telecaster again?
Near-end-of-year guitar update.
No new guitars acquired - yet. I am entertaining the idea of a new Telecaster.
The 512GB USB stick can be had for under 40 bucks now, which I like. I'm waiting for it to dive below $30...
...but I'm still waiting for the 1TB USB stick to drop below $50. Has it?
Over the years, I've bought many Casio digital watches. I still own a small pile of them, but I've also bought and returned a few - some on the same day I bought it.
I'm going to list a few of the good and the bad, and the reasons for each.
I've talked about little GPSes before, and I recently acquired another. There's just something cool about a small tech thing that can do a big job.
This time around I got a model that was never released in North America, the Garmin Drive 40LM. This little guy only has a 4.3" screen measured diagonally, and to the best of my knowledge is the last matte screen model in this size Garmin ever released.
Daylight Savings Time, which just happened 3-Nov-2024, is something I've never liked. And I'm pretty sure most other people can't stand it either. Both smartphones and the older feature phones auto-update their clocks for DST and always have, (or do they? More on that in a moment..) but there are a lot of clocks that don't, and this is how I personally deal with it.
Recently, there was some plumbing work that needed to be done where I live, and it required me to not use the water at all. I had to go without showering for a few days.
That was something I could deal with, since it's easy enough to wash with a wet cloth.
But what really bothered me was...
According to StatCounter, Microsoft Windows 11 has only commanded just barely over 36% of United States market share per the last three months. I'm being generous, because had I used the last 12 months of data, it would have been barely 31%. I know 36% isn't "nobody", but still, that's pretty low...
I switched to Linux about 500 days ago. No, I'm not telling you to switch, but the fact Windows 11 isn't the main OS on most PCs tells me a few things.
I consider Halloween to be the weirdest holiday of the year, because I don't even understand why it's called a holiday. I've never known anybody to get October 31 as their day off or be paid time-and-a-half for working that day.
Halloween gets even weirder for the following reasons:
Counting steps is a form of exercise that does work - conditionally. I say that because whether you can actually do it or not depends on a few things.
Right now at the time I write this is a fantastic time for step counting because it's mid-October. It's cooler outside and humidity is down. The middle of September to the middle of November gives me two solid months where I can go walk for step counting almost every day.
I was excited to see the new 2025.20 North America map update had been released. Given the giant Garmin nerd I am for automotive models (I own way too many of them), I got to see what happened after the update on everything from the current Garmin DriveSmart 66 all the way down to the old Garmin nuvi 1100LM and a whole bunch of models in between.
I noticed something. Junction View has been removed on some older models. Not all. Some.
This takes a bit of explanation.
