Just posted this over on the Honda CR-V forum over at edmunds.com. Thought I'd post it here too.
Last week, there was a ShelbyCobra, red with white rally stripes, in the parking lot at the supermarket. My 3-and-a-half-year-old was mesmerized. He spotted it the moment we pulled into the lot and said "Daddy, I want the red car." I could only second the emotion.
I'm turning 40 in a few weeks, have another kid due a few weeks after that, and I'm trading in my Elantra GT (which I bought because it looked like a Saab 93) on a CR-V LX with AWD today.
So I've got a new "keep my sanity while I wait to hear if I got the job" song that's calming me down better than "Don't Stop Believin'" And not only that, I found I can embed a sample of it it in my blog courtesy of imeem. If you click the song name in the player, you can go to imeem and listen to the whole thing.
Now, the thing is that lots of people think "Gonna Fly Now" is the most inspirational music from "Rocky," but it's not. It's just happy music. The inspirational piece of music is called "Going the Distance". This is when Rocky's up against it, when Rocky's fighting his demons, fighting his doubt, fighting against everyone who tells him he can't do it. This is the darkness of self-doubt that Rocky conquers to beat Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago.
"Don't Stop Believin'" has a good chorus, but it's essentially a power ballad. When you need something about slogging through, earning every hard-won step toward your goal, and making it to the end... "Going The Distance" is your music.
I had an interview for a perm job (as opposed to the contracting I'm doing now) about a week and a half ago. The hiring manager wanted to meet with a lot of candidates, so they just finished the interviews late last week and a decision is going to come down most likely today.
It's a cool job. Has a lot of potential for growth and doing neat stuff in the process, plus the money should be pretty good. I think I got myself a little too over-excited about it.
Just a few minutes ago, after checking my personal e-mail for the umpteenth time this morning, I just needed to hear Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'", so I went to Amazon and paid $0.99 to download an MP3 of it to my work PC and I'm listening to it as I type this. Actually just started it for a second time.
Last week, there was a Shelby Cobra, red with white rally stripes, in the parking lot at the supermarket. My 3-and-a-half-year-old was mesmerized. He spotted it the moment we pulled into the lot and said "Daddy, I want the red car." I could only second the emotion.
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