#gardening

My phone buzzed with a warning: 6% left. Six percent of what? I didn't know I was spending anything — and when I went looking, the thing draining it wasn't my tomatoes. It was the robot vacuum, fast asleep in its dock.

Last time, I could water my tomatoes by voice from another country. What I couldn't do was watch it happen. This is the part where the pump started talking back.

It was 37°C in Munich. Taking a break from a talk about token maxing, my mind wandered to my tomatoes — and the pump keeping them alive, which I was fairly sure I'd just bricked.