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Lee and I went out today looking at cars.

My favorite pastime, dontcha know. A whole day dealing with used car salesmen.

Given a choice between that and, say, root canal, I guess I'd take the salesmen, but only after giving the choice some serious thought.

I have no desire to summarize our wanderings today, but we did visit something over a half dozen lots. Finally, we test drove a Mitsubishi Mirage (the same car Lee drove before her accident, which totaled that vehicle), and despite a few little problems, it seemed like a nice vehicle for about the right price.

Lee bought it. (Yeah, I know it's not the way to do things, but I'm not doing them.)

Afterward, we celebrated at the Outback on Bay Area. Then we stopped at the Barnes & Noble a few doors down, to purchase a couple of CDs so that Lee could check out the CD player in the car. I finally decided to buy David Weber's War of Honor, which comes with a CD from Baen with the full text, unencrypted and in several formats, of the entire Harrington corpora, as well as a number of other works published by Baen, as well as other goodies.

I'd bought a CD of Andrea Bocelli soon after arriving in Houston, and I've been playing it in the car to and from work every day. I love it. Sometimes I think that, if you took a list of shampoo ingredients (e.g., sodium laurel sulfate, etc.) and set it to music, Bocelli would make it sound like a little bit of heaven.

I ran across an old friend, Abe T., at the B&N. We chatted a bit, and he called a few minutes ago and spoke some more. I must make a point of staying in contact with people like Abe in the coming year (not that I plan, necessarily, to sit on my hands the rest of this year).

A couple of times, while driving around the past few days, I've broken out of what appears to have been a pervasive deep funk that I've apparently allowed myself to remain in for quite a long time, the result of having my nose a bit too close to the ever-present grindstone.

This past week has been, I suppose, what one might call a "working vacation," away from the family but accountable to a client during the day. I cannot say that I have "recharged my batteries," but I am aware that something has changed. I just hope I can retain that feeling.

Cheers...

Date: 2002-12-15 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brenk.livejournal.com
Must stop doing these 'me too' comments but yes, there are times when a business trip does clear one's head, even if I suspect that it boils down to escaping the 'family' decisions, however minor and "only" being faced with work ones plus how to optimise the clothing in your suitcase!

Yes to Bocelli, too, although when he does duets I much prefer to hear him with the French lady (forgot her name, it's early) than Sarah Brightman, who's a little more shrill. As for shampoo ingredients, that reminds me of somebody describing a writer I particularly like: she said 'I think I'd take the time to read ***'s shopping lists'

Have a good one :

Date: 2002-12-16 06:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexpgp.livejournal.com
> Must stop doing these 'me too' comments

Must not!

Cheers...

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