Does anybody else find the guy who advertises eHarmony.com very very creepy? This is just the type of guy whose neighbors would say, “He was such a clean, quiet man.” Right after all those body parts are discovered, labeled and dated, in his basement freezer.

Our new car has a navigation system. This is the first car I've owned that has one, although I drove a rented Volvo last summer that had a particularly annoying variation. That one would shriek when you missed a turn (or intentionally took a better route than the circuitous way it suggested) and then petulantly declare "Recalculating route! Recalculating route!" like a parrot with navigation Tourettes after such a mistake. The new car is moderately more tolerable. The voice can be changed between male and female, although I find the female harder to hear - it's almost as if she has something in her mouth. There is no pouting and sniffing when a wrong turn is made, only quiet renavigation. Which is as it should be. The car itself is way too complicated for me. It's loaded up with a plethora of gadgets that distract and demand attention. Which is bad enough as a driver, but even worse as an armrest gripping, teeth clenching, backseat driving passenger.