I'm back from a(nother) trip to CLE/Beachwood/3pl. My/our team spent one and a half days in two conference rooms, basically trying to convert our logistics operation into math. We had dinner with the Knoll account rep and shared stories and hot wings, which felt more like a MNF party at a Long Island bar than a team meeting, and then I flew home.
This time the National Car Rental test drive presented a Saturn Vue (nee Opel Antara) for a couple of days. It was orange, which I like but got plenty of static about. More troubling than the apparently troublesome color were the strained noises coming from underhood and the difficultly low shift points. I'm not a vehicle dynamicist, but if I were I would not require a full-throttle stomp on the accelerator to move the vehicle from 37 to 42 miles per hour in one calendar month. Maybe a downshift? Or a turbodiesel? As much as I wanted to love the Antara Vue, I'm afraid it is off the list.
After work today we went for a walk in the park by the fish hatchery on Fish Hatchery Drive. We walked along the Little Lehigh Parkway, over a covered bridge, under an interstate highway system, to a gun club, where we headed back. Stir-fry was on the menu and it really hit the spot after two nights away.
Thursday, October 11, 2007