Dad and his partner picked up their new race trailer yesterday, so I spent last night watching them stand in it, grinning. And then we had steaks. Of course I'll have pictures and all kinds of stuff online soon. It's so very exciting!
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Also in racing news, I spent a little bit of time at an engine shop watching JRjr's 2010 powerplant on the dyno, taking some video that he requested of me. I'll be editing that together soon and I know I won't be able to resist cross-posting that video here.
So what I'm trying to say is that today's Prisoners will be light on me-stuff because all my web energy will be spent on race-stuff today and tomorrow.
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It's rare that I direct people backwards to a very recent entry, I usually let a few months pass before making you re-read something, but yesterday's Hopey Changey Bendy Straws has one of the funniest comments discussions I've ever had here. So funny that last night I had a conversation where somebody said "I read your post about airplanes and M&Ms" and I was like "Whuuuh?" and then realized that my post about Sarah Palin and bendy straws did indeed become a discussion about the phallic nature of the business end of a 747. I love you guys. Commenters, FTW!
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My mother's first comment brings up a fun story I don't believe I've ever told here. When I was a baby, I was very giggly. My Grandma Wanda told stories about making me giggle and laugh at an age when babies aren't usually capable of real laughter like that. I don't know how or why or when it started, but one of the ways my mother made me laugh was to say the word "GUATEMALA!" Wee little me thought "GUATEMALA!" was the funniest thing ever, and my infectious laughter was great entertainment.
To this day, whenever I'm sitting on an airplane listening to the announcement to turn my phone off, or anytime I'm preparing to do something dangerous or potentially life-threatening, I send one last text message, to my mother, saying "GUATEMALA!" If I could control such things, my last word to my mother would be "GUATEMALA!" Why not "I love you" or "Thank you" or "You're the best mother a person could wish for" or "I'm so happy to have had this life with you"?
Because I think "GUATEMALA!" covers all of that.
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This week, years past:
2009: "I want to teabag you, Patriot"
2008: Heavily moisturized girl wrestling
2007: Johnny Cash's house on the lake burned down
2006: The site got redesigned for the fifth out of eleventy-seven times. This is only notable because in the comments of this post, I mention to Becca that I'm going on a date that night with a Chrysler engineer. Which means that this is roughly the anniversary of my only really truly bad bad scary online dating experience, which is a story that just came up yesterday in a conversation with BLC. Weird.
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