Now I’m writing to you from Reading, Pa. It’s Saturday morning and I’m at the track waiting for our third qualifying session, which is early this afternoon. The humidity and hot air has gone away so we should run even better than we did yesterday. My KB Racing team is ready for the weekend.

I arrived in Pennsylvania on Wednesday and I have already gone to Wawa four times. Have I ever mentioned how much I like that place? I know that I have, and a lot of very nice people have given me gift cards to their stores which I appreciate a lot. I get to go to Wawa when we race at Englishtown, Reading, and Richmond. The coffee stations there are like no other.

I spent some time in Philadelphia on Wednesday after I flew in. I had never been downtown before so it was cool that I got to go. It’s a great city. I took some photos of the downtown area. My new favorite thing is to take pictures of city buildings and different city skylines. I’m not a photographer by any means, but I really like cities and I like taking pictures. For this photo, I had to stand in the middle of the street but I think it turned out pretty cool.

Our hotel this weekend happens to be next to a Best Buy so I wandered over there on Thursday night. I finally broke down and bought myself a new iPod. I have had an iPod mini for a long time now. They don’t even sell them anymore and now my battery is shot. I can’t listen to it unless it’s plugged into a wall, which doesn’t do me any good because I like to listen to it on airplanes, when I go running, and in the van in the staging lanes. So yesterday I got a new pink nano. They seem too expensive but I’ll be glad I got it.

I downloaded a song by Sara Bareillis a couple of weeks ago. I was surprised to see a familiar face on iTunes. She and I graduated from the same high school, Eureka High, in 1998. Her song called, Love Song, was one the most downloaded songs on iTunes. I also happened to see her sing on the Today Show the other day. She was always singing the national anthem at different sports events throughout junior high and high school. She was in my AP English class my senior year. I remember she sang “Time after Time” at our graduation. It’s pretty cool to see people from our small town following their dreams. I wish her a lot of luck and hope lots of people buy her music.

The other day, someone reminded me that I used to be an accountant. I definitely was not. I corrected him and said that I used to be a financial analyst. He then asked what the difference is. I explained that an accountant looks backward and a financial analyst looks forward. There’s a big difference.

That conversation reminded me that I need to keep looking forward. Sometimes I’m guilty of dwelling on the past. I’m looking forward to what the rest of the season holds for our team. For our KB Racing team, it has been a tough year. Sometimes I wish I could erase things that happened or go back in time, but I can’t. I’m just looking ahead. Like my Dad always tells me, a good pitcher never remembers his or her last pitch. I’m looking forward to this race this weekend here at Maple Grove. We’re going to go out and qualify the best we can and win a whole lot of rounds on Sunday like I know we can do.