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Wow that Smokey Yunick prepared Fireball Roberts Pontiac had a very distinctive exhaust note. If he didn't have engine issues he would have won that inaugural 1959 Daytona 500, he was a lap ahead of Beauchamp and Lee Petty.

Interesting to see some teams pit crews in plaid shirts and jeans lol.

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At 8:20am the 1959 Daytona 500 highlight reel will be on, at 8:30 1964 Daytona 500 highlight reel. Interesting to see how far safety advancements have come. They just did a safety bit on Richard Petty's Dodge Charger. Back of his seat is just a steel hoop with no foam padding.

The flu has hit my work hard the past few weeks. Made it kind of interesting as the boss sent the one coworker home. Other coworkers told me boss has never done that, even during COVID . We all think it's due to the one coworker recently finding out they have cancer and they're trying to work as much as they can before chemo treatments. Hope you feel better today Roger. Looking outside this morning I see we got more freezing rain and now it's snowing again.

If anyone wants to get their NASCAR fix in before the Daytona 500, @1:30pm eastern today, there's a free NASCAR channel on the free TUBi app. Race on now is the 1976 Daytona 500.

Is it spring yet? Kind of had my fill of all these freezing rain snow freezing rain snow freezing rain snow storms. Took 20 minutes to break into one of the cars Thursday morning because they were both encased in an ice snow ice blob.

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Could be Kyle Busch's year, similar stats to Dale Earnhardt when he won his only Daytona 500. Winless season last year, 20th Daytona 500, RCR team. I'll be happy as long as it isn't a Toyota though lol.

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Terrarium Local plant store makes terrariums with miniature cryptids like Bigfoot.

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Daytona Watching the IMSA Rolex 24hrs.

On our way out the door this morning it was -3 degrees F wind-chill/feels like -15 to -20. The stray cats near work made it through, fed them and gave them fresh non frozen water on 1st break. This weekend will feel balmy in the mid 30's.

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The episodes are also free to stream on Pluto tv.

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And forgot to mention last week I sold a house I don't own . I got a message from the niece of this one lady I mowed a lawn for that passed away over the summer. They left a key with me in case of emergency since they all live a few hours away. The niece managed to sell some items and needed me to open the house so the buyers could get the items. The last couple that showed up also asked about the house that was next door because it had a for sale sign. I was honest and told them it needed a total gut renovation. Then I mentioned the house they were standing in was for sale also. Then I played realtor and took them on a tour of the house. They made an offer to the niece and the family accepted.

Dale Earnhardt Jr's JR Motorsports is going cup racing. They will be entering the #40 Chevy in the Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier driving. Helio Castroneves is also entering the Daytona 500 in the Project 91 Chevy. Mike Wallace on the other hand will not be entering the Daytona 500. In fact they banned him from competing in any NASCAR division series. Reasons unknown but few speculate that he ticked off the NASCAR brass and this is their way of getting back.

Season one and two is good with the songs they played in each episode and the stunt driving. Season 4 got ridiculous, a lot of the over the top stunts you could tell were done with an RC car or model kit car.

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With drought conditions like that there's no way you can prevent wildfires being driven by near hurricane force winds. Praying for all those affected. We had a drought here back in summer were we went almost a whole month without rain and the rain we did get during that period was barely enough to wet the dirt. Thank God we didn't have any fires then. The grass here was so dry it was like matchsticks on the ground. I didn't mow lawns for a month. More than made up for the rain deficit in December though, in fact set a new rainfall record for December. We're about to have 72+ hours of temps below 20 degrees starting Sunday, Tuesday night/Wednesday morning is supposed to be -15 for a low possibly setting a new record. Officials are warning people just because it will be that cold not to go ice fishing because the temperature swings we had, yesterday was 40, and will have will make the ice unsafe especially by next weekend when temps will be in the mid 30's again.

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