“I don’t believe it”

For some time I have been considering installing my My-Cast weather-radar (etc.) on my cellphone.
The idea behind this is to see what the weather-radar says is coming at the mighty Curve. —With my cellphone.
Hadn’t done it yet, because My-Cast says it wants $3.99 per month.
Didn’t seem that desirable, but now it is. $3.99 per month is peanuts.
Okay, fire up My-Cast on this here rig; print off instructions for installing My-Cast on a Nokia 6205 — my cellphone.
—1) “Select ‘Get-It-Now’ from main menu.” Done it in the past — VZ Navigator; my GPS navigation system on this cellphone.
—2) “Depending....... select ‘tools-on-the-go’ or ‘Get Going.’” —What? Not on here, dudes. Engage guile-and-cunning.
—3) Back to “Get it Now.”
—4) Okay, try “Extras.” WHOA! “Get new applications.” (Nothing in the instructions about “Extras.”) —“Nothing found.”
—5) Try “Tools-on-the-Go.” “Get new applications:” about 10-11 apps; one of which is “weather.”(Nothing in the instructions about this.)
—6) BAM! My-Cast is one of the weather-apps — downloading. (“$3.99 per month, added to your cellphone bill.”)
—7) “Do ya wanna run it?”
—8) Sure; let ‘er rip!
—9) “Select zip-code or city-name......” —14585; West Bloomfield.
—10) “Select radar, weather alerts, lightning locater, etc.”
—11) BAM again. Radar selected. “Press ‘okay’ to animate.” —“I don’t believe it,” I say. The West Bloomfield weather-radar is running on my cellphone.

Continuing.......
Linda comes home from the Post-Office.
—1) Fire up cellphone.
—2) Over to “Get-it-Now.”
—3) “Tools-on-the-Go.”
—4) BAM! My-Cast for West Bloomfield.
—5) “Now, if I had the zip-code for the mighty Curve, I could add that.”
—6) Engage guile-and-cunning. —Try “menu.”
—7) Looka this: “Locations...... Add new location.”
—8) BAM again. “Zip-code or City/state.”
—9) Altoona, PA.
—10) There it is, everyone; weather-radar for the mighty Curve, on my cellphone.

Okay, imagination time: fire up my cellphone at the mighty Curve. Stay up or go back down to the parking-lot? —“Tools-on-the-Go;” “My-Cast;” “radar for Altoona, PA.” Uh-ohhh; a storm-cloud is coming toward the mighty Curve; back down the steps.

A major factor should be considered here, everyone. A stroke-survivor is doing this; on what remains of his brain (“seven cylinders”). —Installed without Linda.
And it was done after tossing instructions that were entirely useless.

Another factor is that it’s a cellphone app; not what I have on this here rig.
My-Cast on my ‘pyooter allows locations selected by global coordinates; cellphone My-Cast is only zip-code or city/state location.
But that’s close enough. Zoomed in (a menu-selection) goes tight enough to see a large area around Altoony, which includes the mighty Curve and Cassandra, two locations I did by global coordinates on my ‘pyooter My-Cast. My ‘pyooter My-Cast shows the same area. I never go as tight as my ‘pyooter will do, as the weather-radar becomes blotchy.

The “mighty Curve” (“Horseshoe Curve”), west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.)

We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western N.Y.

“Linda” is my wife of 41+ years. Like me she’s retired, but she works part-time at the West Bloomfield post-office.

I had a stroke October 26, 1993, and it slightly effected my mental capacity.

“App” is application, like computer software.

“‘Pyooter” is computer.

“Altoony” is Altoona. “Cassandra” is Cassandra Railfan Overlook in nearby Cassandra, PA; an old abandoned highway overpass over the railroad’s mainline.