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Thoughts while charging my old iPad
I still have my original Model 1 iPad. No, I’m not using it, but I do keep it charged.
Yeah, I don’t know why I do that. Somehow I got started and never stopped. It’s completely weird but every time I think about letting it die, I think “I wonder how long it can go?”
Maybe it has something to do with the reality that I also am getting old and my brain still can turn on in the morning but I no longer can use that brain to pull in big chunks of money. I’m antiquated, like the iPad. Maybe I’ve transferred feeling sorry for myself into feeling sorry for the old iPad.
Yeah. As I said, weird.
Usually, all I do is plug it in and let it run up to 50–60%. I do that charging every 28 days and then I close up its cover and don’t think about it until the reminder pops up again.
Note to self: you had better buy another one of those 30-pin charging cables before nobody sells them anymore.
For some reason, I clicked on Safari when I last did this. That iPad isn’t connected to my wifi and its cellular plan was discontinued long ago, so I can’t explain why I did that, but I noticed a link still in the browser bar.
