Last weekend, we went to our local Honda dealership to ask about a new stereo for my 1998 Accord. (As I'd described previously, it has recently been prone to losing sound during hot weather, and I was getting very tired of it.) Honda, it turns out, wanted to charge me something insane like $800 for a tape deck model basically identical to the cheapo stock unit that was busy breaking. The nice Honda guy suggested going to, you know, a car audio place where I might do rather better.
So today, we went to
Monney Car Audio. I'd been leery of going, figuring I'd be faced with slimy salespeople attempting to sell me much more stereo than I wanted or needed. What I found instead was a nice guy, probably in his mid-fifties, who showed me what was probably their cheapest CD/radio/audio jack model, and the model 1 level higher than that (about $60 more), and that's it! He installed the least expensive model pretty much on the spot, and I spent less than $200 on the item+installation. As that's about as much as I wanted to pay for it, without having done any research aforehand, I was perfectly happy. I would definitely recommend the local Monney on the basis of non-obnoxiousness and - I expect - knowledge about higher-end models if that's what you want. Happy birthday, me!
We also went to
Kohl's so that Huz could take another look for a black sweater for *his* skating outfit. Kohl's bought out a whole bunch of Mervyn's locations when Mervyn's went under, and it looks, at least during opening weekend, like it'll be a pretty reasonable substitute. Huz found an acceptable sweater and some good flannel shirts. I didn't find much, but I wasn't looking all that hard either.
Oh yah. And I bought plane tickets for Christmas earlier today.
I think we might be done with serious stimulatin' of the economy for a while. Whew!
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