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When taking a trip by car, you used to have to print out lengthy sets of directions from an online site, or rely solely on your intuition and an atlas. Things have changed, however, and now you can get gps car navigation systems in your vehicle that will guide you just about anywhere you want to go. Some new models of cars and trucks automatically come with this feature, and others can be bought separately.

Ease of use should be the first feature you look for when pricing auto navigation systems. If something is too complicated, it isn’t a good idea to have it in your vehicle. You’ll never make it to your destination if you are fiddling with your navigation system and wreck. Look for one you can easily learn to use, and one that has a display you can easily make sense of when used. You may find that some models have too small of a display screen and that they features are complicated. You want to skip a model that is not user-friendly.

As a kid, I never learned, was taught how, or paid attention to finances, technical or mechanical or monetary or other responsibilities, and hence I never had a concept of taking note of one’s car’s gas mileage. It wasn’t until a few years ago, really, that I cared about, paid attention to, and learned how to record my car’s gas mileage—and more importantly—WHY doing so is beneficial. My friend, a retired grocery store clerk who took on a new job tutoring, would often take me along on his Saturday errands. One of those errands involved filling his van’s gas tank. Once a week, my friend would pull up to the pumps, gas up, then get back in his van and pull from the glove box a little hand-size spiral notebook. He would write down the date, the car’s mileage, and the amount of gas he had just put in.

Teaching is one of the most demanding jobs we can do. We have to create, re-create, be reflexive, be comprehensive, abide by regulations and standards, be interesting and effective, and perform multiple tasks when developing our teachers’ lesson plans that ensure we are staying fresh and creative with each unit and each repetition of each unit. I am sure there are many more duties, responsibilities and expectations that come with teaching and with crafting our teachers’ lesson plans, quizzes, and tests, but I will digress…as we teachers know the details. What we need more of is not actual commiseration but tools that show commiserative agreement. That is, what we need more of is collective exchange of our original teachers’ lesson plans.