Blackberry, R.I.P.

There’s no way to repair that wheel cheaply enough to be worth it. The model is out of date anyway, and even if it weren’t, it is slowly giving me a sprained thumb.

So, other than during my Amsterdam stay, I am now without Blackberry service for the first time in nearly three years. I walked over to Vodafone tonight and shut it down, and will scrape by with a cheap substitute phone (same number, for those of you who call me) until returning to Cairo in May.

I had promised the Blackberry to a friend, but she didn’t deserve a broken thumb to begin with, and now it’s not even a functional device.

These sorts of things change lifestyles in unpredictable ways. I’ll now either be making more trips to fixed computers to check e-mail (as in pre-2006 days) or carrying my laptop around all the time (I know that’s technically what they’re for, but I hate doing it even though Cairo has tiny, tiny robbery rates, so tiny as to be nearly immeasurable).