'Tis the Season (almost)

Racing season is fast approaching. You’d think I’d be all jazzed up, but mostly I’m stressed out. I didn’t even realize it until Carrie pointed it out to me tonight. I told her I wasn’t stressed, but I am.

Well, like I said to her; it’s not actual stress, it’s hobby stress. Actual stress is finding out you’re getting laid off in 3 days. But, sometimes the absence of real stress leaves a vacuum, and peace of mind abhors a vacuum. Isn’t that what they say?

Anyway, I have 57 things I need to do to my truck (including possible transmission work), I have to get my new (to me) bike, and I have to get all of it back and forth to Atlanta for graphics, all before I leave for AL in 5 weeks for the NESBA weekend, followed by the WERA season opener. This is what I mean by hobby stress.

I’m sorry to say that I don’t seem to be in the proper frame of mind to write anything good (don’t say it), but it’s been too long since I wrote anything at all, and I swore to myself I wouldn’t let the blog sit idle and rot. So, here’s hoping that ‘this’ will slow the decomposition at least a little bit.

For those of you (as if there is a ‘you’ at all…I can pretend, right?) who care, I will be starting a racing/motorcycling-specific blog shortly. I plan on starting out at the beginning of January, and documenting my entire season, up through next December. We’ll see how that goes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Quicky #1

The Tuft Of Flowers by Robert Frost is one of my favorite poems. I linked to that site becasuse you can scroll around on that one page and read lots of good stuff.

HFTL #1

I really loved Nick Hornby's book "High Fidelity." I'd link to it for you but I'm, well...lazy. Anyway, read it. It's great. The protagonist in the book makes lists out of everything, and this is used to wonderful effect throughout the book. I'm not writing a book review here, so I'll just say that the lists are hilarious and important at the same time, and umm...ya. Read the book. Here is High Fidelity Tribute List #1.

Oh, please note that unlike the lists in the book, mine aren't likely to be well thought out, compelling, justified, or even defensible in any way. They aren't likely to be in any particular order either.

Top 5 "People" Things I can't Fucking Stand

1. People's laziness and lack of forethought becoming my emergency.
2. People who labor under the misconception that their priorities are, by default, my priorities.
3. People who think their morality is my morality.
4. People who are too stupid/brainwashed/lazy to formulate carefully considered opinions.
5. People who can't mind their own business.

I guess it's a little depressing that the first of what I hope will be many HFTL's is so negative, but well...it is. Whacha gonna do. The catalyst for this list is a song lyric that, for whatever reason, has been echoing in my head all day today.

"When you believe in things that you don't understand, you're a sucker." - Stevie Wonder