I BOUGHT THE RX-8 ON THURSDAY. It then rained every day. Today the weather was perfect, so after going in to the office and doing a couple of things that had to be done today, I took off and went to the mountains, driving on the Foothills Parkway, hiking up to the Look Rock fire tower, etc. It was great, and made me wonder why I don’t do that more often — I’m close enough to do it on a long lunch. (The RX-8 is great. Full report later.)

When I got home, the blow-off gods had punished me, as the DSL was out. So I’m working at Borders, which now has wireless Internet. [So how does this count as being “punished?” — Ed. My cappucino is a bit too frothy. . . .]

More later.