I picked up the 16gb 3g model this evening after spending most of the day thinking about using one as my gps/audio source in my car. I read a few forums and after some hunting I decided it was the solution I was looking for. It’s not perfect, but it’s probably the best suited for what I’m after which is mobile audio and maps; not turn by turn directions (hate that shit).
I have to get the Dice i-Mazda-R2 (R2) unit to act as a bridge to the Mazda3’s headunit via the Satellite port; which means I’ll be rethinking the Sirius integration into the overall setup (if it even happens now).
I’m looking forward to putting this all together.
Oh yeah, I wanted to upgrade my phone and get something with a better camera so this kinda covers a few things on my ‘to-do’ list.
It could be a cool project.
Jen gave me this explodingdog peice a couple of months ago, and I just got it into a frame a couple of weeks ago. It’s a little hard to shoot thanks to the glass and placement in relation to the reef.
Yesterday I rode at Blue with Chris and his brother Mike. The drive is horribly long, at 550km @ 100kph (that’s speeding at 20 over). It’s all back highway between tiny towns. The distance sucks, but most of the drive is pretty awesome at this time of year. The colors in the forest were amazing, and it was fogged yesterday so I loved it once I was rolling. The google map instructions sucked. I’m getting a usb gps dongle and I’m bringing my laptop on future maiden trips.
Most of the trails were rained out, but we enjoyed what was open and I’m glad I went.
I started off the week with a nice breakfast at The Leutinent’s Pump near Jen’s place with Jen, Marc and Shannon. After we ate we walked around for a bit to kill time for some baked goods at a bakery Marc liked. Later that night I started working on something work related; I’m not sure what it was now because I’ve been doing late nights for almost 2 weeks trying to wrap up a few projects that were held up. Those are complete now, which is great ’cause I need to unwind this weekend.
I processed pics from last Friday / Saturday this morning. Generally I like how they turned out but I’m noticing my camera is underexposing with the flash on it. The common Pentax issue. Regardless, I got some keepers.
Last night on my way to a pet store I was rear ended by a french lady that wasn’t paying attention / going too fast. She followed me from light to light after getting off the 417W; at the second light she hit me at roughly 30-40kph. It was hard enough to push my car forward like 10′.
When I got out of the car I was surprised to see there was no cosmetic damage beyond a bent license plate. The woman seemed to think everything was fine “Look! You have a strong car, it’s fine!”. Yeah lady… plastic is what cars are made of.
I gotta get it checked out at the dealership today; probably first thing I do. I’m assuming there’s no real damage to the car, ’cause I found that there’s a nice steel beam behind the plastic bumper that bolts to the subframe; so the impact should’ve gone straight to kenetic energy and that push… however, that’s just my guess and I don’t make cars. Hopefully the mechanic at the dealership says it’s all fine.
I can’t get over that the woman said “I saw it go orange and thought you’d go through”. When I came to a stop, the light was red. What the fuck.
It was a sad weekend, but I’m glad I had my camera. All the pics turned out pretty good. I like the ones of Abby the most, but the one of my Grandma is awesome. I really need to start working on a proper portfolio.
On the weekend I took the camera out of my closet and brought it for a walk. Much fun.
Jen and I went for a drive to Quebec on the weekend to see Pineapple Express and Step Brothers. It was an awesome trip. The movies were hilarious and I doubt they’d be as fun on my couch or in a theatre. The setting just added something to the whole experience.
When we arrived, we noticed a guy to our left was taping screen over his door windows and windexed his windshield a few times; to make sure it was extra clean. He was taking the drive-in serious. We laughed. However, it turned out his screen idea was pretty good ’cause my hands are covered in mosquito bites. I don’t know Jen was harrassed by the little blood suckers, our diets are drastically different and she didn’t complain.
Anyways, overall I loved going to the drive-in. I wish there was more of these running, cause it’s simply awesome.
My Thule fix point rack arrived yesterday afternoon; which made it a 2 day over seas delivery. For the cost of shipping; this is kinda expected but still, I didn’t think I’d have the car rack installed for the weekend. I’m very happy with my decision and I love that I can easily switch to the aero bars if I want (yay UK design!).
Unfortunately the site doesn’t carry the bike racks I’m after, but generally everything else is there.
Worth checking out.
