Robert Hall

Willie (Willie Nelson wrote the song 'Crazy' that was a hit for Patsy Cline)

Yes, but AZ is such a conservative state, about as red as Utah.

Interesting...wouldn't have expected to see something like that in AZ.

I like old Mercedes Benzes when they aren't in the shop. When they aren't breaking, they can be nice to drive..solid, comfortable. Still drive my sister's Mercedes money pits occasionally, the red '91 300CE ht especially so..was fun to drive w/ the sunroof open and windows down in the winter/spring. The '84 500SEL needs an exhaust manifold or exhaust pipe, the interior fills w/ poison gas after a few min of idling.

I've noticed a lot of these over the last year or so...not sure if it's an Arizona thing or something else. It's a small dark blue square with two horizontal yellow bars. Looks like a yellow equals sign '=' on a blue square. Anyone have any idea what it means?

I like the sound of that...those sound similar to the roads of my youth--- the incredible eastern Ohio backroads..there are some incredible winding, twisty, roller coaster style roads amongst the hills and lakes about 75-100 miles west of Pittsburgh..state routes, county roads, etc. Have to watch out for the Amish on some of them, though. I try and get in a few hours of backroad fun every time I go back there to visit family..so green there, so different from the arid desert of AZ.

On the commute this morning, saw a few interesting Chevys, from old to new. Saw a sharp copper w/ white roof '59 Chevy 4dr wagon, rolling on 18" TTs. A couple min later, I saw a very clean '81-85 Caprice 4dr in a gold-bronze w/ tan vinyl top, whitewalls, and the wire-wheel hubcaps that were common then. Got to work, parked next to a '10 Camaro (new w/ temporary tag) in a retina-searing Mountain Dew metallic green..is this the 'Synergy Green' color? First I've seen in this color...was an LT. Also saw a dark gray Porsche Panamera at the coffee shop...first one I think I've seen in person..even uglier in person than in photos.

The time is now. Wherever you go, there you are.

'Wishing' by A Flock of Seagulls. I'm lost in '80s synth-pop tonight...

Excrement!!!!!!!!!!

Saw a red C5 Corvette Z06, bright red.. and caught a quick glimpse of a '71-72 Electra in lt green from behind, parked down a street as I went past..

Saw a dark blue 'grandpa bling' style '10 LaCrosse in traffic today...dark blue, fake tan carriage roof, chrome trim on the B-pillars and around the windows, chromed mirrors, gold badging on the C-pillars, decklid and gold hood ventiports...whitewall tires and chromed wheels.

Ebsen

Well, it was off topic. Seemed right. Had a few hours sleep. Back at it.

I hate quarterly deployments. Worked from home for 4 hrs Friday morning, did stuff (laundry, etc) around the house Friday afternoon, been in the office now since Friday 6pm w/ my team doing deployments of applications to production servers (conference call w/ people across 4 US time zones and India). Should have taken an afternoon nap. Hope to go home and get sleep within the next hour...

I'm just glad I don't have to fly every week...I don't know how people do it. My sister is a management consultant, and many of her gigs over the last 10 years have involved weekly travel...4000 miles a week the first 3 months this year between AZ and SC. At her current client in Michigan, there is one consultant that drives back and forth from Pittsburgh every week--over 400 miles each way. I just don't think I could physically do it, living out of hotels, a different rental car every week, and anywhere from 4 to 12 hrs a week flying, plus time in airports, delayed flights...

The '71 & '72 are my favorite big Fords...lower longer wider, the last year before the park bench bumpers. I esp. like the '71 w/ the 3 piece taillights and grille treatment.

Maybe eventually we will have to be chipped w/ an RFID chip that has our citizenship info, tax status, etc on it.

Sounds like it...I've never had to commute on the 17...it's the worst, along w/ the 10 thorough the downtown and to the west, I think. I commute on the 51, the 10 east bound to the 202 Santan in Chandler..since I'm going reverse of the heavy flow, it's usually mild...worse in the afternoon/evening around the 10/51/airport area. I used to commute on the 51 N to the 101 out to N. Scottsdale, that usually took longer though shorter than my commute now. My best commute was when I worked downtown, just surface streets all the way..

They can finger point and blame the bean counters... or point to history--when did GM ever make a really competitive world class compact or subcompact car? They've always been mediocre to average at best...

It could be like a new Berlin Wall...a DMZ area w/ land mines, trip wires, etc and sniper stations full of armed 'Minutemen' half wits (the Minutemen are an AZ ultra right wing loony group that patrols the border)...I'm sure that would be very popular here in AZ.

Beck is such a wacky guy..his radio show is on when I go to lunch, often listen to him in the car...hilarious at times.

'56, I think...'55-56 was a transitional period for Mopars between the upright stodginess of the early 50s and the lower longer wider finned '57-59 designs... Saw a clean '75 or so Chevy longbed pickup yesterday, orange w/ white roof and original looking (faded) graphics on the sides...

My shortest commute ever was in '07-08 when it was about 1/4 mile each way. The company I worked for then moved to an office in my neighborhood.

To make sense of this in the context of Arizona you have to remember AZ has a large right wing predominantly white ultra conservative demographic--a group that is inherently racist---remember, this is the state that 20+ years ago was against having the Martin Luther King Jr holiday. Lots of scary, armed white people w/ political power and a lot of poor brown people, some legal, some illegal.