Big Wheels

So check this shit out.

I'm digging through some stuff and I find a disposable camera. It's got 10 shots left on it, meaning that some where and some how I took 14 other shots. But I had no idea where!

So I went to work, wasted the other 10 shots and ran to Walgreens. After waiting an hour, plus 23 (see my rant about freakin' Columbus Day to understand why I waited a day) I went back and picked up my photos.

I got home and opened up the envelope and I find my pictures that I took when I was with Coop at the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. I was thrilled because in it was my first 'celebrity' picture. See, it's me and Michael Waltrip!

Here's one of Coop with Michael. It's pretty sad how poorly framed that one is. I don't know what happened there. It must have been because I was so excited! Even though I wasn't a NASCAR fan... And Coop is and the one he took was perfect.


I guess I'm just incompetent...

Anyway, that was a VERY fun day, even if the NASCAR police found me and kicked me out of the garage because I was wearing shorts. I apparently didn't read the back of my pass. So I had to borrow Coop's car and went to Wal*Mart on LVB and Nellis and bought a pair of jeans.

Of course this was right before our noon hit, so I had to haul ass. But I did it. We shot a pretty cool pack about tires - they go through a lot of tires at a NASCAR race - and did a live from within the garage area.

Coop stayed the day out there, but I left right around noon. They told me to leave my truck out there, so I did and some drunken red-necks graffiti’d her! She still has some of the stickers on her because I couldn't peel them off. Really pissed me off. If they had told me I was going to have to leave the truck I would have taken out one of the UAOPS (Ugly Ass Old Paint Scheme) trucks - 21 and 20.

Well whatever. At any rate I look forward to next March to do it again! This time I will remember long pants!

One other thing you might be interested in knowing... The Channel 13 live truck in this picture... This is one of the last pictures of her taken before she exploded! Well, it didn't explode, but it did catch fire for some reason. Gutted her! So take a moment to wish her happy voyages in live truck heaven!