defects, reviews, rewards

I've decided there are just too many serious flaws in travel by car, particularly in the winter. For instance - slush, sludge, and general dirty gunk (which may be repetitive as gunk is most likely dirty by definition) flying up onto the windshield. Wipers only help so much, if at all, and when the washer fluid doesn't function the dirt film is just ridiculous. A second irritation - knowing where the lines are. White lines when it's snowing??? Really, who chose white and yellow as road line colors. There should be colors that really POP. Now what I think would be cool, would be like a huge monorail system, but with individual cars rather than trains. The rails would be heated (hey, no spin outs. derailing of course replacing that as a problem) so no slipping on icy roads. Lane changes would be a bit of a problem. Haven't thought that one out, and parking, hmmm. Maybe the engineer could figure this out for me. In those areas probably a little more complicated than the flying car someone is supposed to have marketed by now. And how often have you seen train tracks closed for construction? I think I'm on to something here. Pre-program your drive on monorail.

I got myself a fabulous little device for my mp3 player called an FM transmitter. Now I can hear my mp3 player over the radio in my car. Woo hoo! The downside I noticed is it's a bit sensitive to positioning and prefers to be dangled from my cup holder. That's when it's clearest. Not exactly a problem but it really bugs me when the cup holder is sticking out. The only other downside is my mp3 player appears to be possessed. It likes to lose songs. This is starting to be a theme, as the abandoned cd player I found in a college apartment closet was possessed too. It didn't loose songs, but it would start playing from where it previously left off on the cd, even if you changed the cd out. CD 1 track 5, change cd's to number 2 and track 6 which it left off on 2 days ago would play. Change back to cd one and first song out was number 6. I have no idea how it did that. I prefer that to losing songs though.

I went up to see Jen and Nick before I left for Christmas as the holiday scrooge has struck them once again preventing them from joining the family fun in Idaho. I spent most of the time just visitin' with Jen since Nick was working. We topped off the visit with helping to push a neighbor's car into a parking space. Way to be vigilant and seeing a need there Nick. Jen and I had just mentioned mission flashbacks, and as soon as I heard we were pushing a car in the snow I had a major one. Blaylock and I pushed a lot of cars. I kind of find it fun pushing a car around. I discovered tonight it's more pleasant when the car isn't running 'cause you can push from the back without getting exhaust all over you. ... Hey Ryan, remember when you and I tried to push the Tempo up Morgan Ave after the engine died? It would have only been like a mile long -occasionally significantly uphill - car push. I thought it was fun. The car tow was a better option in that case, however.

I got another four movie tickets the other day. I was only going for two (I was grumpy about the way the day was going so there was no way I was letting them forget their little incentive gift), but another nurse was up at the other nurses station and did a little tactical complaining of his own and pushed for the four tickets. Looks like I'm going to the movies a lot in the new year.