Loading CD’s into iTunes, a potentially mindless job yet a fun way to reflect what different songs have meaning to you at mileposts in your life. I now own not one but two iPods, perhaps a reflection on what music means to this tone deaf and untrained ear. Lots of songs that marked a milestone in my life, High School, College, bachelor years, married life. Cars, like music, mark a passage. I guess that accounts for some of the popularity of cars that were a part of our lives at certain points, the one we had (or the one we wanted) when we were on our first date, learned to drive, drove off to college, bought with money from our first job.
This past weekend took me to Raleigh, North Carolina for the Worldwide Group auction. What a sale – prices like I have never seen on a number of cars, and some new ideas about how an auction should be run (you have to wait to read the details in Sports Car Market magazine, I assume the February or March 2006 issue). Dinner at the Angus Barn restaurant with my friends Charlie and Rob. I had the best chateaubriand ever – as tender as any beef ever, better than the Kobe that I had in Las Vegas last summer. Five stars from this beefeater – worth the trip out of the way, even if it means, oh say100 miles. A less than productive day in the office, my new notebook computer has developed a virus, a very disconcerting (as well as expensive) development. I do not understand what would cause a person to write a virus – I guess it’s the same gene that would make someone take a key to the side of a car just to create havoc. As a small office, I am my own “it guy” a scary thought if there ever was one. I am now officially glad I bought the extended warranty with the Vaio, the first time I have ever done so. Yesterday, a trip to Richmond Va. for a diminished value appraisal, a Jeep that took a hit on both ends in one accident. I have put my new truck into service, a 2006 Ford F-150. loaded to the gills with equipment, my first vehicle with satellite radio. So far, I’m in heaven. My drug of choice is and has always been new car smell, I admit, I’ll follow it anywhere. It’s nice when I get to take it with me…