On Wednesday, I go a message from Mom the the Unrelated Bone Marrow Registry division of Canadian Blood Services was trying to get ahold of me. Turns out they think I might be a match. They had about a million questions as to my fitness to donate. Most of them were similar to the ones they ask when donating blood, but WAY more detailed. Like there was much doubt, but I passed with flying colours.
I go in for the next stage of typing on April 3rd. Apparently they just take a whole pile of test-tubes of blood. I'll hear how that goes somtime around the middle/end of May, at which point they would schudule an appointment to actually take the marrow.
I'll be sure to keep people updated.
24 March, 2006
18 March, 2006
McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Car MP4-21
I missed the opening round of the Formula 1 Championship in Bahrain, so the first F1 I've seen this year was qualifying in Malaysia. As usual, all of the cars are pretty cool, but the McLaren Mercedes is beautiful by any definition. The lines are smooth and sleek, like every F1 car for as long as I've been following the series, but the paint scheme is one of the nicest I've EVER seen on a car, especially a race car. Click the image below to go to the official McLaren site and their photo gallery.
13 March, 2006
Winter Festival Of Speed videos are now online!
Yup. Thanks to Bdog-k9k one the 780Tuners forum for suggesting Google video to me. You can catch them HERE. or just got to video.google.com and search for "WCMA Ice Racing" and you'll find them.
09 March, 2006
Lac La Biche Winter Festival of Speed
Well, the weekend is over. I have to say that this has been one of the BEST weekends of racing I've had so far.
I really got lucky. Ray (the Chief Marshal) wouldn't let me have corner #4 when I asked for it, instead he gave me corner #3. I thanked him at lunchtime 'cause it was the best corner on the track. The cars were all coming out of an s-curve at full tilt before my station andthen hitting the brakes hard into a double apex left hander. As you can imagine, there was no shortange of carnage. I had 3 rollovers, 2 of those "roll and continues" where the car goes all the way over, and then somehow manages to right itself before the driver continues on his way. All sorts of cars going over or through the banks, some stopping before they got finished and therefore requiring a tow and varying amounts of flag waving.
It was also a minor passing zone, so I had a fair amount of contact between cars, most of it pretty irrelevant, but we did have to go out and pick up Chevette #43's front grill after a particularily nasty bump.
Most of the weekend was more along the lines of watching huge plumes of snow like this get kicked up.
The other major portion of the weekend was spent watching cars drift though the corner like this one.
I have WAY more pictures HERE. I also got about 16MB worth of video too, but I don't have anywhere to host it, so if you know of somewhere free, tell me about it and I'll post them.
The only bad thing I can think of is the dangerous driving of whever was pulling Rubber to Ice car #66 on the way home. Tailgating down a hill around a sharp corner then pulling out to pass right before a bridge, then cutting off a carload of marshalls, then tailgating the vehicle towing another race car is just plain foolish. I have to say though, that I followed the vahicle pulling Rubber to Ice car #39 for quite a distance on the way home and was VERY impressed with his courtesy.
I really got lucky. Ray (the Chief Marshal) wouldn't let me have corner #4 when I asked for it, instead he gave me corner #3. I thanked him at lunchtime 'cause it was the best corner on the track. The cars were all coming out of an s-curve at full tilt before my station andthen hitting the brakes hard into a double apex left hander. As you can imagine, there was no shortange of carnage. I had 3 rollovers, 2 of those "roll and continues" where the car goes all the way over, and then somehow manages to right itself before the driver continues on his way. All sorts of cars going over or through the banks, some stopping before they got finished and therefore requiring a tow and varying amounts of flag waving.
It was also a minor passing zone, so I had a fair amount of contact between cars, most of it pretty irrelevant, but we did have to go out and pick up Chevette #43's front grill after a particularily nasty bump.
Most of the weekend was more along the lines of watching huge plumes of snow like this get kicked up.The other major portion of the weekend was spent watching cars drift though the corner like this one.I have WAY more pictures HERE. I also got about 16MB worth of video too, but I don't have anywhere to host it, so if you know of somewhere free, tell me about it and I'll post them.
The only bad thing I can think of is the dangerous driving of whever was pulling Rubber to Ice car #66 on the way home. Tailgating down a hill around a sharp corner then pulling out to pass right before a bridge, then cutting off a carload of marshalls, then tailgating the vehicle towing another race car is just plain foolish. I have to say though, that I followed the vahicle pulling Rubber to Ice car #39 for quite a distance on the way home and was VERY impressed with his courtesy.
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