Navigating using my new HTC EVO.

I tried the Sprint navigation feature on my new Sprint HTC EVO (full review to come in the near future) for the first time. I set it to get me to a hotel in Pasadena that I had never been to before. To double check the route I printed a map of the hotel. The route the phone selected looked good, but as I got closer to my destination it looked like I should exit the freeway and the hotel would be near by. But the GPS had me take a different exit, make many funny turns and when the voice said "arriving at destination", I was in the middle of a residential neighborhood. So I called my friend's who I was meeting at the hotel for help, and after more driving around I finally got the navigation on the phone to take me to the hotel, which was right of interstate 210. I think what happened is I entered the wrong address in the phone. It took me to 2700 North Fair Oaks Ave. Instead of 180 North Fair Oaks. Lesson learned - trust old-fashioned maps over technology, and learn how to use a device before relying on it for directions.

Awesome is back!

So I'm at Aaron Brother's on Friday getting a custom mat cut-out for a frame, and it took the employees some time to help me but I wasn't in a hurry. When they finished and I paid I and thanked them for helping me. Then the one woman said "Thanks for being such an awesome customer." That was a great complement, but it had been a long time (the 80s?) since I heard the word awesome used. Then that night while having dinner at Karl Strauss I was telling my sister about my earlier experience and she said that 'awesome' has become a popular word again. Just then the waiter came by and told us to have "an awesome night". I was so shocked at what he said that I asked if he had heard us talking about the word awesome (he hadn't), but it just proved that awesome is back!