I woke up at 10:42. Like every day, I first got dressed and then went to the PC to check what was new. Unfortunately, 3 messages were waiting for me there, written by a very sad person :'(.
So I immediately wrote to her on FB, and when there was no response, I sent an SMS, and when even that had no effect, I had to call. Fortunately, at that moment she started talking and I breathed a deep sigh of relief. I talked with her for 2 hours until 12:45 and then set off for the train. Just before the station my nose started bleeding, but what I did to make that happen I would rather not even write here.
It was at least 25 degrees outside, so I couldn’t wear a hoodie, and I was putting my cut-up wrist on display. In Tesin, on Hlavni trida, at Hruska I bought a Rajec Forest Raspberry and headed to the dermatologist. Only the doctor and the nurse were there, and after about 30 seconds the nurse opened the door. I apologized that I hadn’t known they took appointments only, so I was glad the nurse didn’t tell me to come back another time or book an appointment a month out, as it usually goes, but took me in, and I went straight into the office.
As soon as the doctor spotted it, she started asking what happened and right away wanted to treat that too. She immediately reached for various tools, lights, magnifiers and who knows what else, but I just kept saying that I didn’t have an appointment and didn’t want to chat at the expense of other patients. In the end she finally looked at the sole of my left foot and said it was swelling, which can also be a sign of inflammation, and she prescribed me some antifungal ointment, since a fungus can apparently develop if I keep letting my feet sweat like that.
I don’t really understand how they could have gotten sweaty, though, since I hardly wear shoes at all, because for several weeks now I’ve been only at home, where I’m barefoot or in socks. I rather think I “pinched” some artery or vein (though I have no idea whether that’s even possible), and now when I walk and my legs need blood flow and oxygen, the blood and oxygen don’t reach them.
Maybe that’s complete nonsense; I know nothing about human anatomy. I was done in a moment and went to the pharmacy to pick up the ointment and also buy some B-Complex, since my lips are terribly cracked because I keep biting them :(. I was supposed to pay 98.10 CZK, but thanks to my loyalty card I got a discount of 29.50 CZK and paid only 68.60 CZK.
Both pharmacists looked horrified, as if they might collapse at any moment, when they saw my cut-up wrist, and it made me feel even sorrier for what I had done. Then I headed for the station.
There I bought a ticket at 14:15 and told myself that I wouldn’t make the train that was leaving: 
Well, maybe I would have made it. As I was coming to the first platform, where I thought the train to FM would leave from, it was still standing there, but in less than a minute it was gone. I had no idea that 2 trains run there one after another within 7 minutes, so I sat there, and suddenly another CityElefant pulls in!:
I didn’t feel like jumping across the tracks and risking trouble and a fine, so I stayed seated, no stress. Hopefully next time I’ll know that around 2 PM there are 2 trains within 1 hour heading to Slovakia, or at least to Most u Jablunkova. I went to check the board to see which platform it was leaving from, because there were still suspiciously few people on platform 1; you could barely count them on the fingers of both hands. And the platform was “FM” with a departure delay of 5 minutes.
I walked slowly so I’d get there just in time, and suddenly I see the level crossing flashing with the “train approaching” audio signal. I thought it was already heading to Tesin, so I hurried. I got there and there was no one around.
For a moment I couldn’t believe I had missed it, but then I went back to the station hall. On the way I called the mobilyostrava.cz store twice, first to ask whether they had the Xperia M2 White in stock and second whether I could pay by card there. The answer to the first question was Yes, to the second No. I had a lot of questions for them, but I don’t feel like writing them all out here.
So I had to withdraw cash, and I was back at the station at 15:03. I bought a ticket and shortly afterwards a supplementary (on top of the standard 1-2 trains per hour in the same direction) old pantograph train arrived, which runs only between Tesin and OV-Svinov, exactly the station I needed.
On the train I took a few more photos of myself, but I was so tired that most of my photos were tragic, because my eyelids were so heavy that I couldn’t keep them open. The night before I had gone to bed around 10 PM and woken up around 2 AM – and then I couldn’t fall asleep again.
