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30 years ago, I bought a tech stock. It has been going up. I told the wife that if it reaches a certain number that I was going to make a big purchase! She gave me the, "You big child! You have two cars and several watches. Why aren't you happy with what you have?!" It is a none-too-subtle look.

Well, wouldn't you know it, it reached, and exceeded, the magic number earlier this month. Yay. So, this past Friday I made the big purchase. She loves the shiny ring she picked out and I gladly paid for. But, I noted, should the stock hit the next magic number, it's my turn. She, 'yeah, yeah, yeah'd" me as she looked at the sparkly thing on her finger. Next to the earlier sparkly thing. (Terrible side thought, she's got nine more fingers...).

What does this have to do with CCBA? Across the way from the man's worst nightmare store (sparkly things store) is a Lucid showroom. Stopped in to check out an Air. They also had a Gravity on the showroom floor, but I'm still not an SUV guy. I did point it out to her, but again she was blinded by the light emanating from her ring finger.

So, I sat in an Air Pure and made vroom vroom sounds. Which, of course, made no sense. The most interesting thing to me was the vast amount of room inside. AND, it still somehow felt a bit claustrophobic to me, small-ish windows all around. The black interior also probably contributed. Note that it had an aluminum roof, not glass which likely would have alleviated that hemmed in feeling. But design and materials were quite upscale looking and feeling. Fake leather, but a good fake. Cavernous rear seat room.

Screens-o-rama, to adjust the steering wheel had to find a screen. Some redundant actual physical controls, but there would be a bit of a learning curve with this one. Decent, but didn't seem too deep trunk (although large, deep compartment below the first floor) and big frunk. Wife was amused by the frunk. Fathom Blue was the color in the showroom, which looked a bit different when I noted one out in the sunlight. I think Cosmos Silver (Touring trim, although if not too much of a $ leap, GT? 500 miles of theoretical range! And stupid fast) would be my first choice. So, I'm impressed at first view.

Gave them my info, got an email from the store manager, perhaps I'll schedule a test drive later in the month. $7500 lease credit goes hasta la bye-bye the end of September, and their lease rates jumped quite a bit from last month.

Of course, the A7 still fills its mission with aplomb. And I did just invest $$$ in new Contis, not to mention still paying it off at 0%. My guess is the stock doesn't hit the next magic # for some time (although the next # is only another 10% up...) so I'll have time. Wife keeps reminding me that my Fido advisor told me to start spending... on her.