Hey, my '97 is also a Type SH. I’m the eighth owner according to the Carfax. Somehow, the interior is complete (sans radio), it has the original wheels, and was never resprayed. Except for the trunk lid when some dingbat removed the spoiler. The VIN sticker was painted over. But you can make out the numbers. All VINs match. Somehow, this car has driven 257,000 miles, and is still 99.9% complete.

I’d love to drive an AP1 at least once, but I had a Prelude when I was a teenager so getting to own another (especially with a stick) is deeply meaningful to me. I was having my midlife crisis at 31, I guess lol

I think the Prelude’s cluster is great for a manual daily driver. And I think that for a track car, they nailed it with the S2k’s cluster.

I had an auto Prelude as a kid. I traded it in 2015 for a CVT HR-V and regretted it ever since. I always told myself if I got another, I’d hold out for a manual. So getting to own another is really meaningful to me.

I’d love to get to drive an AP1 at least once, though.

Nope. 5th gen Honda Prelude.

The two-tiered cluster of my Civic really grew on me. The speedometer is up really high so it’s almost always in your line of sight.

C4 Corvette!

This one (ETA: my '97 Prelude) sparks so much joy.

Same. We don’t have the room in my office for everyone to be there all at once so I’m hoping we go hybrid instead. My wife’s office is the same. They have 7 rooms for 35 people in her team so unless they stack em shoulder to shoulder, there’s no way. Meanwhile, everyone in leadership has their own office. Ain’t that some shit?

As for me, my job involves a lot of salary discussions. Now, I don’t mind speaking openly about salaries. My personal belief is that salary discussions should be open and public. Not everyone thinks the way I do. And I know that if I’m placed in an open cubicle in a hallway, people to whom I report will not want to talk to me as often. I don’t mind either way. I like these people. But if leadership in my organization wants to do that to me, that’s probably what’s going to happen. It’s the nature of my job. I help write budgets and then do entry for nearly $60,000,000 of annual spending, including salaries for about a thousand positions. Nearly half of the entire organization falls under my purview. From division directors making $160k a year all the way down to part time housekeepers making 13 bucks an hour. So if they want me in a cubicle, that’s fine. I’ve done lots of time in cubicles. It doesn’t bother me much. But that could be a consequence of doing that to me.

I have an interview coming up for a job that pays twice as much and looks to be about as much work as I do now. I hope I get it. I think that my departure from this place will cause a hell of a fire. Maybe if I’d have got that promotion I’d been hinting at for some time, I wouldn’t have updated my resume. But here we are. I am no longer gruntled.