Wow, I'm embarrassed its been too long. Unfortunately? Nothing tragic / amusing has really taken place so since I'm not original enough to come up with my own material I'm somewhat dependent on fate for the assist. Some of it has been sheer old fashioned laziness though.
I'll give everyone something to chuckle about. As usual I gain weight towards the end of the year, so to counteract I'm trying this P90X. I'm on week two. The strength stuff isn't too difficult for me, but the Yoga, and Plyometrics work outs are horrifying. I was laughing during the Yoga thing at how uncoordinated I am. It must have looked like a monkey f-cking a football. Anyway I doubt I'll be on any magazine covers anytime soon regardless but it keeps me from looking too much like Orson Welles (the bad years).
The garage that was damaged pre-Halloween is 'almost' finished. I'll post some pictures. My goal was to redo this in such a way that I could install a lift to ease working on the car. Most people can't do this simply because having 12 ft+ ceilings in a garage is pretty uncommon. Ironically I have the height, I'm not sure I have the width. I'm waiting for everything to be 100% done so I can tape of the dimensions and triple check things since it is a chunk of change, but also a somewhat major alteration to the garage once added.
In racing news I went with Brendan on what was probably the sled's final race at Roebling. This is usually one of my favorite events of the year since I love the track, it is pretty low key but fun BMW Club Race, and the chance to drive his car is always a good time for me. We showed up late Friday and got one dry practice session in before it decided to rain and rain. It was cold too, so that didn't make it anymore appealing. Brendan's car isn't exactly well set up for the rain. To start it has no windshield wiper, none. Second, it has a plastic windshield and Third it has no defrost. We balanced those problems by pinning our hope on some awesome Hoosier rain tires.
It turns out that if you let your HoHo rain tires sit for 5 years they lose some of their effectiveness. Who knew. We MacGyver'd up a defroster using a Wal-Mart AC/DC converter for camping, some ratchet straps, and a mini-hair dryer. It kind of worked. Anyway it was a good time, we didn't wreck, and mostly just sat around in Rick Maxson's totterhome trying to stay dry. Clay found an all you can eat Mexican buffet that was probably the highlight of the trip. Anyway the sled will be an organ donor for his next project, potentially an S54 3.0 CSL coupe. Should be awesome, but I'll miss the ole' girl she was ugly but certainly surprised some people every once in awhile.
Still trying to figure out what my next race will be, potentially a club race in Feb. at Road Atlanta, need to do some work on the car though and haven't been very motivated. Almost certain I suffer from Seasonal Disorder to some degree, I hate the winter and dark. Daylight savings sucks.
My buddy
Dave White has decided he's learned all he can from me on our
BimmerWorld JV AllStar's enduro team and decided to go big time. They made their announcement late last week and were down in Daytona testing in the old Koni / new Contintental Tire Series. This is pretty awesome since this series has some of the biggest fields in racing and the cars are all very competitive. I think the BimmerWorld guys will do pretty well. Anyway Seth has a blog where he is talking a bit about things check it out -
here
