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Steve
Juice: Lanese, my wife, recovered incredibly fast after the delivery. That photo of the three of us was taken less than 48 hours after delivery. She continues to amaze me the longer we're married.
Ty's profile:
Job: Instructional Designer (use technology to train people in the corporate environment)
Education: MS Instructional Technology
Rational Thinker: Only when necessary
Allergies: Cats
Kids: 1 newborn
Pets: 2 playful golden retrievers
Homeowner: yes
Hobbies: Skiing, offroading, paintballing, running, surgery (I have an MRI on my left knee in two hours; crossing my fingers the medial meniscus is only streched too far)
Computer: Former Apple/Mac user, but have switched to Windows because of work needs.
Glasses - Contacts
Allergies (asthma hay fever etc.) Grass and Christmas Trees
Rational decision maker - Bought 4 Subarus
Home owner - Yes
Above average income - Doesn't feel like it
Above average education - MS in Info Systems
Pets - Does a cat count?
Computers - Novell Network in the house - Everyone logs in and answers to the administrator!
Glasses - Lasik
Allergies - none
Rational decision maker - Mostly frugal
Home owner - yes
Above average income - Nope, but I went snowboarding 70 times this winter :-)
Above average education - 18 years (but lots were in MS, so not above average <g>).
Pets - 3 cats
Computers - 2 desktops and a laptop in transit - all XP Pro, and I run a G5 remotely. And there's a wireless broadcast antenna on my roof hooked to a T1 (free net for me!)
Glasses - Guilty
Allergies - None
Rational decision maker - I like to think so, until it comes to cars, when I become the King of rationalizing poor choices.
Home owner - Three (One does not count, it is a rental property)
Above average income - According to demographics or statistics. But looking at all the rich folk in Atlanta with their big houses and fancy cars, I feel like a pauper (what am I doing wrong?).
Education - Masters Degree
Outdoors - I like to hike and like to hang out in the mountains (hills?) of North Georgia.
Pets - 2 stinky, dirty, shedding slobbering 60lb mutts and one wife.
Kids - No
Computers - Other than work and some net surfing, I try to stay away as much as possible!
Does that mean I can't get in the club?
Cheers Pat.
Martin: (note K in his last name) so you mean *both* Outback sedans will be in your neighborhood? ;-)
-juice
Bob too. This is a follow-up event from NAIAS. They re-invited about 8 of the 12 of us that went to Detroit.
Details at the chat tonight.
-juice
-Brian
I just want to break your #*##* kneecaps:-)
Cheers Pat.
Me:
Engineer/IT/Analytical Yeah, semiconductor process engineer - I make chips.
Glasses - yep for reading. Can read without them though.
Allergies (asthma hay fever etc.)- no
Rational decision maker - Yup, my goal is to make a large, spontaneous purchase at some point in my life.
Home Owner - Grass cutting is here.
Above average income - yes, but not for NY.
Above average education - BSEE, MS in materials science, Aviation technology degree, unfinished Avionics degree, fatherhood, husbandhood
Hobbies - Ice hockey, working on bicyclist, gym
Recovering OCDer
Greg
D-oh! You lucky dawg!
I would have LOVED to have been able to test drive the GT back-to-back. That way I wouldn't have to wait until the cars trickle into the dealers to test them out.
Do people who paid their own way to see the Legacy at NAIAS count too? :-)
Actually, I'd pay for my own flight and hotel if I were invited to something like this.
Ken
(This isn't some April 1st joke is it?)
Grab your glasses, put the cats out...
Link's on the left.
Steve, Host
Bob
If this was a joke, it certainly worked!! We're all green with envy. If it's for real, then congratulations are in order for Juice and Bob, and you better watch your backs!
Craig
It's an SOA National District Manager Training Conference Ride-and-Drive we've been invited to.
Bob
Bob
Glasses - may need in a few years...farsightness is coming... aging, you know :-(
Allergies - never
Rational decision maker - ask my husband :-)
Computer - PC - main tool at home and at work
Home Owner - yes
Kids - daughter 16, son 6
Above average income - yes, but like Ken said, it's not much here in the Bay Area
Above average education - M.S., PhD, post-doc...
Pets - don't have at the moment, but used to have a HUGE Siberian cat who could eat German Shepherd for breakfast
Outdoors - love summer in Sierra, love hiking
Chatting right now...so far we're gonna aim for an in-car camera, or at least the 30 seconds my digicam can handle in memory!
