My New Toy

Thursday, March 10th 2005 ·

(6 comments)

For our one year anniversary recently, I got Linda earrings. She got me this. It's not only a PDA, it's a GPS receiver that talks to me as I'm driving and gives me turn-by-turn directions. How cool is that??

It's called the Garmin iQue 3200, and it's preventing me from getting lost on a daily basis. This week, I've driven to Pueblo three times and Colorado Springs once, and this thing has been a lifesaver. Does my wife know me, or what? Or maybe it's just that she's been with me in the car enough times when I've gotten lost.

On an only partially-related note, after having been in Colorado about two and a half months now, I've just passed the mileage I'd have driven in one day on my commute from Brewster, NY to Hartford, CT and back.

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Comment Friday, March 11th 2005 by tagger
Happy Anniversary!

(check your eMail for the "gift" :-) )
 
Comment Friday, March 11th 2005 by pmd
Yea, Linda does know you well... but I thought she would have gotten it for you just for the PDA, and the driving directions were just a happy perk.
 
Comment Friday, March 11th 2005 by Greg
No - the primary reason is that she knows I get lost. And given how good I was at getting lost in Connecticut, my getting-lost skills in a state I'm unfamiliar with are quite impressive, I assure you.
 
Comment Friday, March 11th 2005 by tagger
You get that from your mother.

BOTH of you!

I know . . .

:-)

 
Comment Saturday, March 12th 2005 by Greg
A quote from Linda...

I bought it for my sanity as well as yours
 
Comment Sunday, March 13th 2005 by Imbittered
Logical people tend to get lost when they are in unfamiliar areas. This is because most highway and road construction is implemented with the sole intention of confusing commuters.
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