The postal service lost my beautiful postcard of a Vermont Holstein enigmatically staring into the camera lens? Damn them! Damn them all! I'll have to see if I can find the same one, if not they might have to settle for a loss bovine card...
-Ricardo
"2 minutes by yourself and...you feel shame, you know...and then you get free"
as far as driving fast on 129 goes.. believe it or not, it is much safer to drive it fast at night (which is mostly when I went) for a couple of reasons.. first off, there is little to zero traffic escpecially in the weeeee hours of the morning.. also, throughout all the switchbacks and stuff you can see headlights of oncoming traffic for a good 1/4 mile ahead of you and you have plenty of time to slow down.. the only bad thing about night is the animals.. When Steve and I got there we had to take the Dragon on our way in, this after being up for 25 hours 16 of which were driving, even then the road wasn't THAT challenging, if you know how to drive, etc.. we almost hit a deer and by saying almost I mean it was about 50 yards ahead of us and I downshifted, applied the brakes and we let him go across the road.. other people just got stupid, that's all..
I have in car video of my runs day and night.. you'll see that although it felt extremely fast, the speed-o really never really got above 50 in the straight sections, the people that wrecked were trying to drive in excess of 55 mph in areas where the limit was 20 or at most 30 mph, in the curves, not the straightaways and taking the widest curve they could..
Snid, I'm open for sponsorship, you willing to come up with the fees for me to go on a track?..
Ah...such fond memories of Roanoke...Laurie and I waking up at a Holiday Inn in the middle of the night on a bed that filled with ants. I surely do love the South.
actually, it doesn't look all that bad considering the type of driving it is.. it's also a much less boring type of racing IMHO than track stuff.. Thanks for the link I may have finally found something I'm willing to follow the rules to do..
Ha! Funny you should mention it. Last Tuesday, I sent ice some stuff via FedEx. NH to CT, standard overnight. Since FedEx has switched to the brown model and does not require a signature unless so specified, it has become an easier job for us couriers but often problematic for customers. Anyway, ol Bradeopolis said, "Yo, where's my stuff?"
I tracked it and told him that it was left at the back door at 11:35 Wed. AM. Days later, he found it in the barn.
Sending it FedEx? or UPS? (DHL still too scary for me), require a siggy..even an indirect.
Speaking of MINIs: My car has never had the cold start problem. But now it takes two or three tries. I think it has to do with ethanol in the gas. Anybody else has the same problem?
YES! And Gary and Heather even predicted that I would three weeks ago. I had the parameters reset in the ECU because I had the lumpy idle / near stall, and they said that resetting it and the change to summer fuel would probably mean that I'd get the cold start problem. Of course your $3.20 a gallon is only buying you 90% of a gallon since they now put 10% ethanol in. It should be called E10 if we're supposed to swallow this whole 'go yellow' campaign for E85 shouldn't it..??
Gary also said that BMW was about to launch an additive to make the crappy fuel back up to something that can run an engine effectively. All these problems only occur in California, Ohio and the Northeast apparently - all the areas that use the California emmisions grade gas. Someone needs to standardize the blends (hopefully not on CA blend) and get rid of the 17+ different mixes that are sold across the country!
Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else.
On my way to Lime Rock, I filled up with 10% ethanol. The car ran just fine out on the track and on the drive home - through the tank of E10
I don't think the gas up in Vermont is 10% ethanol, at least there aren't stickers on the pumps like there were when I filled up in CT (or maybe it was MA).
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!.. Thank you , Ricardo.. 
I may have finally found something I'm willing to follow the rules to do.. 
Lawdy, Lawdy, the Cross I bear. 
