04-XI-2007.

Yesterday we had Greg visiting. Too bad I had a Skype call for a whole hour with SFBC (and David in Toronto) so I missed about half of the banter, but the guy is really one of the few people here who has our way of joking. Not only gets it, but is actually equally fast to understand, counter and up one.

He was referreeing (if that's a word) some hockey match around here. The shorthaired is the other referree.

In the afternoon we went across the bay, to Langley, with two cars. The N.A.S.A. (with the dots - the automotive sports national association, across the road from NASA's units) arranged a racing track on the stadium, where each contestant would drive a zigzag course, with lots of curves, against the stopwatch. Nina had attended some such course, and her 360 SX was up to the task, what with the new struts etc that we helped her install last year.

On this picture her car is to the left of the pole. And yes, it's quite normal to have a wooden pole on the same picture with the tunnel where some space tech is tested, just across the street. This is America, bro, there's wood to your heart's desire.

She does know how to drive, better than I ever did.

I've shot a dozen minute video of the whole event, but with Fujica's video being at veegeeaye resolution, it's almost 100M and still not much of quality.

And I've left this autopatch in full size, so if you're into this, open the picture in full and knock yourself out.

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Mentions: David Berton, Fujica, Greg Reubenthal, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), SFBC, in serbian