I bought new pants today. I've been holding off for quite a while. My current range were all waist size 40" - and to be honest... they were actually very tight there for a while... (and by "while" I mean a couple of years...) But now they are super loose. I had previously bought new belts when I ran out of holes on the old ones. But when I pulled out a pair of jeans from the dryer this morning and found they were too loose when I first put them on, then I knew it was time.
Went with a waist 38. Personally I want to loose another 20 25 lbs. We shall see how it goes.
I've also downsized my shirts from XL to Large. Then I fell in love with a navy blue Brooks Brothers Cashmere/Cotton Tennis Sweater with white trim. I took a chance and ordered a Large (the local store only had small & mediums left) and found it fit perfectly. It works wonderfully with a white plaid button down, jeans, and a black hoodie.
2011 will be the last model year of the Honda Element. It was due to be replaced in 2012 by moving from a short wheel based Pilot to a long wheel based CRV. But Honda has decided to drop both the Element and CRV in favor of a new model in between they will call the CRV.
The Element was the King of Accessories. From cabana style tent attachments to legs to convert the spare wheel well cover into a table. The only accessories I bought with the Element were the mudflaps, fog lights, and front and rear rubber floor liners. When I learned of the Elements demise, I thought I should look into some accessories I did not already have - and by then the range had drastically diminished.
I did snag a rubber trunk liner, to match the front and back seat liners, and a cargo net off amazon. They were shipped from a dealership in Colorado, but at a discount. I'm curious if I should get the roof rails and perhaps a cargo box, just in case I ever need them? Maybe the bike clips for the rails?
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The Element will be paid off this year, but I have no plans to replace it any time soon. I am toying with trading the 2001 VW in for probably a Audi Quattro. But even with that being an all wheel drive vehicle, the ground clearance is not what the element is, nor will it have the hauling capacity. So, I will keep the Element for what it was designed for: a Sport Utility Vehicle, as most manufacturers have forgotten that the "U" in SUV stands for "Utility".
My pc in the bedroom has been acting insane. I cracked open the case last night and found the power unit was smokin' hot. No wonder it's been turning itself off all the time - and a wonder it hasn't burned the house down...
Went to Best Buy for a new power unit this morning but they didn't have one - so I had to drive to MicroCenter instead. But BB did have a 3-pack of Windows 7 upgrades on sale at the same price as a single license.
I've been wanting to upgrade my vista 32 laptop forever, and to upgrade my 2 vista 64's at the same time I thought was a good deal. In fact the living room machine was getting damn sluggish, and I dreaded having to reinstall vista 64.
Surprise surprise, the home network feature actually works with Win7! Now all my computers are laughing and loving and sharing with one another... It's taken all day to upgrade the PCs - and honestly installing the new power unit in the upstairs i-7 was the easiest thing I've done today!
I've left this PC for last as I am on-call today and needed at least one working PC if the computer center happened to call me. It's nearly done, I'm just reinstalling a few programs and updating thru windows update now.
Oh, and my laptop runs wonderfully with 32-bit Win7. I always regretted buying it with vista32 - what a piece of shit that was.
I also picked up 3 wireless N adapters to get rid of the choppy HD being broadcast over my home network using the G's with the N-router. So, now I think I'll have the standard def box in my bedroom turned off. That'll lower my directv bill enough to pay for the adapters in 2 years.
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