The Pixel Stand was half price on Black Friday. Great news, except for one small problem: the half-price Pixel Stand was at Best Buy. If you’ve ever tried to buy stuff from overseas, you know Best Buy is one of those sites where it’s basically impossible. They ruthlessly cancel anything shipping to a forwarding address, which means you need a real US address to buy. Lucky for me, I had a friend in the States. Thanks to Enneamer, a.k.a. “Dirty Teacher,” I finally got my hands on the one wireless charging dock that can fast-charge a Pixel 3 XL.

My daily driver already supports wireless charging, but my old backup phone, the OnePlus 5, still charges the old-fashioned way. In other words, it doesn’t support wireless charging, which just feels wrong. By chance I spotted this thing on eBay:

They say the Huawei Mate 20 Pro can reverse-charge an iPhone, but honestly, if you’re reverse-charging from a phone, you might as well just use a battery. In fact, “wireless power banks” like this already exist. I bought a Nanfu one — old brand, trustworthy. Looks like an ordinary power bank from any angle, except it has this wireless charging section.

I have a bad habit: I charge everything at night, take it out the next day, and only plug it in again when I get home the following evening. Day after day, over and over. Thanks to this stupid habit, my battery-life requirement when buying anything is “lasts a day.” The Nexus 6 has a decent-sized battery, but its endurance isn’t great — probably the price of that 2K screen. It used to be that the Nexus 6 lasted exactly one day for me, including the evening run on the way home. But lately, the Moto 360 and a string of Android Wear updates have been eating into my phone battery more and more. Staring at the Bluetooth power draw in Batterystatus, I felt a bit helpless. At that point you’d get home with 20% left, barely enough for the run afterward. Which meant I had to find something to charge the phone with at work — and for someone with a “one charge a day” compulsion, that’s a real itch. So I wondered: does everyone else just leave their phone plugged in whenever there’s a charger around? I asked on G+ and found that most people do. Since the Nexus 6 has always been on wireless charging at home, with a Lumia Qi pad, I figured I’d just get another wireless charging pad.