Off Rhythm

You know what's on my "NOT" list today? Daylight Savings Time. Losing that one hour is about to kill me. I could slid out of my desk chair at any moment. Last night my clapotis never even made it out of my knitting bag.

On Saturday morning John and I went down to the track at the School for the Blind so John could run and I could knit and keep his lap times for him. (Me, run? Only if my life is in danger.) Around mile four or five something went wrong with my clapotis and I didn’t notice the issue for a few rows. All I can figure is that I may have repeated a row in the pattern. When I realized it I kind of wanted to throw-up. Eventually I concluded that the best thing to do was to back up row by row and stitch by stitch. It slowed me down a little but I seem to have the issue worked out and I’m back on...track.

Since I was visiting my grandfather on Sunday John and I taped that day’s IRL’s St. Pete’s Grand Prix. We were watching it last night and by lap 50 of 100 we were both fighting to keep our eyes open. It turned out to be the first road course race I’ve really enjoyed and my Brazilian IRL boyfriend, Helio Castroneves, won. Even though Rusty Wallace still can’t pronounce the two-time Indy 500 winner’s name. This after driving Helio’s car at Homestead so he could have the experience of being in an Indy car. “Those Indy cars are hard to steer!” Who decided it would be a good idea to have Rusty Wallace announcing Indy races? Now, I’m not going to say, “Go back to NASCAR” because he just got started and I want to give him more of a chance. I think that’s only fair. I’m holding out hope that Scott Goodyear is planning a tutorial on how to pronounce all them there foreign drivers’ names and use phrases like, “same piece of real estate”, “rookie mistake”, and “at that point you’re just a passenger” as well as how to compare/contrast Indy cars to, um say, Indy cars and not stock cars. You see we IRL fans know at least few things about the differences between stock cars and Indy cars. 1) Indy cars make cooler sounds 2) They go considerably faster 3) There are no windshields.