New? or Used?

Found a deal for a Ryzen 7 3800X. So I pulled the trigger. But it’s used. But hey, when I built my tower originally I used a not-new processor. But it’s still a generation better than what I’m running now (Ryzen 7 2700X). And I found a deal on Spamazon for a 8 TB hard drive. And if I’m going to buy a new CPU, I might as well upgrade the cooler, too. The Wraith Prism that came with the 2700X works well, but I wanted something heftier.

What this also means is that the PCIE 4.0 SSD that I bought last fall but I didn’t install will be getting installed. And my system will be ready for running Android apps in Windows 11, which I’ve already confirmed that I have a valid license for…

I guess my computer is getting some upgrades. And there are times when it makes sense to buy used…

Got around to taking a trip…

(Quick recap)

About a year ago, the Mrs. Fields I worked at closed, as  the owner wanted to move on, and he bought a 7-11 in Sumner. And he routinely gets on my case to visit him.

(/Quick recap)

So a few weeks back, I proposed a gentleman’s bet with him over an IPL match. We chose teams and whosever team lost, that person would buy the coffee. I lost. So I had to come down to Sumner. While there is bus service to Sumner, it is essentially limited to the Sumner Sounder Station, and where his 7-11 is located is about an hours’ walk from it. So, it’s an Uber to get there….

Come Monday morning, I got off work, and got on a different bus home. This one went to Puyallup. Got off in Puyallup, ordered my Uber. $20 bucks. Actually $25 since I tip. And I got out there. And bought a coffee. From Starbucks. And we talked. He tried to get me to work for him. Hard Pass. I like him as a friend, but the location is a major issue. I would seriously consider it if I could get a bus out there. Anyway, it was time to go. I ordered an Uber to go home. $30+ (again I always tip). He gave me $20 to cover part of my costs, and a cookie. The cookie was disappointing (26+ years at Mrs. Fields did that)…

It’s good to visit my friend. However, due to the expense involved, it is not something I can do every week. But rest assured, I will be back.

So I sent an email a couple of weeks ago…

So I sent T-Mobile an Executive Email Carpet Bomb a few weeks ago (normally this would be to Sprint, but as we all know, Sprint and T-Mobile have merged) regarding my issues with my phone rebate. There was a meeting of the heads, and after explicitly explaining to them why there will be no phone calls (all correspondence in writing, something to do with this). And so after a day or so, I got a reply that they were putting the discount back on my discount. I actually got it twice. The first time was from the email. The second time was from the Twitter dm thread that I was also trying at the time to straighten it out with (I sent a copy of the email to them as a ‘Hail Mary’ attempt. It worked as well).

So, I just got my bill. It has my phone installment at $50.00/month. Plus the $33.33/month trade-in credit. Plus 2 $33.33/month courtesy credits, one from the twitter dm, and one from the executive email. Now a part of me said to say nothing and enjoy the phone for free + 50 in bill credits, but eventually it’ll get found out, and it won’t be pleasant. Besides, integrity is a two-way street. If I’m going to hold T-Mobile to their terms, then I have to hold myself to them as well. So I sent another email asking to take two of the discounts off.

Today’s lesson is Honesty is the Best Policy.

May the Schwartz be with you…

May 4th today. May the Schwartz be with you.

So T-Mobile has now decided that they didn’t receive my phone in time, and the promo that I was using had expired before I received it. I ordered it on Feb 19th (the promo ended on the 24th). I made my first payment that day. The phone shipped on the 26th, and arrived on the 2dn of March. I shipped my old phone on March 8th, and it arrived on Mar 11th. Last Thursday, I received a text from T-Mobile indicating that they didn’t receive my old phone, and that the deal was off. Yesterday, I spent too much time chatting online with Sprint's customer service, and playing twitter dm tag with T-mobile trying to get this figured out. Finally, last night, I saw that most of T-Mobile’s executives are on Twitter, and from my previous experience I know that T-Mobile executives have a firstname.lastname(at)t-mobile.com formula, I sent out an Executive Email Carpet Bomb. Maybe they’ll get the point. Maybe not. If that’s the case, there’s always the state attorney general’s office…