When I bought my Prius the finance guy offered me a pre-paid maintenance plan for $1,275 and the Toyota Platinum Extra Care plan for $1,375.

After briefly perusing the web I found that the Prius Chat forums offer a Discounted Toyota Extended Warranty plan through Warranty Shack. Don’t be fooled by the website’s shoddy looks. It is actually a side website offered by Troy Dietrich from Toyota of Greenfield, Massachusetts. It is the exact same plan as sold by my dealer, but for substantially less at $990. Many people in the priuschat forums and Yahoo! Prius owners group vouch for this discount so I figured I’ll give it a try to save myself some cash for the warranty and service work. I also called the dealership to confirm that Mr. Dietrich is in fact a real person (he is). I sent my check. Now we wait to see if I get ripped off.

Some artist named Pavel made a bunch of nice icons for the Call of Duty 4 prestige level badge medals. Unfortunately I can only claim prestige 2 badge.

UPDATE: See Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige badges

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Download from Pavel’s page – Call of Duty 4: Prestige Medal Icon Pack

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Yesterday or a couple days ago I finally reached Prestige 1, Level 51 after about 3 days, 8 hours of total play. I am progressing slowly!

Mostly I think I’m having CoD fatigue. I have been getting slaughtered and to spice things up I’ve been trying Search & Destroy which I absolutely stink at. To get a boost I bought the map expansion pack during 2x points weekend. Unfortunately being unfamiliar with the maps I had several crappy outings. Chinatown is by far my worst map. The experience level of competing players in the expansion pack is much tougher. The proportion of P10 players is considerably higher than in the regular maps.

If I just play free-for-all I could rack up the kills for single weapons pretty quickly but the extra bonus points are fewer. So, the question is: do I go for the kills to progress the guns or do I go for the bonus points? I haven’t devised a solid strategy for this yet.

Like the badge? I downloaded it from a pack of CoD 4 prestige badges from artistpavel.