At the 1982 Knoxville Nationals, a Sunday nighter, I stayed the entire program and left Knoxville at midnight. I had to be to work at 7:00am and got home at 6:30am, took a shower, put on a clean white shirt and tie and was at work at 7:02am. But I should have stayed home because I wasn't very productive all day. Would I do it again? Yes, if I was 30 years younger.

Tim, you know me well enough to know that I suffer from anal glaucoma. It gets worse as retirement day gets closer (2 years and 7 days as of tomorrow, Monday).

Does that answer your question?

In my younger days I'd have gone to work minus sleep. Key word: younger.

Then again, in your younger days the Knoxville Nationals hadn't been thought of yet.

Had Iowa become a state yet???

Openly admit to having a Methanol addiction and am getting treatment for it and that the treatment required an extra day to be effective and that I will be back on Tuesday..

Chances are if you have the bosses like I have had they aren't smart enough to realize that racecars run on methanol, hell they don't even know what methanol is.

I had to make that decision. I decided to miss the races on Sunday. The factors that made my decision for me. Work is very busy, and we have a bunch of deadlines that can not be missed. The cost of the trip. The forecast for Sunday was not much better than it was for Saturday. Finally, not convinced that there was going to be a lot of racing on a heavy track with only two main events.

I had not been to the Nationals in over ten years. I still thought that the atmosphere was great. The racing was great. The midway was great, and I still loved the parade.

LOL I had my mom call into school and give me permission to leave and go to that race. I signed out of school stating I would "see you in 500 miles" Luckily for me the principal's daughter was a friend of mine so I got off easy. I believe it was in 1997.

Yes it was 1997. I was in the summer semester of college and took a radio to class to listen to the race. Luckily I got there early and got a seat in the back of class and no one ever knew i was listening to the race the entire time.

There are priorities in life and racing is #1.

For a really important race weekend, I always planned ahead and would take Monday off ahead of time. If I didn't need it, I would just show up at work.

That's what I do now for the Dream100 and World100. If the race does run Saturday as scheduled, I look for a track running Sunday (usually Kokomo).

Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!