A shout out to Pastor Daggs for working NASCAR into one of his sermon examples this morning! Now....can you work UFC into one....that will be a bigger challenge :)
Anyway....I've been doing things and watching (mostly listening) to the second to last race of the season, they are racing at Phoenix. I wish I was in Phoenix. There were more leaves to sweep up after church today, but I figure if I keep on top of the leaves every day or so - it won't be a huge deal to tackle. And it was the second day in a row for me to see it spitting snow - ahhhhh. At least the sun is shining now.
Back to defending NASCAR. I did mention this in a CaringBridge update - they do not go around and around in a circle. They go around and around in an oval. Think about it - how many race tracks of any kind have you seen that are a circle? And to be technically correct - Sprint Cup races can be on true ovals, tracks that are more "D" shaped, more paper clip shaped and there are two road courses tossed in the mix where they have to turn right part of the time.
And I must make my comment about the pseudo-fight last week trackside. Yes Jeff Burton got too close to Jeff Gordon - Burton even admitted it on camera and Burton said he didn't blame Gordon for being mad about it. For the most part NASCAR drivers are really decent guys but every now and then tempers can flare and fists can fly and that happened last week. But Gordon fights like a girl - and all the Gordon fans out there secretly know this too. Gordon's little girl, Ella (who is two) could have hit Burton harder than her daddy did last week.
Anyway....like I've said several times, Mike and I never decided who our favorite driver would be after DJ (Dale Jarrett) retired a few seasons to go. We have leaned toward Kurt Busch - that would be KURT Busch not his dingbat brother Kyle Busch. Kurt has grown up and matured. Kurt is in the Race for the Chase but he's too far back to have any hopes of being the Champion this season.
For those that watched/heard the call to start engines today - THAT is how you start a race! Mike and I always said we'd love to start a race and would shake our heads at some people who would say, "gentlemen, start your engines." And you could hardly hear them. The way a race should be started is, "GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!" The guys from Lowe's that started the race today did a really good job.
Well....being smug/proud/boastful about how I'm doing on my Christmas list came back to knock me down a peg today. Before the race I had hoped to print my Christmas card address labels so I could label and stamp my Christmas card envelopes. Labels printed without too many problems - but for some reason people that I added to my card list and/or any changes to addresses from last year - the old labels printed. I had to take my current address list and go address by address against printed labels to see which labels were good to use, which were bad, and highlight which names didn't have labels print at all. I have to "reprint" 24 labels sometime this week.
Had a Mike reality check yesterday while running errands - this will be my first winter without Mike literally by my side to hold on to his arm when walking on slick snow or ice. The only time he wouldn't be there for me would be walking from the car into work and back to the car after work each night. We usually laughed when I'd grab his arm because we wondered what would happen if I would start to slip or fall - would he really be able to hold me up or would he end up falling on top of me - but it was nice to have someone to hold on to. I'll just have to walk extra careful starting this year.
