DAN’S BLOG

The Rally Races that is! On Saturday 9/27/08, Dave, Jason, and I came along with Scott to watch Scott race his blue Subaru STI around a dirt rally course. It was quite a blast. This was the first time that the event holders had a race at this particular location in Chula Vista. I’ve never been to one before. So there’s two firsts. Blue Subaru STI’s must be real popular because there were 4 or 5 of them there! Spectators were few in numbers which provided for a very layed back day. In all there were probably 30 to 40 cars racing. They ranged from a rented red mustang to a little old Ford Fiesta. The course started off mostly flat and dry. They had a water truck wet it down at times to keep dust to a minimum. As the day went on lots of big rocks surfaced on the course which made it extremely bumpy and somewhat hazardous to paint jobs. The worst damage to Scott’s car was a couple dings on his rims. However one car tore it’s entire front fender liner out and another lost a rear bumper. Then there was the car that lost its front right wheel when it ripped off the hub which still was bolted onto the car. Dave, Jason, and I got loaner helmets and got to go around the track as passengers with Scott. Fun fun. Here’s some pics.

I’m doing a little construction in my server room. I shutdown all the servers today to move things around. Here’s some pics of what the new server room looks like and of me removing my old rack to bring to my new house. I replaced it with a smaller temporary rack.

This past Wednesday, me and a few friends went to Disneyland and California Adventure. It has been quite a while since I have visited Disneyland and i’ve been wanting to go for a long time. Until now I had not been able ride the new and improved version of Space Mountain. We rode it 3 times. It was awesome! The music is groovy too. We spent the first half of the day in California Adventure and the second half in Disneyland. I only wish we had a bit more time because the parks closed at 6 and 8 PM respectfully. No fireworks and the haunted mansion is closed while they get ready for Halloween. We did go on all the other major rides however which was good. Because this was the second day of school for most people, we had the parks to ourselves practically. There were no big crowds and the lines were mostly 5 minutes long, some up to 20 minutes. For dinner we are at the Rainforest Cafe, where you eat in a rain forest complete with rain, thunder, lightning, and animatronic gorillas. Here’s some pics!