Archive for April, 2007

Belated cool birthday presents review

So my dad’s birthday was 2 weeks ago and I couldn’t post anything on here (and then I got busy) until we gave him his presents in case he actually looks at this site. :) So first we had the “funny” present. This was a sushi pillow made by theoriginalsushipillow.com. I chose the salmon nigiri. I can’t even write about this without laughing. This is just funny. That said the workmanship and choice of fabric is fabulous. I have no idea where they ever found silk that looks so much like raw salmon.

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The other present was a home soda maker from Soda-Club. This little gadget uses a bottle of CO2 to carbonate a liter of water at a time. You can then add flavor of your choice, via juice or various flavor concentrates from Soda-Club. One bottle can carbonate about a 110 liters of water. I would like to say that it is very easy to over-carbonate the water. Hence my coining of the name “burping juice” over the course of that weekend (March 31st). There was an actual purpose to this gift though (besides being able to burp on cue). Dad is drinking oodles of soda water these days and if we take this to Prudence, no one has to haul lots of heavy bottles of it down there. Clever, no?

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Car antenna found

So recently I lost my radio antenna off my Golf.

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I thought it happened during a recent storm as I said here. Well, it was found by Tom as he was walking up the Mountain. He kindly left it in my mug of writing implements. Too funny.

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Pink Polka

This just makes me giggle. Pink Polka is a band out of Toledo that does polka covers of Pink Floyd songs. I really like “Another Brick in the Wall”.

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GPS Update

So the new GPS is very cool. I’ve got the basics figured out. It’s such a great size. I think it will be no problem to have attached to whatever daypack I’m using or even around the neck on the included lanyard. It acquires a lock in a minute or 2 and so far has had no problem maintaining that lock in a car, even when it’s through lots of trees (although there are no leaves yet to interfere).

I found a few free maps for Massachusetts that I put on the Vista and that gave me roads for most of the state but I can’t get turn by turn directions from that. So I’ve bitten the bullet and ordered Garmin’s North America City Navigator map DVD. Not cheap (~$125) but it’s all the US and most of Canada. One can howver order it from REI in order to get the member dividend (or use a REI coupon for 20% off). Since the coupon made up for the 2 day shipping, it will be here on Monday. That should be enough time to work out how to get the maps I want for the upcoming trip to Utah and Nevadaon the 14th.

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