Garrett Duke

Well the Michigan race has just gotten over and this 24 fan is once again disappointed...more like it, this 24 and 48 fan is disappointed. But that is just me... Mark Martin started from the pole and had the fastest car at the start of the race until Bobby Labonte and Juan Pablo Montoya got into each other that collected then race leader Mark Martin and second place driver, Kasey Kahne and sent Mark Martin into the pit road wall...and hard. Mark Martin's scary wreck What a scary accident and am so glad that Martin and everyone involved was OK after the accident. Tony Stewart was in, out, and back into the garage with HENDRICK engine problems. Later on Jeff Gordon went into the garage with engine problems of his own and was in there for I think around thirty laps or something like that. Earlier Gordon let Jr know his displeasure at him for making it go four wide and then sliding in front of Gordon. Brad Keselowski had another great race and was able to beat Jimmie Johnson out of the pit roads close to the end of the race. Jimmie was later able to pass him with ten laps to go only for his engine to blow with five laps to go. Greg Biffle had passed Keslewski earlier and on the restart was able to hold off Keselowski and Kasey kahne who had a good charge on the final restart. Here is the top ten finishes of the race: 1. Greg Biffle 2. Brad Keselwoski 3. Kasey Kahne 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr 5. Marcos Ambrose 6. Carl Edwards 7. Clint Bowyer 8. Ryan Newman 9. Paul Menard 10. Martin Truex Jr. We are off to one of my favorite races of the season...the night race at Bristol! The one race I look forward to...sadly I will be out of town and will most likely miss it. So I will have to do my write up next week once I return home Monday or Tuesday next week. Sorry for the inconvenience. Just don't forget...Sprint Cup Race will be next Saturday night.

Aww Roger don't give up on David...he may need your support. Perhaps it is just a bad year. Look at Gordon's year...as he is now in the garage thanks to dang engine problems. I am getting to the point where I am no longer surprised when problems him and his team. Very disappointed and frustrated right now. Anyways that is jut me... You have never heard of Landon Cassill? Don't know how you possibly not know who Landon Cassill is...LOL. Perhaps because they never talk about him or show him in the race. Very sad really. He is a good driver with a team with not as much money to run on as the top team has...so he is normally mid pack or lower probably. But do have some info for you...Landon Cassill is from Iowa...actually he is from a town that is a half hour away from where I am from/live. His parents own a car store there by the name...really hope the best for him and his team.

Eh that is OK Roger. I am already in public league as well as in a league with people I work with...just thought it would or could be fun to be start one myself. As i said, it didn't matter either way. Just an idea that I threw out there. As for hockey, most likely. Think that is the sport I have done the best yet...sadly it is the sport I know the least about. HA HA. As for your favorite team playing against your players...I hate that too, but always go for my favorite team over my players in my team...but that is just me.

Thank you i1976 for your helpful advice. I love writing and love the Dukes. That would be a shame not to like them no more. It is depressing or frustrating when muses don't cooperate...a new reproach may help. Hopefully. Thank you.

Football season is soon to be here and if I am to start the league before the season starts will need to know soon. Are you still interested Roger? If not or no one is that is fine too, was just an idea since I assumed I am not the only football fan on the site. It will only be for fun so no money will be needed or is involved. Would be glad to help if anyone doesn't understand or wants to learn more about it. Yahoo makes it pretty easy to understand how it works. As I said, was just an idea and thought I would throw it out there to see who all may or may not be interested.

Well the Sprint Cup Series will be racing at Michigan today at noon on ESPN...and I am really hoping to see Jeff Gordon rebound from last week's disappointing finish. My opinion, of course. This is the track that Dale Jr won at last this year...MICHIGAN. Hope the best for all Hendrick cars (personally) but hope every one of our favorite drivers will have a fun and safe race today. Here is the top ten starting line up for today's race: 1. Mark Martin 2. Carl Edwards 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Matt Kenseth 5. Kasey Kahne 6. Trevor Bayne 7. Martin Truex Jr 8. Marcos Ambrose 9. Landon Cassill 10. Paul Menard (Jeff Gordon starts 11th, Tony Stewart 14th, Dale Jr 22, and David Ragen 37th today.) LET'S GO RACING BOYS!!!!!

Well I would wish you and your team the best of luck, but don't know if I can do t hat since they are playing my Cubs. GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan. They've had a rough year so far and they need all the wins they can get...LOL. Thanks for the update on the standings...just glad the Cubs aren't last any more.

