In light of our recent car-buying experience, I found this article by a writer who went "undercover" as a used-car salesman very interesting. If you think you'll be buying a car in the near (or even not-so-near) future, you should read it too...
Wee and I are back in SoCal after a week of extreme travel. Four days of trade show procurement and gambling in Vegas were followed by three days of nostalgic (and semi-alcoholic) reunions with old friends in Klamath Falls (hi, Nick and Dee and Lex, should any of you be visiting the Gumbo - leave me a note in the comments if so!) and the lovely wedding of one of them. The constant activities (wandering around the trade show for hours on end, sitting at the blackjack table till my back ached, bowling and shooting pool and rocking a baby to sleep, not to mention the subtler stresses of catching planes and driving in cars for hours and sleeping in strange beds) have taken their toll on my less-active body; right now I'm downright exhausted and definitely noticing the difference between doing these sorts of things at age 32 vs. my agile 20's. Tonight is all about healthy comfort foods and a looooooong soak in the hot tub, maybe a little catchup on some shows our TiVo has stacked up for us in our absence, and an early bedtime. Sounds a little like heaven, really.
Anyway, I hope to get some anecdotes about the trip posted soon, even if just in a bullet-point format; but for now I just wanted to say that we're home and, fun as the week was, very glad to be back.