analog is real
Something I started last week is wearing an analog watch, but not just any analog. It's the sole 100% mechanical watch I own, an Orient Crystal (a.k.a. "3 Star" or "Tristar") that was gifted to me close to ten years ago. It still works. More on that in a bit.
I've said before that I hate analog watches because sometimes it's difficult for me to tell the time depending on where the hands are. Even so, I needed to get over that and get used to it.
I have both legitimate and kooky reasons for why I'm wearing it, so let's get into that.
The Charlotte's Web I'm referring to is the animated movie from 1973. And even before I start, I noticed something weird right at the beginning of the flick. The copyright date states 1972, but it's always listed everywhere as '73, so I looked up why that is. It's because the release date was 1973-March-1.
Only because I didn't know otherwise, I always thought this was a Disney movie. No. It's Hanna-Barbera. I could forgive anybody for mistaking this as from Disney, as it an animated feature film, a musical, G-rated, has talking animals in it, dancing numbers, and so on.
As for how I feel about the movie, I'll get the negatives out of the way first.
While I did switch over to a TUI mail client, I did keep Thunderbird on my computer just in case I wanted to switch back to it.
After using NeoMutt for a couple of weeks, I did the deed and deleted Thunderbird. A backup was made first, then I deleted both the program and user data folders Thunderbird used.
Before the deleting, I thought about switching back to it. Twice.
I periodically look up navigation apps on my phone mainly for entertainment, because it's funny to read the complaints. I read the gripes people have, and think yep, you should've bought a Garmin, be it 5" Drive 53, 6" DriveSmart 66, 7" DriveSmart 76 or 8" DriveSmart 86.
I'm a staunch Garmin user, but even so, I have a backup nav app on my phone. That app was no longer being shown to me in the Google Play Store. This was weird, because that means my phone is "too old" to run that app, so I go over to a web browser and look up the app.
And whoa, did this app drop a train on everybody that used it.
I recently bought a second Casio AE1000W. I still have the first one but don't know when it was bought. I'm thinking it has to be at least a decade old. I do remember I bought it from a Target store in Tampa Bay Florida. Which one? No idea, but the reason I remember it was from Target is because of a price match thing that got the price down to about 15 bucks. The price of an AE1000W now is of course more, but it's still not crazy-expensive.
My reason for buying a second one is because it's a 2010 model still being made today, I like it, and wanted a backup. Fortunately, Casio is still making the AE1000W exactly the same as they did in '10, easy-press buttons and all, which I very much appreciate.
I was favoring the W735H for a while, but the thickness and weight of it was annoying me. That watch is 51.7mm lug-to-lug, 47.1mm diameter, 16.1mm thick, 50g in weight. After that, I favored the WS1600H, which is 45mm lug-to-lug, 42.1mm diameter, 12.5mm thick, 39g weight. Much nicer, but it too started annoying me because the buttons are annoyingly stiff and I'm not a fan of the menu system. An example of that is that it takes 5 mode button presses just to get to the alarm screen. Dumb.
Then there's the AE1000W, which is functionally identical to the AE1200WH, but without the stiff buttons nor the annoying layout. 48.2mm lug-to-lug, 45mm diameter, 13.8mm thick, 40g weight.
The most annoying thing to the point of being almost infuriating about the AE1200WH is the insert sitting on top of the LCD.