Thank you Mary Anne and Jaded Phoenix for all of your output and advice. It has helped a lot. Mary Anne, you are right. I don't want to quit. I would be lost without having a story to think through to plot through and try to write. I never fully grasped that concept, but have thought of it from time to time in frustration. And a writing exercise on slapping Garrett...he may deserve that and may feel good. Until he slaps me back. HA HA. That is a good idea though. Have tried doing something like that for my writing, but that has been forever. Thanks for the reminder. As for the rewrite...you are exactly right in thinking of what submitted fanfic site it is on and thanks for all your hard work and support. Without you my story would be stuck forever on my computer. Well it is anyway, but at least people have the option to look at it right now. As for the rewite, MA, thanks for addressing that and for opening that option up for me. There is a lot of things in my writing in my series that has been bugging me and I would love to start a new if you don't mind. The past couple weeks or so has had me seeing all the things I would like to redo, things I don't like, and things I feel need to be changes or done differently. And since I tend to be a perfectionist sometimes, they have been bugging me...and ever since the idea of starting the series over again, have been thinking alot of ideas, plots, characters and so forth. But knew of the rule of not rewriting again that you mentioned and felt like I already broke that rule last time I restarted my series, felt like restarting the whole thing wasn't an option. So if you don't mind and if it is OK, I think I will restart my whole series over again with the ideas that I have. Unless that is a problem, and I would understand. Really feel bad for having you do all your work only to redo and undo it all like that and would understand if you don't want to do that. If it is OK, I don't know yet what to do with the other stories in the series, because I do want to use at least the prologue in the first series for an idea of a future story. But if it is all OK with you, will email you when I know what to do or when I have something else to submit. Thanks again Jaded Phoenix and MaryAnne for all your help, support, and advice. It all means a lot to me. Thanks Mary Anne for all you have done to help my writing in the past and for posting my writing on your submitted fanfic site.

Yeah I would be. But don't feel like you have to just because of me. If you did reconsider, right now it may just be me and you. Haven't had anyone else show much interest. Thought of having a Hazzard football league or something like that, but it is all up to you, Roger. Thanks Roger.

Hey Roger...I got a lap top with that too, but my dad bought me a cordless mouse to use with it. It's great. David Ragen hasn't done much of anything since you left. Sorry to report that Roger. But you have missed my NASCAR news on AJ probably and you missed Jeff Gordon's rain shortened WIN at Pocono a week and a half ago. Also his poor finish yesterday due to oil on the track...errr. You do have some catching up on. LOL. GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!

I like your comparison of writing and the roads. Very true. Didn't think of sci-fi. Guess you wouldn't exactly know. But have a good imagination. Thanks for the great advice about my story. I think I will take it. Might as well as start a new on my computer and see where it takes me. Obviously my other story is not going to go anywhere in the mean time. No worries about the typos...I probably have a few myself.

Wow Jaded Phoenix...that has got to be frustrating and upsetting to go through all that work and to have people in the writing industry interested in it only for it to be destroyed. Glad you still had the intro that should at least jog your memory, but still, be very frustrating. Glad to hear you are going back to it and t hat you haven't given up on it. I wish you the best of luck with your writing. I use to want to be a writer and still would love to do it, but I haven't gotten very far with any other story outside of any fanfic. Guess I can't get past the part of info I read about write about something you know...well I don't know very much about anything that anyone would be interested in reading about. LOL. I wish you the best of luck. I appreciate your help and will keep it in mind. Am trying to figure it all out and if it is worth it. The idea that keeps popping into my mind is of starting over and having Luke return home where as in my series now, he was already home when I started writing it. Write of them working on The General. Where as in my story the General was already built. Have one story with just the original characters before introducing my own personal characters just to have the time line and all that in order. Where as in my series I start the series with my characters coming to Hazzard. Would still like to use the prologue I used for my first story though of how and why they came to Hazzard. I even have an idea that would go with the first story... But feel if I do that would have to start the series over again. Which I wouldn't mind doing, but don't know if I could since my series is on a submitted fanfic site and I had started it over once before. I appreciate your help Jaded Phoenix and for listening.

YAY Roger is back! So glad you are back Roger so I can tell you just how great the Cubs are and how they are better than your Pirates (just don't look at the Central NL standings or stats...they're lying) and how you should ditch the Pirates for the Cubs. After all, who wouldn't want to be a fan of the greatest team of all of baseball..the CHICAGO CUBS????????????? I can't even begin to imagine why anyone wouldn't want to be a Cubs fan...it's great to be a Cubs fan. You should try it. Well now that I got that out of my system, welcome back Roger. Glad to see you got a new computer or a computer up and running at least. I know I would be lost without my computer...

