Went to the Indy Today

Sometimes I wonder if, in olden times, horses were loved as much as we love engines today.

Engines are the new horses.

It was beautfiul out, a perfect weather day. Here’s your sunscreen reminder. Then Scott came out of nowhere, and surprised me.

Maybe my favourite part of any car race is the sound.

Those are NASCARs you hear.

But have you noticed too, that this year’s Indy isn’t as busy as past years.

I remember hearing cars for 3 days straight, and it’s now Saturday night and I’ve barely heard any races? Did it get scaled back and I don’t know?

One year I rode a giant razor like a mechanical bull.

Going again tomorrow!

It Was a Great Week!

It was productive, there were a lot of loud laughs, a few rolls of the dice paid off.

Remember to occasionally swing for the fences, and it’s called a dream for a reason.

All my blog photos are here, in these albums, if you’d like to peruse.

That’s my Google+ account, circle me on in.

What the text says.

(Photo by Rannie)

Did you see Casie on eTalk?!?

She spoke about the Royal Family Canadian visit as a Social Media Expert, and she killed it. Click here to watch.

Well done, missy!

I won #CreepTuesday this week!

#CreepTuesday is a game of stealth smart phone using. Taking a secret picture of a poor, unfortunate soul, and posting it online. Karma’s going to be a b-tch to us, but hey, it’s entertaining our friends all over North America – CreepTuesday.wordpress.com

You can play too, send photos to: @Shankell @Kristikenn @Chris_Huey

My winning photo.

I’d like to thank the Academy.

I love this photo of me.

Do you ever visit my other blog?

Posts are mostly a title and one photo.  I think you’d like it.

Examples:

Recent highlights include:

– I kinda want to see inside here, kinda not
– sports teams had funny names in olden times
– we’re getting new $100 bills, Canada
– tactical jewellery
– we’ll all have wallets like this soon #RFID #security

That’s So Meta!

Casie tweeted the one of the left.

That’s the iPad they give you at e11even, it has the wine list on it (600+ wines).

In Notes I found one, someone had written, “I hacked this!“.  No, you didn’t.

Beautiful place, and what you wanna do is order from their $11 menu; that’s the trick.

I’ll leave you with this.

Have a great Saturday night!!

It’s Indy Weekend

Honda kindly gave me VIP tickets for both days this year, oh ya let’s DO this.

I live downtown and love the deafening noise, l o v e it.  So in this vein, here’s an old episode from my ‘Canadian Explorer’ show:

Ep 27/80 Exploring a Race Car June 2009

Best. Thumbnail. EVER.

How anti-climactic there’s no actual footage of me racing, eh. It poured the whole day, my camera is not waterproof. Also, note 0:50 ;)

THE best part of the day, but not on video though, was when I spun out.

The track is covered in oil, the rain makes it slippery, and as I rounded a corner the car just started doing a 360 by itself.

Downshift, caught it, completed the 360 and kept driving. Started screaming with pride and joy. My natural reaction is fist pump, forgot the cabin is so tiny, smashed my fist straight up into the metal lip.

kk I’m off to the INDY! TTYL

 

 

Try my Invention ‘Morning Drive’

I invented it 10 years ago. It’s very fun, the many I’ve introduced to it agree.

The rules of ‘Morning Drive’ are:

1 – Soon as your eyes open, it’s out-the-door in 30 seconds

2 – Settle into your car, first stop coffee

3 – That’s it. Go meander. Plot. Concentrate on your surroundings, what’s changed, what’s happening today. Make phone calls, design your day.

Here’s a shot of the satelitte farm.

If you watch TV in the GTA, it likely came through here.

Here’s the route in the video, final destination is Cherry Beach.

Here’s me doing the voice over work, which I neither like, nor am particularly good at.

Try it, you’re gonna love ‘Morning Drive’.

 

 

Around Toronto Harbour with Mariposa

Come ON how fun is that?!

You know that area along the water where those big boats are docked?  They’re all Mariposa yachts. Recently renovated, kind staff, a great summer date idea I think.

From May 2011

Pretty swanky party, look at all this stuff.

A lot of that candy ended up in my purse, which is now sticky with granulated sugar. And my chocolate fondue advice to you is to make a bee line for it before others get there and taint the chocolate by dipping fruit in it. Fruit is so gross.

Photobooth time!

We then met Mysterion, an experience so cool I blogged it in its own post.

Click here to read Casie’s post, which has more and better photos.  

Are you following Casie? You should be, her blog is awesome.

I think the days of me blogging with my phone camera are coming to an end.  I’d rather not have to carry around an extra something, but I can’t argue with her superior photos.  

At least I’m not using my Motorola Razr anymore, because I totally used to.

Thank you Mariposa, and hi Jason! I had a really great time.

Then we took the party to the park.