I finally bit the bullet and got myself a reconstituted phone. The old one was held together with hope. Nothing worked anymore but the final straw was not the low battery life or the fucked camera. The charging port. Planned redundancy, effectively. It just started pushing out all chargers and refusing to take charge from all but the best.
So today I’ve spent ages downloading everything and transferring everything across. Most recently I’ve had to set up my Google keyboard, but it doesn’t remember me so well now. What used to be a very swift writing experience is slightly more stuttered now as I have to teach it words like “stuttered” and encourage it to understand that I’m much more likely to be swearing than talking about ducks, much more likely to be intentionally ungrammatical than to be point perfect.
The heat is oppressive. I’m enjoying it but haven’t been inspired to take advantage of it in the outside place. I’ve been doing tech. Brian and Maddy are watching The Wire and they’re way ahead of me. Maddy has mostly slept today after a mangly Pride. I’m proud of her, she still has all her makeup on. Apparently she was singing to Brian in the small hours. She was fast asleep when Simon came over looking for costume. I found him a good quality gown for his preacher. I have no idea where the surplice ended up. I might find it. Got a bit of time and tomorrow morning I’m gonna start the ball rolling that ends up with Armadillo Canterbury no longer coming for my life blood once a month just try keep hold of a load of weird clothes. The unit must be empty and closed next week next week next week.
Oh the joy.
For tonight I’ll likely have a cold shower and then mess around with setting up this new phone with all the apps I didn’t have space for on the old one. I’m tempted to try one of those AI home makeover tools so I can think about what kind of carpet I get but honestly there’s no substitute for just doing it and AI is bollocks, let’s face it. It is being absolutely rammed down our throats now and sure its a useful tool but the era of AI first, AI everything… It’s a flash in the pan. And we are blistering the world for that flash.
A case arrives tomorrow. This phone has a stylus. I will never use it. But the camera works. I zoomed in on Buddha over the river…