Well the race has just got over and for the most part was just a race...it got exciting during the last half of the race. Jeff Gordon's car was junk most of the race until they put a spring rubber in and the last ten laps came to life. Tony Stewart in second when he spun out by himself and hit the wall. But the real excitement was at the end when Kyle Busch was leading on the last lap and spun out and then it was between Marcos Ambrose and Brad Keslewoski. Jeff Gordon came in to the tenth place until he hit the wall due to all the oil on the track...NASCK shoulda had that cleaned up instead of going for the checkered flag like that. Gordon came home 21st instead. Am not happy about Jeff Gordon. But am excited that Marcos Ambrose got the win. Here is the top ten finishes of Watkins Glen race: 1. Marcos Ambrose 2. Brad Keselowski 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Clint Bowyer 5. Sam Hornish Jr 6. Greg Biffle 7. Kyle Busch 8. Matt Kenseth 9. Regan Smith 10. Martin Truex Jr We are back to turning lefts next week at Michigan...Jeff Gordon's favorite track.

The prerace show on ESPN is about to start...we are goin' road racing today. Turning left and right. The race all road racers are happy about...Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcos Ambrose, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart...Boris Said. It is also one that Jimmie Johnson has yet to win at. One of five. Here is the top ten starting positions... 1. Juan Pablo Montoya 2. Kyle Busch 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Brad Keselowski 5. Marcos Ambrose 6. Ryan Newman 7. Tony Stewart 8. Clint Bowyer 9. Martin Truex Jr 10. Jamie McMurray They may not go as fast as normal on a oval track, harder to pass, but any track my driver is good at, I am excited to be at. Hope everyone's driver will have a fun and safe race today.

Seems like I may have posted this sometime in this thread...if so, sorry for the repeat. Couldn't help but to use this song.

Thanks Jaded Phoenix for your helpful advice.

"Welcome to the Fishbowl" Kenny Chesney The title of Kenny's latetes (GREAT) album. Love this song...but then again, I love all of Kenny's music so I guess I am biased. Great song all the same if I have to say so myself...

Thanks for the quick response Jaded Phoenix. I have most of my stories on a program on my computer. My older ones I wrote on my other computer and can't open them on this one. But my newer ones I do have on a word processor. My problem is with changing my series too many times plus don't know how I can fix it all by just re editing my work. Perhaps it's not impossible... Thanks again.

Well I have been writing one form of fan fic or another for several years now. Started out with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to C.H.i.P.s and then onto the Dukes of Hazzard. Been stuck in Hazzard county well over ten years now...perhaps fifteen? I can't remember, but I can't imagine writing about anything else. Anyway, I have my DOH fanfic series plus a few other stories and the such on Mary Anne's DOH fanfic site (Thanks Mary Anne ). I am on my third story of my series of which my personally created characters Kristy and Garrett Duke are in...and stuck on chapter five since like February. I can't even remember the last time I was motivated to write it not alone know where to take it. Which isn't anything new...writer's block seems to love my stories that and the lack of time. But the past couple of months have been wondering if it is time to hang up the whole idea of writing due to time and other things I have thought of wrong of my own writing...and the many things I would love to change. But I really don't want to quit writing...to quit writing would be to give up on Hazzard it seems. But my series has hit a thick wall with no way of breaking through it seems as I see the same theme etched in each of my stories...just with a different twist. Was thinking about it the other night and what I should do and did come up with an idea, but since my series is on the web, don't know if I should even think of the idea. If it was on my computer, I would do it with little thought and feel good about it... Of starting over. Reintroducing the characters and correcting several mistakes that I have noticed during this fic I started and has been bugging me. Different story ideas. Everything. Of working on erasing that same nagging twist in my stories and perhaps bettering my writing as a whole. I have even been thinking of how it would start... But then again, I had started it over a few years ago as well. And was doing better until I saw a lot of areas of my time line and characters, and so forth that has been nagging at me the past month or so. Don't want to disuade readers, if I have any, away from my stories with all this. But at the same time, I am not going anywhere the way I am going either. Which only leads back to that question, is it time to call it quits? I am sorry for all of my rambling and hope I am making at least a little sense here. I don't know where to go from here or what would be the best idea, so I thought I would throw all this out and see if anyone has any ideas of what I can do with this mess I have created for my writing. Any help would be greatly appreciated at this time. Thanks in advance.

Figured it was about time I updated this page... 1. Dale Earnhardt Jr 2. Matt Kenseth (-5 points) 3. Greg Biffle 4. Jimmie Johnson 5. Martin Truex Jr 6. Tony Stewart 7. Brad Keselowski 8. Denny Hamlin 9. Kevin Harvick 10. Clint Bowyer As of right now the two wild card spots for the chase are: 11. Kasey Kahne 12. Jeff Gordon