Speaking of the The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, be sure to drop in if you do get to Knoxville. It's a wonderful place full of awesome displays of all kinds of racing memorabilia. They are doing a great job of preserving the sport for generations to come. And for very little money, you can become a member and help the cause. It's something I've been doing for the last six or seven years, and it's well worth the cost of dues.
I'm just hanging out here at home tonight, channel surfing and messing around on the computer in between loads of laundry. Managed to catch the end of one of my favorite CMT concerts: Crossroads with Bon Jovi and Sugarland. I have no idea how many times I've seen that, but whoever put those two groups together is brilliant! Tomorrow night is the premier of a new CMT concert with Randy Travis and Josh Turner, which looks like another hit.
Yesterday, for no reason except the fact that my mind wanders when I work too long, I got to thinking about racing and sponsorship and how it all works. My thoughts moved along the lines of the question: Just how loyal are fans when it comes to the sponsors of their favorite drivers? I have made no bones about the fact that I'm a big fan of Tony Stewart, and anybody who knows anything about racing knows who his biggest sponsor is. Well, here in our house, we've definitely given our share of support to Home Depot this year. After the infamous dryer fire, we replaced not only the dryer, but the washer as well, with brand new LG appliances from Homer's. Not too many weeks later, we replaced our failing dishwasher with yet another LG model. It's amazing to me how clean our laundry and dishes are now! I am still curious as to how much all of these purchases, plus the other, smaller items, equal out to when it comes to parts on the #20 car. Have we spent enough to claim a bumper? A shock? Or maybe just a piece of that film they rip off the front window? I have no idea, but it's kind of fun to think about. As I said, my mind wanders down some pretty strange roads. I take comfort in the fact that I can't be the only one with that problem.
You might say that I am one of those people who is easily entertained. In fact, I can have fun with just a screwdriver, an allen wrench and some of that wonderful furniture that comes in a box. As a matter of fact, I put together two pieces in the last two days for my son. Unfortunately, it wasn't until I was almost finished that my husband handed me the power screwdriver. Boy, are my shoulders tired!
The next race on our schedule will probably be at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City. I'm still working on those plans though, and I think Spring has a wedding to shoot, but there will be an update here sometime in the next few days. We're still trying to figure out a night when we can get together to watch one of the last night time Cup races too. Since this whole thing started with us watching the Daytona 500 at Spring's house, we figured it would be appropriate to wind up the season with another one here. Tentative plans were for the August 26 Sharpie 500 at Bristol, but it looks like we may have my Father-in-law's 70th birthday to celebrate that night so it's likely that we're going to have to opt for either the California or Richmond race. We'll just have to see how it goes.
My daughter informed me a few minutes ago that she read on a local radio site that our friends at Grand Prix Speedways will be hosting the St. Louis auditions for the next season of American Idol. I won't claim to be an Idol fan, in fact I think I have managed to watch a total of ten minutes of the show, tuning in the last two seasons just in time to catch the results, but I still think it's pretty cool that GPS will be one of the audition sites. That ought to be absolutely crazy!
Well, you've probably had about enough of me for one evening so I'll call it a night. Thanks for checking in again!
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