Honestly, the light meter's just guessing, shadows lie to it anyway.

Read somewhere that those old Zunes actually outlast most modern phones if you treat them right. Props for getting fifty thousand hours, that's like six years of constant play. The CF card swap is still a thing, last I checked that guy in Ohio does it for like sixty bucks. But honestly, shipping it cross country and waiting two weeks just to listen to, what, thirty gigs of music? Might be cheaper to find another one at a thrift store. Mine died back in 2015 and I just gave up and went back to CDs in the car.

Same here, thought they were junk. That little thing surprised me too.

Honestly my old one drifts way worse than that after a few minutes.

Lol that's wild, but honestly I bet the real issue is your cat was trying to tell you something about your farm layout. Maybe it knew the desert had better soil for whatever you were growing, cats are weirdly smart about that stuff. Next time just check your cat's paw prints before you go looking, they always leave a trail.