I am sick, sick, sick of being LOST!! There, now that I've thrown my little fit, I bought a GPS. I've joked about being essentially lost for a couple of years, but what made me throw in the towel was getting lost TWICE last Sunday on my way to visit a friend in Pine Beach - both going and coming. I ended up blasting north on the Garden State Parkway, illegally on the phone, calling Ellen to have her figure out where in the heck I was and how I could get home! Daniel kindly called me back and helped me sort it out. Paul asked, in a sad little voice from the back seat, why we've been lost so much since we moved Back East. I told him it is because the roads are like someone cooked spaghetti, threw it up in the air, and paved over it! Out West, there's pretty much one way to get to where you are going - up or down I-25 and the cities are generally laid out in some reasonable fashion. Once you get past the oddity of Denver's downtown, even Denver is easy to navigate. I think I'm particuarly hampered because I grew up in Greeley, Colo., where the city was designed in a grid fashion "avenues run east and west, streets run north and south" and there was logic to the numbering. Here, even the street names change at an intersection, and there is no numbering logic at all. In any event, I've been with Ellen and seen her GPS in action and I bought one just like it. Yes, sometimes it may take you on a different route than you might pick out on the map, but it will "recalculate" to get you where you're going. I tried it out today on an assignment, granted, not too far away and I could have figured it out even without mapquest, but it was so slick to go without worrying about missing turns and missing the address and doubling back. Awesome. I can see that it doesn't calculate the travel time well and I might continue to use mapquest to calculate travel time, as I hate to be late. There, now I feel like I'm up to speed in the satelite-computer age!