…gaming headsets than we are about charging our cell phones.

The gaming headsets are a moment of justified and harmless mayhem after a day of getting Bren in trouble…

The phone is a device that really should sit on the table and ring only with the pleasant salutations of friends wanting to do lunch.

Alas, we have calls from Unidentified, and various bogus or nearly bogus charities. Even if we’re on the do not call list.

The cells don’t have that kind of nonsense, but I do forget to feed them. So does Jane. Until we’re on the road again and say to each other, like Dekker, ‘What time is it?’

Of course our phones are deader than the ever-unfortunate mackerel.

I know the kind of cell phone plan I need: one that doesn’t charge you if the darn thing isn’t charged.