in was harder as I had to hold it in place with 1 hand and thread bolts back in. Then attaching the 2 wires , you do it by feel because you can't see the thing. Turn the key it starts right up. Very happy.  Saved $267 with tax. Thank you DS,  in the things seen and unseen that happen for me.

        Don't give up. Be creative in all aspects of your life. Invite D S               ( divine spirit) into your life. Glean the lessons that come your way. Stay positive, it helps your mental state. Do at least one kind action a day. All of this helps in opening your heart. Best part is anyone can do it at any stage of life.

9/23/2025 3 Rose Bushes

         I use the term bush loosely. They look like sticks in the ground' with some discolored leaves. In the Spring they put out flowers, maybe 25. We had decent rain in the Spring and early Summer. After the initial bloom, it pretty much stopped. So we haven't had a good rain in a month now. I looked at them, sorry  state of affairs. So 3 weeks ago I started to water them. After 10 days, I noticed a bud on 1 of them. In 2 days it opened, beautiful 4 inches across. Then I got 3  more buds. And the leaves started  to get greener. The other 2 roses', nothing til yesterday where I see 1 bud at the top of it. So far the middle bush nothing.

        So, a rose knows what it is and that it's suppose to kick out roses. With a little help from me, it was able to fulfill it's purpose. Now with us. A lot of us don't know who we are. And this is our purpose. To know it and to be it. Instead of water we can use DS ( Divine Spirit). We ask a question snd then look for the answer. We build up with those answers. And when we get enough of those answers, then like the rose we broadcast the divine from within. That Divine spark exists in all of us. No matter how bad our outer appearance or self worth,  that spark of brilliance is stil there.....waiting to shine forth once more.

9/18/2025 Phone

         My phone is getting old.  2018 note 9. I like the phone. When the interface failed 3 years ago I paid 300 and some odd dollars to get it fixed. 3 months ago I had the 3rd battery put in for 60, which was a good deal. 7 months ago I dropped the phone on the pavement from getting out of the car. Landed face down. It still worked but had small cracks in the glass. When I first got it I had liquid glass put over it. This is what cracked. It's been getting worse in the cracking since. Guy said I need a new screen. 280 dollars. I was thinking about doing it but I held off because  of the age of the phone. I put packing tape on the worse cracks,  little pieces of tape. Now, last week I see in the morning a dark 3/8 inch sliver of something on my white cutting board board, where I sit to eat at the table. Thought it was weird some food scrap.  I go to pick up my phone to turn it on. Doesn't turn on. I try several times. I look closer, the little small rectangular side button is gone. Yep that piece on my cutting board is the button. I put it in and press , phone goes on. But the piece falls out. I cut a small piece of packing tape and wrap it around button and 2 sides of the phone. So far after a week , no problem turning it on & off. In life when problems arise, we have to get creative. In the last 2 years , there has been a lot of creativity here. Well after this debacle, I come to the conclusion it is time for a new phone. Sadly no more  note phones are made. Went to T- mobile  to get a new phone. I would pay it off. A big catch is I would need 85 dollars upfront. I said put it on my bill. No can do says them.  Iv'e been with them as Sprint customer for 25 years. I am greatfull that my old phone is still working. Soon I will get a new phone.

       Always work with what you got.