menga

halloween is dumb, but it is forever

I consider Halloween to be the weirdest holiday of the year, because I don't even understand why it's called a holiday. I've never known anybody to get October 31 as their day off or be paid time-and-a-half for working that day.

Halloween gets even weirder for the following reasons:

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counting steps does work

Counting steps is a form of exercise that does work - conditionally. I say that because whether you can actually do it or not depends on a few things.

Right now at the time I write this is a fantastic time for step counting because it's mid-October. It's cooler outside and humidity is down. The middle of September to the middle of November gives me two solid months where I can go walk for step counting almost every day.

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garmin 2025.20 map update removes junction view

I was excited to see the new 2025.20 North America map update had been released. Given the giant Garmin nerd I am for automotive models (I own way too many of them), I got to see what happened after the update on everything from the current Garmin DriveSmart 66 all the way down to the old Garmin nuvi 1100LM and a whole bunch of models in between.

I noticed something. Junction View has been removed on some older models. Not all. Some.

This takes a bit of explanation.

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