[Land-speed] The Waiting...

[Skip Higginbotham]

Yep Rich! If we want to race.....go to the salt.
If it is too wet when we get there, wait or go
back home. Not too complicated. The technology does help.
Thanks Mark,
Skip




At 06:17 AM 8/5/2007, ifixmgs at cox.net wrote:
>Sounds an awful lot like
>any  good/bad/indifferent day in the army for,
>let's say, the last 200 years or so Because of
>the potential for  lasst minute work related
>travel, I  went for the  refundable tickets two months ago just in case.
>   The  Farmers Almanack and the USWS said it
> would probably be drier and warmer than usual
> owing to a half degree increase in average
> temps.  My take is that three virtually
> immutable  "laws"  come into play:   The first,
> involving one or more laws of thermodynamics
> results in energy going somewhere -  in this
> case, instead of water under the bridge, it's
> water on the salt waiting to go under the
> bridge...  Caused, in part,  by the second law
> (Murphy, et al) and more or less guaranteed by
> the third : the old Man plans, God
> laughs..   That said,  I always thought that He
> was a fuel coupe kind of guy whose only chuckling at this point...
>    My prayers go out  for everyone  who has
> poured time, blood, sweat, tears, bucks and
> heart into their cars,    that  the salt be
> flat,  the weather fair, the courses safe, and
> that everybody  makes an ok pass.  Would a
> banner year for hats and records be asking a bit  too much???
>Mark C
>
>---- Rich Fox <v4gr at rcn.com> wrote:
> > This could be the way it used to be. You just knew nothing at all. Lots
of
> > phone calls. No information. No way to get information before all this
> > computer stuff. You could just turn the computer off and show up next
> > Saturday.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat at pahrump.com>
> > To: <drmayf at mayfco.com>; "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 5:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Land-speed] The Waiting...
> >
> >
> > > Check the SCTA website.
> > > Skip