Bowie, dogs, ups, downs, Sally Field of Weeds

At right is racing driver Denis Hulme driving a McLaren M8F Group 7 sports-racing car. I think it is beautiful. I'd like to have one in my driveway. I guess there are homes with ten-car garages and five bedrooms, and that sounds good to me. If my fantasy of living in Hearst Castle comes true, I'd have a racetrack in the back yard with lots of garages for racing cars.

My father liked miniature golf, not real golf. He felt that real golf was for snooty rich people. Well, I guess car racing is for snooty rich people too, but it's different. Some drivers get into positions of success with money, or talent, or a combination of the two.

Auto racing could help make the world a better place by encouraging development of clean and efficient vehicles, but not much effort is being expended in that direction. I did read something in the new Road & Track about "green" racing.

I wonder if there has ever been a race where each car has the exact same amount of fuel... so speed and fuel economy must be managed... and more than one car might run out of fuel on the last lap.

The local paper had an article about blogs. The writer said they were becoming less popular. I wonder how many blogs are less popular than mine. Well, I don't need to be famous. I'd prefer the money.

Websites mentioned were:

austinbloggers.org

statesmanblogs.com

koax.org/austin

austin-stories.com

I suppose some people would envy me because I have a signed contract and the promise of an advance. Christina and I want to make more friends.

We went to the Town Lake Animal Center today for volunteer orientation. I got overwhelmed by it all and walked out. Christina made it through the ups and downs (not all animals leave there alive), and she plans to volunteer 6 hours per week. T.LAC is on Lake Austin, I think; Austin bodies of water look like rivers to me, but they are often called lakes.

I think American troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, but what if I am wrong? What if terrorists attack us here at home?

In Sept. of 2001, the Dept. of Defense failed to defend us. Since they failed in defense, they went on the offense... invading Afghanistan (where the perpetrators of 9-11 were) and Iraq (were lots of oil was).

In Sept. of 2007, the Dept. of Homeland Security might fail to defend us.

My father, Howard Burton, wrote a book about religion. Kim and Linda Medina, students of my father, put the book on the Web. You can read it at http://hometown.aol.com/kimzart3/0index.html.

I was depressed this morning. Overwhelmed. Didn't take my Lorazepam because it makes me sleepy and I feared being overly sleepy. Instead, I was overly tense. I hope to have blood tests to see if it would be safe to take Lithium. I fear that Lithium will not do me much good, but the side effects should be mild.