thanks everyone for the kind words and yes i had a great weekend of racing and hangin with the jakes auto. gang, ro23car let me use his (lucky) dial-in marker worked great! the bowman girl doing the interview said on saturday how she remembered me from norwalk and had to look up because i'm tall so i joked and said next time i'll bring a milk crate well next time turned out to be sunday i had her stand on it for interview (which i totally screwed up). we all laughed. bob.