One down...

First week of year 12 is over, baby! It was tough (for me, maybe not for other) but I kept to my game plan and I think good things will happen. I even did maths work for a few hours today! So taking this time seriously, I'm sure I'll get serious results.

Now for some cool stuff. My dad bought this navigation system, the Navman iCN 635 and it rocks! My dad tried it out today when he drove my brother to tutoring and it works like a charm. It uses GPS to plot your position and generate a path for you to follow. First you set the area, then the street, then the house number and it generate the shortest or quickest path to your destination. And it has voice prompts to ensure you make the right turns at the right time. Then I jumped in the driver's seat and started driving around testing it out and get some practice at the same time. My dad set it to go a boat ramp in Port Hacking and I drove all the way there. The really cool thing is that if you make a wrong turn or go a different way, it can re-generate a new path, so you don't have to stick its preestablished route. Tomorrow, we're going to test it by going to Bell (I think that's the place), out in the Blue Mountains, to see cherry blossoms in bloom. I'll post a few shots when I get back.

And this I had to post. Inventor Gregg Miller has dedicated his blood, sweat and tears, as well as countless hours designing, building and tinkering to create new balls for dogs. Not just any old balls for fetching though. They are prosthetic testicles for castrated dogs. Made from silicon, these balls are realistic recreations and comes in different sizes, shapes, weights and degrees of firmness. He even got a Nobel Prize for it. Go figure.