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tvw is having Black Friday and electronics dilemmas

I'm one of those people that browses Black Friday deals for things I am going to buy for myself.

It's hard to decide what to get this year though. I haven't had a new electronic device since I got a Nintendo Switch last June (so I could join everyone else playing ACNH).

I'm still on a PS4. I actually still have my PS3 but I can't do anything with it because someone took my controller to give to a kid who had a broken controller and has not replaced my controller! (I have a separate remote for it so it's just a glorified CD player.)

My phone is a couple of years old. It's probably the one item I don't care to update.

My Squeezebox Boom died the other month. I need a new clock but not sure I need the streaming radio anymore. (It is so old!)

My favorite solar Logitech PC keyboard is dead. I did replace the battery but it didn't last all that long. (There is no legit replacement battery that can be bought; can only buy it through something that feels shady.) I have a Mac version of the same keyboard which is not getting used because that iMac actually isn't even mine and is currently in someone else's home right now.

My Kindle Fire is a 5th Gen and they're on 10 now! I don't stream on it (I have a phone for that) so I don't really need a new one. I see deal prices and I think I want a new one but...like...don't need it. It's also the only tablet I have (I've never owned an iPad in my life and have zero need for one).

My MBA's battery life sucks now and there isn't enough storage on this thing to run updates. Heck, I'm not even sure I can update to the new iOS. I tell myself I'll just buy a Mac dedicated hard drive to get around the upgrade/storage issue but when I see deals... and then I'm all "do I know a student I can hit up for a deal?"

And my desktop PC is dying. I think the hard drive is due to fail. I don't even know when I bought it anymore. I've had two desktops in 10 years (and still have that old husk and an even older Gateway fro, 2001 sitting on my floor!). But prices on quality desktops are insane even with the deals because of all the crypto mining driving the costs up. I don't want to spend that money on something that doesn't automatically come with Windows 11 so I'm gonna have to wait another year.

I don't understand why I didn't just format my hard drives to be compatible with both PCs and Macs. Aside from laziness it's probably because of size limitation issues. My PC is backed up to external hard drives that I cannot plug into my Mac.

Hence, I need a new PC with a USB port so I can still access the backed up files for when the old desktop finally kicks it.

I really wanted to be all Windows PC desktop and MacBook laptop but... yeah, just plonked some cash on what is essentially a desktop replacement laptop of the budget gaming variety. It's meeting in the middle and totally the setup I didn't want to go for but doing what I want doesn't make any financial sense at the moment.

I could probably turn around and sell it or even gift it to a younger family member when I finally can pull the trigger on the computer setup that I want.

Not just electronics going on here but I'm also feeling like I need a new couch. One of the kids was picking at the leather and now a portion of the couch bothers me to sit on unless I put a blanked between the surface and myself. My deceased aunt had purchased it for me so it will be hard for me to let it go. Also, it is an insane sleep-inducing couch -- just something about it! Even guests had come over and find themselves nodding off on it.

I don't know. I don't know if it's a case of everything having gotten old or increased indoor stay due to the pandemic just making me bored with the stuff around me.

I did replace my air fryer though but that's because the previous one broke.

Need a new device for making coffee. Not sure if I should get an actual small coffee maker or get one of those Melitta ceramic cones. I keep telling myself I shouldn't drink coffee anymore but I keep going back like an addict. (I never became a regular coffee drinker until I turned 28.)

Grr. Need to make a backup image of my current desktop. Grr. Grr. I used to not mind doing this stuff but I find it incredibly annoying now. Probably because old now.

I just so freakin' restless and annoyed that I took apart a large armchair so I could move it upstairs to my den... just so things could be a little different around here!

A little less than a year ago I was sleeping on a queen sized mattress on the floor of my living room. And then a couple of month later I was sleeping on a queen-sized bed in my den. And then in September I was finally back to my own bedroom (loooooong story).

Wait, is this cabin fever?

#just stream of consciousness rambling about electronics and furniture #I am going a bit crazy I think

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