Robert Hall

The Rising- Bruce Springsteen. Probably my favorite album overall from the '00s.

Happy birthday, guys!

I once went in a rest area bathroom to discover someone had shat on the toilet paper roll and in an urinal. Great. Was the Florida Turnpike IIRC.

Attempting to post this again, 4th time. Had a good weekend in Denver and in the mountains. Back in Phoenix today, took the day off...swam a lot (pool is great in the hot weather), hung out w/ the dogs, watched the F1 race from the weekend and the sports car race from Mid-Ohio. It still hasn't sunk in that I'm 40..

Almost 5 years...I wonder what the longest time a thread has been dormant between posts on here..

Saw silver and white '11 Regals today...pretty sharp.

Yeah, the car from 'Vacation'...the original (or a replica) was sold at an auction in the last year or two, IIRC.

I can't recall when I last saw an Alliance, or any US market Renault. Wasn't the Alliance hatchback called the Encore? Remember the Fuego? Likewise for the Renault based Dodge Monaco and Eagle Premier...been years since I've seen one..

Maybe it's just a factor of where I drive the most...freeways, some city, some suburbia..mostly late model and new cars..don't see many old cars out and about.

Definitely not forgotten. I see them at shows...don't see them on the road, maybe a couple Chevelles every 6 months or so.

Saw one of these a few min ago, was orange and white two tone...no top, no windshield or winshield frame...just a black roll cage.. Even more so, the diesel versions. Wish my Mom had kept ours, had it up until '00..

Other than car shows, seeing most anything from the mid '80s or older is kind of a rarity around here. Even at car shows, '67-70 Cougars seem to be rarities....about the only time I ever see them is when I visit my Mom in Ohio and go in the barn.

Kind of obscure new, very obscure now--Ford Elite Any non-Nova X body (Apollo, Skylark, Ventura, Phoenix, Omega)

True, but such a usage is implicit..this technology could be quite useful for active tracking and monitoring of driver's locations..what government wouldn't want to do that, if they had access to all that real-time data?

Tracking drivers' locations. Beyond the tinfoil angle, this seems like a really dumb, expensive idea overall...

Saw an interesting '90s Roadmaster blasting along on the freeway this afternoon...pale yellow (no vinyl top), black steel wheels on black wall tires, riding high in the front...

It was Crosby, Stills and Nash at the sweet little Dodge Theatre here in Phoenix. Saw Paul Rodgers at the San Diego County Fair a little over a week ago, seeing Bad Company at the Orange County Fair in July, and Rush in Seattle in August. None of those 3 in Phoenix this year.

I'm still pretty active on it...been on a couple years now...been able to reconnect w/ former coworkers, friends from Colorado, from grad school, college, high school, even elementary school...my use of it really took off after my high school reunion a couple years ago...I play some of the games, esp. Farmville (so addictive). I've reconnected w/ ex-girlfriends and people I haven't seen in 20-30 years, which is fun. For the most part, I haven't friended people that I don't know IRL. Not sure whether I should expand to include more people I know online only. There is a lot of interesting content also on the FB, such as from sites like Motorsport Retro, various automotive blog pages, etc. As far as social media, etc, I'm pretty active at using the FB, Linkedin, and the Twitter..each has its distinct place and purpose.

I need a real vacation...haven't taken a week long or more one since I went to Hawaii in '07. I'm taking a number of 2-3 day long weekend trips this summer.... A weekend away someplace beautiful (the beach, the mountains) and disconnected helps a lot. As far as the daily grind, coming home to spend 1/2hr to 45min in the pool is extremely relaxing...after that, a quiet dinner, feed the dogs, then listen to music or watch some TV and hang out w/ the dogs and have a couple beers relaxes me further. I've been at my current client for 15 months now, the contract ends in September. But my work load has increased and I've taken on more managerial tasks, and they want to hire me as an employee to lead a team...decisions, decisions... As far as the glass being half full or half empty, I've been told that my view is that there is no glass. Not sure what that implies.

I thought about my Dad a lot this weekend...lost him over 10 years ago to cancer. I never really got to spend much time w/ him as an adult--from 18 I was away at college then grad school--then moved 1500 miles away to Colorado...we had a lot of time when I was growing up--he retired when I was 8 yrs old (he was 50 when I was born). Sometimes I envy the relationships my sister and brother had w/ him as adults, they had a lot more time w/ him since they are considerably older than I...

Congrats!

Good luck and hope it all works out!

Whinging

I'd get this. 2 yrs old, 10k miles. Would be a great daily driver. on ebay

Arizona summers...getting into really hot weather now. But the flip side is the pool is really nice.