Rally of the Tall Pines 2004

Another year, another great rally.
Ian and I went to Bancroft for the rally last Saturday and had a great time. It would have been nice to have more open class cars and have less of the ones that were there to go out in the first half of the day, but thats what makes rallying interesting I guess.
This year we had a different spectating area than last year as the bridge that they usually go over was out last year and redone over the summer. We had a good viewing area that had the cars coming toward us at about 120km/h turning a hard right (their right) then going up about a 500m straight into a hard left. They did that twice and came from the other direction on the third pass. This was over about a 6 hour period.
They then did 2 passes at night at a different location. I think watching the cars a night is the best as they seem to be moving faster and the huge lights on them do add an extra bit of show. There were no mishapsthis year but there were some close calls.
The weather of the day was pretty cooperative except for some rain for a couple hours in the afternoon. We were a little more prepared for it this year though and fell warm.
Overall it was a success and we had a great time. Hopefully next year we can get a few more people to go. We are probably going to go to one more rally in New York in the fall next year as well.

Half Life 2

The biggest PC game of the year, Half Life 2, came out 3AM EST on Tuesday. I had purchased the game via the STEAM network offered by the company that made the game, Valve.
So far the game is definitely one the best PC games I have every played. Its extremely fun, immersive, and graphically stunning. If you want to play it you need a half-decent computer though.

Hockey Afternoon in Rural Ontario

Tomorrow I have my first hockey tournament of the winter. Its just four teams including us (a couple that were droped out earlier) so we are just going to play 3 games and the best team wins. Then we have our regular saturday night game after that. It should be lots of fun.
I am still really pumped about next weekend though. 58 cars are registered for the rally and all the top Canadian drivers are there.

BRAP brap bang BANG VVVRROOOOMMMM

So on the 20th is Rally of the Tall Pines.
This is just an open invitation to anyone that might like to join Ian and I (and Chris?) on a trip to Bancroft. Yes it will be cold and yes there are long waits for the cars, but its VERY much worth it.
This year we will have a video camera as well as my digital camera so there will be lots of clips and pics afterwards.

And the Results are in!

And I was worryed about who would win the election! Thank goodness the good guys won!

Those damn Decepticons are gonna get it good now!