Here is one must-have accessory for your 2010 Camaro 2SS.

With the 2SS, you get a USB Port, which you can use to connect an IPOD or a generic USB Flash drive.

With the flash drive, it sticks out into the console, giving you the opportunity to break it off, if you forget that it's there and drop something in the console without thinking.

The Elago Nano Mobile Micro USB card reader can alleviate a breakage worry, and allow you to fully utilized the console with gigs of music available all of the time.

You can get one for $10 on ebay, Including Shipping.

I am in search of a restaurant that I can say, 'Wow! That's really good, I'd like to come back here.'

So far, I've found some places that are good, some disappointing, but none that are really 'Wow!'

This weekend we went to 'Ryan's Bistro'.

I found it on http://www.OmahaNightLife.com.

From there I was bounced to http://www.opentable.com to make reservations.

The online reservation was quick and easy. I will most likely use http://www.opentable.com for future reservations.

Upon arriving at Ryan's Bistro, I gave our name and reservation time. They had that written down, but the person running that Hostess station seemed confused as what to do, because they had me scheduled for a table, but had given it to someone else.

The hostess actually walked away talking on the phone in the middle of trying to figure out what to do about the situation.

A couple of minutes of waiting, and they seated us at an empty table two steps away.

The wait staff was friendly. We ordered and had our meal at the table in a reasonable amount of time. One meal needed a modification and that was made in fairly short order.

We ordered the 'Asian salad' and 'Pork Osso-Bucco'. The salad was a huge amount of spinach leaves and some other items. It was ok, a little heavy on dressing, and seemed to have processed items in it, and not fresh.

The Osso-Bucco was ok. It wasn't bad, just not Wow! It was ordered with a rissoto side, which was a little mushy.

The pricing was a little towards the higher side, which wouldn't matter if the experience was more on the 'Wow' side, but based on this experience it probably won't see a return from us.

It was another time that we could have went to a fast food place, and felt better about spending the money on the meal.

I am finding fewer and fewer people that actually care about their job, or have the initiative to take one tiny step out of their narrow view of their job.

Example: Having a package delivered in Omaha via FedEx. I admit I did not have the suite number for the delivery. It was supposed to be a surprise. I can see putting an exception if it was a large building, but there were two suites. The driver could not bring it upon himself to knock on one of the two doors. He had a fifty percent chance of having the correct door, but will now spend more time to go back with the updated address, because he didn't want to spend the 30 extra seconds it would have taken to knock, ask for the recipient, and if not there, knock on the other door. He had the phone number of the recipient on the package, but didn't call, because he is not 'required' to call.

Example: Oakview Theater, Omaha, NE. Purchasing tickets, no problem. Went into the theater, stopped in the bathroom, some of the stalls were broken off, general dis-repair. Go to the concessions, fifteen minutes to get four orders through the line. The person at the counter was re-doing items on every order, and when I got to the counter, he had to keep going back to the screen for a three item order. Pop, popcorn, Icee. In the theater, the Icee cups that they have, do not fit in the cupholders. The previews were out of focus, and then half-off of the screen. It wasn't until the opening credits that the person running the projector put the display on the screen and in focus.

Example: Johnny's Italian Steakhouse, Village Pointe, in Omaha, NE. You would think that if 'Steak' is in the name of the restaurant, then that would be a safe bet on getting it prepared correctly. Not my luck. When one of the parties at the table ordered a 'well-done' steak, it had to be sent back FOUR times to be cooked all of the way through.

Example: Taco John's, 168th and Dodge. The teenager buying food was short $.02 on her order. Instead of dropping the two cents, the order taker processes the transaction on a debit card. Their transaction volume may be high enough that it doesn't matter, but if there was a transaction fee, that employee could cost the store real money over the course of a year with decisions like that.

How do people go through life without caring about doing the best that they can? Step out of the narrow path that you know about your job, and think about what you could do, instead of what you've always done. Everyone can get in a rut, and have a bad day, but I'm finding that's not usually the case.

