#georgia
No signal, no cash, three kilometres out
The phone shows four bars and won't send anything through. The card is valid and the terminal refuses it. Nothing is broken, and I end up walking.
The current isn't a constant
A storm killed my power strip in May, and everything plugged in behind it survived. Two months to understand what that doesn't prove.
Six months after the theft, what I haven't replaced
A reader asks what's been replaced since January. One machine, nothing else. The list of absences, and what each one has cost.
What's in the cable pouch, six months later
I was looking for one cable and pulled out eleven. An inventory of a pouch nobody ever sorts, and of what snuck in along the way without a decision.
The UV sterilizer and its four competitors
Five objects from the same family, five eliminations, one verdict for the whole family. No listing says how you'd even know something happened.