My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Monday February 14, 2000

Confessions of a Delinquent Diarist

Well, every now-and-then I look at our access logs, and I see a few people read these ramblings!

Last week I changed the meta headers, so search engines will only examine the indexes, and not any daily entries--trying to reduce my hits per day, you see.

Well, I've not been making many diary entries lately, have I? Though for those who truly enjoy boring detail, you might have noticed that my game log, here keeps growing. I finally had to sell some of my duplicate prizes in that game! Note that I am attempting to win all the GT League and Special Event races without entering any event twice. Quite do-able, as long as you win the Trial Mountain 30 on your first racing day. The garage is getting full, especially since I'm picking up nearly every interesting historical used car I see.

On the weekend I showed my wife the write-up for the Aston Martin DB6. If you haven't read that yet, and want a chuckle, you should read it. She insisted I try the beast, so I bought one and entered it completely stock in the Tahiti race of the Sunday "Cup". Its handling was very reminiscent of the 1967 Corvette from GT1. I was thankful that the edges of that track are much more forgiving than they would be if GT2 was more realistic.

I'm thinking of starting a proper "car review" section. I think I'd back my evaluations up with hard figures derived from a lap at Grand Valley.

I also have a prototype gear chart maybe you'd like to try. Hmm. I wonder if anyone will be able to figure it out.

I've half-a-mind to start a best-times section, for Enduros only.

Last weekend, my wife and I gave her younger nephew Crash Team Racing, complete with a Sony multi-tap, and two really cheap analog controllers from Wal-Mart. I won't mention "Bloody Roar II", because that's bloody embarassing. He had actually asked for that, and his mother, a little opposed to the addiction of racing games, I think, seemed to prefer he get that instead of Crash Team Racing. We ended up giving him both. Nice costumes and choreography in Bloody Roar II, I must say. Luckily his parents are quite open-minded about their children's exposure to such things.