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Punch Yes D'oh is Homer's word when he screws up or hurts himself. I've been watching The Simpsons since the Tracey Ullman show.

The Hybrids are coming The Hybrids are coming... Well we have two more years of hearing the thundering sound of V8's in Nascar. They are looking to get hybrid powertrains under the hoods for 2024. At the moment it is unknown if it will be with V8's or a turbocharged V6 or I4 ice engine https://www.jayski.com/2021/10/13/nascars-phelps-say-more-changes-coming-to-schedule-in-the-future-new-engine-to-have-hybrid-components/

I should have known that was from the Dukes D'oh . Continent

The Charlotte Roval race was another exciting one yesterday. Chase Elliott was having a great run, winning Stage 1 and 2nd in Stage 2, until Kevin Harvick decided to use the bumper which knocked Chase's car backwards into the wall. The #9 team was able to fix the car to keep Chase running and boy did he. He was laying laps down that were as good as the leader's. A few more cautions and he was running back up into the teens. He was about to catch Kevin Harvick in turn 1 but Kevin psyched himself out and braked too late and hit the wall hard enough to take himself out of the race. It looked like Denny Hamlin was going to win the race but Kyle Larson got a great restart after the final caution and passed Denny in turn 3 or 4, Tyler Reddick and William Byron followed and gave chase to Kyle Larson. William Byron was in a must win scenario but unfortunately he used up his tires and was on the losing end of contact with Tyler. Kyle Larson went on to win his 7th race of the season and punched his ticket into the round of 8 playoffs. The other drivers joining him in that around are Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. Top 10 1 Kyle Larson 2 Tyler Reddick 3 Chris Buescher 4 Kyle Busch 5 Denny Hamlin 6 Matt Dibenedetto 7 Joey Logano 8 Christopher Bell 9 Ryan Blaney 10 Alex Bowman

First the news... GMS Motorsports moving upto Cup Series with the #94 Chevy and Ty Dillon behind the wheel https://www.jayski.com/2021/10/10/ty-dillon-driving-for-gms-racing-in-2022-cup-series-season/ They will have a technical alliance with RCR. RickWareRacing announces technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing and Roush-Yates Engines and has sponsorship for two cars next season https://www.jayski.com/2021/10/10/rick-ware-racing-forming-an-alliance-with-stewart-haas-racing-roush-yates-engines-for-2022/ They have also been in talks with Ryan Newman and Matt Dibenedetto to drive one of the cars next season Team Hezeburg and RBR team up for a partial 2022 Cup series schedule https://www.jayski.com/2021/10/09/team-hezeberg-to-run-partial-2022-cup-schedule/ the driver's that will share the #27 are Loris Hezemans and Jacques Villeneuve.

Jimmie Johnson passed his Indy oval test and was given the greenlight by Indycar officials to race in next year's Indy 500 https://www.jayski.com/2021/10/06/jimmie-johnson-getting-nascar-offers-but-still-weighing-indy-500/ Romain Grosjean also passed his Indy oval test.

Y'all going to have to enlighten me to this show as I have no idea what your talking about lol, but it sounds interesting. Mechanic

That's good. I read today that Windows will be rolling out the 11 upgrade soon for free if they deem your computer worthy . You can still install it if they think your PC can't handle it but you'll have to download an ISO file and either put it on a dvdr or USB drive to install it, and for updates this way you will most likely have to re-download the updated iso and install it. The other catch is you have to have a Microsoft account.

Yeah, unfortunately they weren't saying "Let's go Brandon"... I guess this pretty much confirms Ty Dillon will be driving the GMS Racing lone Cup series entry for 2022 https://amp.foxsports.com/stories/nascar/nascar-drivers-have-crucial-tests-of-next-gen-car-on-the-horizon?__twitter_impression=true Interesting that Front Row Motorsports is not participating in the test but then again with all the rumors about them and 23XI racing.

