Hey Yall,
Yesterday, 3/25/2007, Nascar brought out what they call the Car Of Tomorrow.
This car is designed by Nascar to be safer, more economical for the teams, and
supposedly more equal among the manufacturers.
The drivers have had mixed feelings about this car. In last Fridays sports section of the Kalamazoo Gazzete, Tony Stewart was quoted as saying that the car was a "bucket of junk
that drives like an old green Oldsmobile station wagon with wood paneling on the side".
This brings me to the subject of todays post.
First of all, Tony's description sounds like a person who has been there. Was this A...his
first vehicle or B...the family vehicle.
When I first read his comments, I was reminded of a color faded rusty 1970's Post
Office Pinto. Some of the regular visitors of the Empty Room have just fallen out of their chairs laughing.
This vehicle was a good source of basic transportation, that got us from point a to point b, but
it impossible to look cool in one of theese vehicles.
This brought to mind several vehicles, not mine, but my older sister and my brothers will remember the term "Connie Car". My older brother and sister will now be picking themselves up off the floor, and my younger brother is laughing from Heaven right now.
This vehicle was good for maybe 2 starts, after that it was a crapshoot. If the vehicle did start
it was a blue cloud of smoke going down the road.
So now we come to the group participation of the Empty Room.
What I would like from you gentle reader, is to send in your information about your
"Loser Mobile", "Connie Car", or other basic transportation that you have owned.
Contact your friends and send them here, yes I know its a shameless plug for the
Empty Room, but I can do that.
My assignment is probably not going to work, but I will be writing an E-Mail to
Tony Stewart at his radio show, and see if he will talk to some of his driving buddies and get them to join in the spirit of this post, with stories of their "Loser Mobiles".
I doubt I will hear back from Tony personaly, but even if he used the idea for his show, it would be cool.
Have fun with your assignments, and I hope you will all send in a reply.

Hey yall...Look who's back.
That's right...pigs fly, there is an ice storm in hell, and I am blogging again.
The biggest news to hit the empty room in dog years happened on March 9th of this year.
We received in the mail last week a paper stating that as of that date,I Dan Dailey am
the proud father of a 19 year old little girl. SMOKE EM IF YA GOT EM.
Brittany Devon Raynne Dailey is doing fine in Ann Arbor, and we hope to get over there soon.
In other news...Mary slipped on some ice last month and broke her leg.
She has some screws and a plate just above her ankle now, but this by no means she has a bionic leg and can kick my ass harder.
She is getting around very well, very seldom using the walker or wheeled office chair upstairs,
and has mastered the stairs at home very well.
We have been using the Aztec for transportation exclusively, but will be trying to get her into the intrepid tomorrow.
She goes back to the Dr. on Wed. and we will see where everything is, but she has done remarkably well in trying to get back to where she is on her own feet withot a brace again.
I am no longer working at International Paper.
As of Feb. 1 of this year they are Evergreen Packaging.
We still don't have a union contract, but are hoping both sides will get back to the bargaining table very soon. Work continues to be fairly steady, and we are hiring new people. I think they are planning on some expansion in the near future.
Thats about all the poop there is in the empty room, allthough everybody says I am still full of it.
Talk to you all later, and in keeping with the date...
May you be in Heaven an hour before the devil knows you are dead.