autocross

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Let Freedom Ring!

Any way you measure it, I've been smoke free for a month. I started out with the patch, but quickly got tired of them and took them back to Costco for a refund. Have I mentioned lately that Costco rocks? My thanks go out to my Internet stop-smoking buddies at whyquit.com.

I spent Saturday hanging out with some of my autocross friends and taking their pictures instead of racing. Dare say I need some more practice and camera handling time to get the shots I really want, but I wound up with a lot more good ones than I expected.

If you're bored (only reason I can imagine you're reading this), or interested (then you've probably already seen them), you can view all the photos from the event in our photo gallery.

And speaking of our photo gallery, I finally (after a short few years) got around to fixing the header graphics in the gallery to make it tie in better with the main site. Thanks again to the folks at smugmug.com for creating such a great product. If you want quality photo hosting that's easy to use, be sure to give them a shot, and don't forget to use referral code IC9VPISJ87nvk. You'll save $5 when you sign up (and I'll get a $10 credit toward next year!).

Since this is the random musings section, I feel compelled to gripe one more time (and certainly not the last, I'm afraid) about the complete incompetence of CBS in covering Formula 1 racing. Derek Daly used to be a great motorsports commentator. I guess it's possible to catch stupid if you sit to close to that Shaheen fellow... The lap counter counts backwards.... Yeesh. That is all.

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Any Given Monday

It's Monday. Not just any Monday, though. I had my last cigarette at 10 pm Saturday night, so I'm past the 36 hour mark.

What else is up? We finally gave in and subscribed to Netflix. Finding 24 in sequence on A&E was getting tiring. Never mind watching it in "fuzzy-vision" thanks to the lovely quality of analog channels on Comcast cable in Plano. Gotta say I'm impressed by the turnaround-time from Netflix. I suppose it helps having a distribution center just a few zipcodes away in Coppell. The movie I dropped in the mail on Saturday generated an e-mail "We got it!" this morning before I left for work.

I got to spend Saturday on a lovely drive through the countryside in the Miata, but Amanda spent her day playing with her horse. I still need to squeeze in an oil change (or three) this week and give the Volkswagen it's 40,000 mile filter changes (fuel, air, cabin air and oil). It feels weird that it's already mid-April and I haven't run an autocross yet. Two schools as an instructor, but no competition runs. I'm slipping...

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