from where i sit none of it seems real

I remember when I was taking a computer science class that the teacher explained we use a decimal system of numbers because we have ten fingers, and that if we had eight fingers we'd probably use octal. But really, we don't count on our hands in decimal. We count in unary. You need ten fingers to count to ten. It would be a major improvement in finger-numeral efficiency even just to move up to binary. That way the maximum number you could count to on one hand would be 31, and for both hands it would be 1023, not 10. Just...be careful where you're pointing when you get to 4 or 128. It probably seems really strange at first but I bet it's like Top Gear steering, it becomes second nature because it's a better way to do things.

It has been a slow couple of days on the car-watching front. I did see the red NSX the other day, but since then I've been struggling even to tally a few Porsches, although I have been seeing enough Land Rovers that I'm wondering if I should tally those too.