It’s Monday. History was made yesterday when Richard Branson and crew rode to suborbital space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity and glided back to Earth successfully. It’s the latest step in the race to be the first in the growing space tourism business. Next up, on July 20th Amazon’s founder and billionaire magnate Jeff Bezos will join his brother, Wally Funk, and one auction winner to become the first crew aboard the reusable New Shepard rocket for an 11-minute voyage to space. At this time the petition to prevent Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth has gathered over 155,000 signatures and rising. 

We had a wet weekend that I mostly spent working. I did catch the SRX race on Saturday and the Nascar race on Sunday. I really enjoyed the SRX series, just wish I hadn’t missed the first 4 races! 

Monday… again.

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It’s Sunday! The weather was crappy yesterday so there was no point in heading out to the monthly car show in Morris, Illinois. Instead I decided to catch the SRX race on CBS. SRX is a new racing series created by Tony Stewart and Ray Everham that races exclusively on dirt short-tracks and features drivers new and old.

The event consists of two short heat races followed by the feature race. One thing I noticed was that nearly every driver they talked to mentioned how much fun they were having. And it shows. The races are short, energectic, and action packed. It’s a refreshing change from NASCAR and I really enjoyed it. I’m already looking forward to next week’s race in Nashville.

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It’s Saturday! Ever wonder what the view was like from the top of the Chrysler building… from outside?

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