Busy is Good

Finally I'm getting back to being truly busy with things going on.  Even if some of it is stuff I'm really just choosing to do.  Saturday was pretty much consumed with going to Silverstone to watch the Britcar GP.  There was some other racing too, an original Mini series, an Alfa Romeo series, ex Formula BMW cars and a couple others.  We migrated around the circuit and watched just about every turn at some point.  It was good, as I actually hadn't been around to some of the turns.  Watched a little basketball at night and went to bed relatively early as we finally lost the spring hour this weekend.

I got up early and got a ride from Rob to campus to watch the Australian GP with a group of us.  We had a BBQ breakfast of sausages and bacon, which honestly I think filled me up for the whole day.  I got back home and did a couple loads of laundry while finishing up booking trains and hotels for Jess' trip in a couple weeks.  Then I took a bike ride down the Canal to a garden center that I'd figured out has a good food and beer selection, mainly Scottish stuff.  Picked up a few goodies, but did resist their baked goods, mainly their scones, which looked really good.  From there I rode home and then back out to the gym for my first workout in like 5 days, which was good.  If you like inflicting pain, look up and try an exercise called a "manmaker".  Good stuff.

Then I stopped at a couple of Wetherspoons to see which beer festival ales they had on and found a few good ones.  The best part is they were £2.05 each!  Best one was a beer from San Diego - Ballast Point Calico Amber.  I think they fly the brewer over here and have the beer brewed on a system locally to avoid having to ship overseas.  An interesting concept that seems to work pretty well.

Going to have a light dinner tonight, still not truly hungry - probably just a little bread, cheese and a spinach salad.  I will attempt to stay up through the UNC game, don't know how successful that will be, since I was up at 5:30 this morning for the race!

Picasa Album from the BTCC Test day and Britcar event

2011 BTCC Media and Britcar Silverstone GP