Always treat myself during Black Friday, so I went splurging:
(mind the mess; I always have projects going on)
Netac was running a sale on SSDs, so I bought some cheap ones for whatever. Less than $30 shipped for 128GB SSDs, be it for scratch drives, spare boot drives for some computers I have lying around or whatever. Always nice to have some spares lying around. Also finally am replacing my Intel Core i5-12400F with an i5-13600KF. AntOnline put them on sale for $275 and I had some eBay gift cards to use, so that brought it down quite a ways. Will probably be my final personal computer upgrade for quite a while.
In addition, my workplace had
this as part of their Black Friday sale:
That's a GoTrax Emerge electric bike. Being not only an employee of said workplace but also a manager has benefits, as I got a steep discount on the final price of the bike, ended up paying less than $400 including tax. Since my cars are currently being loaned to family members, I need a reliable means of getting to work, and so far, after her first "maiden flight", the bike's been nice. Works great as a replacement for my aging bicycle and also as an EV, though I would recommend using it exclusively in Pedal Assist mode.
Assembly was mostly easy but there were a few Gotchas:
- Out-of-the-box, the front wheel was put on in-reverse; the tread was facing the other direction and the brake caliper was on the opposite side instead of the same side as the rear one, and I believe this had something to do with not having to re-route all of the cables during the packaging process. I ended up having to flip the wheel around but it worked out
- Said brake caliper was a little too close to the wheel, causing some friction and preventing the front wheel from spinning freely, also making a grinding noise. Had to correct this myself as well
Otherwise it's been quite nice. Still on its first charge and got me to work and back, to a few stores, to the gym, wherever. I'd recommend it if you can find one, just beware of the aforementioned things.
First time ever owning 2 current gen system at once. 
