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I got a new mobile phone Saturday, an open-box Google Pixel 10 for $400. I never buy the latest model (the 11 is now for sale) as I don't want to pay the premium price. Better to get last year's model, esp if it's a customer return, floor demo model or such to save money.

Migtrating my Google account & data was easy: it just took a half-hour to copy all my accounts, pics, txt messages, and apps. I need to re-login/re-auth on each app though, but the critical ones are completed: Bsky, Uber, Lyft, Chipotle. You know, the ones you need in an emergency.

This stupid fragile electronic device has deeply insinuated itself into my life. You'd think something this important would have grip surfaces, but nope, it's like holding a greasy ferret: one moment of distraction and it's gone. Raw-dogging a mobile phone never ends well.

Fortunately, the new otterbox arrives today. This hell device has been living dangerously since Saturday, and both its nerves & mine are shot from the numerous near-death experiences. Srsly, who decided mobile phones and concrete surfaces could coexist in this timeline?!

Anyway, I have servers to rebuild so I should get on with that. BTW, my boss says he suspects I've mentally checked out of work. Apparently the give-away was me literally putting "Brian Actively Procrastinating" as a task into the project plan, pushing the finish line out by two weeks. Huh.