When Food = Love

My mother appears to be on the road to recovery thanks in no small part to the lovingly prepared food my brother has been making for her now that she can eat again. She is scheduled for an additional surgery tomorrow to remove a tangerine sized abscess. With any luck that will be the last procedure and we can look forward to her full recovery.

Mudder Photos

I gained access to an initial set of photos from last weekend’s Tough Mudder. These memories will last for a lifetime. The pain of my cracked rib should abate in a couple of months.

Mount Everest
Electroshock Therapy – I slowly and carefully found a path through the maze.

The Black Widow

Finally Here

Ordered on September 18 of last year, I picked up my new Audi e-tron after work today. Thus far it has met my expectations and should help make my 2+ hours of commuting each day a little more tolerable (think front seats with built in massage function).

My very first car, a Triumph Spitfire, was also blue although that would be hard to figure out from the black and white photos which remain. With every new car purchase I pause to reflect on my former cars and their significance to me. Here is the list in chronological order.

  • Triumph Spitfire (blue) ; first love
  • Triumph GT6 (yellow) ; second love
  • Alpha Romeo Spyder (white) ; first true love
  • Alpha Romeo GTV (red) ; spare parts for above
  • Porsche 944 (red) ; first properly engineered car
  • Porsche 944 (black) ; more of a good thing
  • Nissan 300 ZX Turbo (red) ; the summer fling
  • Lexus SC 300 (gray) ; first grown up car, hated it
  • Mercedes SL 500 (green) ; passion reignited
  • Mercedes ML 320 (silver) ; first family car
  • Audi A3 (silver) ; my second true love
  • Audi Q5 (silver) ; my off road darling
  • SmartCar (blue) ; first attempt at social responsibility
  • BMW i3 (orange) ; my electric mistress, forever a convert
  • Audi e-tron (blue) ; TBD