"The princess phone supply transformers have all been recalled (many years ago) when they became a fire hazard. Unplug the transformer, disconnect the wires and throw it out." I did not know this. I still have one of those little grey wall wart transformers (with the terminals) kicking around somewhere. I remember it has the old "Bell System" logo on it. I always wondered what they used that for. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for that, Digit! I will now be posting pics again—even if they only look like ugly links! I have SO many things blooming in my yard already I’ve been WANTING to post some pics! But have more I need to download/upload (never have figured out which is which!) into the computer first—that I hadn’t bothered since I “couldn’t” post them anyway! Will do it in the next couple days! I don’t have a google+ page! And I don’t intend to ever have one! If I sign up for google+ my WebAlbums will be TOTALLY messed up—as I discovered when I tried to help somebody, last fall, try to figure out how to use Picasa and WebAlbums! It’s a total mess in WebAlbums in “+”, and as near as I can tell, once you sign up for it it’s TOO LATE, and the “new and improved” version (NOT!) is all you have access to anymore. As a matter of fact, if some of your pics really did “disappear,” I wonder if that had something to do with it! I haven’t “updated” Picasa for a couple years either (I just keep telling it NO when it pleads with me to update it!) ‘cause I’m afraid that’ll somehow get me into the google+ version—and I won’t be able to opt out of it again! I REALLY don’t understand why these companies keep trying to “improve” something that’s already working really, really well! (google maps REALLY screwed up their “maps” too, IMO! But I still have a link to Olde Google Maps—that still works! If they ever discontinue the olde maps, I don’t have a CLUE what I’ll use for maps! Bing, IMO, is at least as bad as the “new” google maps! HELLO out there! STOP “fixing” things that don’t need fixing!!!) (And my avatar on FB, which I haven’t signed into for a year!, is an airplane! And that’s the only place I have an avatar at all!!!) I don’t know why you didn’t “need to” change your setting to “enable” PMing, but maybe that’s something else they’ve changed recently—like putting in the ability to enter your zone (tho I’m gonna leave mine in as my “last name!”) When I went to that page I had to change the settings to get them right to enable PMing. Maybe now it’s the default when GW folks get into the houzz site. But there is SOMETHING that needs to be “fixed” for David, because there’s no “message box” visible on His Page, and until that’s there, nobody can PM him. I’m sure it’ll all get straightened out! We are, gradually, getting back to “our old GW!” Never would have believed that when I showed up here the first day and went—SAY WHAT????? I’m really impressed with the admins and all they’ve done! As for me! Maybe I’ll take some more pics tomorrow! Skybird

I won't worry about finding that particular ad, the Internet has more than enough to choose from. In my quick search right now I came across Lynda.com.. Lynda.com is a fabulous place to look for videos on a large amount of topics, including learning the play the piano! I heard about Lynda.com years ago through my PC computer club. The classes are $$ but my library and probably many other libraries subscribscribe to it and with my library card I can take the classes for free. I hope many libraries across the country subscribe to newspapers, online classes like this one, we the public certainly do benefit.

Thanks, ladies. I've tried reviving it through iTunes and through the volume/shutdown buttons, but no luck there either. I was on Verizon support, too. It looks like the 12 mini is about the same size so maybe that. I guess if I'm going to buy I will go with the latest technology. Yeah, all of a sudden going to bed last night it froze and got stuck in the shutdown mode. That's how my previous one died, too.