I'm alive, and so is Nancy. And the SCTA/BNI cones are back in the trailer, and the registration trailer is washed and back at Hansen's storage, and our trailer is off the salt and back here at the motel, and the pickup truck is packed and ready to roll in the morning, and that's what we did today. And I did it without too much guilt about letting you folks out there in internet land hanging because I knew that Ray would do his durndest to keep you up to date. I was not let down at all. Thanks, Ray and everyone else.
I had the pleasure of being at a 200 MPH Club hat ceremony (well, sort of a ceremony -- a big deal, for sure) for John Dobbs who ran a 221 record on his 'Busa -- breaking Shane San Miguel's hours-old 216 record. Congratulations to both for some danged-fast runs. And Steve Benyo, in the blue Centimark Mustang, who got in trouble with Keith Turk a while back for exceeding the allowed speed at Maxton -- well, Steve went from a talking-to by Keith to an ECTA green hat, and today he got his Bonneville red hat. It's a pleasure to shake hands and welcome new members into any 200 MPH Club, for sure.
And Kenny Hoover earned himself a blue 300 MPH Chapter hat today in the new 'liner.
Because we got busy with our chores I didn't get a list of runs aor records for the day -- but I just walked past Ed Safarik's room and see he's busy on the 'puter (he's the SCTA website maintainer), so I wouldn't be surprised if the run logs and other stuff are on their site soon. And - speaking of keeping you all up to date on the runs -- we were pitted next to the Rice/Vigeant little lakester for this meet. During the last few months I've got to know the Rice brothers, what with getting daily logs from them at Bub's and working pretty close with them at the Shootout. So anyway, the subject has been broached - about the possibility of linking to their computer so that I can offer almost real-time run data. We have to work on it -- two things I can see being in need of "work", and those are the minor issue of connecting the two computers and making sure the sanctioning organization doesn't object to sharing the run data that quickly. Connecting won't be too much trouble -- a couple of air cards or some kind of direct link. The sanctioning folks -- well, I expect I'll need to ask really nicely and have them all (SCTA, BNI, Bub's, USFRA, Cook Motorsports, etc) examine the whys and wherewithals and decide if it's something they'd like to have landracing.com do. We'll see.
This post is long enough for now. I've gotta go check the washing machine and see if the clothes are clean enough for the trip home. Later. . .
