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I've been busy. This is why.

...and if my 330 had been participating, I would have had to title this "The only OTHER Ferrari." Next year!

Julie beckons for assistance as the convertible top holds her hostage.

Too funny -- as red is the traditional racing colors of Italian cars (like the Alfa Romeo), and green the traditional color of British racing cars (like the M.G.).

Of course, the last time traditional colours (there, I AM an Anglophile) were used was something like 1967, when cigarette sponsorship took over. Still...

So on about our third date, a winery tour and luncheon at Argyle Winery in Dundee, Oregon, I noticed something about Julie.

When I go out with Julie, I'm NOT the most outgoing person in the room.

I'm used to being that -- my mom has always said that I'll talk to anybody, anywhere. I'm totally comfortable making conversation with strangers in any setting, and have always loved that. And have always been the one in my family the most comfortable doing that.

Well, at Argyle that day, Julie just fell so naturally into the hostess mode that it touched something in me. Far from feeling threatened by it, I felt drawn to it, drawn to her. If anything, I felt a kind of pride, inexplicably, that I was with someone who was the center of conversation and attention, but in a good, fun, open, and frankly adorable way.

It's even better now. And it was FANTASTIC on the rally.