Little 500 Qualifcations weekend

Bloomington twice in a one month? Not too shabby. Rather than give a narrative review of the entire weekend, I'll just highlight some key points:

1) In stark contrast to the glorious conditions experienced over SB2k9, the weather during quals weekend showered us with all kinds of awesome. Thunder, rain, snow, cold...yep, that pretty much sums it up. Thankfully, I was not showered by the golden variety.

2) In an attempted short-cut down to Sasha's place (my residence for the weekend), Kate and I somehow ended up 30 miles southeast of Terre Haute. I must have been distracted by my female co-pilot.

3) We pulled into Sasha's place near Spencer only to find him waiting anxiously with a 50cc dirt-bike parked in the driveway. It couldn't have been more than a couple of minutes after our arrival before he was off-roading around his property. As expected, he wrecked moments later and tumbled across his lawn.

4) Feske now has a bunch of saltwater aquariums...neat.

5) While waiting for Sasha to quench his insatiable coffee thirst, I heard what was quite possibly the worst music performance of my life. On the bright side, I'm one step closer to publishing my latest theorum:

[(Guitar + Bongos) x The Hipster Constant]/Tone Deaf = Zero Talent.

Kudos to the audience for being so polite. Fortunately, the live jazz at the Root Cellar cleansed my auditory palate.

6) Irish Lion is the new Nick's. Nick's is the new Kilroy's. Kilroy's is the new daycare...the clientele just keeps getting younger and younger---I never knew that a finger-painted self-portrait could pass as a valid form of identification.

7) Woj ate a receipt at the Irish Lion. We laughed shamelessly.

8) Sasha can drive very fast, especially when it comes to narrow, sandy, dark, hilly, curvy roads at 4am in the middle of nowhere. I never knew a Yaris could reach such speeds.

9) Rain = no mountain biking on Saturday morning.

10) Cutters qualified 3rd.

11) In an eating contest at the Laughing Planet, Woj ate a mondo burrito and a regular burrito faster than Zach and I could finish a single mondo. Somehow he managed to polish-off those bad boyz in 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Not to mention, three minutes after the contest, he went up and ordered an additional regular burrito and scarfed that puppy down in less than a minute. When asked if she had ever seen someone eat burritos that quickly, the cashier replied: "I don't think so, but I do know that you're going to have to shit like crazy in a couple of hours." Oh, Laughing Planet...

12) Kate and I watched the documentary "Man on Wire"...good stuff.


Until next time...