Corey DeGrandchamp > Personal

Well, the day after my car got spray painted… Me and Ang decided to go see the new Incredbile Hulk movie (which was actually fairly decent) but when we were about to leave… I noticed somebody stole my hubcaps off of my car… only the passenger side… It’s not really a funny joke anymore, as taking the paint off my car, took off the clear coat as well…

You can see where the clear coat is scratched off, and that’s going to take me alot of time, and money to fix… I’m not pleased about that one bit.

As for the hub-caps… well, luckily I have one spare that came with the car… but to purcahse another? Well… that’s going to set me back a bit, but I didn’t spend all this money on this car to have it look like a pile of shit… I’ll do what it takes.

And for reference of how ghetto my car now looks… here’s some photos.

Those are clickable and lead to my Flickr page if youer’ interested in seeing them larger, for any reason.

As for anybody who might know anything about this, I’d ask you to please E-Mail me as soon as you possibly could. Thanks.

So I woke up today to a neighbor calling and asking if I knew what had happened to my car… I was confused at first, I didn’t know what they were talking about… They said somebody spraypainted it… I stepped out the back door and took a look at the passenger side. Nothing. I walked around the driver’s side, to see a big blue line spraypainted across the length of my new car…

Needless to say I’m pissed off.

I called the police, they came out and took a police report and did what they had to do… But we all know it’s going to take them ages to do anything.

So I’m asking you for help… If you know ANYBODY who might do something like this to anybody’s car… please let me know, and keep an ear out for me, if you hear anybody bragging about what they did, make sure you get their name and let me know as soon as possible.

Well, I currently own a first-generation iPhone, and I’ve been pretty happy with it, the EDGE network is alright for what I use it for, I never load full blown web pages like MySpace, everything has a WebApp now, and WebApps load amazingly fast even on the EDGE network, so the 3G speeds won’t really affect me anyhow… Besides, who’s ever anywhere without a Wi-Fi access point, really?

As for GPS, I’d LOVE to have that, but do you know what else I love? The Maps application that is already on my current iPhone, especailly the fact that it can give directions… I really don’t NEED something to tell me to “turn right in 15 feet”… I’m perfectly content with looking at my phone and seeing the next step in my route.

Now, all that stuff is amazing for people who are just now buying an iPhone, but I feel there is absolutley no need to upgrade, if it was free, or very very cheap, I would upgrade, but I’m not spending all that money over again for features I won’t use that often, really.

Now, about iPhone firmware 2.0, that’s where the really exciting things happen, You’ll forget all about GPS and 3G speeds with these new apps. You can already see there’s going to be a Twitter app, which excites me, and Jake Marsh is working on a MySpace app already. The possibilites of apps for the iPhone are really endless when you think about how it can integrate into your contacts, calendar, photos, camera, maps, and just everything.

I’ll be excited to see how things roll out in early July with the App Store.

Well, tomorrow I guess would be considered my “official” start to my promotion at Starbucks, I’ll be sharing the running of the shift with Nicole tomorrow night, and I’ll step off the floor at 10pm to learn the ropes of the rest of the closing duties… after that I’m on my own, I don’t work friday, and Saturday I close, and run the shift.

I’m excited, to say the least, I feel proud to be a part of the shift team at my store, I absolutley love my store, and all the partners that work there. I can go to work on any given day, and have a fantastic day, everybody there is amazing (with one exception…) so I look forward to my practice close tomorrow, and running mid and close shifts next week by myself!

Other than that, recently I was also asked to be a learning coach, and my first “trainee” is doing awesom, I must say! He’s also just generally a really cool guy too.

This summer’s going to hopefully be a blast, I can’t wait to do community events with Ang again this year, Royal Oak Aids Walk, and hopefully there’s another Clinton River Clean Up to do, that was fun last year for sure.

I just really am hoping that all these extra hours don’t interfere with my directed study this summer, nor my calsses this coming fall…

Well, I picked it up on Friday with Angela and my mom, everything went over extremely well, except to get a license plate, you have to pay 6% sales tax on the car… and it cost over $800 to get a plate on it… Other than that, I’ve been driving it a fairly decent amount, getting used to everything, and I must say, it is WONDERFUL. The gas mileage really is awesome, and just about everything in the car is still brand new, I don’t think the previous owner ever had passengers in the back seat, it even SMELLS new still.

I’m extremely happy with my purchase, and I know it will last me for a long time. As for those who don’t like the look the xB’s… that’s okay, thats why I bought it, because I like them, and it suits ME.

The pictures are from the first day I test drove it, but it obviously still looks the same today.