Farewell Champ Cars - LBGP ‘08!
Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Filed under Sports
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Last weekend was the annual trip to the Long Beach Grand Prix. It marked the last time the series known as “Champ Car” will be headlining the weekend. The Champ Car World Series is now defunct and some of the teams/drivers are joining the IRL. Next year we’ll see whatever the result of joining the two leagues will be. That will be exciting to have one open-wheel, but it was bittersweet a little bit as Champ Car had forged it’s own niche and was starting to develop a nice fan base. I’ll spare you the whole story about the guy behind the whole mess of splitting the big Indy car league into two leagues long ago, only to proclaim himself the hero this time around by taking credit for the merger. Blah!
For the weekend I just went on Saturday and Sunday this time, both with my Dad and Brother. We always have a great time. I snapped a ton of photos, but only uploaded a select few. Check’em out!
Monique took our baby girl up north to visit the masses for the long weekend. They made the huge journey by car — I’m usre that was one LONG trip! Both of them did great though, and I’m happy to have them home safe.
Tim’s all 40 and stuff!
Monday April 14, 2008 at 1:10 am | Filed under Friends, Trips
Tim’s 40! Can you believe it? Well believe it cuz for the occasion Chip & Drifty rocked The Lucky Labrador in Portland last weekend. The three of us flew up to catch the gig and bookended it with a nice visit with my mom and sister. But back to the gig. Chip & Drifty packed the house and then blew the roof off the joint with a new arrangement of “Church!” Excellent stuff. Happy Birthday Tim!
New Look
Monday April 14, 2008 at 12:58 am | Filed under Quickies, Site
As promised I spent some time over the weekend to change the look of my site a bit. I used some ideas that I had from a few designs ago and a template that I found online and put them all together to get what you see here. It’s not done though… oh no… it’s never done. But it’s over 50% so it’s worth launching.
Wordpress 2.5 was a pretty big leap. Or at least it feels that way. Rumor has it 2.6 will build off of these changes and be ever more cool. Can’t wait!