Hey, BigDaddy. No problemo if your rider has to leave -- I've got my leathers and helmet with me. I'd be pleased to offer myself to ride the bike. Seriously. I'd love it.
And more important, ladies and gentlemen, I've got the Jetpack wi-fi thingie going again. After some time with Verizon tech support (Katie, a young lady that sounded like American was her native language and didn't make me feel like a dumb jerk. Thanks, Verizon and Katie) we decided that since it wouldn't reset when I pushed the reset button - to go to the very basic way to reset it. I opened it and took the battery out for a few minutes. Put the battery back in and -- viola! It's working just fine. In fact -- it had gone into limp mode before quitting altogether, going from a nice fast 4G down to a slow 3G status. When it came back up a little while ago it's at the 4G again. Wah-hoo, it's all good again. Good thing, too -- my iPhone's monthly data limit is approaching fast and I don't know how to reset that from the phone. Worse -- I don't remember the password to get me into my account so I can't change the data allowance. I'll get billed at a stingingly high rate if I exceed without upping it before I hit 100%.
But anyway, back to the Top Speed Challenge for tomorrow/Sunday. Start time has been decided to be at 9AM Wendover time. I'm expecting that to be defined as 9AM racer time, which means it might be at nine, it might be at ten thirty, but sooner or later we'll get back to racing.
The Ack Attack bike is in the transporter carrier at the start line and Mike says he's got the bike ready for Rocky to get on it hard first thing in the morning. Today's run was aborted by pulling the chute a bit before Rocky got into the timed mile, and the rumor that I heard (and remember, this is a rumor not heard from anyone on the Ack team so I can't vouch for the veracity of it) is that it wasn't shifting both transmissions correctly. He was moving at good speed before the problem occurred, too. Bummer -- but there's always tomorrow.
Deep enough for tonight. It's a bit past 9PM out here and I haven't eaten supper. I think I'll go to that world famous restaurant a mile or so from here. You know it -- the Burger le Roi. See you tomorrow.