SWEEPER, SWEEPER, SWEEPER :>))))))))
Barry Spencer
At 08:09 AM 7/10/00 -0700, Pat Kelly wrote:
>Plans are to hire a sweeper before the next one. There were too many
>hoops to jump through for this one...hey we even have an Albany City
>Business license...and with the many hours spent, there were none left
>to track down a good sweeper.
>--Pat Kelly
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>Scot Zediker wrote:
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>> And not about my subpar performance at today's event.
>>
>> Today as I was changing back to my street tires, I noticed my left rear
tire
>> was very low on air. I made a note to refill it before going home.
After I
>> was done working, I pumped the tire back up and headed home.
>>
>> Somewhere near Oakland Coliseum I noticed some strange noise coming from
the
>> rear of the car. I pulled off the road and found that my left rear tire
had
>> gone flat! So I put the spare on and went back home.
>>
>> Fortunately, my uncle had a tire repair kit at home (the type with the
>> plugs). He had two plugs left; my tire had two punctures. Cool, I
thought,
>> I'll patch these two up and I can have the tire back on the car.
>>
>> We have an air compressor at home but no attachment for airing up a
tire, so
>> I drove to a gas station near the house and put air into the tire. I
>> discovered a THIRD hole in the tire!
>>
>> It may or may not have happened there, but I did notice a lot of glass
>> fragments in all the debris I brushed off my Hoosiers at GGF. I don't know
>> what made one of the holes I plugged, but the other had a small nail in it.
>> Anyway, I'm driving around on a donut spare in the meantime and not very
>> happy about it cuz Kragen is already closed and I'll have to wait until
>> tomorrow to get the plugs.
>>
>> BTW, will the surface at GGF be cleaner next time we're there?
>>
>> Thanks for allowing me to vent.
>>
>> Scot
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