i am getted excited

My mom told me that on Saturday she was talking to my brother, Stephen, and his friend, Mark. Mark asked how she had been and she told him she had been getting ready for the yard sale (their subdivision has a huge neighborhood wide yard sale every 3rd Sat of May) and this week she was going to rest and get ready to go to the Indy 500. I guess this was the first Stephen had heard that Mom was going to the 500 with me and John. His reaction? “My mom is cool.” I’m sure this wasn’t the first time he had realized that his mother, the women who took her son of a preacher man child to get his ear's pierced, was cool. It couldn’t be. Mom is cool. She saw REM and U2 at Rupp Arena with me and Eric. She loves going to Ichthus and Cornerstone and NewSong with us. It was an email about getting ready for Ichthus that gave us one of my favorite Janice Coomer-ism’s of all time. “I am getted excited!”.
We’re from the 90th running of the Indy 500 and I am GETTED EXCITED!!!

Pole and Bump Days were sunny. Thiago Mediros (no relation to Glenn “nothing’s going to change my love for you" Mediros that I know of) survived being on the bubble. And he is probably my favorite underdog/rookie even though I predict that he’ll be the first into the wall on Sunday.

This years Indy 500 features:
Six former winners- Castroneves, Wheldon, Rice, Cheever, B. Lazier, Little Al
Five sons of former winners - Mi. Andretti, L. Foyt, Little Al, Lyndyck Jr, PJ Jones.
One grandson of a former winner (Marco Andretti)
The son-in-law of a former winner (Papis–son-in-law of E. Fittapaldi)
Two Andrettis/father and son (Michael and Mario)
Two brothers (The Laziers)
Two PJ’s (Chesson and Jones)
Two Scotts (Sharp and Dixon)
Two Buddys (Rice and Lazier)
And six Brazilians (Castroneves, Kanaan, Meira, Medeiros, Dare, and Giaffone)
Indy 500 starting lineup
Row 1
1. (6) Sam Hornish Jr., Dallara, 228.985 mph
2. (3T) Helio Castroneves, Dallara, 228.008
3. (10) Dan Wheldon, Dallara, 227.338
Row 2
4. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara, 226.921
5. (11) Tony Kanaan, Dallara, 226.776
6. (4T) Vitor Meira, Dallara, 226.156
Row 3
7. (55) Kosuke Matsuura, Dallara, 225.503
8. (8) Scott Sharp, Dallara, 225.321
9. (26) r-Marco Andretti, Dallara, 224.918
Row 4
10. (16T) Danica Patrick, Panoz, 224.674
11. (2) Tomas Scheckter, Dallara, 224.659
12. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara, 224.548
Row 5
13. (1) Michael Andretti, Dallara, 224.508
14. (15T) Buddy Rice, Panoz, 224.393
15. (90) r-Townsend Bell, Dallara, 224.374
Row 6
16. (7) Bryan Herta, Dallara, 224.179
17. (27) Dario Franchitti, Dallara, 223.345
18. (52) Max Papis, Dallara, 222.058
Row 7
19. (51) Eddie Cheever, Dallara, 222.028
20. (91) r-P.J. Chesson, Dallara, 221.576
21. (14) Felipe Giaffone, Dallara, 221.542
Row 8
22. (92) Jeff Bucknum, Dallara, 221.461
23. (41) Larry Foyt, Dallara, 221.332
24. (21) Jaques Lazier, Panoz, 221.151
Row 9
25. (5) Buddy Lazier, Dallara, 220.922
26. (17T) Jeff Simmons, Panoz, 220.347
27. (31) Al Unser Jr., Dallara, 219.388
Row 10
28. (12) Roger Yasukawa, Panoz, 218.793
29. (88) Airton Dare, Panoz, 218.170
30. (97) Stephan Gregoire, Panoz, 217.428
Row 11
31. (61) r-Arie Luyendyk Jr., Panoz, 216.352
32. (98) PJ Jones, Panoz, 215.816
33. (18) r-Thiago Medeiros, Panoz, 215.729 After qualifying for the 500 rookie PJ Chesson got a new tattoo right there at the track. In the immortal words of Paris Hilton, "that's hot."