I turned on Here navigation on Windows Phone and got a proper walk out of it, because Here maps, if you are within a few km of a main road, route you along it. Only after I had walked about 10 minutes did I zoom in on the map and walk through the side streets, because I didn’t feel like going back. On the way back I took the best and shortest possible route through a little park, but I’ll surely mention that later. I found the store right away; I know all the maps show the place wrong, namely on the other side of the building.
There I told them I had a phone reserved, and then I was again asked what I had on my arm and whether it hurt. I answered each question tersely with at most 5 words – “it’s nothing”, “it wasn’t that painful”. They brought me the phone, unpacked it, showed me the package, and I gave them the money. From 4500 CZK they gave me 310 back, and just to be sure, and perhaps a bit nosily, I asked whether it wasn’t a returned phone, how reliable these phones are, and so on.
They denied any problems with them, so I just turned it on, put the box in my backpack, the phone in my pocket, and went out into the daylight. Outside I put my SIM card into the phone and let Google Navigation guide me. As I already wrote, this time along the best possible route. I arrived at the station and looked at the departures board. I ran to the platform, because my train was supposed to leave in a minute. When I got there, the train was just pulling in, and in the end it left with a 3-minute delay.
It was an Sp train via OV-Stodolni and OV-Hl. n., but that doesn’t matter; CD accepts tickets on this route even if yours is via the shorter OV-Vitkovice. I had barely sat down when a darker-skinned young guy rushed up and asked me whether it went to Havirov, so I told him yes, but via Hl.n.
Otherwise the trip was normal; I kept playing with the phone and surely chatted with someone too <3 :3 🙂 In Tesin, after getting off, an SC Pendolino coming from Slovakia was waiting for us, and as soon as it left, they sent a freight train down the same track.
And as almost always, I then had a ride home by car arranged. And since this is only the single-SIM version, I’ll have only 1 number, not 2 like until now. I’m considering keeping the Lumia 435, but that keeps changing: one moment I want to, the next I don’t.
I’m really leaning more toward selling it, though. From my call and SMS logs I worked out these approximate usage scenarios:
- Calls 100 min to Tesco Mobile/O2
- Calls to O2 30 min
- Calls to other networks 20 min
- Internet at least 500 MB
- 50 SMS to O2
Kaktus
- Calculated with a bonus credit of 50%
- I topped up 400 CZK, I have 600 CZK
- I bought a package of 3x50 minutes = 300 CZK
- Covered by the package
- Covered by the package
- Covered by the package
- 200 CZK
- 40 SMS in a package for 50 CZK + 10 SMS = 65 CZK
Total: 565 CZK Left over: 35 CZK
Tescomobile
- Calculated with a bonus credit of 100%
- I topped up 400, I have 800 CZK
- 0 CZK
- 75 CZK
- 50 CZK
- 1 GB – 300 CZK
- 75 CZK
Total: 500 CZK Left over: 300 CZK
O2 – prepaid card NA VYBER
- I topped up 400 CZK, I have 400 CZK
- For 59 CZK / week I bought a package for unlimited calls to O2, so per month that comes to 59*4=236 CZK
- 0 CZK (only a 236 CZK/month fixed price)
- 0 CZK
- 20x2.5=50 CZK
- 90×4=360 CZK – 1.5 GB
- 0 CZK – with mobile internet, SMS are free
Total: 646 CZK Missing: 246 CZK
O2 – O2 [:kul:] data 1 GB plan
- 0 CZK
- 30x3.5 = 105 CZK
- 0 CZK
- Included in the plan
- 0 CZK
Total: 504 CZK Missing: 104 CZK
(I wrote this on my phone, hence no diacritics and “kc”)
You can also take a look at a comparison of my Lumia 435 and the Xperia M2: The phone catalog is gone, even though mobilmania.cz is still alive.
The photos will probably be up tomorrow. Unfortunately, in my web application sunamo.cz on local I forgot that I had set the connection string to the database on aspone.cz. And I ran the upload with the files for local, where there are only a few photos. Before I realized it, about 3000 photos were deleted from the website, which I now have to upload again – I have only 1000 left out of a total of 8000.
EDIT June 6, 2015:
The photos are at http://sunamo.cz/Photos/Album/-2147482952_V%C3%BDlet_do_Ostravy_za_%C3%BA%C4%8Delem_koup%C4%9B_mobilu_Sony_Xperia_M2