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			<h1>A lost mobile</h1>
			<p>Day 00173: Thursday, 2015 August 27</p>
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	I spoke with Cricket support yet again, and they now claim my account (the one that placed the order, not the one that now has active service) has been deleted, so they can no longer look into the matter.
	I was told it would be months before that was deleted.
	Had I known it would be deleted so soon, assuming it was really deleted at all, I would have waited to pick a user name for this account so I could have my correct user name.
	In any case, it seems like it&apos;s too late to get any information from Cricket.
	However, this does not stop me from wasting their time daily until they admit they are in the wrong and give me my $25 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> back.
	I will continue pestering them daily over the next year or two that I am in Coos Bay unable to switch and use T-Mobile&apos;s towers.
	Unless something noteworthy happens though, I see no more need to write about Cricket&apos;s failing support team here in my weblog.
	I have begun pestering Cricket publicly on Twitter though, so perhaps that will light a fire under them to get a move on and fix their broken system.
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	It appears that some people are putting together a high-end, almost-free laptop! It&apos;s blocked by CloudFlare, so I don&apos;t have the details, but I wish them success.
	We need more freedom in the computing world.
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	I found a mobile device on my way home from the credit union today.
	I managed to pull the contacts off it, hoping to use the contacts to reach out to someone that could help me find the device&apos;s owner.
	Seeing as one of the contacts was labeled &quot;Mommy&quot; and one was labeled &quot;Daddy&quot;, I&apos;m guessing a child dropped the thing.
	No email addresses for these two people were available, so I looked up the carrier associated with the telephone numbers of these contacts, and found them to be Cricket customers.
	I looked up the address of Cricket&apos;s <abbr title="Short Message Service">SMS</abbr> gateway, and sent both parents a message saying I had the device and asking where they wanted me to bring it to.
	It took a while to get a response, and &quot;Mommy&quot; ended up coming to my house to pick it up, but at leas the device should be making it back to its owner now.
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