Ok, so I’m writing this from my iPhone because I decided not to lug my laptop home for the abbreviated weekend. I apologize in advance for any issues with formatting, spelling, grammar, etc.
Ugh. This stupid thing lost the post I just wrote up, so I’ll quickly summarize:
- hot. Air temperature around 90, but it will feel a whole lot hotter in the stands, especially with the fat, hairy, sweaty guy radiating right in front of you.
- humid. Relative humidity near 60%. The fat, hairy, sweaty guy may also affect this.
- calm. Very little wind, maybe a 5 mph breeze.
- rain. A 20% chance, and I wouldn’t expect much more than a brief rain delay if it does hit. It would be a quick, and potentially heavy, shower. With the heat, though, I’d expect it to dry up fairly quickly and wouldn’t worry too much about weepers.
Ok, I’ll update if I think anything different, but right now, I’m pretty confident in seeing 500 miles.

It’s official.  This year, the Indianapolis 500 is going to feel those good vibrations and dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.

First, Michael Andretti will be driving the two-seater on the parade laps with Marcus Mark of the Funky Bunch.  Yeah, he’s done other things since 1991, but I can’t really name anything else right now off the top of my head…well, other than Roller Girl.  He’s a superstar.

Also, they’ve gotten the last surviving joker (RIP Cesar Romero) to start the race.  That’s right, my boy Jack Nicholson will be in the house to drop the green flag and class the place up exponentially.  W, X, Y, and Z, oooh! Oooh!  OOOH!

Speaking of Jack, I sure as shi’ite feel like the Indian Chief at work this week.  Every time I walk past a drinking fountain, I’m tempted to pull it out of the wall and throw it through a window to escape.  Four more days!

…or at least four tenths of a mile an hour.

In what is supposed to be essentially a spec series, Helio Castroneves has done the impossible, posting a pole position speed of 227.970 mph, including two laps over 228 mph.  Theoretically, this is impossible, but then again, he wasn’t supposed to be able to beat the feds. 

He wasn’t supposed to be able to part the Red Sea, either.

Everything looks good.  The low cloud deck that might be fog to the north of here will burn off fairly quickly as the morning goes along.  I expect the sun to at least be partially to mostly present.  The air temperature might not hit 80° at the airport, but with all the aluminum here, it’ll feel at least that much in the stands.  So take my word for it, look at yesterday’s forecast, and roll with it.