Since several of you (I'd like to say "thousands," but that would be a bit of an exaggeration) have been kind enough to ask how I'm feeling, I thought I'd pass along that I still feel fine with no fever & no symptoms except for a little dingy-ness in my head. Think of a mild hangover (something I've rarely had...I mean the "mild" part). Hope this is as bad as it gets. Carol and I biked 18 miles yesterday (gloves & masks) and I did 12 the day before, but sleeping in the basement until Carol's test results come back (Tuesday, maybe?) is a real pain. But also a real break for her, since this weekend has been a Major Motor Racing Extravaganza what with F1 in Austria, Indycars AND two NASCAR stock-car races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IMSA Prototypes and Sports Cars well into the night last night at Daytona (congratulations to my friends at Team Mazda, Corvette Racing--first victory for the new C8!--and AVS Lexus...now let's see what happens with the old B.O.P.*) and, if you looked for it, World of Outlaws Sprint Cars and Modifieds on the three-eighths mile dirt oval at Cedar Lake, WI. And you know what? The 30-lap WoO Sprint Car race was the best entertainment value of the bunch!

Jeez, what the heck's happening to me???

*Balance Of Performance is a kind of geeky, data-generated hobbling, boosting and handicapping system IMSA and the rest of the Endurance Racing World use to "equalize performance" among different kinds of cars in the same class. Personally, I kind of hate it (I've heard it called "Bullshit Operational Politics") and I wonder why ANY automobile manufaturer would want to be involved when the whole concept of "our car is the best" becomes a moot point from the get-go.

But I must say it works pretty well and the way the pencil-neck geeks at the computer screens have equalized cars as diverse as the BMW, Porsche and Corvette is frankly amazing. That said, I think the BoP should be adjusted at three (or even four?) pre-determined interval dates during the racing season. If you break a normal (non-Covid19) season up into  three equal segments (think of an old "Three Musketeers" candy bar), it would:

1) Allow somebody who's come up with a genuine Better Mousetrap to enjoy that hard-won advantage for a couple of races before the hammer comes down.

2) Make sand-bagging a dubious endeavor as you could only effect a third of the season.

You can take my soapbox now... 

Flora and Fauna Notes: My dear friend Jenni responded to the Indigo Bunting sighting with an email about how she once saw a cardinal, a bluebird and a goldfinch all sharing the same small pine tree in her back yard. That's like a Feathered Trifecta, right?

Old photos found, fumed & fawned over while Carol was cleaning the basement: