We went down to Columbus In this morning and got to watch the action for an hour or so. It was one of those days that kept chopping my legs out from under me.
1. I woke up in the night and set the stove timer to get up in time to go. I got a bit confused and set it for an hour too soon (I'd like to blame this on the time change but I think it was just operator error.
2. So I arrived at my son's place an hour early. I just reclined the seat a bit and took a nap until 7 am.
3. Then we took off for indy. I had checked my fuel in my dodge for the day and made sure it was full enough to go and come back. But I took the 250 Ml and it did not have sufficient fuel.
4. So I got off to fuel up on the west side of Indianapolis. After trying to operate the pump five times I discovered there was script with prompts put in an out of the way place. With that info I tried again and failed.
5. So I went to a different pump in the same station and found they required me to go inside. I went to another place.
6. I got back on the highway and stopped the first place showing to have diesel. I got off and found the station had no diesel pumps. So I went across the street to one displaying a price for diesel. But I found the entire station with some 20 pumps had bags over the nozzles.
7. So I got back on the highway again and next time found a pump which worked and filled up.
8. So we got to the event site, parked and got out to look around. We talked to a few people who were glad to see me and my handsome grandson.
9. So they started the event and ran for about 45 minutes. There was a stoppage of the event. These stoppages are common and usually is a scoring computer glitch or something unplugged.
10. After a while the course workers started coming in. This has never happened before.
11. I soon learned that the event was stopped because a course worker had been stuck by a car. No details were available but five emt vehicles converged. I decided to head home as it seemed quite possible there would be no more runs today.

I have never had such a day.

Tom

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