I remember travelling across Canada with an iPod Touch my ex’s family had given me when my regular iPod had died. It was nice listening to music and stealing wifi when available but it was no phone.

I specifically remember stopping at an A&W in Northern Ontario in 2011 and charging, another guy was charging his so we made a deal to watch each other’s stuff while we ordered food so our stuff could continue to charge.

That iPod Touch served me quite well when I had no other computing devices, through a stint in the hospital’s psych ward but the second time I was in there all electronics were banned due to people posting pictures of other people in there. It was a lifesaver when I was in there the first time, kept me in contact with the world.

Eventually took it camping, and after a night of drinking and smoking weed with my late Aunt (a good memory), I found it outside on the dog cage. It had rained during the night and it was completely dead. No rice nor did I know about rice to try and revive it, so it was completely dead forever. Thankfully I replaced it with a Nexus 5 which served my needs quite well for a couple years before more broadly getting into the world of cell phones.

My main regret was never looking into retrieving the music off of the iPod before it died. I ended up having to restart my music collection from scratch, based on memory. There’s still some artists to this day that I will remember and finally get around to redownloading.