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Thursday May 30, 2013

New Phone

Filed under: Cool Stuff — don @ 7:50 pm

Yay!  I bit the bullet and got the Samsung S4.

Since the company pays for my phone they allowed us to get whichever we wanted.  We won’t be able to upgrade for 2 years so I hope the S4 lasts that long.

It’s a pretty cool phone.  It has all kinds of nifty features that the iPhone (and most other smart phones) doesn’t have.

I’m not sure which is my favorite of the “cool” features and it’s going to take a little getting used to not having an iPhone but I’m glad I made the switch.

As I discover neat things about it I’ll put them in the comments.

In the meantime here’s a link to the hype

Wednesday May 15, 2013

New Car

Filed under: Cars,Cool Stuff,Family — don @ 9:37 pm

We’ve had the Hyundai Sonata since 2004 and Betty figured it was time to replace it.

We were thinking about getting another Hyundai but then Daryl mentioned that we should take a look at the Toyota Camry Hybrid. It’s the top rated Sedan on CR now with a 93. The only vehicle above it is the Tesla but we don’t have $100k for a car. We also didn’t want to spend $30,000 on a car but we were willing to spend 2/3 of that so I started looking at used ones.

Last night I found a 2011 with under 22,000 miles for about $4,000 less than all the other ones of that basic year I had been seeing. The only problem was it was in Carlsbad which is near San Diego and about 110 miles from home.

We decided it was worth it to drive down there so today Betty, Jenny, Patrick and I went down and we went ahead and bought it.

Here’s some pics.

2011 Camry Hybrid

2011 Camry Hybrid

Cam1

Cam2

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