{"id":46728,"date":"2019-10-25T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46728"},"modified":"2020-08-12T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:44:21","slug":"the-week-of-new-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46728","title":{"rendered":"The week of new shit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn\u2019t want to hijack my swan song for my former Kia, but I don\u2019t think I could\u2019ve made it more obvious that I got a new car earlier this week.\u00a0 A 2019 Mazda CX-5 is what my ride will be\u00a0 hopefully for the next decade or so, and I\u2019m really hoping that me having this car from the very start will exorcise and wash away the demons of the rotten chicken lemon I had years ago that also happened to be a Mazda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m confident in my capabilities as a car owner to take good care of this car, and considering it was purchased fully knowing that it will also be a kid taxi throughout the vast majority of its life, I am hoping to be as satisfied and sad when I unload it in hopefully a decade, as I was with my previous Kia.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the car search, it really turned out to be a two-horse race between the Mazda CX-5 and the Hyundai Tucson.\u00a0 Both cars fell into the specific criteria that I was looking for, but in the end, it turned into a game of price as well as perception.\u00a0 And as good of a car that I think the Tucson would\u2019ve made, the CX-5 just felt a little more high-end and aesthetically refined, and when the day was over, Hyundai had already rolled out their 2020 vehicles, whereas Mazda was still selling 2019s, so in this instance, the Korean car was actually a little more expensive than the Japanese maker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I am excited to have a new car again, and it\u2019s always a fun time whenever I hop into my vehicle that still has the new car smell, and ease my way on the roads, getting used to the feel and size of a larger vehicle, and the thoughts of all the future potential it\u2019ll be used for in the years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In addition to having gotten a new car this week, I also found it high time to finally upgrade my phone, since my iPhone 6s is now the literal bottom of the food chain as far as supported Apple devices go, and the throttling is hitting it so hard that my phone\u2019s battery life can literally go to 100% to under 20% in mere minutes.\u00a0 That combined with the fact that my 32GBs are struggling to keep up with my usage demands, now seemed like as good of time as any to finally upgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I was hoping that what had happened when I got my 6s would\u2019ve happened this time around, which was, despite the fact that all cell providers are pushing leases like crazy, Sprint still came out of the woodwork and offered me the heavily discounted 6s I ended up getting for signing up for another two-year agreement.\u00a0 Which was totally fine with me, considering I\u2019ve been a Sprint customer since 2002, and am just frankly too apathetic to bother caring about switching, and they\u2019ve never wronged me to the point where I needed to switch, immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately a lot of time has passed since then, and it\u2019s apparent that all the providers have figured out how to best bilk money from their customers better than they did back then.\u00a0 So unfortunately for me, I\u2019d have to lease a phone, but ultimately my lack of understanding that I can still lease-to-own it makes it a little more tolerable, that despite the fact that I\u2019ll still be dropping near a grand on a phone, at least by the time my lump sum payment comes, it\u2019ll be somewhat comparable to when I bought a discounted phone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I have a new phone this week, in addition to my new ride.\u00a0 Frankly, I was never an early fan of the full screens of the newer iPhones, but considering my options were to move to a shitty Android phone, an old-ass iPhone 8, or accept the new tech, I opted to get to the top of the food chain (where I belong) and get an iPhone 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully, this phone lasts as long as the 5 and the 6s that preceded this one.<\/span><\/p>\n

But wait there\u2019s more!<\/span><\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s me, shit like a new car or a new phone isn\u2019t really brog-worthy news\u2026 but what if I were to say, boast about how I\u2019ve gotten like a new championship belt for my collection?<\/span><\/p>\n

So just like that, I am now also a holder of the IWGP United States Championship, which is now the second US championship in my possession along with the WCW United States Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly as much as I liked this gaudy belt when it was first introduced, I had reservations about pursuing one; partially because I was dubious about breaking my black-strap belt collection, but mainly because New Japan Pro-Wrestling doesn\u2019t actually make replicas of this belt in the first place; they barely make a replica of the IWGP World Championship, and the vast majority of people can\u2019t afford a $2,100 replica.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when I got my hands on an NXT North American Championship with its bronze colored strap, all bets were off.\u00a0 I saw this bad boy on eBay for a reasonable cost (for a wrestling belt) and I pulled the trigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what a week, huh?\u00a0 New car, new phone, new belt.\u00a0 Am I missing anything?<\/span><\/p>\n

YES.\u00a0 A SECOND BELT.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the IWGP United States Championship belt was so reasonable in cost, I didn\u2019t have any reservations on pulling the trigger on this IWGP Intercontinental Championship belt too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I am a grown-ass man, and I collect professional wrestling replica championship belts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Same story; reluctant to purchase a white strap belt, but NXT North American, yadda yadda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the question really is, because New Japan doesn\u2019t make official replicas of these belts in the first place, are the ones I purchased actually knock-offs?\u00a0 Or does that make them more replica than the replicas that don\u2019t exist?\u00a0 Either way, I don\u2019t really care; they\u2019re both of pretty decent quality, and pass the eye test at immediately knowing what they are at a quick glance.<\/span><\/p>\n

So that completes the week of new shit.\u00a0 A new car, a new phone, and TWO NEW BLETS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn\u2019t want to hijack my swan song for my former Kia, but I don\u2019t think I could\u2019ve made it more obvious that I got a new car earlier this week.\u00a0 A 2019 Mazda CX-5 is what my ride will be\u00a0 hopefully for the next decade or so, and I\u2019m really hoping that me having … Continue reading The week of new shit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,51,79,52,25],"class_list":["post-46728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-cars","tag-cashmoney","tag-owned","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46730,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46728\/revisions\/46730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}