Birthday stuff and Garmin being awesome
Pardon this somewhat commercial post, but I felt that I had to share that when I had some issues with my "smart pedals" on the bike, as well as having some issues with my fitness watch, Garmin went through a reasonable evaluation checklist to confirm it was in fact broken, and then sent me back "new" replacements for each.
Granted these are in both cases top-of-the-line items that cost a buttload of money and arguably it would be nice if the products didn't break down in the first place, but nevertheless it says something that they literally go beyond expectations (e.g. in one case even after the warranty ended) to make things right for their customers.
They also have provided discounts when I go to get replacement watchbands for the old fitness tracker, too. So again, not to be too "commercial" but I really felt I had to share this data point with others.
The State gave me my favorite birthday present, a bill for ~$600 to register my vehicles for another year. I mentioned something about that to the lady at the "DMV" here (Michigan handles that via Secretary of State), and she got a chuckle out of it. We agreed (tongue-in-cheek) that it was at least a good thing that my money is going to support maintenance of our high quality road system.
Nature's birthday present is a ~40-degree day today, so that's also nice.. though I'm not sure about the expected "8-14 inches" of snow that's expected to fall in the next two days. It's been a loooong time since we got more than about 8" in a single snowfall event. Gotta get my snowblower out and gassed up.
And also hopefully sell the electric one.
Will probably be doing a little bit of celebrating on VRChat tonight, but I haven't really been spreading the word very much, so I'll probably have a more "observed" get-together on Friday or Saturday when we'll be able to stay up late and have some more fun in earnest.
Meanwhile, off to go stock up on food and drinks for the next few days, just in case. ;-P
Granted these are in both cases top-of-the-line items that cost a buttload of money and arguably it would be nice if the products didn't break down in the first place, but nevertheless it says something that they literally go beyond expectations (e.g. in one case even after the warranty ended) to make things right for their customers.
They also have provided discounts when I go to get replacement watchbands for the old fitness tracker, too. So again, not to be too "commercial" but I really felt I had to share this data point with others.
The State gave me my favorite birthday present, a bill for ~$600 to register my vehicles for another year. I mentioned something about that to the lady at the "DMV" here (Michigan handles that via Secretary of State), and she got a chuckle out of it. We agreed (tongue-in-cheek) that it was at least a good thing that my money is going to support maintenance of our high quality road system.
Nature's birthday present is a ~40-degree day today, so that's also nice.. though I'm not sure about the expected "8-14 inches" of snow that's expected to fall in the next two days. It's been a loooong time since we got more than about 8" in a single snowfall event. Gotta get my snowblower out and gassed up.
And also hopefully sell the electric one.
Will probably be doing a little bit of celebrating on VRChat tonight, but I haven't really been spreading the word very much, so I'll probably have a more "observed" get-together on Friday or Saturday when we'll be able to stay up late and have some more fun in earnest.
Meanwhile, off to go stock up on food and drinks for the next few days, just in case. ;-P