Year 2 - Day 313 - October 31

When we visit my parents, they have to rent a car to drive us all around because my parents are old (sorry, it's true, parents) retired people with 2 seater sports cars. Usually it's a lot cheaper to rent the cars from the neighborhood branch of the car rental agencies rather than driving out to the airport to pick up a car. This year, my dad found that it was cheaper at the airport. To save trips and driving, he called to see if Mike & I would just pick it up when we got there and drive it to the house. No problem. He told me the Southwest.com-get-frequent-flier-miles price and it beat the Hotwire.com price I had showing on my screen. So...I pulled Southwest.com up on Safari and got the window on the left. I read him the prices and he acted like I was a crazy person. No matter how many times we read each other the price, our numbers weren't matching.

I remembered a similar issue with Hotwire from the past, so I opened firefox and did the same search. I came up with the prices in the window on the right. $40 cheaper, just by switching browsers! No cookies involved because I've never price checked a car in Tucson before. Weird, weird, weird. (For the record, Chrome matched the FireFox price.)

Day 363 - December 29

Here's something you don't see everyday in the desert - a rain storm!  (Unless you're us - then you see it fairly regularly because Christmas week appears to be rainy week around here.)  It was really coming down.  What is more interesting about this picture is that it was taken at 5 pm.  Even with the storm, it was this light out!  Once it started getting dark though, it was REALLY dark REALLY quickly.  This is my parents' back yard ... quite the oasis.  Someday we'll be there and be able to go swimming.