Ricky Stenhouse finally makes it official that he's staying with JTGDAUGHERTY Racing https://www.jayski.com/2021/09/30/ricky-stenhouse-jr-returning-to-jtg-daugherty-racing-in-2022/ Jimmie Johnson is going for his Indy 500 test Wednesday, if it goes well he will try to make next year's Indy 500. Rumor mill: Stewart-Haas Racing might field a Xfinity car for Marco Andretti in 2022.

Unfortunately my dad's always been a bit of a hoarder. It's never gotten to the extreme point that are on those Hoarders shows where there's only a small path throughout the house. But it would probably take about a month to go through everything in the house and garage to make sure there's no hidden money or valuable antique or comic or Playboy book. Last week reminded me why I'd rather not go through the stuff with him because his greedy side comes out, if he thinks anything is worth money it's got to be his even if it's mine. In his haste to move a stripper into my old bedroom years ago he just threw a bunch of stuff in boxes without marking it and threw it in the 3rd bedroom. When I got home that day last week I told the wife id rather just sell the whole room and let someone else go through it all instead of dealing with the stress and angst. And speaking of Playboy did y'all catch the news yesterday on the latest cover model , good lord what is this world coming too.

I'm calling it No way is Nascar going to pass this chance up if they do I'll do a new post. The Hendrick driver's had a bad Talladega race. The 5, 24 and 48 all got caught up in wrecks. The 5 has enough points built up to survive the 2bd round but the 24 and 48 would have to win the Charlotte Roval race next week. Bubba Wallace wins his first Cup race after it got postponed and rain shortened. I think this marks the first time Trucks, Xfinity and Cup Talladega weekend races have ended with a new 1st time winner. Top 10 1 Bubba Wallace 2 Brad Keselowski 3 Joey Logano 4 Kurt Busch 5 Christopher Bell 6 Chris Buescher 7 Denny Hamlin 8 Kevin Harvick 9 Austin Dillon or Erik Jones 10 Anthony Alfredo

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And speaking of hoarders my dad might have finally seen the light, of course it took his brother telling him he's a hoarder. Apparently my uncle stopped by and noticed something up against the window in the 3rd bedroom of my dad's house. Of course I'm the one that gets volunteered to do all the work again. Took me over 3 hours to make a 2 foot wide path to get to the box leaning against the window blinds not the window. I'm getting really sick of my uncle volunteering me. I had stuff I wanted to get done last week and between the kittens and my dad and uncle none of it got done.

If people wouldn't have posted pics of empty shelves in their local store on FB or Twitter or Instagram or etc... which could have been due to a product shortage or the store just not getting the delivery yet, the panic sheep wouldn't have went into buy everything of that product in sight mode. Pasta is now the must buy item, local shelves were empty of all the cheap spaghetti, was plenty of the $3-4 a pound spaghetti and pasta though lol. Here in the states people were getting up to $600 extra a week in unemployment, think that only lasted 6 months then it was lowered to $300 extra a week. Of course individual states could decide when to end the benefits which a lot of states did over the summer. We had the same problem here with people either taking a 2nd job for a week and quitting to get the unemployment benefits while they still worked or applying in someone else's name. You would have thought that a big red flag for some states would have been when the scammers wanted the check or debit card sent to another state especially ones several hundred miles away. I'm glad the feds and states are going after them and trying to get the maximum penalty.

Unfortunately Hoss it's not. People here are hoard buying food and paper goods again while others are buying up toys that are expected to be a hot thing this Christmas already to resell before Christmas. Some stores have already put a limit of 1 or 2 items per person per day. Caught the last kitten this morning and dropped them off to a local rescue shelter.

Looks like Ricky Stenhouse Jr is going to drive the lone JTGDAUGHERTY racing car next season They also might switch back to Toyota for next season.

Caught 2 more kittens tonight. Runt of the group put up the most fight, scratched and bit me then ran off. While I cleaned and sterilized my wound the wife with help from one of the neighbor's caught it. Will be taking them tomorrow to a local shelter.