-juice
-Brian
Have fun in Vegas , guys! Take lots of notes and pics!
mark
Hey Kate - was the cat thing directed at me??? ;-)
Steve
You guys get to have way too much fun. Hey, can't we spread some of that Subie love? ;-)
Ken
Juice, how much jewelry did it take to be allowed to take a trip like this?
Hey, if we pay our own way can we join in on the test drives? 8~)
Jim
Juice and Bob - on the trip to Vegas, and more importantly the driving of the new GT before any of us!
Engineer - Nope. But all the aptitude tests I've ever taken said I should go into some sort of analytical type career.
Glasses - Wearing them right now, but this is all I wear them for.
Allergies - Muthd be, I wad a bid stuffed ub today. Noding therious dough.
Rational decision maker - Only when it was made with my wife.
Computer - PC now, but Mac's all through college.
Home Owner - Yes.
Kids - Nope.
Above average income - Does combined income count?
Above average education - Nope, a BA.
Pets - 2 cats.
Outdoors - As much as possible. Skiing and biking preferred but willing to try just about anything. ;-)
Then again, I'm not officially a crew member yet as there's no Subie in my driveway (Hurry up with that GT already!)
-Ian
Engineer/Analytical Type - Teacher, but deal with lots of psychoeducational testing and diagnostic/prescriptive IEP's (Individual Education Plans) ... lots of areas in the past, but special education righty now
Glasses - the dreaded .... BIFOCALS (no lines .. lol)
Allergies - occasionally fall and spring
Rational decision maker - all but the move from Houston to South Bend to be closer to a man I met online (actually it was one of the most 'rational' decisions I've ever made, but also one of the most 'misunderstood'
Computer - PC - main tool at home and at work - I do have a MAC at one school, but the rest are PC
Home Owner - yes (thankfully again, after a several year 'hiatus' in apartments)
Kids - 3 daughters 27, 23, 21,
4 grandsons - 8, 5, 4 1/2, 4
1 granddaughter - 7 months old
2 boys I'm helping to raise with their dad - 15 1/2, 14
Above average income - above the national average .. certainly more than I ever thought I'd make as a teacher (try a Texas teacher salary!)
Above average education - B.S. Ed (see? I have a whole degree in BS), MA-Ed, post-graduate hours total - I'm taking a class now that will bring the total to 100 post-graduate hours - Teaching licenses in Elem Ed, Music (K-8), Ed. Admin. (K-12), Sp Ed - Severe Disabilities
Pets - one dog - Australian Shepherd mix - we think with Husky
Outdoors - as long as I'm comfortable .. lol - remember I lived on the Texas Gulf coast most of my life and the months when it's most pleasant I couldn't GET vacation time!
Keep in mind they had only invited me to Detroit, immediately my thinking was "who else can go". We pushed for 2. 3? Nice try.
This time they invited back a subset of those 12 from NAIAS. I guess we left a good enough impressions that we were in that subset. But they're not even allowing spouses at this event.
Any how, I'd like to say a public thanks to SoA for allowing the Edmunds.com Subaru Crew this type of access. Again, I promise to make the very best use of this event to distribute info and impressions and promote these wonderful cars.
I'll be sure to ask about other events like this one, regional ones, and see if we can get other Crew invited, that would be fantastic. Even if you can test drive one at the dealer, to be able to drive one around some cones with no sales pressure is pretty cool.
In fact one suggestion I'll have is to host events like M-B and BMW do to promote Subaru's fleet of cars, that way we could ALL go.
Sound nice? :-)
I'd love to compare my lap times to Colin, paisan, loosh, and the rest of you. Highest score (time) wins, OK? LOL
-juice
Juice and I are only the point people here, and are lucky enough to be Crew Leaders here (and by your support only, BTW!) You can count on us to represent everyone here in the very best way we can.
Bob
Disclaimer: no dogs were ever eaten by my cat (although some were scratched and hissed at)!
But that cat was a really huge creature, and obnoxious too. Made a great conversation piece with guests, starting with "What is IT?" to "What do you feed IT?".
RIP good friend 19?? - 1996.
Bob
Push to have more Subaru track events around the country.
-Dennis
Bob
You son of !@!)$#%^@#...
Congrats guys!
Have fun and you BETTER represent!!! :-p
TWRX
And who knows, SoA might be watching us and throw me into the dungeoaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaah.
PLOP!
Boy, it's dark here.
-juice
PS Got an e-mail update on the Leg and it says it'll be in dealers in late May! The pictured car has a hood scoop!
Bob
Love my WRX but for travel west a turbo wagon would be nice (funny it seems like I once had a turbo wagon).
TWRX
Enjoy your well deserved fun guys!
Ken