6/26/07

I have a real bad case of the “I don’t give a damns” right now. I think I'm anticipating the vacation time and the trip to the Tail of the Dragon. I'm, surprisingly, not dreading the trip yet. I'm sure this weekend will be when it hits. I guess it is still too surreal right now. I think this may be the first time I've been “Julie the Cruise Director” for an entire trip. Pat and Nora took over the planning and stuff for the Roswell trip ten years ago, Pat and Brad were in charge of the Formula One trip to Indy in ’04, any trip I've ever taken with mom she was in charge, ditto dad or any of my siblings, of course Aunt Margaret takes charge of anything she’s involved with, and all of the race trips with AUTOCOMP were laid out by Marty. I'm not counting one day, there and back, sorts of trips because I did take the helm when Josh and I took the Seven to Austin to meet the folks driving from Houston to San Francisco on the USA7s tour. Then again, someone else is planning out the route to the event and the organizers are scheduling the event itself, so I guess I'm not totally in charge. Ok, that’s a relief. I don’t really have anything to add to the rumor mill surrounding cars at the shop. I'm trying to not think about how close George is to being complete because, well, I don’t know why. I guess if it is still a work in progress with a bunch of stuff needed, I won’t sabotage it with excuses. We’ll see. I'm sure this weekend will be dedicated to getting stuff ready for the trip. I need to run a wet, soapy sponge over the Seven and make it presentable. I wonder if we should load the car into the trailer on Saturday or Sunday and have it ready to roll out first thing Wednesday morning. Yeah, we’ll probably do that, assuming Pat is going to be in town. Ray said something about going somewhere sometime but I wasn’t really listening that closely. Oops, I really need to call Pat. Ok, now I'm beginning to dread the trip. I just need to relax; it’ll all work out. Worst case, I'll meet Pat at the shop Tuesday evening and we’ll load the car then. No big whoop. Feh! I'm bored with this. I think I'm going to go do something else for a bit. I just spoke to Pat. He’s still on board for the trip. We’re going to get together this weekend and finalize stuff and things and stuff. So, other than that, I've got nothing else to say today. And rather than trying to say it, when there’s nothing to say, I'm going to call it a rant. Buh bye.