Saturday, March 26, 2011

DFL at Last!!

Okay, the title may be slightly facetious. :)
We just got home from the March Muddy Waters Road Rally. What a day! We started off with a cozy breakfast at home, then a quick drive up to Bloomington to meet up with Todd Johnson. Exchanged some BMW wheels for cash and talked BMW for a few moments, then off to Hastings.
Registration went off with a hitch and Clarence Westberg was on a role helping out everybody decipher his intentions. Leann and I mostly just chilled in the corner and talked with Jeff, a friend from Butternut. Then we took off! Unforunately neither of us bothered to eat much all morning, and neither of us took anything for motion sickness. Whoops!
Clarence had quite the bag of tricks for us! 11 legs of variety and no CASTS. it was VERY enjoyable for us, sans the motion sickness.
We ended up about 45 minutes behind at Muddy Waters in Prescott, WI. Our pasta was delicious, Jeff complained that his ribs were only so-so; not what he expected at a Blues themed restaurant.
When the scores were all compiled and agreed upon we ended up with a total of 64 points, mostly time errors because we could not keep up with the fast pace. Back to the intro- yes after all these rallies we finally managed to peg the coveted DFL trophy- Two bottles of Rogue Brewing's Dead Guy Ale! Yay!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Thanks a lot US news media

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/models/models1.html

The above is a link to the official predictions for WAVE impact from the earthquake in Japan. The highest I saw for US coastline was just over 2m (6-8ft)

I am sitting here watching weather channel thinking to myself "What the hell are they worried about all over the west coast? do they not know how tall normal ocean waves are? waves on Lake Superior in a small storm are higher than most of the projected heights and we go sailing in that. What a sham. Thanks a lot TV.