Oddball Update

It was a terrific weekend. Saturday I spent most of the day working, but on Sunday I got to spend some quality time both with my car and with Apple. For the first part of the day, while Apple was at work, I got the car out and applied the vinyl decals I’d ordered. I now have a “6.0 LITRE” emblem on each hood scoop, and the embossed “GTO” in the rear fascia has been filled with a matching silver inlay. The complete package looks awesome and I’m extremely happy with the results. Even better, since the site I bought them from did not have any photos of the rear bumper decal, I sent them some — so they’re refunding my money in thanks and putting the pics of my car on their site’s product page.

After applying the decals (which went smoothly, even after I thought I had ruined the “G” in “GTO”), I took the car out for a drive, ostensibly to get some gas. Then I kept going, around and around the block. Radio blasting, windows down. At one point I turned out of a plaza mall and found the road both coming and going was completely empty, so I romped on it… whoooaaaa. Loads of fun. I also find that I am mostly cruising around in fourth gear where in my WS6 I would have been using fifth a lot more often. The car’s powerband and gearing no doubt contribute, but maybe it’s also because at cruising velocity you can barely hear the motor!

After dinner, Apple and I went over to the office building where I used to work and took some night pictures on the roof of the parking deck. They turned out awesome. Following that we caught the final showing of Memoirs of a Geisha over at the cinema. Good movie, I thought. The soundtrack was, of course, quite ethnic and very well done…I was surprised to learn it was John Williams’ work. He just won a Golden Globe for it, and rightly so in my opinion.

Today I drove up to the post office to drop off a letter. Normally I would ride my bike, but the GTO calls to me…constantly. It begs to be driven, even though I have nowhere of purpose to go. I never thought I would actually miss the daily commute to work.

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