flog - [flog, flawg] – verb (used with object) - to beat with a whip, stick, etc., esp. as punishment; whip; scourge.

So as you can see the hyphen is absolutely necessary for the newly renamed F-LOG! Hello and welcome Team Kalitta fans to the last hoorah, the icing on the cake, the big finale to the 2007 season.

Sorry it’s been a couple of days, but we stayed pretty busy after the race in Vegas with SEMA and I must admit, I did a little sightseeing Monday after I went out to the track to watch testing. In my several journeys to Vegas over the past few years, I have wanted to go see Hoover Dam but just never had the opportunity. I finally got a chance Monday afternoon and took Buttercup for a little jaunt to see the Dam. Being me, I had to, of course, make the obligatory dam jokes. I took lots of dam pictures and had a dam good time …sorry…I can’t stop! Seriously, it is quite a dam sight …argh! I need some dam help! Okay, okay…what I was also impressed with is the new bypass that is being built over the Colorado River. Not being a big fan of heights, I’m not sure that I will ever traverse the bridge that is under construction because, trust me when I say this, it is dam high up! That’s it. I promise, no more dam jokes…for now…

Tuesday, Ben, Grubby and I went to the SEMA show to take a look around and to stop by to see our good friend Cameron from Red Line Oil. I took a picture of Cam fro this F-LOG but for some reason it turned out very blurry. I’m gonna blame the camera because there’s just now way the camera operator was at fault…well, possibly it was operator error, but I’ll tell you that Cam had a big smile on his face as he often does. I’ll make sure to add a random photo of Cam sometime in the future to make up for my error as a shutterbug. The show was really cool, but there is no way you can see even 20 percent of it in only a few hours. Being a freelance graphic artist, I did notice a cool logo on one of the GM displays. Also being a resident of Detroit, or at least the burbs, I just had to take a quick pic. I do like that clean, stylized look. I wish we could have stayed longer than one day, but we had other looming responsibilities in Cali.

Yesterday, the aforementioned group, sans Cam, loaded up Buttercup, and I do mean LOADED, and headed west to Pomona. The three of us had at least two suitcases each and Dave had his guitar so Buttercup was at maximum capacity. I did get a fresh picture of our four-wheeled friend when we stopped to refuel in Baker, California, home of the world’s largest thermometer. I’m sure if ol’ Buttercup could talk she would have let out a loud sigh for getting to rest for a minute. She had to struggle a little getting up the mountains, but she endured and performed like the true, yet pale, champion that she is! We had a fun little trip. Grubby, of course, kept us laughing the whole time, and we even worked on a song about the 2006 season at Kalitta Motorsports. We still have some tweaks we need to make to the first and second verse, and the third and, well, the chorus, but other than that it’s coming along nicely. A release date is pending, but I’m sure you faithful readers will be the first to know!

So, we are here in Pomona and it looks like it’s going to be a truly exciting Finals weekend for all in attendance. I will try to keep the F-LOG rolling throughout the weekend, so stop by and sit a spell (that means “y’all come back now, ya hear!” where I come from).

Todd has left the building.