A new phone, at last

What an ordeal.  Buying a phone is difficult.  Not only do you need an Israeli national id #, but I guess you have to use an Israeli financial instrument, too.  Who would've thought that American Express would be denied as a payment source to a place like Amazon.com!  But my friend, Beni, bought it for me, and I will pay him back in shekels.  Ugh.  Of course, it's been shipped to his apartment in the Jerusalem area. But the end is near and I'll have an Android smartphone with all the apps that will be very useful.  There are apps for the train schedule, bus schedules, currency conversion, and of course, there's the GPS.  Pretty amazing talk from such a slow adopter of technology innovations.  Guilty as charged.