Tuesday Tech Tidbits

As a techie introvert, I enjoy my electronic toys…and I like to make sure that they will always be charged in case of an unavoidable social situation.

I have friends that will say things like ‘my iPhone is about to die’ or ‘my iPad is dead’…and it always baffles me?!?!  Did you not charge it?? Don’t you have a charger in your car?? Why would you let you phone or tablet get that close to be being dead?? I just don’t get it!?!?

Of course, there is that little problem of iPhone/iPad vs. Android…but that is a whole other ball of wax…

I plug my ‘stuff ‘in when I’m not using it…and sometimes even when I am using it. I do not want to be caught in a situation where my ‘source of amusement’ is dead and now I actually have to talk to someone.

Nevertheless, as a Gen-Xer, I grew up in a world where there was not the constant need to be connected by phone, email, social media, smoke signals or whatever, along with respecting others as a way of being polite.

With the result that, I try really hard to not be that person sitting at a table in a restaurant with their friends or boyfriend/girlfiend and spend the entire time checking my phone/tablet for the latest status updates on Facebook or the most recent tweets on Twitter…rather than enjoying the people I am with.

I can actually be social…if I have to be…despite what some may think.

Which brings me back to making sure your devices are charged…just in case you find yourself in a social situation…where you can possibly sneak away and find some solitude…without being rude…and find some time to recharge yourself…for the next unavoidable round of social-ness.

My 2 most recent techie purchases from Amazon were portable chargers (not to fear, I did actually have another portable charger that came as a freebie, a few phone upgrades ago…but I just can’t resist new, shiny tech stuff)…just in case I have been detained longer than I expected…and yet somehow managed to find plenty of time to drain the battery on my phone…which in the whole scheme of things, means things are going much better than expected 😉

I purchased an Anker Mini Lipstick-size Charger to carry in my pocket…merely as power protection. Which will provide me with just enough extra juice (at least a full charge to most smartphones) to get me through unexpected delays in solitude. And it comes in an assortment of colors! This tends to come with me most often as I like to live the motto, “Be Prepared.”

The second charger I bought was the RavPower Portable Charger Battery Pack which caught my eye during a recent session of browsing tech toys…probably while avoiding some unavoidable social commitment. It boasts the ability to recharge the “iPhone 6 three to four times, a Galaxy S6 2.5 times, or an iPad Mini once” as well as, “iSmart technology charges your device faster than standard USB output,” both of which seemed like reasonable justification for purchasing this item in order to ward off any down from my tech gear in the midst of unwarranted social interactions.

At any rate, just wanted to share some tech tibits that help me survive the extroverted world 🙂

Feel free to share your tech tibits that get you through the unavoidable social obligations and allow you some time to recharge yourself before venturing into social situations.