A lot has been happening over the last few months in the Stoffer camp. On the home front, we finally have our Solar being installed. If you remember, I wanted to run our outdoor living and landscape elements with renewable energy. We have a natural landscape but we’ve added outdoor living.

I’m pretty excited about the solar and the fact that we can use what we need and sell the unused energy back to the power company. We plan to expand in the near future to cover more and more of our power needs.

Things seem to be coming to a conclusion at work for GE, too. I am on a short-term assignment as the Business Leader responsible for upgrading our business SAP system from version 4.6 to 6.0. It is similar to going from Windows XP to Windows Vista. It is a large global upgrade and I have been up at all hours of the night having collaborative meetings across the globe.

We are now in the process of ‘cutting’ the business over, so the project will end in November. At this time, I am not sure what my next position will be.

Racing too, is in the final stages of wrapping up. We made it into the Countdown and have been able to move up a few positions thanks to a decent race in Charlotte. That was a fun race. We had a great representation from many of our partners. The facility is close KYMCO scooters and GEICO so we had hospitality full of scooters, employee’s friends and family. My brother and his family showed up as well as Debbie and Doug’s family.

One of the highlights of our weekend was when David Pearson, “The Silver Fox,” and his son Eddie toured our pits and sat on our bike. They are good friends of Chris Figdore, owner of Speed Dawg shift knobs, accessories and apparel.

Many of you may think that David is strictly a hero and legend in the oval and turning style of racing. Yes, he is, but he also enjoyed a very competitive and successful era in drag racing, winning 17 of the 17 drag races that he raced in the early ‘70s. Really, a cool guy to meet and have hanging out in your pits.

I will definitely add that to my memories and events of 2009.

Talk to you later.