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I have a Sean...that is all!

I have a Hen and Hatch.


and an enormous willy

I hope you love YOUR Sean as much as I love my Sean.

I have a bitchy cat.

Does that count?

If it can accurately and politely tell you were to go without getting you lost, then yes. It does count!

If I don't get it , I guess I don't got it...

'Sean' is the name I have given my GPS. 'Sean' is coincidentally Saen's name who Sister Mary married.

She reckons MY Sean would save marriages. I reckon she's right.

She now has a version of 'my' Sean.

Hooray!

Well then my wife and Sean get together on a regler basis also.

Busy fello that Sean...

I have Liz! Well, not right now, she's working until midnight.

At the moment, I have three cats and a St. Bernard, and am getting stereo noise as the dog and my Maine Coon Cat snore like misfiring engines!

Both of us can read maps and dead-reckon pretty well.

Who needs a GPS when a 1$ map works just as well and never needs charging.

yrs,
rubato

I love maps and have an excellent sense of direction. I've also been carrying around a Massachusetts atlas for over a decade, but find my GPS very useful for two reasons: (1) when its just me in the car, going to a court I've never been to, or off to see a new client, or going to some meeting, it is much easier and safer to listen to directions rather than watching a map. And most maps don't show the detail needed for some towns and cities (like street names, for one); (2) the GPS gives me a constant ETA so even if I know where I'm headed, I have a good idea when I'll get there. Very helpful if you run into traffic (a given around here) and people are waiting for you. Also useful for long haul trips where you need to take stops/breaks.

Mine was named Garth. He recently died, so I've been using the navigation feature in my Android phone, but would like another stand-alone GPS soon.

As a LONG time navigator for two men who enjoy driving in strange cities most of my travel journey when I arrived anywhere was head down in a book reading forward instructions so we all knew which lane to be in. It works well if I don't actually WANT to see where I am and if the driver listens to what I have said.

However .... there have been a number of occasions where I have given an instruction and the driver HASN'T heard me correctly (for one reason or another). This has caused a bit of angst in the car.

Now with my Irish accented Sean, I can confidently go anywhere and not only does he tell me politely where to do, but he draws a pretty picture as well!

I can't ask for more than than. Except he gives me more!!! When the instruction hasn't been heard properly, he will recalculate from the fuck up and make everything better.

Sometimes I wish I had Sean in many areas of my life. An automatic fuck-up fixer, if you will.

I love my Sean dearly.

Going somewhereZ new, I'll jot the directions down from google maps, and put them in my pocket.



...haven't named my pocket anything.

Guinevere wrote:I love maps and have an excellent sense of direction.

I love maps, I had a complete set of 1:25000 Ordinance Survey Dartmoor and West Penwith, when I lived in the UK, and used to read them like books. I used to be able to point directlty at due north wherever I was in the UK, got tested (spun and blindfolded,) on more than one occasion. But since moving to Aus my sense of direction is shot, I cannot point to "up" half the bloody time. My internal compas is ruined!

Yeah, that's what he says .....

I had the same issue when I was south of the Equator

Gob wrote:

Guinevere wrote:I love maps and have an excellent sense of direction.

I love maps, I had a complete set of 1:25000 Ordinance Survey Dartmoor and West Penwith, when I lived in the UK, and used to read them like books. I used to be able to point directlty at due north wherever I was in the UK, got tested (spun and blindfolded,) on more than one occasion. But since moving to Aus my sense of direction is shot, I cannot point to "up" half the bloody time. My internal compas is ruined!

Try standing on your head.

General direction is easy in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Sun is always South, surveyers refer to it as "Solar observation"...

keld feldspar wrote:General direction is easy in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Sun is always South, surveyers refer to it as "Solar observation"...

In the middle latitudes, and at noon, that's true. But above the arctic circle and between the equator and the tropic of cancer that's not always true.


Where we are, 37 degrees north, the sun rises to the NE and sets in the NW through the middle of the year.

yrs,
rubato

Let me rephrase then.

Post sunrise and presunset the sun is more or less south.

Sunrise and sunset provide their own sense of direction...