AlienDNA
05-03-2009, 09:11 PM
1) Volunteering has the benefit of earning you a nifty shirt, but it keeps you so busy that you don’t have time to find out about all the little stories that make this stuff easier to write.
2) I sure missed the Miata today. Although the power and brakes on the BMW blow the Miata out of the water, the slaloms and bus stops woulda been much more fun in the little Mazda.
3) I’ve sworn off R-compounds and changing tires twice a year is still twice too often for me. Does anyone have leads on jobs in the Caribbean?
4) I don’t know how many times I’ve learned this, but autocrossers of Irish descent need to put on sunscreen, even at night.
5) The delays in timing in the first heat were my fault because of unfamiliarity with the new software. Who would ever suspect that you shouldn’t choose the “OFF” option for cars that go “OFF” course?
6) Infants are bad for autocross. For some reason, the lack of sleep from babies is worse than being hungover from too many Coronas.
7) Too much technology makes you stupid. Since I rely on the rain sensor in the BMW to automatically turn the wipers on and off, when I accidentally flipped the wipers *on* half way through the slalom out of the start box, I quickly discovered that didn’t know how to turn them *off*. Or how I turned them on, for that matter. I’m not sure what was worse: not being able to see the gates because of the wipers, or sitting there for a two minute run thinking “Geez, I look like a tool.”
8) Oshawa pulled off something that every other club should aspire to: a drivers’ meeting shorter than the course walk. :D
9) Watching Joe try and pick the lock on the Port-a-Potty made me think “Here’s a hero, saving some poor soul from a fate worse than death. Or one of those perverts you always see on America’s Most Wanted.”
10) Interestingly, my car computer reported fuel mileage of 39.5 litres/100 km per run. For those of you as old as Doug, that’s about 6 mpg. On the other hand, if you’re Grandpa Simpson, that’s an amazing 120,000 rods to the hogshead!
2) I sure missed the Miata today. Although the power and brakes on the BMW blow the Miata out of the water, the slaloms and bus stops woulda been much more fun in the little Mazda.
3) I’ve sworn off R-compounds and changing tires twice a year is still twice too often for me. Does anyone have leads on jobs in the Caribbean?
4) I don’t know how many times I’ve learned this, but autocrossers of Irish descent need to put on sunscreen, even at night.
5) The delays in timing in the first heat were my fault because of unfamiliarity with the new software. Who would ever suspect that you shouldn’t choose the “OFF” option for cars that go “OFF” course?
6) Infants are bad for autocross. For some reason, the lack of sleep from babies is worse than being hungover from too many Coronas.
7) Too much technology makes you stupid. Since I rely on the rain sensor in the BMW to automatically turn the wipers on and off, when I accidentally flipped the wipers *on* half way through the slalom out of the start box, I quickly discovered that didn’t know how to turn them *off*. Or how I turned them on, for that matter. I’m not sure what was worse: not being able to see the gates because of the wipers, or sitting there for a two minute run thinking “Geez, I look like a tool.”
8) Oshawa pulled off something that every other club should aspire to: a drivers’ meeting shorter than the course walk. :D
9) Watching Joe try and pick the lock on the Port-a-Potty made me think “Here’s a hero, saving some poor soul from a fate worse than death. Or one of those perverts you always see on America’s Most Wanted.”
10) Interestingly, my car computer reported fuel mileage of 39.5 litres/100 km per run. For those of you as old as Doug, that’s about 6 mpg. On the other hand, if you’re Grandpa Simpson, that’s an amazing 120,000 rods to the hogshead!