Erica gave me a Garmin GPS for Christmas. These are neat little toys that guide you on trips. You just plug in a destination and tell it to take you there and a woman’s voice tells you to “turn left” and “turn right” and magically you arrive. I used it to get me to Christmas dinner with Justine, but I didn’t go using the most direct way. I go the simplest way with the least traffic and the thing yelled at me. (Actually it would announce that it was “recalculating” the route every few minutes.)

I want to take a nice day trip and see if the thing will get me where I want to go and then home again. I also want to make Point of Interest files of the flea markets and garage sales that I go to over the summer. There is nothing so frustrating as having a garage sale sign with an address and no arrow. I don’t know the local streets in most of the places that I wander to. A street address doesn’t help me at all. The Garmin GPS should be able to help me out some times.

On the same subject, My-Cast.com, the nifty weather alert website, was bought out by Garmin. The My-Cast website is gone and they seem to have lost my settings so I don’t know what the weather will be this weekend. It’s too bad, I liked My-Cast and I liked getting the weather alerts. I guess I have to go back to Weather.Com.