turns out that our wifi is too slow to support the transfer of info from old phone to new phone, so i have to hike down to ATT or Starbucks and use their faster public wifi to finish setting up the new phone. sigh.
that would have been good to know yesterday before I spent 9 hours fussing with that. one call this morning and the nice lady tells me that my wifi is too slow to do this, so go find a faster public connection to finish things. double sigh.