I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in some time. I’ve been really tired. The six-race stretch just took a lot out of me. I got home from Sonoma on Wednesday. The first thing I did was go through a mountain full of bills and laundry. I went to the local Blockbuster and rented a few movies and didn’t leave my house for a day.



I slept for like 12 hours on Wednesday night and finally went to work out Thursday. I had a lunch appointment with Jim Baker at The Palms yesterday. You see Jim at the races with the Pedregons. We had a lunch at the Mexican restaurant and it’s right next to the pool, so we got to enjoy the scenery too.

A buddy of mine from Florida was in town for a shoe convention and we went to a concert of a band called Cross Canadian Ragweed. They were playing at The Southpoint. I had never heard of them, but it was great. We hung out afterwards and gambled and made some new friends. They want to come to the drag races and watch what we do. We talked about the similarities of being in a band and driving a race car. It was pretty awesome to be able to hang out with them.



We couldn’t have asked for any more on those six races. We increased our point-lead and earned the most points of any Top Fuel team. I felt that if we could come out in the top four, we’d be doing well, so to come out first and with a bigger lead than before was awesome. Plus to give Caterpillar its first victory in drag racing was very cool. Denver was awesome for our entire David Powers team. And thanks to Phil Burgess at National DRAGSTER for giving us the cover. We like the "CAT Attack."



What else happened on the Western Swing? At Seattle, it rained a lot, so PR Ted and I happened to stop at the Nordstrom’s at Southcentre Mall. The Anniversary sale was going on so we did some shopping. We bought so much stuff, I shipped it to Vegas and he sent his on the hauler back to Indy. Shopping is fun.

Sonoma is always cool. I get to see the Jeffrey’s from Western Stabilization. We’ve had a longtime friendship. It was another great race. I’ve never seen so many fans at Sonoma. The Infineon Raceway folks do a great job, and it was cool to have Peterson CAT on the car.



When I left Vegas for the Western Swing, it was 118 and it’s been right around 100 this week, so it’s cooled off. That’s good. It even dips into the 80s at night. That’s about it for now. I’ll check in next week before Brainerd.

I have some fun stuff planned for the weekend, so we’ll have some cool stuff to blog about next week.

Hot Rod