Yoshi and The Tire

Down at my parents house swimming today, and my mom had some pool inflatables she'd picked up on clearance. My nephew declared the blue sea monster float to be Yoshi. When one of us had said Yoshi and the tire, we came to the conclusion that, when paired like that, it sounds like a wacky radio duo. The hijinks ensued. We went on for a couple of hours coming up with all kinds of situations for them. There may or may not be more episodes in the future!!!

Race Day

So this was cool. Sammy calls me up at the beginning of the week and invites me to the opening day of the Toyota Gran Prix of Long Beach. It's right down from where he lives, and we haven't hung out in a while. Of course, it's on a work day, so I'd have to use a personal day. However, it worked out they had a Saturday shift opening, so I was able to swap it out!!!



Qualifying day, and it's not too crowded... when we got there!!! It filled up some as the day progressed.



We came upon the red car behind one of the businesses along the shoreline. There was NO ONE around, and there's a little stairway going up to it's platform. They MUST want people to go up and get in it!!! I jumped up in for a photo op, then took a couple of him. As we wrapped up, a group of old guys came along to get their own pictures. I mention to Sammy that in a couple of hours they'll probably have a line and be charging $5 a head to get your picture taken in it!!! A half a minute later, Sammy laughs and says we should set up and start collecting the money!!!



I like the juxtaposition of the picture of the cars doing 100+ right next to the 40 MPH sign.



They were doing LeMans qualifying when we first showed up. The Corvettes sounded the most awesomest.



The celebrity race qualifying was later on. Don't know how he did, but one of my favorites, Patrick Warburton, is involved. Keanu Reeves, Tony Hawk, and Patrick Dempsy will all be involved, too.

Looks Like...

Here's something I happened upon. This site has a program that takes a photo of yourself, and compares it to celebrities. The first one I tried with my current, fuzzy face, and it had Harrison Ford, Carey Grant, Gary Cooper and David Spade featured, among others. I tried an older photo, and the coolest thing about it to me was that it had Laurance Fishburne as Morpheus in it!!! I have no idea who V.S. Naipul is... if only there were some worldwide database that could be easily accessed that had information about everything!!!

The site, if you are interested, is My Heritage. You'll have to sign up to do it, but it's pretty easy. I had to look around a bit to find the celebrity look alike tool.