My 1st Toyota – 2015 Camry XSE V6

First ever, really! Bit spoiled though, since this is the top of the line, as-good-as-it-gets Camry – the all-new XSE V6 sport trim.

2015 Toyota Camry
Starting at $23,850
This one $33,650

3.5 L 6-cyl atuomatic transmission engine
268 hp and 248 lb.ft. of torque

To be honest, I never much paid attention to the Camry because it was rather bland. Now it’s opposite.

If I show you only the bumpers, bet you’d be surprised it’s a Camry. Pretty sporty eh, with some Lexus front-end influence:

My 2 favourite things about this car

2nd favourite is the steering – it was weighted so well, precise, effortless and well-balanced, making it very enjoyable to drive.

1st favourite thing was the centre stack…

… with its hard buttons and large knobs.

Why? So ergonomic, and early into the test week I could operate the entire thing without looking, which is as it should be. Which is rarer than you may realize, especially with all touch-controls being so en vogue, eye roll.

Good finishings and materials, sporty contrast stitching, the arrow is pointing to a semi-hidden compartment #security

I’d like to test the base model of this, see if the steering is as awesome.

But I get it now, why the Camry is one of North America’s best-selling vehicles, for years.

 

 

I Have to Re-upload 102 Videos

102 blog posts are now broken, and look like this:

It’s because Viddy shut down.

For a time, Viddy was like the Twitter of video; you could even edit using their app, add music, sophisticated stuff. Maybe too ahead of their time, people aren’t really watching online video like they will, so it’s out of business.

We had a good relationship – they’d promote me, Tweet my videos and highlight them in the app – so I uploaded a ton of videos exclusively to Viddy. That was my mistake.

Sad as it is to type this: that’s the last time I bet on the small guy. It’s YouTube and Google from now on, forever.

I downloaded all 102 videos, but they’re smaller than the originals and pretty grainy. The right thing to do is haul out my hard drives and sit here uploading 102 videos to my YouTube account, then re-embed them into the posts.

This will take 20 hours, at least.

The good news is it will force me to clean up my YouTube account.

Look how bad my YouTube account is:

I’ll make a few playlists and there’ll be 250+ videos (add in my “Canadian Explorer’ series, and that’s 400 videos online, totalling 9 edited hours of content.)

Top 4 most popular videos:

From left to right:

– How to backup a Trailer – here

– Blackberry Security is why you buy – here

– Watch a Ford Focus park itself – here

– Putting on & Taking Off my Scarf – here

Here’s some screenshots of upcoming
KeriBlog videos you’ve likely never seen.

Blog tag = videos

YouTube.com/KeriBlog

 

 

Try my Trick to Better Handle Bad Traffic

Here’s some horror stories about worse traffic jams that one you may be stuck in.

The 100 km long traffic jam.

Read it online at Autonet.

If that fails, try my trick – last paragraph.

Favourite line:

The reason for many traffic jams is an accident.  So imagine how the injured person you’re inching toward, would give anything to trade places with you and instead be the one… stuck in traffic.

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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

How I Spent my Christmas Vacation

Quietly. In jogging pants, securing the couch.

Laughed a lot. First Christmas in my new house! And it was nice to have a break from blogging, thanks for being understanding.

Hung out with my neighbours. Who was aghast I’d never seen the movie, ‘A Christmas Story’ and made me watch it.

Surprised by how much I laughed, “it’s a serious award.”

The arrow is pointing at the oddest movie moment I’ve seen in a while – Mickey Mouse is attacked and pushed out of the parade. The movie was made in 1983, can’t see that happening today.

May not remember taking some of these.

1 – New Years Eve
2 – playing YouTube DJ. My neighbours make fun of my “spirit fingers” when I dance. They’re right.
3 – backyard shooting competition after the movie, because Red Rifle.

I’ve not seen that Frozen movie, but when I Googled it this character is the happy guy on the street, so that’s a nice compliment.

I get myself a gift each year:

2008 – Jawbone
2009 – Books
2010 – IronKey
2011 – I forgot
2012 – a dust-buster & jogging pants
2013 – humidifier and black baseball hat
2014 – a house

Read a lot of car manuals, and messed around trying to load files into infotainment systems.

Blog tag = Christmas, and Posts of Christmas Past

New Years Resolution:

Failing though; I haven’t Tweeted since.

My car for the holidays was amazing,

What a way to drive into the New Year.

2015 Range Rover Sport Supercharged V8, top trim, $120,000-ish.

And that’s the holidays complete, let’s work.

Here’s to a strong start to your 2015 xo