One of my birthday or Christmas presents from Jill was a “make & take” bookcase making class at the fancypants high end hardware store nearby.

Both of us were picturing a modest sized bookcase, maybe 3′ tall by 2′ wide. Truthfully, I was hoping for a lower and wider option that could be used for Noah.

Instead, every surface of my car had to be rapidly reconfigured in order to stuff the extremely heavy 5′x3′x1′ bookcase into it at the end of a very long day.

Don’t get me wrong! It was an interesting class. I learned a ton, the instructor “bookcase Bob” and his assistant George were lovely and helpful. I would totally take a class there again.

I’ll post pictures of the bookcase soon.

When I got home, Jill was watching the Barrett-Jackson classic car auction on the speed channel. I thought that it was an endless ridiculous auction that never ends, but in fact, when we’d been watching it during the last month, we were watching RE-RUNS. Yes. Re-runs of a car auction on television.

EDITED to clarify: When I got home, what was on was not a re-run. However, we have been watching it with regularity for about a month. The speed channel ran re-runs for weeks in the lead-up to the live auction. Also, Erin, if the car was blue and had an autographed dashboard, it was the same car. Frighteningly, the one I saw was only the 3rd most expensive in the auction, and the announcers debated whether or not it would still be in the top 10 by the end.
After watching a guy spend $600,000 for a sports car, I’d had enough. Jill observed that she has really learned a lot watching these auctions.

I agree. Here’s what I’ve learned:

  • There are people our age who can afford to spend over half a million dollars on a car they can’t possibly drive more than once per week.
  • The show’s producers are obnoxiously sexist.
  • If you are incredibly lucky, you will find a classic car in a barn and sell it for a ridiculous amount of money.