And thank you, Bill, for setting all this up (and for guiding me through the sign-in process...)
I often think back on the best single course I ever took at SHS: touch-typing. "Best" because that equipped me go on to make a career in automotive journalism. It's been a fun ride, and I'm still at it. Just a few days ago I was at Willow Springs raceway here in Southern California track-testing a new 2008 Dodge Viper ACR ("American Club Racer"): a winged monster making 600 horsepower and supposedly capable of 190-something mph—though I only glimpsed 140, once, on the straight. At that point it seemed like a good time to try the brakes. Hard.
If I can make this work, here's what I looked like that heady day:
I'm not supposed to show pictures of the car itself because ACR material is embargoed until the end of January. Shortly after that my story should be in AutoWeek with a longer version on autoweek.com
My wife Lorna and I are about to celebrate our 25th anniversary. We live in a small mountain community named Big Bear, near a lake of that name east of Los Angeles. She's from NY state too, but we met out here when we both worked for the same magazine. She was the managing editor and hired me to be editor. We married and she's still my boss. Here, with any luck, is a picture of Lorna at one of her favorite activities:
Ok, enough fun for now. Let's try posting this and see what happens.
Best to you all,
-- Pete
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