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[jhameia]

At 9-ish, after HAUGHing at the weather, not wanting to go to campus because around lunch I'd have to leave the office to find food, I decided that I would go to Coco's, order a bacon and eggs flatbread, because I know I cannot finish it in one sitting, and just sit there for hours, feebly trying to finish it.

It took me 4 hours to get through the whole thing.

Against my better sense, I also ordered a slice of cheesecake pie. I did not manage to finish it, even after two more hours.

I should have ordered clam chowder instead, and maybe fries. Except I'm not sure the fries would have been any better.

I have ~1000 words for my fourth chapter, many of which was not even written today.

When I left, I left a huge-ass tip because I felt so bad for the wait staff because I was so anxious about my writing I avoided eye contact with them almost the whole time.

I DID want to swim today, and thought I would save it for sunset, because it was still going to be a heinous 33'c in the evening. But I wanted to catch a Pikachu wearing Ash's hat so I did my long walk instead. Maybe tomorrow when S. and I go to UCSD I'll hike down to Black's Beach and go for a swim in the ocean? Or maybe not, and go to the Geisel library and work instead (which I never did last year).

My smartphone is having issues charging itself. I'll plug it in, and it'll charge for some time, but then, arbitrarily, it'll decide to just.... not charge. Like the USB cord is in, it WAS charging, but at some point it just stops. It'll recognize when the USB has been unplugged when I pull it out, but otherwise I can't figure out what's going on with it. I wonder if it has to do with the weather, and it doesn't charge so well in intense temperatures. But my laptop is also taking forever to charge fully, despite these being perfectly decent (and new) wires. I'm not sure what's going on.

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[kn0tme]

It's relatively cool here today. I need to give my pool a good vacuuming, but it's too cold to go in. I'm considering donning the wetsuit to clean it!

Do you have an iPhone or Android? If Android, download an app called Ampere. It will give you information about the charge of your phone. Try a couple different cables and chargers. I had a charger go bad while I was on vacation. I've had bad cables in the past.

If you have an iPhone .. sorry, can't help.

[bibliofile]

Well, whatever kind of phone, switching to a different outlet/connector/cable is a thing you can check. If you have a spare to check with.

1000 words! Better than 100. Aren't the first words hardest? I always find it easier to rewrite than to write.

[jhameia]

Re-writing and revising is actually much harder for me than writing a first draft, so having difficulty with a first draft is kind of ominous for me!

[jhameia]

It's not the cables, that much I know. The cables charge other things just fine. And I've been rotating between three different ones. The cellphone is fickle. Unless I'm adjusting it every so often, it'll just stop charging after some 10% of so. I used to be able to leave it overnight and it'll charge itself to 100%. Now in the middle of the night the charging just... doesn't happen, so I'm stuck with 38% battery. Sometimes I'll readjust it, and hitting the wire slightly stops the charging. Like the mini-USB port is just giving up.

[kn0tme]

It could also be the battery. They have some intelligence built in to them now. Is it more than a year old? I'd google the phone type to see if there is a known issue with the batteries.

[jhameia]

Nope, less than a year old. Google yielded nothing about the battery per se, but quite a bit about the charging port. I had some trouble with charging again last night too, like the phone just didn't understand that YES THERE IS A CABLE IN THERE

[kn0tme]

What kind of phone is it? I had a Samsung that did something very similar. The charging port got loose or something, and wouldn't always make a connection. If it's less than a year old, it should be under warranty, right?

[jhameia]

It's a Xiaomi, bought in Malaysia from a shop that doesn't do warranties. Also since I was leaving the country anyway I figured I'd replace it at some point if anything better came up.