Buffalo Trip Continued

If you thought that was my whole trip, you're wrong... the mall has so many more stores. There was the Apple Store:

I was playing around with the powerbook... I'd have to say WOW. I love the bluetooth built right into the laptop. I wish I had a bluetooth dongle for my computer. I was also playing with their Ipods... they aren't as user friendly as I thought they would be. I couldn't figure out how to navigate through the music list. I guess I'm getting old. Next I saw so many Microsoft Office boxes:

Very nice packaging. Make me want to buy one even though I don't own an Apple. I hear from people that they're going to be opening an Apple store at Yorkdale. Might be as soon as this summer since I hear they're already hiring to fill positions.

Road Trip

Today I went on a roadtrip with family to... the mall!
Guess which mall! Here's come pics of the mall:

It might not look too familar to you. Or it looks like too many malls out there. Here's a big hint:

Wow! A Kaufmann's! You don't see this in Canada, eh? And look at this store:

They have these in there:

That's a Sony Ericsson Z500a with a VGA camera.
YES! you may have guessed it, we drove to Buffalo to do some shopping at the Walden Galleria. There were SO many cell phone stores and some other interesting stores that I'll post pics up tomorrow.

Displays

I was at the grocery store the other day looking for junk food to buy and saw this display:

Nice polar express display. It caught my attention but it didn't really motivate me to buy their products. Guess it's aimed at the little kids.

Shopping Before Christmas

This has been the longest blog break for me. A lot has been happening and many pics for you to see. Before Christmas I was doing some Christmas shopping. Parking was not so bad on the 23rd:

That was a spot beside the one I parked in. It was pretty busy inside the mall though. Here is a random picture I took, see if you can recognize the mall:

I love the Christmas decorations. I didn't get a chance to go downtown to look at all the nice Christmas tree lights but I guess this will do:

Cute Friend

Here's a cute little something i got for Christmas:

He looks just small enough to go on my tree? Maybe not.

Winter Driving

With the winter upon us, I was thinking about how driving conditions change so suddenly with new snowfall, flurries, and black ice. Then I look at my car and remind myself, I don't have winter tires, and I realize I don't really put money to wear the only part of my car touches thr ground. Oh wells. I'll drive more carefully. I've already had a few times of slipping at the turn of the green light. At least my car is a front wheel drive. My 4Runner is a rear wheel drive and in light rain it slips easily. Even in 4wd mode it still slips on occasion. Now for real 4wd/awd systems, they will channel power to the wheels that are not slipping. My 4Runner only has rudimentary "move all wheels at the same speed" functionality. This all brought me to look at the Mazdaspeed 6:

It's all wheel drive with lots of goodies. If you want more info check out the mazda.ca web site

Chilly Monday

It was SO ridiculously cold today. When I turned the key to my car's ignition it didn't give me back that preppy engine whirl sound as it normally does each morning. It sounded like it was on it's last cylinder. I had it warming up while I had breakfast and when I got back the car was still cold. After work was the same. Maybe not as bad since I think the morning started off at -22 while after work it was this:

So it wasn't as bad but I warmed up the car for 8 minutes before I got to 60km/h speed.