Well, after missing The Crown Autocross Club event out at the speedway due to a misplaced wallet, I finally got out to drive again on Sunday.  The course this month was about as long in terms of time, but generally felt slower and had more and tighter features.  The bad news is that I’m not that much faster than last time — I only shaved about a second off the gap between me and the class leader compared to Event 5 — but the good news is that I’m getting a solid feel for the car and I think I know how much of that gap is me and how much is my setup.  [Translation: I hate-hate-hate-HATE my tires.] Read more

Moved (partway) into my rental house over weekend. My two housemates are in, but I’ll be staying at home until I finish work. Things weren’t quite how I remembered them from when Jon and I first looked at the house; it now pretty clearly has water issues in the basement, and some pretty nasty mold as a complication. The landlord is going to be doing a health evaluation(!) after we pointed it out to the guy doing the check-in walkthrough. That’s pretty much shot our plans for a woodshop in the basement, and introduces some potential problems. We’ve got a nice deep garage, though, and I plan to make good use of it. Speaking of the car, the transmission is doing much better now that the Pennzoil Synchromesh I put in a couple of weeks ago has broken in, and the buzz I thought was coming from the shifter turned out to be the previous owner’s ghetto stereo mount. Little things, but I feel better. I’m going to tackle rust repair sometime soon.