Goings on

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I'm such a nerd. I bought a turn-by-turn GPS app, MotionX, from the App Store. It's only $3, compared to TomTom and Navigon, which are $90 and $100 respectively. The difference is, you get one month voice and turn-by-turn for $3 and you have to subscribe for additional months. The cool thing is, you only pay when you need it. So you don't have to pay $3 every month if you aren't going to be traveling, but if you ever do need it you just pay your $3 and off you go. I like this business model.

So I went right over to Best Buy and bought the "RoadTrip", which is a combination iPhone car charger/iPod radio transmitter, and iPhone holder. So, it holds the phone up via steel cord (for lack of a better term) from the cigarette lighter, charges the phone, and allows it to play music through the radio. But with this GPS app, it also doubles as GPS holder. The app allows iPod integration into the turn-by-turn directions. I gave it a trial run yesterday and it quiets the music to give you your directions and then goes right back into the music.

I am absolutely in love with this; it goes directly to my nerd heart. I just thought I'd share.

I'll be using it tonight for a roadtrip to CT and it's making the thought of driving 4 hours both tonight and tomorrow a little more inviting.

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On the opposite of the cool spectrum, I finally gave in and bought a no load/no fee index fund today for my IRA that I can just throw money into and not even think about. I'm tired of picking up individual stocks and seeing how they go. Let's just make it boring and easy.

I screwed up really bad back in March. I wanted to put $1000 into Bank of America stock just to see what would happen, and guess what? That stock would be worth just around $6000 today. Ooops! I really dropped the ball on that one.

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Mentioned earlier that I'm going to CT. It's for a job interview in Cheshire, CT. I already know how much the job pays, that they will pay up to $35k for full relocation, and all that other good stuff. The salary is livable, and I've been told that this isn't the insanely rich part of CT. It's still about an hour+ from NYC so not exactly a suburb, but worth a shot.

I have no idea what my feelings on the state of CT is but I figure it's worth figuring out.

As for the other job - I have heard that I should hear something maybe as soon as this week. Although I can almost swear I heard something similar nearly two weeks ago. So I'm not holding my breath. But through discussions with the recruiter working on this for me, I have been made aware of the progressions being made internally. I know that it's a lot closer to happening then it was then; all my references have been contacted, etc. I have to just do a phone interview with a VP who was not there the day of my interview and we might be able to proceed from there.

This has been pushed back so far that I'm already looking at a first day of November 16th, even if they offered me the job as soon as tomorrow. Hey, get there just in time to take Thanksgiving holiday! Assuming that's what I end up doing - unclear at this point.

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Last weekend when Marissa and I were in the process of getting out of bed, Jack whined his way onto the bed and crammed his head inbetween us (as he is hilariously known to do on occasion; it's his favorite place to be). This is all well and good until we realized that he left a poop stain on the side of the sheets somehow. I have no idea where the poop came from - it was just a tiny bit.

It was funnier if you were there; trust me.

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A job interview on a Thursday really breaks up the week. By the time I get back it will be Friday and the week will be over. Nice!