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Huh. So he *does* look skinnier to me.

"Elliott Sadler looks like what my Mom would have called a "wooly booger." Sadler spent most of the past seven weeks near his home in Emporia, Va., hunting with his buddies. "I left straight from the woods to come down here," he said. He also had a mustache and beard -- not the full pre-Yankees Johnny Damon look, but down that road. Sadler said he's lost 11 of 12 pounds he promised crew chief Tommy Baldwin Jr. he'd drop before the season. When he gets a haircut he'll be the rest of the way there."

(From That's Racin)

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Joyous sight number 1: Car with a big ole bull's eye on the hood, and it's not Ca-say. Woohoo!

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Elliott Sadler

"I think the Ford Fusion is great," commented Sadler. "I really like the way it looks, the way it's turned out. The way the character lines on it. I like the way it drives. I've been very happy with the way my car feels in the race track this morning. So, I like the new Fusion body. I like the nose on it, the front tires in the ground, and I can't wait to get it some drafting practice to see the full effects of it. But, so far, so good."

Is it just me, or is Ellyut loving that car just a wee too much?

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Kasey Kahne

"I showed my skill at Richmond and that was it. It was really a pathetic year. Some of the things I did, some of the crashes I was in I didn't need to be in. I forced the issue. I knew my car was on the edge of crashing and I went past that edge and crashed. That was pretty bad driving really."

I have respect for a driver that owns up like that. He really is a mature kid.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.

"I was like, 'I have to change, to get away from this and do him (Eury Jr.) some good and me some good,'" Earnhardt Jr. said of the situation. "But I was just scared to be the one to make the decision to do it because a lot of people wouldn't understand it. A lot of people didn't understand it."

In the full interview it gives more detail on it, but the thing that sticks out is Junior being scared of being the one to have to force them apart so they wouldn't hate each other. That's kind of...yeah. Family.

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Random bizarre question: Take any show you watch, the actors and/or the characters, and consider the following - if you were to compete on Dancing With The Stars with one of them, who would you chose and why?

(Why yes, my musings at 1 am while trying to fall asleep are bizarre.)

Smallville: Schneider or Glover. I'm giving the edge to Schneider based on his awesome hood sliding abilities. Tom Welling absolutely would not be my partner though, as he is klutzy.

Supernatural: Jensen. Absolutely Jensen. I don't think he'd be that much better than Jared, but odds are that big also equals gangly, so there'd be issues with me getting whacked by flailing limbs.

American Idol: Oddly enough...Randy. Paula would be better than me, which just sucks for me, but Randy played the proper instrument to have rhythm.

NASCAR: I gave this one a lot of thought and...Kurt Busch. Hear me out. These are mostly redneck guys. Do you think any of them have any coordination? Backflips aside, most are going to be kind of scary dancers. Kurt at least has some inate grace and, while I can't stand him right now, I could tolerate being his dance partner in pursuit of a win. Backup on that one would be Kenny Wallace, because if there's no ability, go with flair.

Firefly: Alan Tudyk. Again, for the flair. He'd definitely give it his all! LOL No, wait, I take that back. I want Ron Glass.

Morons

Saturday my mother and I were ringing customers up on two different computers. The second one (mine) was the cash only computer. First sale we have problems - the drawer won't open (I could use a key to get it open) and it won't print a receipt. It's having issues communicating with the hardware. Pain in the butt that my dad *still* hasn't gotten fixed.

Well, I did the sensible thing and wrote out a receipt for her, even though she didn't request one. Total, date, location. She was okay with it. Mom later said something, with the woman standing nearby, and there was the whole process of explaining I had written out a receipt for her, while she stood there nodding.

Mom says apparently the woman came back today, because she had shopped more (she bought only clearance sale items the first purchase), and she wanted to know why she'd been double charged for the items she bought. When she shopped more and came up to the counter she handed mom everything, including things she'd already paid for because she wanted a receipt.

*headdesk*

This woman teaches children. Why did she not realize that all our discussions about giving her a receipt meant that we were not going to give her another receipt? And that just handing us random items on a day when we did over $2,000 in business (which is really, really busy for us - this woman's first purchase was only $11) means we can't remember her $11 she got charged for again! When she doesn't tell us anything and comes up to the counter in the midst of a pack of people! Argh!

To top it all

Guess what we just found on a table in the back of the office? A layer of drywall dust. The construction is going on one floor down, which is an elevator ride away (or, for that portion of the office, down a stairwell, out a door, around to the front door and in). There are no open windows. This stuff is coming in through the duct work.

Incidentally, half the office is coughing and sneezing. I've had a slight cough, which is nothing compared to the hives. If I find out I'm allergic to drywall dust, I'm raising holy hell.

I'm also buying masks tonight, so I don't have to fret as much about breathing this crap. Here's to the fun of walking in tomorrow with my nose and mouth covered! Let's scare the construction workers!

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Holy crap. Watching the Ellyut interview on NASCAR.com, and he said "massaged".

It takes very little to make me forget the hives. *G*

Oh crap. "Package". *giggle*