I always try to come in an do some kind of update. I get to writing, realize it's kinda boring, and hit the back button. But not this time...

That's the thing with having a regular full-time job. When I get home from work, the only thing I've wanted to do lately is lie down, play video games, cook dinner, watch old DVDs (I'm currently working through the Freaks and Geeks boxed set), and drink wine. Needless to say, things have been a bit dull for me lately. Though with the new job, I've been looking to save up in order to move out by spring. The problem with that being most of the places I'm seeing that I'd pay for aren't necessarily in an area I want to live in. Example: Wow, $650 or a spacious 2-bedroom...oh, it's a trailer.

Other new things, I'm trying to get more web-design experience, or at least comfort. I've been updating myself on current trends and innovations that I've not paid much attention to in the past few years over at Smashing Magazine. and getting a way to extend my CS5 trial until I can find a student willing to take my money and buy the education version so I can tinker around more. I've ordered a few books on CSS3 and HTML5, which are the next big thing (though some of HTML5's new features scare me in the way that more intensive coding does).

So yeah, you see. Boring. Now I have to go clean.

I had my last race of the year to work two weeks ago. This time, it was the MotoGP, which is probably my second favorite of the races. It's different, but still pretty exciting. I guess it helps that the race its self isn't very long, but watching men ride around a track on a motorcycle at over 150 miles per hour is just exciting.
(Some may have heard about the . It was quite sad to hear, and I didn't even know about it until well after the race. This happened on the inside track, and no announcement was made about what had happened, only that he didn't make it back to the starting grid.)

The 500 probably reminds the best to me just because it's such an event. This whole massive track is just packed with people. Attendance this year was down, but there still had to be over 200,000 people in the seats. The capacity for the whole track is about 257,000. It's not as glamorous as the Formula One race in Monaco, but I don't live two hours away from Monaco.

Brickyard, to me, is the most boring. Nascar is just slow and long and slow. They knock into each other and nothing happens. It's just meh. Plus it was really damn hot.

And as always, I have some pictures.



( start your engines...again )