I took my mother to the Verizon store near her house to get her “new” iPhone SE 3 set up. She was having a lot of problems with her aging iPhone 7. The reason for replacing an old phone with a slightly less old phone is that the iPhone SE 3 is the last phone Apple made with a physical button on the face (that button has been replaced with a swipe motion that she can’t manage. I’m sure she’s not the only one). While we were having lunch, Verizon suffered a major network outage.

On my drive home, I passed by this long-abandoned telephone microwave tower. There’s no signal there.