And sounds like Yoda, now, she does!

 

It was sometime this past week that I again missed a turn and had to go way out of my way to get someplace that I finally looked into a decent GPS system. Don't get me wrong, I loved my little 10 year old, hard to see, slow to find satellites, suction cup won't stick GPS but it was never on when I needed it, took too long to warm up when I did, and had come UNSUPERGLUED from the windshield so at the time, I couldn't use it anyway.

 

So I looked into turning my iPod Touch into a GPS system, which would have cost me $80 for a cradle thingy. So I bought a tom-tom go 300 off ebay for $50 and WOW, what a difference. It's already gotten me someplace without me having to get out my paper map, and having my car actually talk to me and tell me where to go just seems like stepping into the future! And I updated the OS and found a couple of new voices for it. Darth Vader, Yoda, Chip & Dale, and Patrick Stewart. So cool just to hit a button that says "take me home" and it does. It turns on when I turn the car on, so I don't have to worry about it not being there, it's in color, it sticks. Can't say enough. It would even speak to me in Japanese! Now if I could just find a Klingon module... :-)

 

The actual map on the screen is, of course, rather flat. I dream of pairing it with Google Street View somehow and getting the overlay of what the land looks like. Or even better, a camera and do an augmented reality sort of thing. Still, this will do, in a pinch. *joke*

 

Oh, and to the people that changed the lanes going from 104 to 590s. Thank you, you're a credit to the human race.

To the people who changed the lanes going from 590N to 104, WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING, MORONS?  Now there's this whole space that used to be a lane that is unusable? How does that help me? Why did you take 590N down to one lane at that point? AARG! Isn't traffic bad enough there at 5:00 without you adding to the problem?

 

Pup went home, I'm sure he's glad to see all his kitty friends again. On our walk this morning I found a key in the road. My book of spells that Mom gave me said "The Romanies believe that it is extremely lucky to find a key." and I will "soon be opening a door to success in love... No matter the from, happiness is assured." Oddly, the bookmark that was in the book, (a brass plate with "never, never, never quit- Winston Churchill" on it) was set at the exact page that told me this. And they say magic doesn't exist.

 

Reach is shaping up. I haven't played the campaign at all, just wandered the multi-player maps to get a sense of what they're all about and stumbled onto the user created maps done in forge. Wow. Already, less then a week after it launched, there are some very convincing halo 2/3 maps done by talented people. I'm impressed. Looks like there won't be any shortage of maps to play. Now I just need the guy I play with to get back from freaking Croatia. Gonna be a long fall.

 

Speaking of fall, it's not three days and I already see leaves on the ground? No thank you.

 

Game went well, we got out of MMORPG world and faced no tough moral dilemmas in the process. Whew. We don't know where we are now, Sean left his notes on his other computer here! So we're going back to Demongate High now. It'll be good to get back to playing Carlita again. Don't get me wrong, playing Kyusuke is nice, but turning into a demon is better. :-)

Today, as usual, was cleanup day. Watched some more DS9.

 

Friday I did three, one at 5:30 against my better judgement, but better that then trying to get it done Saturday morning when I had Mom's pets to take care of. It didn't turn out too badly, I think it was the Vista/AOL bug I've seen before. At least, getting rid of the 45 hidden network... whatevers and 40+ "shadow volume copy"s it wasn't BSODing any more. Another BSOD I had to run a repair on to get working. That also went fine. And another bizarre AOL problem (where are all these AOLers coming from anyway?) that I got solved. Grandma was fine, didn't say anything too weird, and the day was done.