Am very tired and disappointed
Feb. 19th, 2007 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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hellokimberly's obsession with NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt Jnr, when I noticed that the NASCAR Daytona 500 was on Channel Five last night (at midnight to about 3 am!), since I was awake, having just watched Rough Diamond (a show set in the horse-racing/breeding world of Ireland) (which was very good, by the way), I thought, well, I might was well stay up and watch it.
After discovering to my delight that it wasn't 500 laps they were doing, it was 500 miles in only (hah!) 200 laps, I settled down to watch. After about five minutes, I was a little bored, because I couldn't understand what half the commentators were saying (since I've never watched NASCAR in my life before, I had no idea who any of the drivers were apart from Junior!) and whenever anything exciting happened (ie: a crash!), the cameras lingered on it for about 30 seconds, hardly anything was said about it, including if the drivers were okay, and then we went back to endless laps! Argh! So, anyway, I turned the sound down (my other housemates probably wouldn't have appreciated it anyway) and read a book, looking up every five minutes or so to check on Junior's progress.
The ending was exciting, though! Wow! That's how races should end! *g*
Because I had nearly finished my book, I stayed up to finish it, which probably took about another hour (because I hadn't nearly finished it!) so it was about 4 in the morning before I went to sleep.
The book was excellent, but I'll say more on that in my next post.
Just wanted to say, that almost all of last night, I was thinking of you,hellokimberly. (In fact, I even had a NASCAR Daytona dream, which included being in a car with Jamie Bamber, which was pretty cool! Apart from when gypsies started setting fire to oil drums and exploding things just next to the track and we had nowhere to go and were in danger of being landed upon by a flaming barrel! *g*)
hellokimberly's obsession with NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt Jnr, when I noticed that the NASCAR Daytona 500 was on Channel Five last night (at midnight to about 3 am!), since I was awake, having just watched Rough Diamond (a show set in the horse-racing/breeding world of Ireland) (which was very good, by the way), I thought, well, I might was well stay up and watch it.After discovering to my delight that it wasn't 500 laps they were doing, it was 500 miles in only (hah!) 200 laps, I settled down to watch. After about five minutes, I was a little bored, because I couldn't understand what half the commentators were saying (since I've never watched NASCAR in my life before, I had no idea who any of the drivers were apart from Junior!) and whenever anything exciting happened (ie: a crash!), the cameras lingered on it for about 30 seconds, hardly anything was said about it, including if the drivers were okay, and then we went back to endless laps! Argh! So, anyway, I turned the sound down (my other housemates probably wouldn't have appreciated it anyway) and read a book, looking up every five minutes or so to check on Junior's progress.
The ending was exciting, though! Wow! That's how races should end! *g*
Because I had nearly finished my book, I stayed up to finish it, which probably took about another hour (because I hadn't nearly finished it!) so it was about 4 in the morning before I went to sleep.
The book was excellent, but I'll say more on that in my next post.
Just wanted to say, that almost all of last night, I was thinking of you,
hellokimberly. (In fact, I even had a NASCAR Daytona dream, which included being in a car with Jamie Bamber, which was pretty cool! Apart from when gypsies started setting fire to oil drums and exploding things just next to the track and we had nowhere to go and were in danger of being landed upon by a flaming barrel! *g*)
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Date: 2007-02-19 01:21 pm (UTC)Sadly, Junior didn't get to finish. *cries* That ruined my 500 and while the finish was awesome, I wanted the other guy to win. The one who did win has way too big of a head for my taste. *lmao*
The race was boring until the last 50 laps. Daytona is never follow the leader type racing. Never. NASCAR has ruined Daytona with all their changes! Grrr!!
Landed on a flaming barrel? Priceless!! =)
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Date: 2007-02-19 01:54 pm (UTC)Seriously, the flaming barrels were scary. There were four of us in the car (I've no idea why there needed to be four at all, but I was a sort of guest) and we were all going round the track slowly behind a lap car because of all the explosions, and Jamie was having to dodge these bits of flying chain-link fence and pieces of oil drum! I think that part must have come from watching Top Gear last night where they tried to send a Reliant Robin up into space! *g*