Weekend Update
Saturday I was an instructor at BMWCCA's (BMW Car Club of America) Street Survival school which teaches 16-20 year old students car control. We had a skid-pad, braking zones, accident avoidance, and a slalom. I'm pretty sure everyone of the kids loved it. I say kids but I'm only a few years older than the students! It took up the entire day, and I would've rather been at the Richmond Marathon, but I'm still glad I did it.
Sunday I autocrossed in Dinwiddie, at VMP. The temperatures were low and the winds were a constant 12-15 MPH. It made for a very blah day. The race tires couldn't keep warm enough between runs to really feel good about my runs. I had to give up time in lots of places to stay clean and on course. In the end, I did pull together a fantastic clean run--my last for the day. It placed me in 1st in DSP, in front of someone I've battled with all season. I was 12th in both PAX and RAW time. I find that DSP's handicap usually puts you within a place or two of your RAW time, at least when you're in the 5-15 region. There were some fast drivers and cars that showed up yesterday, that's for sure. Again, I'm glad I did it, but would've rather spent the day doing other things. So it was mostly a weekend of car-stuff, which did not include actual car work.
Later on Sunday, the roommate and I went out for a 2 hour bike ride. At one point we ended up in Hollywood Cemetery. This place is rather scary at night, especially having never been there even in the daylight. On the way out we heard a gunshot (coming from city side, not cemetery side), my second or third since moving into the City.
This upcoming Friday, my roommate's friend is moving in with us. This means I need to clean out the office-room. I'm excited to be receiving more rent payments. Maybe I'll even save up and go somewhere, or pay off some debt.



I got to Cary Elementary at 6:15 and found a line 75-100 yards long outside the school. It was pretty uneventful waiting in line, except the light rain and sometimes interesting conversation between fellow line-mates.
When we got inside and closer to the actual polls, they were calling for people with the last name T-Z to skip the line and head straight up. Occasionally, they even called for H-S to come up as there were fewer of them. What caused this? Did the segmentation of the alphabet properly reflect the registered voters, but just people with last name A-G showed up more? Did someone skip his/her homework and forget to research the proper distribution? Or is mandated by law to break up the lines in such a way?
Voting itself was pretty uneventful, except my machine (#1) had a “Charge/Battery Low” warning light blinking, so I alerted one of the workers. Why would these machines not be plugged in, or not fully charged? I also heard one lady tell another “Don’t use Machine 3.” I don’t know why, but that scared me, too.
Two hours after arriving, I was done voting!
Afterward, I immediately broke my Starbucks rule and got free coffee. The place was packed!