Prerace Notes: The race today is 56 laps of the 5.543km course at the Sepang International Circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a total distance of 310.408km. The lap record on this track is 1’34.233 by Juan Pablo Montoya in 2004. Renault has won the last 2 races at Sepang with Ferrari, McLaren and Williams the other winners in the [...]

Round 1: 1 minute of the 15 minute round and Christian Albers and Jarno Trulli are the first 2 drivers to get out on the track. Track temperature at start time was 59°. 4 minutes have been completed and only 3 cars have not entered the circuit. They include Alonso, Heidfeld and Kubica. 5 minutes [...]

Here are my thoughts and recollections from the last 3 weeks. Yes it has been that long since I did a retrospect.

Today is April Fool’s Day. Were you one of the gullible people to be embarrassed today? If so, let me know your story.
The last 2 weeks were spring break in Yellowknife and a great [...]

Prerace Notes: The race today is 58 laps of the 5.303km course at Albert park in Melbourne Australia for a total distance of 307.574km. The lap record on this track is 1’24.125 by Michael Schumacher in 2004. Ferrari has won 3 of the last 6 races here with Renault claiming 2 victories and McLaren the [...]

Round 1: Qualifying is under way for the year. Albers for Spyker is the first car out on the track. Albers goes wide in his qualifying but gets the first time down of 1:32:300 and I am sure we will see the fastest time about 5 seconds faster. 5 minutes gone of the 15 minutes [...]

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We spent today with a friend of ours up from Ontario. We took her around the city and took some pictures down at the Snowking Winter Festival on Great Slave Lake. We also visited the Gallery of the Midnight Sun where we discovered a great place [...]

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-42°C this morning. 0.2° from tying a record for the coldest temperature ever on this day in Yellowknife.
We drove to Dettah this morning on the ice road. It was pleasant but cold. The trip out on the ice road is 6km and the return trip [...]

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I spent all week in Edmonton. I stayed at Mack’s place. The ZENworks 7 Desktop Management course was great. What a powerful tool it is and we just went through the basics. I can hardly wait to start working with it in real time.
Patti and I celebrated [...]

Here are my thoughts and recollections for the past week:

Budget presentation day was last Thursday. I think it went well and I think the committee understood my vision for the next 3 years.
Patti worked with a few more clients and spent most of the week working on crafts for the SLPs to use.
The Edmonton Oilers [...]

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I had my new technician start on Thursday so I am no longer alone in the department. Now maybe I can start doing some more planning for the future. Spring Break is coming so that means 2 weeks to get some more major work done.
Patti spent [...]