I've owned it for a month.

I usually drive an average of 40 miles a day.

But thanks to the two feet of snow that's been dumped in the Omaha area during December, the Camaro has been parked in the garage for most of the month.

It seems as if i've shoveled snow for more hours than I've driven the car.

C'mon Al Gore, where's my global warming?

At least I've had time to setup the garage remote, and all of my important voice dialing with the nifty new bluetooth phone integration in the car.

I thought I didnt need the 2SS with bluetooth, but I am glad I have it in my car. The voice dialing and number recognition works well and the hands free calling comes in quite handy with a manual 6-speed transmission.

More to come later...............

Warning - If you have this TV, upgrade the firmware now. I dont know if it prevents the defect for sure, but others that have repaired this set, and upgraded the firmware, have not experienced the problem again.

A year and a half ago, my wife and I went looking for a new HDTV for the bedroom.

We looked at several in the $1000 range, but ended up buying the $2000 42 inch Panasonic TH-42PZ700U.

It was great.

Until thirteen and a half months later. One month after the warranty expired, the set would turn on, and then shut off. Then the power LED blinked seven times, paused, and blink seven times.

I was disappointed, to say the least. Our Hitachi big screen has been in use for 10+ years without any issues. So I expected more from new technology.

A call to Panasonic was of no help, as the TV was out of warranty, and they didn't have any records of common problems with that model. They told me to contact a service center, which I did, and got an estimate of $500 to $1000 for repair, $300 just to look at the set.

A little bit of research online, and looking through service manuals posted, and a flowchart for the specific issue, and I was brought to the conclusion that it was the SC/SD/SU boards and possibly the SS board. Most likely the SC board.

I found the parts online, so I ordered the SC board.

While that was on the way, I found other discussions saying that it more than likely would be all three, so I bought the SD/SU boards.

I went ahead and swapped out all three boards, and do you think that the problem was gone(it should have been), no it was not.

After discussions with others, I purchased the SS board, and swapped that out on the set.

Still flashing seven times.

Why does that red LED mock me so?

I went through the troubleshooting flowchart again, and it had to be the SC board.

I rolled the dice one more time, and after getting assurances that the company tests the functionality, I bought an SC board via ebay that was salvaged from a Panasonic TH-42PZ700U that had a cracked screen.

I put that SC board in the TV, and voila, the TV powered up and stayed on. The first board I bought was damaged, and sold to me as functioning.

Great, but not all of the lines were on, across my static-y screen.

I was both happy, and sad. Maybe the screen was damaged when the board failed, I was giving up on the set, and looking at pricing for another non-Panasonic TV.

I couldn't sleep last night, so I went to look at the TV one last time before I bought another one. I read a couple of forum postings with people saying that it's rarely a bad screen.

Here's a hint to save you a lot of time. Don't take the ribbon cables off of the SD/SU boards if you are not replacing them, and replace the SC board and nothing else first.

There are eight cables that are split between the SD/SU boards, and they each have one pin for each line on the TV. So you may get areas where every-other line is displayed, and areas where every line is displayed.

The ribbon cables are a pain in the rear to get back in properly, so you will need to clean each one, and make sure that the cable is pushed in all of the way, and then flip the clamp down. Check the screen, and repeat until all scan lines are displayed.

I started from the top, disconnecting the ribbon below the one I was working on to isolate the section of the screen related to the cable I was trying to get cleaned and seated.

I finished putting the TV back together, and if it stays functioning, I will be happy.

The firmware has been upgraded, and the set is ready to go back on the wall.

Based on the customer service experience, and denial of a problem that you can find with a few minutes and a search engine, I would NOT buy another Panasonic TV again.

I just dont understand a company that doesn't bother to do searches to see how they are doing, and publish the findings back to their employees. If I could find a lot of people with the same issue, then so could they.