wishing everyone a Happy New Year

Going out for fish with Holly and Reggie

celebrating our wedding anniversary

dancing the happy dance for Laura's engagement!

Mourning my lost Verizon Wirelss Blackberry :(

Heading home

Finishing up FTP access to the business partner and regional owner websites

Never buy a laptop from Hewlett-Packard, or any other vendor who does not include a REAL restore/install-dvd/cd

Repairing printers, CRM dashlets, scanners, and laptops today at the office on a rainy day

Repairing printers, scanners, and laptops today at the office

Celebrating Reggie Batt's Birthday!

not reading Reggie Batt's facebook status.

Bringing my mother home from the hospital

Running Blackberry OS 4.5

Launching the new OneCoach Website ( http://www.onecoach.com )

At Providence St Joseph's Hospital

Chasing the Morning

is encouraging everyone to party regardless of who they vote for.

working on the new OneCoach website

Car maintenance day

Overtime: http://ping.fm/qRRjt

is enjoying two new 22" Sceptre LCD monitors from NewEgg

Working on CodeIgniter

Loving Google Chrome http://ping.fm/t4Ew6

Driving to Burbank

Nicholas starts his first day of Kindergarten on Monday

Drinking from the Fire Hose!

Running errands... Local retailers are SO happy :)

Having lunch with the Greek Ladies in Irvine

working on the Star Trek Countdown Official Club signup page at http://ping.fm/zn92T

At the pool with Nicholas and Marc

My nephew has been kidnapped. News here http://ping.fm/O30Pp

is back in San Diego. Someone stole my ICQ account and that's not all

ready to head up to Los Angeles for the weekend

Setting up my new Blackberry

has the day off today

I have a sad. I broke my blackberry today. Commence Internet DT's.

reading "The Answer"

DISNEYLAND!

Researching MCSE Training Programs for our Team

Celebrating Marc's 4th Birthday Today in Reseda!

Driving to Los Angeles

Celebrating the 4th of July

At the San Diego Natural History museum with the moogus terriblis

At a bar in Washington DC with two drunks and a Scottish traveler

at SEA-TAC waiting for my flight to Long Beach.

Attending the AFEI Enterprise Security Management show in Bellevue, WA

Getting ready to fly out for the Enterprise Security Management Spring Forum

In Baltimore through the end of the week on business.

Attending the DMS CCB meeting

Got the day off!

47.2mpg

47.1mpg Average

Arrived in Los Angeles (from San Jose)

Dieing the slow death of "Wedding Reception"

Driving through Bakersfield on the way to San Jose

Going to El Arcos Iris for early Mother's Day

Making connections in North Carolina

Going to Ironman

Doing April Expense Reports - The Roadshow continues Sunday

I'm now the proud owner of a Sony PRS-505 eBook Reader

Back in Orange County

In San Antonio, TX

At John Wayne Airport heading to San Antonio

At Nicholas's soccer game. Next: Rubios and a drive to Burbank

Prius First Impressions

On Wednesday, I purchased a 2008 Prius through my bank (San Diego County Credit Union). Kathy and Bruce, my contacts there were great. Kathy took care of my loan, and Bruce located the exact model, trim and color car I wanted and negotiated my price and shopped my trade-in for me. I can't imagine how SDCCU could have made the process any easier or smoother for me.

I've had my Prius now since Wednesday afternoon, so really only 2 days of actual usage so far. On whole, I'm really happy with the car. It's larger on the inside than it would seem from looking at it. Nicholas loves the car (although he wishes it was blue, not red). I told him we could call it "Lightning McKing".

Most of my driving is from Oceanside to Irvine, and I'm getting about 50MPG travelling up the 5 freeway. The Prius has a touch screen console in the middle of the dashboard that has various displays for radio, CD, air conditioning, fuel consumption and engine monitoring. The car shows you what it's doing as it balances power production and fuel consumption. The display is updated in realtime and you can watch the system as it shifts from electric to gas, to combining them, and watch as it recharges from the regenerative breaking.

With my long commute, I'm using cruise control set at 65MPH to get as much efficiency out of the engine as I can. When you lock yourself to 65, you really realize how fast everyone drives. The consolation of course is the money saved in fuel consumption, which is huge.

The other nice feature is the AUX input jack on the car stereo in the center console. There's room for my MP3 player so I can listen to podcasts, audiobooks and my music collection during my 45 minute drive.

Loving my new red 2008 Prius

On my way to get my new car

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLINE!!

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