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Thu, Feb 05, 2009

Cartoys

Posted at 7:53 pm MST to Travel

I will be heading out Saturday morning for the drive to Mobile for a 3 month consulting gig.

Our company has some GPS units on order, but they won't bein until next week, so I stopped at CarToys, which was in the way home from my optometrist appointment. They have been advertising a sale all week on the radio.

I now have a GPS for the truck: a TomTom One 130.

I also have a new radio with a built-in CD player and an aux jack. The factory radio just had a tape player (which tends to eat tapes) -- the truck is a 2000 model and car stereos with CDs were expensive in those days.

The new stereo is not a luxury. According to Rand-McNally this trip is going to take 23+ hours of actual driving time. Now I can be sure I will have something to listen to other than country-western music and Christian stations when I am driving across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas this weekend.

The new radio doesn't include a clock (or maybe it is hidden: I need to check the manual) but that is a small price to pay for staying sane across Texas...

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Supreme Court

Posted at 1:02 pm MST to Current Events

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized with one of the deadlier forms of cancer (pancreatic).

I am sooo glad her replacement, if one is needed, will not be nominated by a Republican. The thought of having a supreme court justice selected by the same process that came up with Sarah Palin as vice presidential candidate is scary.

Mind you, it would be nice to have a Chief Justice capable of performing a public ceremony without flubbing it, but I'll settle for the likelihood that any Justices appointed in the next few years will be moderate to liberal and acquainted with the Constitution..

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Vet Visit 2009

Posted at 9:04 am MST to Miscellaneous

Dinah Kitty had her checkup and rabies shot today. She's in very good shape for a 13 year old cat. Unlike me, she doesn't need dental cleanings.

She's even lost a little of the extra weight she had been carrying: losing more than a pound out of 15+ is like a human losing 10 pounds. She could probably stand to lose another pound.

The Allpets clinic has a special deal to test her blood for 30 different things. I last had the tests done in 2006 so I had them do them again this time, just in case the weight loss is not a good sign.

Dinah was not happy to be at the vet's, of course. She complained all the way there in the car and did NOT want to come out of the 'sherpa' carrier I use for taking her to the vet. (I use a larger hardbody crate, meant for medium-sized dogs, for the long trips so she has room to move around and stretch out.)

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