Sunday, April 20, 2008

When turning left is more then you can handle...

So I went to NASCAR for the spring race here in Phoenix last week. I am just now finally coming back into alignment with the universe.

More importantly the redneck smell has gone back to normal levels that I got calls from a few friends out of the blue. I did not know that redneck could be transmitted via cell phone.

It was a good time and lots and lots and lots and lots of cars turning left. And like any major sporting event half of the fun is the people watching. NASCAR is a most fertile ground. Grab a beer, find a concrete barrier and just wait. You will not be disappointed. TRUST ME!

What kind of people? The whole gamut... Professionals playing hookey from work (yours truly), guys with really nice Class A motorhomes that fix their NASCAR flagpoles on the top of their RV with a cigarette hanging out of their mouths, and the mullet is alive and well at NASCAR.

Am I going back?

You betcha!

Am I going to upgrade my accommodations? Not right away but hey you never know what could happen next.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Monday, April 07, 2008

April 7, it's an important day....

For many reasons, among them....

1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.


1964 - IBM announces the System/360.

1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

And not just events important people have been born on this day too!

1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor

1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor

1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player
1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player

And some really important people passed away on this day as well.

1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)

1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)

And it's a particularly special day in Compton...

Compton, California - Eazy-E Day

Pretty much all of this stolen from the good folks at wikipedia...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_7