Blackstar

Blood pressure is down. Back to business.

I love Rush. But a lot of people can't stand them, mostly Geddy's vocals.

Elliot, Gibbs, SVG

Not a great pic but I was driving. Someone missed the corner and jumped the curb just down the road from me. That snail trail appears to be engine oil. I hope she made it to work.

My wife bought a piano in January and had it delivered to the house. The morning they showed up, the driveway had frozen to a sheet of ice. I was just salting it when they drove in. 2 guys, likely in their 40's or so. They carted the piano across an icey driveway and into the living room. Set it all up. Very Polite and cautious with the floors and furniture. They walk out the door and wife is saying "Thank you so much." I say to her, "What did you tip them?" She says "Oh fuck, I didn't even think about it." So me, "Here's a $50. You chase them out the driveway." Being in service myself. I'm very appreciative of those who do it well. I think the minimum wage for a server in Ontario is around $12. The general minimum wage is now $16.55

This guy grew up in southwestern Ontario about an hour north of me.

I didn't fair much better. I dumped Berry for Blaney last minute so 5th, 16th, 22nd. Busch looked real good at the start.

It's tough watching the 3 become a field filler. Dillon's best finish this year is a 16th and his average is 27th.

I always used to picked Busch at Bristol. But he sucked last week at Phoenix and he's been struggling since late last season. Hopefully we see him get back up front today. While we are talking RCR, how long do they leave Austin Dillon in the 3 car? He finished 29th in points last year, he had 1 top 5. Hasn't won a race in 2 years. The guy is 33 years old. Will he stay in the car until he's 40?

I didn't know the rules had changed, I just noticed a lot more places charging for credit card use. It was always in place at auctions I attended. I don't accept credit cards at all in my business. We prefer cheques or etransfer. The bank charges us now if we deposit cash. I always tip. Even bad service I will leave something. I don't know what is going on in someone's personal life, maybe the waiter/waitress is having a bad day. Great service and I will tip better than 20%. We went to dinner in Florida recently, just the wife and I at a steak place. Bill was $350. The waiter brings the machine and minimum tip was preset to 20% with 25 and 30 as options. I was a bit offended by that. Then I was at Wendy's for lunch the other day. My employee and I don't like this particular one because the staff just never gets anything right. The lady at the cash this day was probably mid to late 30's. She was smiling good banter, she was moving her ass. The orders were correct and came quick. It was a good experience and I said to my employee "I wish I had the option to tip her. Not the rest of the staff, just her." I guess I should have tossed her a $20 over the counter but not sure how that would go over. It was nice to deal with someone who spoke English and had a positive attitude. I don't see that often.

Berry, Logano, Larson

Looking up those shocks in Canada, they are $242/each.

Thanks. Probably not worth shipping from Canada. There are some local shock guys here I can deal with. At those prices, its probably worth replacing them.

I've got a 2015 ZR9000 LXR and I've never had the shocks serviced because I thought they were non-rebuildable. Anybody know for sure? I've decided to keep the sled as a spare. Maybe its worth throwing some decent shocks on it.

Jones got Bubba'd. He wasn't the only one. I know Wallace is running better but I still don't like him.

He is to blame no question. It was surprising that he couldn't make passes once he got buried back in the pack. Reddick made his back to the top 10 and Bell ran right through the pack to the lead. Up until Hamlin spun, he was a top 5 car.

My Legend 7x23 is now 14 years old and the steel axle mounts ate their way into the aluminum frame. I had the trailer into a welding/fab shop. They cut out the rotten sections of1/8" tube frame and welded in 1/4 plate aluminum. Its all fixed up and looks good. The floor was capped over top of the axle mounts and I told them not to worry about being gentle. I had a rubber sheet flooring that I pulled out before taking it to them. They cut an opening just enough to remove and replace the mount bolts. I'm thinking of replacing the entire floor while its half way apart. This trailer originally had that AdvanTech OSB water proof flooring. Other manu's use products called Dricore and Drymax, etc, all the same stuff. I don't see where I can buy that at a local lumber store. There are some specialty plywood places here and maybe I'll call around a bit to see what they have. Anyone have a recommended product. What about using 3/4" Pressure Treated plywood?

Good win for Bell. Dominate car for the second half of the race. The rest of the top 10 was a mix of good cars and pit strategies. It was a good race until Hamlin spun and everything got messed up.