Huh.

So.

I am a technophobe.

I feel like an old man, anyway, fiddling with my new phone. Got it in today, and it works quite well so far, but like I was afraid of, it has bells and whistles and I'm trying to figure out how to get around them to the stuff I want to work with. Upside is that it came with a better camera and more memory, and has a digital signal. My old phone apparently was from the stone age when they banged rocks together for music and used analog for their cell phone connections. So the connection and quality is already better. That is a strong upside, and I'm quite happy with that fact.

I just wish it wasn't a flip phone, and all gadgety.

Sure, it can do more things now- but if I only want to send text messages and make calls, it's now 30% less efficient and more annoying to do so. Part of that is just me not being used to it, but even a 15% worsening of ease of access seems like a miscalculation in design and makes my eye all twitchy. I suppose if I typed on keyboards with my thumbs instead of my whole hands the keyboard would feel more intuitive. But I prefer using the front buttons if I can help it because the keyboard is not something I consciously know the position of keys on, it's trained muscle memory. Which means I have to either train the same way for just my thumbs on this phone's keyboard, or hunt and peck painfully. On keys that my fingers are too big to hit properly.


Also, did well on my drive today.

Major roads are exhilarating in a nerve-blowing way and relaxingly smooth all at once.

Weird.

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