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Yeah, I haven’t been doing a whole lot of blogging here lately but I’m still around and still Twitter when I can.
Additionally, you can check out my photographs from the Rolex Grand-Am at NJ Motorsports Park by visiting my Racing Historing site. Here is a direct link to the gallery.
Not a whole lot. We were on staycation this past week and did some miscellaneous work around the house and managed to spend 7 hrs washing / waxing / detailing both our vehicles. I also went to the SVRA historic races at the new NJ Motorsports Park last weekend. I only went down for one day but still had a good time walking the track and scouting out locations for the Grand-Am weekend coming up the weekend in August. Yep, I’ll be on staycation again the first week of September. 
Actually, we do plan to go down to the Jersey shore for a couple of days.
Other than that, I’ve just been doing a little iRacing (I need to find more practice time!), working on some images in Lightroom 2, getting ready for the class(s) I’m going to be teaching starting in September, and working on some miscellaneous projects I’ve been trying to get going. I just switched my Racing Historian site from being hosted on my own server over to SmugMug using a Pro Account. It’s still a work in progress but I think it’s coming along nicely – even though quite slowly!
Time to go get ready to jump back into the swing of things at work tomorrow. Later.
And I’m addicted to periodicals. The first step as I understand it is to admit you have a problem. The fact that I have a spreadsheet to track my periodical subscriptions so I know when they are up is probably a clear signal.
I was never a huge reader growing up. I rarely read books as a child right up through high school. I admit it.. I probably spent more effort ‘BS’ing my way through my book reports – usually with decent grade results – than it probably would have taken to just read the damn book. We didn’t have the Internets back then so it took much more effort to avoid reading the book! But, I was less than the model student even though I got pretty fair grades right up until graduation. After High School I read a few books here and there, but not a whole lot. It wasn’t until I was about 21 or 22 and after I started college that I really began to read more books whether it was great literature like The Once and Future King or a current non-fiction book about business and/or politics. But after graduating from college, my addiction to periodicals began. Oh sure, it probably started innocently enough with a subscription to Autoweek and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, but it wasn’t long before my addiction lead me to read such material as Fortune, The Economist, and Car and Driver! It only progressed and got worse until I find myself here, today, 13 years removed from college graduation with subscriptions to the following (In no particular order):
And I have the nerve to ask myself why I have unread books sitting in my library and why I don’t take the time to read them?! Oh sure, I read through recent books such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and The Digital Photography Book 1 & 2 by Scott Kelby… and they were fantastic and very informative and helpful – but I’m talking about books that make you examine and think about our great country and the world at large. Books that trigger thought processing that break the habits of listening to what I call the “30 second tag lines of ignorance” from the main stream media. But, like any good periodical junky, I’ll just let that thought pass and go back to reading one of the unread issues of one of the periodicals from above. Let’s see… an article in RACER about Juan Pablo Montoya, that will work.
I’ve been fighting colds for what seems like months now. But at least so far I’ve been fortunate not to get the full blown flu. Ever since I ended up in the hospital due to the flu a couple years ago I make sure to get my flu shot as early as possible – even if the effectiveness is generally a coin flip. I was sick a few weeks ago and thought I was over it, but last weekend I landed congestion that seemed to play hop-scotch between my head, throat, and chest with my chest getting the worst of it recently. I was popping Mucinex like pez! The worst part is the inability to get a good nights sleep, although last night was probably the best in about a week.
So if you sent an email or are waiting on some other item from me… I apologize but that is the reason for the delay. Of course, I could just be ignoring you as well…..
After returning from vacation and going back to work this week, I plan to do as little as possible this weekend. I’m whipped from a Friday where I spent 7+ hours in front of a grill for our Credit Union Member’s Appreciation BBQ on one of the hottest and most humid days of the summer so far. I put some sun screen on in the morning, but still feel like one of the over-cooked doggies I was serving up yesterday.
I’m sitting here watching the NASCAR Busch race from Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. So far I’ve been impressed as it’s been a good race. Granted, the front runners are road course specialists but Scott Pruett and Boris Said are two of my favorite drivers so I’ve been enjoying the race so far. I wasn’t sure this track was going to be great for NASCAR type racing, but it’s been quite enjoyable to watch.
Speaking of which, if you like road racing and aren’t watching the Grand-Am Rolex Series you are missing some of the best road racing taking place these days. It’s definitely on my schedule to attempt to fit in a race somewhere next year.
Lastly, I’m in the beginning stages of bringing back my Darkcyte.com site. It use to be a pretty popular site with alot of regular visitors, but it just got to be too time consuming. For those who aren’t familiar, it was a site with information about personal finance and identity theft. It will have a similar format, but it will be in the form of a blog with alot of links and hopefully informative and helpful information. It will take me a few weeks to get the theme designed and the basic site structure in place, but I hope to have it up and running by the end of August. Of course, considering I’m also trying to manage two (Maxi Booter’s Pet Emporium & The Memorabilia Hut), and soon to be three, storefronts - we’ll see how it goes.
OK.. back to doing as little as possible. Until next time….
As our vacation time winds down, we decided to go to the movies and dinner last night down at the Promenade in Saucon Valley. We saw I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry at the Rave and then grabbed a bite at Red Robin.
The movie was “good”. It’s what you would expect from this type of movie. There were some humorous moments and some predictable cliche’ ones as well. Overall, I enjoyed it and how could you not enjoy Jessica Biel in this?
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