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Back in the saddle…

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The short version is that I’m back in Memphis for the foreseeable future (i.e. at least the next two weeks). I’m actually back in the same hotel room I vacated two and a half weeks ago… Incidentally, there is something exceedingly disturbing about spending so much time in hotels you get to know the idiosyncrasies of individual rooms.

Making any prediction beyond what the next two weeks holds would be shooting in the proverbial dark.

I drove down this time and up until the last two hours had a fantastic trip down the Shenandoah Valley and diagonally across Tennessee. A picture perfect drive… actually it was a little too hazy to be picture perfect, but still nice… until the rain started. More on the drive will follow when I manage to sort out some of the cryptic notes I was keeping.

Getting there…

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I drove to work this morning up the Shenandoah Valley to Winchester. Early morning is one of my favorite times to drive, mainly because the roads here are relatively open. The temperature is cool, but still comfortable with the top laid back. The early mists were coming up from the fields and rivers and the sun just coming over the mountains was at my back. It’s one of the few truly magnificent short drives that are reasonably close by. It was a perfect morning to just cruise and take it all in. One of those moments you wish would last just a little longer.

Personal Best…

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I am back in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley this week… and for every week until the end of time, apparently. It was my first real chance to get the new car out on the highway early in the morning for some reasonably unobstructed driving. All I can say is that it was worth every penny. I punched it up to 95 before every getting off the on-ramp. Good times.

And I shaved 15 minutes off my personal best time from the EC to Winchester… That may have something to do with having the horsepower to never really be stuck behind anything.

I wish there were something even marginally interesting to comment on this evening, but it’s pretty much work-hotel-dinner-hotel-sleep-work ad infinitum. I had tried to keep up with postings even when there wasn’t much to rant about, but I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t bore you with details when I’ve really got nothing to say.