The update took over 3 hours. I stayed up late to see it through so I could turn the laptop off. Gonna need some caffeine to get through today lol.

Heads up about the latest Windows update it may take your PC or laptop a long time. My wife's laptop was stuck on the Wait just a moment screen for about an hour and a half now it's stuck on the Getting Windows Ready screen. Good luck.

I assume the deer have more predators to fear around your area. Deer around here aren't really skittish except for loud bangs since the only predators around here are coyotes. When my wife got home from work yesterday I was showing her something we need to get fixed on the one car and one of the stray cats that I call Buddy walked by, I said Hi Buddy and he meowed back and kept walking. My wife was like "wait a minute did that dang cat just say hi to you" . I said that's Buddy he's cool. I might just have to take him with us if he's still alive when we move.

Hey Roger I know you're going to rooting for this car at Talladega You would have thunk RWR would have put this on the Camaro body instead but still pretty cool to see this.

This lady wasn't just going off on the Covid vaccine either. She was ranting on all the vaccines/immunizations, "Every parent that gets their kids vaccinated is turning them into mutant's". I told the wife if I become a mutant turtle I hope I'm Michelangelo . My animal magnetism struck again. One of the stray cats around here got pregnant again had 3 kittens but the one was sick. God knows why but for some reason she chose our patio to leave it. She and the other two kittens hung out till we realized they were there. Next door neighbor said they've been hanging out in our patio all weekend but since we've been on the go all weekend we didn't know till yesterday. I managed to grab the sick one and get it into a carrier and my cousin setup a meet with one of her pet foster friends so we handed it off to them last night. I was telling the wife last night 'how the heck did it know to bring the kitten to our patio out of all the apartments here.' I hope the little booger survives and has a long healthy life.

Went to the local annual Native American Pow Wow this weekend. This was the smallest one they've ever had, only 5 vendors showed up and maybe 2 dozen or so dancers. Before Covid they had between 2-3 dozen vendors and 50-100 dancers. A lot of it had to do with Covid and some with the rainfall we got last week, the grand marshal said some people didn't show because they thought it was cancelled due to flooding. That's understandable because for 15-17 years it was held at a park next to the Maumee river that flooded various times of the year. They had to move the Pow Wow to a new venue just outside of Grand Rapids Ohio a few years ago after that park was destroyed in the ice dam flood of 2018 I think, maybe it was 2019. Anyways when people got word of how much rain hit the area they thought it was cancelled so didn't show up. After the Pow Wow we went into Grand Rapids Ohio and checked out some of the shops. Some places closed while others thrived. We were hoping to get some pizza but the pizza shop was not open for some reason so we ended up picking a pizza up in nearby Waterville on the way home. I've heard some weird things about vaccines but what this one lady said at the Pow Wow was bat crazy. Apparently she believes that recent I Am Legend movie theory that vaccines are turning us into mutant's. The wife and I slowly backed away from her after she started talking crazy, didn't want to take any chances of triggering her in case she had issues of vaccinated people being near her.

If only Norris would have listened to his Crew chief(?) and pitted for rain tires when they tried calling him to pit he might have won. It was team sweeps at Las Vegas this weekend. Thorsport finished 1234 in the Truck series race. JR Motorsports finished 123 in the Xfinity race. Chase Elliott didn't get the memo though as he crashed the JGR sweep of the Cup series race. Early on it looked like it was going to be a race between Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson. Kyle Larson won stage 1. I'm not sure what happened to him in stage 2 since I went to bed and the highlight reels on YouTube don't mention it but he went a lap down and didn't get back on the lead lap till late in the race. Joey Gase was in the RWR 15 this weekend and suffered a wheel failure of some sort and hit the wall hard and was transported to a hospital for further evaluation. Top 10 1 Denny Hamlin 2 Chase Elliott 3 Kyle Busch 4 Martin Truex Jr 5 Ryan Blaney 6 Tyler Reddick 7 Brad Keselowski 8 Kurt Busch 9 Kevin Harvick 10 Kyle Larson