On the road

On the road and stopped for lunch in new jersey

Winter ending?

The last few days have been warmer - 50f yesterday, the warmest of 08 yet. I was almost ready to bring my christmas lights down from outside (we've not had a day without snow on the ground stopping me since I put them up.

Unfortunately, today, we woke up to 3 inches of snow on the floor.

Oh well, there goes the thought that winter may be ending soon!

Yum!

Lunch :)

Car dealership

'm sitting at the car dealership waiting on a 25k service on my Camry.

A guy has brought his two kids with him, they are climbing all over everything, screaming and yelling, and helping them selves to the coffee maching. That little girl can't be more than 6 and is on her third cup since they got here. The little boy is running around throwing papers everywhere.

The dad? Reading a paper and ignoring them entirely.

Kids. Who'd have em?

Hurry up and finish my car!

New XM install

I just installed a new XM radio in my car.

Big Deal right?

I already had one in my Toyota - it was one of these fugly things

http://shopdelphi.com/consumers/satradio/skyfi/skyfi2/



Which is not only ugly, but the cables I had to run to it were pretty bad too (antenna, power and auxillary).

So when I found out that the Terk adaptor for the Camry was on sale, along with the XM Direct interface - which means nothing to you other than completely integrated satellite radio. As in, direct into my factory radio, no more cables on display.

It's an installation that is normally done by the dealership, as it requires removing almost the entire dashboard.

But I did it, and I'm quite pleased.

I have had to leave the antenna on the trunk, people have luck installing theirs inside the car, but I can't figure out where, and will get a reception, so back on the trunk it goes.

Yay me :)

Snow snow snow

More snow

Will winter ever finish?