Cell Trouble

My cellphone has been giving me trouble for a couple of weeks now, refusing to charge sometimes or giving me contradictory information about how high the battery charge was. I was getting all set up to order a new battery off Amazon or something. Then I decided to be a little smarter about it and took it to one of the phone stores that has a lab. The guy said that it's the socket thingie in the hpone that needs replacing and gave me an estimate, which even in worst case scenario is still only, like, half the cost of a new phone. Still a bunch more than a battery could cost, though.

Now I'm wondering whether my parents still have that archaeological cellphone that they kept around from when my sister was studying abroad. I do have my SIM card, so that might be convenient. Given that I don't even own a watch.

Feeling a lot less smug about all those opinion pieces lamenting how "dependent" we as a society have become on mobile devices. Not that I can't function without my phone, or anything. It's still terribly inconvenient, though, and there are all these phone numbers and things on my SIM that I just. Don't have saved anywhere else.