I’m tired but I can’t go to sleep right away and just lie there. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong besides not getting enough exercise. It’s the holiday season so I’m just sitting, dorking around with my computer, watching bowl games, or reading books. It’s all quite boring, really. I haven’t been to the gym since before my mom went into the hospital. I’m guessing that’s probably the biggest problem.

I ran some errands yesterday and took my Garmin doo-dad (the Nuvi 650) out for a spin. It’s quite silly. It made some odd road choices (some of the same odd choices that google maps uses) and it mispronounced some things it should have gotten right. I can understand it mispronouncing “Couch” and “Glisan” (which are pronounced “cooch” and “gleesan” here and I’ve forgotten the International Phonetic Alphabet so you’ll just have to use that as the pronunciation) but it keep referring to the Morrison Bridge (abbreviated Morrison Br) as the Morrison Brother. But it did a pretty good job of getting me around. I just wish it were a little LOUDER when it was giving directions.

I keep driving around looking for sales on LED Xmas lights and I think I’m too late now. I really wanted to make one of these LED cube things out of cheap LEDs but I guess I’ll just have to buy the LEDs from a parts store like a regular person.