But it's still worth mentioning.
June in the Northwest and snowing at Snoqualimie Pass.
This you-tube video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UCOPNuuGeKA has been copied and re-posted by other you-tubers multiple times and has over a million views. I love kids. They're smart.
Methanol in Washington State - about $5/gal. Methanol in Indiana - $2.50/gal - and they're upset. Some people think the extra cost here in the Northwest is worth never seeing a tornado. Chickens.
I love my truck and trucking. But $5/gal diesel, export freight forwarders asking haulers to LOWER their rate so they can sell more powdered milk overseas, and finance companies telling young entrepreneurs to stop making their payment for a few months rather than to turn the truck back in, makes me wonder why I love trucking. It also makes me want to write my congressman and report what should be a ******** act.
Isaac Abenroth's dad has a hard time remembering to turn in his transponder. I'm surprised he remembered it this week after Isaac scored his first trophy in the Kasey Kahne Junior Sprints at Deming. Nice job Isaac.
More than a year ago the Pomona Quarter Midget Club lost it's track to development. The track had the distinction of being the worlds quickest track when a child who was barely a teenager, running a 7 cubic inch, 4-stroke, methanol burning, 13,000RPM flathead motor in the premier Light AA class, navigated the 100 foot straights with corners at each end in 5.03 seconds.
Instead of laying down, the club got busy, and built a brand new facility at the Orange Show in San Bernardino. The Pomona exiles used hard work and determination to build an exact duplicate of their old record setting track - except for one thing.........the new track was all concrete. Nobody has braved running a Light AA as of yet. But a Light B class car(a step down in power) navigated the 1/20th mile track this past weekend in 4.77 seconds. I love kids. Unlike adults, they have no fear of tornado's - even if they are one.
Due to the aforementioned story, and this past weekends lack of 360 sprint car racing in Elma, my son suggested we set one of our old AA motors up in one of the quartermidgets we still have in our shop, and go find a race. Oh, he said it was for his sister. But he knows her desire to run an AA motor is about the same as me expecting my hair line to return to its original form. Not going to happen. I suspected a trick, and told him as much. JJ Hickle ran a 410 at Skagit this past weekend. Like TJ, I'm betting a cheeseburger he would like a crack at the new Orange Show track in Lt AA as well. I love kids - and yes, JJ is still a kid for another month or so.
Seeing JJ and TJ racing together in the trophy dash last week made me smile. I'll never forget the first time they touched wheels in their quartermidgets and came to a stop facing each other. Simultaneously, they just shrugged their shoulders. Joe and I laughed then too.
I read a story this week that flip flops are bad for your health. Somebody forgot to tell 1/2 the people at any dirt track in the country. Vern - are you listening? It's not the dirt between your toes that's bad for you.
Racing must be addictive. This past weekend I witnessed the following:
1. wife standing in front of TV screen (watching this time instead of glaring back at me) and knowing Kasey Kahne just won for the 3rd time in 4 races. A year ago she would not have cared or known that fact.
2. wife telling me to order 2 barrels of methanol this week at $5+/gallon. I'm surprised she didn't have a coupon.
3. wife using irrational logic to convince an irrational person to go racing. Stealing my excuses is confusing me.
4. wifes friends who never went to races before 2008 wanting to know where this weeks racing update is. It was an off-week. No update.
Wife is completely out of control, and I don't care why. I love my wife - and the kids she gave me so that I may benefit from her addiction to be involved in their life that involves something I would never have done without all of them together.
Just thought that was worth mentioning.
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Green to Checkers,
Ted Hartman
