I drove home from Pomona on Monday afternoon. It’s about a four-hour drive to Las Vegas. I pretty much relaxed and just got caught up on Tuesday. I paid bills and did paperwork and had a nice day at home. I did go to the gym. I’m a gym rat and like to stay in good shape. I’ve been doing a lot more cardio like I mentioned in the first blog.

The rest of the week, I spent a lot of time on the telephone working with sponsors and my PR guy, Ted, and doing team-related stuff. It’s been an exciting week in Las Vegas because of the NBA All Star Game is at the Thomas & Mack Center here in Las Vegas. There are all kinds of celebs and famous people in town. Not that there aren’t normally lots of celebs here, but it is crazy here this weekend. I went to the Foundation Room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel with a buddy of mine, Don Dail, on Friday night. I’m not a big NBA fan, so I don’t know a lot of NBA players. I saw a lot of guys, but don’t know any names. I was definitely the shortest guy there. It was a high dollar deal, $1,000 for two bottles. I stayed out a little too late and had another wild party to go to on Saturday morning around 11 a.m. This time, at Peter Pan Pizza in North Las Vegas. It was the seventh birthday party for Austin Blair. He’s the son of Chris Blair, who runs the drag strip and dirt track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Chris is a good buddy of mine. When I got there, we all had tokens and played video games. A lot of kids wanted me to go on this dance game with them. That was really funny to see. I’m glad ESPN2 wasn’t there shooting video. Then we ate pizza and hung out.

I’m going to lay low today and watch the Daytona 500. I’ll spend the day with my two cats, Rocco and Ozzy. I’m a big NASCAR fan. I love watching it. I want to drive the Petty cars at LVMS someday. Tony Stewart is my pick to win. I like him and Ryan Newman a lot. Newman reminds me a lot of myself.

I’ll go to Phoenix on Wednesday for the Fan Fest at the Arizona Mills Mall. I hope a lot of Arizona drag racing fans stop by on Wednesday evening. I did the Fan Fest last year and won the race, so I hope history repeats itself! I’m going to be gone for almost weeks attending the Phoenix race and Matco Tools Expo in Hawaii. I’ve never been to Hawaii, so I’m really stoked about that. It will be neat to meet all the Matco Tools distributors. We’ll talk more about that next time. I hope everyone had a good weekend.