Heya, sorry for the lack of posting. Google's annual ski trip was Thursday and Friday, and Trisha, Benjy, Karen, Crystal, Rachel and I all went to my Uncle's place on the North Shore for Friday through Sunday.

Between us we went snowboarding, skiing, sledding, hiking, and more, and all told we had a really good time. I'm certain that photos will ensue soon.

We took the Prius up to Tahoe, despite my fears of snow that would require me to shackle my new baby in chains. As it turned out, we got through Donner Pass yesterday when chains were still imminent, but not required. It was a real joy to drive the 80 miles from the peak of Donner Pass to Sacramento on a single gallon of gas, the fuel economy graph maxing out at 99.9 MPG for most of the downhill ride.

Thanks to the Superbowl we made better time into the Bay Area than one could reasonably expect on a Sunday afternoon, but I forgot to have Tivo record it. While we missed almost all of the game itself, thanks to my media-equipped friends I got to see the Timberlake/Jackson incident ('wardrobe malfunction' my ass (warning: NSFW)).

Thankfully, we got to watch the last 10 minutes of the game, which were the most exciting by all accounts. It sounds like even the ads mostly sucked, though I was glad to see the Pepsi-iTunes ad hosted at Apple.

Now it's Monday again, start of another week. This week looks to be pretty dance-heavy, with hip-hop class on Wednesday, our last Waltz class (Redowa!) on Thursday, and Friday Night Waltz the day after that.

And, of course, tons to do here where, once again, I'm thankful to have the best job in the world.

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1. Power on (not neccesarily ready, IG-ON will do).
2. Set Trip/ODO to ODO
3. Power off.
4. Power on to ready (brake on).
5. Within 6 seconds, press and hold ODO for 10 seconds or more.
6. WHILE STILL HOLDING ODO *after* 10 seconds, Shift from P to R, then back to P. Now release ODO.
7. You'll see in the trip pisplay "b on" or "b off".
8. Press ODO to toggle.
9. Now power off.

Now the car shouldn't beep when you're in reverse.

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Ammy, Rick, Ali, Mark and Ray are all over for Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner. Amidst stories of cars and road trips, I mentioned that I decided to transfer the GRR ARG license plate for the new car, and the naming began.

Fantasizing and lamenting about the Kayley-Anara sex scenes that start in Anara's boudoir and end up on Kayley's steamy engine room floor, and the proper order of episode presentation to those who have never seen the show, Mark named my car "Reaver," irrevocably and perfectly.

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Here now, just got back from the dealership and lunch with Rachel and showing it to Karen and now all my coworkers are away from their desks.

Now she needs a name...

I've more to write, but I have tons to do at work before Rachel and I go see Alegria tonight (front row! front row!) and my Firefly DVD came, too.

Breathing again, and will post lots soon!

And yes, it's really cool.

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It's not here yet, but it's there. In an hour or so it'll be all shiny'd up and ready to go then I'll go there and it will be here.

After the obligatory haggling with the dealer about silly hidden charges, of course.

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I hate waiting.

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ring, ring

Hello?

Hi John. It's Kevin.

Car not here yet!

Just checking.

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"The car is on the truck."

That's what they told me yesterday. Now, apparently, "the car is on the train," but that didn't stop Rachel and I from dropping by the dealership before work this morning. Sure enough, the printout says it should be here today and, like the expectant but busy father, I'll be getting a phone call when the car arrives at zero-station, and I'll take off to see my baby.

But for now, there's work to be done, meetings to attend, and all that stuff.

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Benjy test drove a Prius recently. I have a lot of the same comments as he does, though I didn't get to check out the navigation system in the model I drove.

I've now seen six total Priuses (Prii?) in person. I can't wait until I have my own. Only a few more days...

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