Y r u so smol?

That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.

Remembers? I wear one every day.

I actually did like the Pixel 4 (pay me). It was the last phone I had that fit in my palm which I could still tap everywhere with my thumb without shifting. It was the perfect size. Even the non-"pro" models are so damn big now. I don't need a mobile movie theater or gaming rig, I just want something that fits in my pocket that I can whip out a text on or check something on Google real quick. Why is that such a foreign idea now?

The only thing I didn't like about it was no fingerprint sensor. It was the in between model after they went away from capacitive sensors on the back and before in screen fingerprint readers. So it only worked on face unlock, which was a little shaky at the time but good enough. But wouldn't you know, we had a global pandemic as soon as I bought it, so I had a mask on when I was out and had to PIN unlock every single time.

But I would absolutely deal with all of that again just to have a reasonably sized phone. And it was orange. Orange!

Also, for those interested in the measurement and study of the lake water, here is a good page: https://www.nps.gov/crla/learn/nature/research-equipment.htm

We learned about the Secchi disk, which is a black and white disk only 8 inches in diameter. They slowly lower it until you can no longer make it out and record that depth. The record is 143 feet! Slightly subjective, but it's been used since the 1860s.

I want to go back (it's been about 7 years) and go to Wizard Island too. Cleetwood is pretty steep, but we were getting murdered by mosquitoes on the way back up. We couldn't take breaks because that's when they caught up and were incessantly ruthless. It wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for that.

We went down Cleetwood, came back up and had a late lunch, and then went up Watchman at dusk to see the stars. Came back down in pitch black (new moon) without a flashlight. And this was when a flashlight wasn't built into phones; you had to download an app to use the camera flash as one (which is what happens now of course too, but it wasn't built into the OS of the phone I had at the time). So I was trying to download an app with almost no service....younger and dumber, but very memorable at least.

You can also swim in it if you walk down Cleetwood Cove trail to the "beach" or take the boat to Wizard Island. It's chilly but also somewhat terrifying since the walls of the collapsed volcano you can see above the water also continue down at that same angle below the surface. So you can swim out ten or twenty feet and have nothing below you for hundreds of feet.

Extraordinarily pure and clear water so you can see very far in it, as well as the view of the gigantic walls around you. A good reminder of how incredibly infinitesimal we are. I've been a lot of places and seen a lot of stuff, but nothing else so far really compares to Crater Lake.