🧑‍💻 21 days into the XI

 🧑‍💻 not apropos of anything

The name is the dollar store or Dollarama. not so, my friend. To wit, I took the plunge and replaced the Garmin GPS. I'm pretty sure that it dates back to 1999. BUT promised life time map updates. And that happened.
Ah. There is no backup storage and the download take an hour. The 12 V charging cable frayed and was close to useless. I purchased a ' Garmin ' like power cord. Did the job.
This year, I tried to turn on ' traffic assist '. Oh, I discovered the FM antenna was the Garmin power cable. Uh oh !
And w / age for my eyes, the screen was much too small. I suppose there might be enlarge functions on the Garmin. Time to change.

The knock off Yi brand, was 1 / 2 the price. The big change and I mean bi,  was a 9 inch screen. And it suits nicely.
The mounting instructions incl. ' choose a place on the windshield not blocking your view '
Excuse me - at 9 inches the GPS is the view if placed under the mirror.

Dollarama. In electronics, I found a non slip [ low slip ] pad for an I phone. There is a notch on either side to accept the edge of a cellphone. Well, guess what, it also takes the bottom edge of the GPS. I still use the windshield mounting bracket and suction cup but as a balance behind the GPS.
The YGPS sits on the dash, not sliding and seems stable. A tad higher than the Garmin b / c you see the Garmin was on a bean bag support base. Maybe an inch difference

Observations. The screen is beuti ! The woman s voice not so. I can see the streets clearly.

Not fine,  The YGPS sends you where it wants. To get to Port Union and # 401, taking the # 401 makes sense. The Yi - GPS, wanted me to drive thru the city. Nope. Now, it did ' re - calculate ' and I got there. But you need to check your route. 
To be fair, I haven't read all the instructions for ' customization ' 
So ......

Turn down the voice [  a lot ]. Read the broken English blurp.

OK. As well, the Dollarama had a ' mouse pad w / wrist bump '. There was a groove between the pad and wrist bump, aha ! ' would it fit the bottom edge of the YGPS. Obviously,  a non starter b /c I got the cellphone pad to work. However, I'm trying the mouse pad and the worst bump does work. There is a sharpness to the desk edge and the ' bump ' covers that edge, thank you.
Oh, both items were $ 1.75.

🛸 XI and the XX

 🛸 and big sun. warming from yesterday. air is still or not much

🧢 Novembrinus 19 th

 🧢 sunny in the ' boro. wind has been rising for the daylight hours. air feels dry and actually, quite comfortable if you are Canadian. 

the week will warm til Friday, and then a drop BUT 50 F is the Friday temperature

Leaves are own to about 30 % coverage on the trees. 

🥍 only play ......

 🥍 ... yet so much more
I do pick up the stick during the workout and cradle and flick the ball around. silly. no, a touch of hand and eye and manipulation. just some motion

' boro is dreary. still. cool ish to cold ???? So it's a bonus day the landscaping company dropped by and they blew out my gutters which is hard for me to do by myself. They also deleefed the whole front and back and like like for me it'd be like 4 hours 4 and 1/2 hours work. But for them you know they are here 45 minutes. Yeah give or take but there's three of them with really good leaf blowers. So I mean that's you know that's a bonus for us. Anyways, I wanted to talk about the thought that I think the old philosophical idea was a life unexamined isn't worth living and today I had an interesting morning. I went on the computer and I went to YouTube and the one channel that I saw was on how the Japanese live life simply and better and it was very interesting because they said eating rice is much easier on your digestive system and it helps you relax or it helps your whole body. You know a tune itself. I thought that was very interesting also, and I've heard this before eating pickled items can aid your digestion because the pickling process releases vitamins that you wouldn't normally get rather interesting, huh?

🏨 as the month creeps along

 🏨 okey dokey. Nov 17 in the  ' boro

cold. dreary. and has the look of a expectant sky.
actually, we might have dodged a snow streamer that may have crossed 1600 km from L. Superior to the Atlantic

no snow just cold. AND I managed to slip and strain my left [ already gamey ] leg

🍱 ' boro is .....

 🍱 sunny and hopeful. wind seems up but sky is 85 0/0 clear

BUT temperature dropped no cloud deck to hold the heat

Alright. I complain that the internet WWW was supposed to be free. OK.
to be fair  we called England on WhatsApp using the internet 
so, how did I pay for the call
does WhatsApp track my data [ so cynical ?????? ]

🇨🇻 halfway thru

 🇨🇻 for real. chrissymas in 35 days

overcast in the  ' boro. definitely, a gloomy vibe going on

Coffee in hand and typing
oh. as well, sitting at the desk [ cushion on the chair ] relieves the ache from the hip
I watch the street. not much doing. and reflect [ try to wake up ]

Day held on, til late afternoon. rumbles of thunder and rain in large amounts. Thus the apttern is set for the next four or so days. AND we should miss the snow that will start up fairly soon