Screen Test.

The screen on my phone broke, or, to be more precise, I broke the screen on my phone.

It's really fucking new as well and this is one of the reasons why I shouldn't have nice things!

Another reason is glimpsed when we look into what I did next.

I decided to replace the screen. I'm good at that sort of thing - hauling things apart and botching a repair. So I toddled off to Ebay (oh what has become of you Ebay? You used to be the people's hope, the Proletariat's last hope against the Capitalist behemoth, but now you, along with your evil twin, Paypal, are that behemoth. Naughty naughty Ebay!) and bought a replacement screen.

All very sensible so far, I'm sure you'll agree. I SAID, I'm SURE you'll AGREE!

Look, agree when I fucking tell you to a-fucking-gree alrighty?!

Good. Now that we're agreed we can move onto the less sensible stuff.

The screen arrived today and I eagerly dismantled my phone (as per the maintenance manual kindly furnished by Tim Berners-Lee and Al Gore), carefully laid out all the components so that I could easily replace them all in the proper order and then I finally noticed that the ribbon cable for the screen - which, remember, was the main object of my dismantling - was fucking fused to the circuit and in no way could it be replaced by a bloke in a flat in Edinburgh. So I tried anyway. Which means that now I can't re-sell the screen because I've attached it to a, now, knackered circuit board.

Also, I have since noticed that I could have got a whole "spares or repairs" phone of the same model (with a working screen attached to a working circuit board) for half the price and delivered in half the time. So, in an effort to send good money out in chase of bad, I've bid on a broken phone who's screen works.

This is another indicator of idiocy and I'll no doubt have spent more money trying to fix this phone than I'd have spent buying a new one.

Today's song has no link, hidden or painfully literal, to the entry. My phone hasn't let me down, and if it had, I'd hardly be beside the phone waiting for it. That would be flawed logic and a bit daft.

I just like the song. And the video is funny.