phone_frustration tender_square my cellular phone model is older. i am not an early adopter. i don't care about newfangled technology--if you can even call it that; it seems all these companies repackage existing specs as through they are new when they're standard--i use my phone for calls, for texts, to keep in touch across two countries. my model is now considered obsolete and doesn't connect to the new network i'm a part of. this, after paying for the rectangle in full. following an overnight system update, the internet doesn't work at all. the settings seizure between vpn and no. a trade-in will only subsidize a hundred dollars, and then i will be left with a bill for an upgrade that is more than what i earn in a week. 230702 ... raze ever_since they fixed whatever was wrong with the phone that sleeps fifteen steps from here, the red light that indicates an unheard message goes on blinking even after every word it warns against_forgetting is gone — a gossamer ghost of what's been willingly lost. in_dreams it's almost always something smaller in my hand. i can never seem to call home no matter how hard i try. the numbers always get away from me. 250803 what's it to you? who go blather from