3 weeks in with the squier sonic stratocaster
Some people think I keep all the guitars I've ever bought. Not true. The personal rule I've been using for years is for any new guitar that comes in, one must go out. If I didn't do that, I'd have a big pile of guitars that would never get played.
So it's been 3 weeks in with the Squier Sonic Stratocaster. The guitar is technically still within the return window period, so I could return if it I wanted. Will I? No, I'm keeping it, because it is the good "happy place" guitar I was looking for. Very familiar, very comfortable. Like I said recently, this guitar is home to me.
I've come to realize something in owning this guitar that I'm still trying to wrap my head around.
incredibly stupid customer survey email
Remember how I said that Google and banks do dumb stuff with email?
Other companies do this crap too, and oh wow, did I receive a doozy of one.
I go to an office to do a thing, and get the thing done. No problems.
Three days later, an email comes in that went straight to spam, but the subject line suggested it might not be, so I took a look at it...
...and oh, yikes, no wonder this thing went straight to spam.
4-figure rolling car payments
Lately, I've been watching a bunch of videos showing people who have ridiculous car payments due to negative equity, a.k.a. being "upside down". Buyer finances a car. Later on the car breaks and/or buyer can't afford the payments anymore (usually the latter). Buyer goes to dealership to get a less expensive car to lower car payments. The remainder of the auto loan for the existing car is higher than what the car is worth. All that crap is factored into the new loan for the replacement car.
Ultimately, what happens is that the payment is actually lowered, but the loan term is some ridiculous 72-month thing where a) the replacement car will be something very used with probably over 100K miles on it already, b) the loan will absolutely outlast the life of the car, and c) the buyer will never be able to pay it off. This process repeats for years until the buyer ends up in financial ruin.
Then there's me, a middle aged guy driving a car with over 170K miles on it.
casio w738h, the awful repackaged w736h
I just mentioned the W221H, which again I may get, but in all honesty is probably something I'll give a miss to. But then there's the new W738H, which is supposedly going to be released in the US this month May 2026. Casio Singapore already has a product page up for it.
This is another one of those models where Casio gets it but at the same time they don't.
casio w221h... i'll wait
Been a while since I've talked about watches, and the hot one right now is the Casio W221H. This is something I passed on, because the more I researched it, the more I realized there are annoyances about it that would irritate me.
I am willing to get one in the future even with its annoyances, but not for the price it's selling for right now.
And what is the W221H selling for right now?