At the Quarter pole

Ok... A quarter of the season is done and the Braves are in first place by a half game over the Mets. They have played better than i thought they would and I feel they are going to hang in with the Mets and put themselves in position for the wildcard if they dont prevail in the division. It looks like it will possible take 100 wins to take the division and they are at 25 wins ( go figure) at the Quarter pole. Lets check back in at the half way mark....

Nextel All Star race on the docket for this weekend. There are several moments i always look forward to.... 1) when the cars first crank up, 2) when they rumble by during the warm up lap and the ground shakes as they go by and you get that first whiff of high octane fuel, 3) Then the green flag drops and they scream by in 1st and 2nd gear and 4) when they come by on that first lap. Its always been amazing to feel a difference in the air when this race starts. I think its because the only people racing are the better cars and teams, and because its such a short race, they mean business from the get go. At a normal race, they very quickly settle in for the long haul because you can win if you aint running t the end, and when they end is 3 hours away, no use beatin and bangin at the beginning. The All Star race takes away all those laps and puts the end of the race ...NOW. the guys at the back have to go...NOW. which means the guys up front are in the way. And with the winner taking home more than a million dollars, people get impatient.

I was a Speed Television's broadcast of Live at Trackside in Darlington, and they played a song that once again reminds me of why Music is the Patron...well you get the drift. It was Jerry Reed's Eastbound and Down and just standing there listening brings back memeories and provokes feelings. Isnt that great that one song can do that? And as iwrite this and and aware of who reads this regularly, I think about the one thing that binds us all...Music.

#14) Something I want to do

See my children graduate High school, then move on...

Yeah, I guess most people want to do this and I guess its an obvious thing. But I will be pushing 60 if/when they graduate college or whatever it is they decide to do after the graduate highschool. That also means that if they marry the same age i was when I married, i will be into my 70's when means i potentially may never see my grandchildren, if there are any. While that makes me sad, I realize that whatever shall be shall be in those regards. But to see them through to highschool then off to bigger and better things is something i must do, for I have always believed that my purpose wasnt as much to accomplish a lot of things, but perhaps to be a bridge between my parents generation and the twins generation. Kinda hard to explain that statement, but i think some of you might understand where I am coming from...