{"id":89,"date":"2009-09-05T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.briari.net\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-02-28T18:14:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:14:15","slug":"atlanta-fall-race-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/atlanta-fall-race-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Fall Race 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_Day\" target=\"_blank\">Labor Day<\/a> weekend &#8211; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantamotorspeedway.com\/events\/pep_boys_auto_500\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race Weekend<\/a> &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decaturbookfestival.com\/2009\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Decatur Book Festival<\/a> is going on &#8211; I&#8217;ve not managed to make that yet &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthelifeatl.com\/pride\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Gay Pride Festival<\/a> is going on &#8211; I have not interest in that &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">DragonCon<\/a> is going on &#8211; I had enough of that yesterday at work &#8211; but I&#8217;m watching the action from the track while relaxing on my sofa with my feet up and a nap in my future.<!--more--><br \/>\nI have tickets for the race tomorrow night and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.  I&#8217;d planned to go to the Book Festival today, but decided instead of accept that I&#8217;m really tired and need a little more rest than I&#8217;ve had.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantamotorspeedway.com\/events\/pep_boys_auto_500\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image30\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bordered50percent_921187ca-bf44-4220-bc66-c5b54e52f05a-big.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Truex Jr Wins the Pole!\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"203\" height=\"259\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Jimmie had the pole early on during qualifying, then Kasey Kahne beat his time by .02 of a second.  My husband Kasey was then knocked off the pole by the oh-so-hot Woof, Martin Truex Jr.  My guys were having a great day and i&#8217;m thrilled with Woof getting the pole.  Jr got the pole for the Nationwide race.<br \/>\nA lot has happened in racing since I last posted.  I think I&#8217;m going to put together a document that has all the news since then and then just paste it in.  I also think I may have lost a category, so I&#8217;ll check that out.<br \/>\nWork has sucked in seven different ways since I last posted, but right now I&#8217;m just trying to make the best of things.  The good news at this point is that there&#8217;s going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perl\" target=\"_blank\">Perl<\/a> class and I&#8217;ve asked (virtually begged) to take it, so I may get the skills I want to get the kind of job I want.  Eli got another job and is gone.  The guy hired before he left quit after two weeks.  So they&#8217;re looking again.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CAR_NASCAR_EDWARDS_INJURED?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2009-09-04-07-21-46\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image31\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bordered_50percent_c1866f17-3f4e-404e-b382-01109172661a-big.jpg\" alt=\"Carl limping in Atlanta\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"12\" width=\"174\" height=\"280\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Supposedly Daniel Bright from CMO is going to be elevated, though there&#8217;s been an uproar since he&#8217;s been getting programming training from Enda in order to help him.  That info was sent to HR and now everybody is offered the opportunity.  I&#8217;ve not been doing enough fun things so work is too much on my mind, but I&#8217;m working on doing better.  Going to the race is part of my effort to do better &#8211; as was going to the Book Festival &#8211; but I also find that I&#8217;m frequently feeling a bit puny so I have to work with what I have and work on getting more to work with.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CAR_NASCAR_EDWARDS_INJURED?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2009-09-04-07-21-46\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Edwards broke his foot<\/a> during the week so he&#8217;s on crutches, but will be racing tonight.  He was playing frisbee with friends &#8211; he went for the frisbee, trapped it with his foot and his friend did the same, but got Carl&#8217;s foot instead.<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s Labor Day weekend &#8211; it&#8217;s Race Weekend &#8211; The Decatur Book Festival is going on &#8211; I&#8217;ve not managed to make that yet &#8211; The Black Gay Pride Festival is going on &#8211; I have not interest in that &#8211; DragonCon is going on &#8211; I had enough of that yesterday at work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/atlanta-fall-race-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atlanta Fall Race 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}