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Archive for October, 2004
Board games & youCandy Land. Sorry. Battleship. We’ve all played them. We’ve all lost plenty of times. Now here is an article titled Board Games & You that had me laughing out loud from the very beginning. How can you not read an article with this brilliant opening sentence:
TomTom GOI finally received my GPS yesterday. And I love it! It’s tiny, fits in the palm of your hand, but it has a very good color LCD screen and a superb speaker hidden inside that is actually rather loud, even while driving. I had to turn the volume down once. So I’ve taken it for a couple test drives today. I selected a couple destinations in town that I wanted it to take me to. One the post office, which I obviously know where it’s at. And another one was the place where a friend needs to go vote on Tuesday, a place I wasn’t quite sure where it was. And the polite male voice that I selected guided me turn by turn with directions such as “in 100 yards, turn right”, and right before 100 yards it would say “turn right.” Then it would say “turn left, in 20 yards you have reached your destination.” And sure enough, I was there. Then I would tell it “Navigate to HOME” (you get to tell it where your home is at), and it got me back to my house safely. Very, very cool. The routes that it selected for me were not always the routes that I would take, but then that is because I’m familiar with this town. If I didn’t know this place any better, I would have been thrilled with how it guided me to my destination. During one of my test drives, it asked me to turn onto a street that is closed due to construction. I quickly pushed the “roadblock” icon and it re-calculated the route on the spot. Unfortunately it asked me to get on another street that was also closed due to the same construction, so once again I selected “roadblock”. It simply said “when possible, turn around.” I did and it re-routed me once again to another street. Finally, a piece of technology that is useful and will help me calm down when, such as on Tuesday, I gotta go to a city I am not familiar with and drive to a couple different locations. I normally love to sleep inI woke up at 2 am and I was wide awake. After tossing and turning for over 45 minutes, I got up. It’s now 6:25 am. I’m still not tired. What the hell?
Whiskey breath mintsLast night I was eating dinner with my boss and his 10 year old step-daughter. He ordered a drink so I figured I might as well. I got a whiskey & coke. This was a strong drink. A very strong drink. I took a couple drinks from it and then I lowered my head to the girl’s level while she was working on the brain-teasers that came on her placemat. So I talk to her and explain how that game works and she looks up at me and exclaims “you smell good!”
It’s starting …Previously I mentioned how whoever wins the election this November will have to select up to 4 Supreme Court Justices. Well, today it’s been announced that one of the justices has cancer. So as you can see, it is true This scares the living crap out of me. Do you want the same person who appointed Ashcroft to shape the Supreme Court for the next 20+ years? Oh. My. God. Like, I’m lost, or something!I was in Kansas City a week ago and like I always do whenever I leave Hays, I got lost. This time a road that mapquest wanted me to get on, was closed. And like I always do when I get lost, I freak out. And I don’t just mean “oh, I get all upset”, I mean, I freak out. I stress out, I lose my driving skills, I start saying “look at this place! Someone is going to come out with a meat hook and kill me!” It’s not a pretty sight. After being burnt by Mapquest quite a few times, I broke down and ordered a fancy GPS for my car (pay no attention to the price, I got it for half that.) It should be here in a few days, I just got the confirmation in my email. What sold me on it is that you can tell it things such as “avoid this road” or “roadblock in 100 yards” and it finds alternate routes for you. That would have been a freaking live saver last week. Another thing I like just for the fun factor is that you can choose the voice you hear with the turn-by-turn directions. One of them is “Valley Girl” and it literally says things such as “you have, like, reached your destination!” Gag me with a spoon! Faster volumeMy Jeep has two buttons behind the steering wheel that allow me to raise and lower my radio’s volume. For some reason, this morning I was pushing the Volume Up button when instead I just needed to go faster. Obviously I was not fully awake yet. So my car didn’t go faster. But it was r0ckin’!!!
Words“Bettered” That’s a word that just does not look right.
Wireless womenWhat’s up with women and cell phones? Most every person I see talking on the cell phone while driving are women. And by most I mean over 95%. Surely this is not a scientific survey, but it has to be at least that high. Can’t you put the freaking cell phone down for 5 minutes? This is Hays, Kansas for the love of God. It will not take you more than 10 minutes to go from one end of town to the other. On a traffic-heavy day. As if women needed more distractions while driving. PS: Hi Kendra. You, I’m sure, are the best woman driver ever. So this posting does not apply to you.
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