It’s been a long 36 hours here. It started off when we arrived at the shop Tuesday morning to hear a dog barking, howling, and crying like crazy. Upon further inspection we found the pup sitting on the sill of a second story window, outside the window crying bloody murder. There wasn’t much we could do at the moment so we tried talking to it and getting it to calm down and eventually it crawled back inside the window and quieted down. A couple hours later it was back at it and crying like crazy. That afternoon we bumped into the owner of the property and he informed us that the occupants were supposed to be moved out the previous Friday. I guess that explains why there was a bunch of their household crap thrown out on the tree lawn earlier last week. Sometime around 7pm the dog was back on the outside of the window crying again. I had enough at the point. I jumped the fence and Dan tossed a ladder over to me and I took the dog out of the window. The poor thing was almost skin and bones and you could tell it had not eaten or had water in days. These people left this puppy for dead. It’s a wonder why I like animals more than most humans! I have no intention of keeping it but it’s hard to fight the urge not to. We’re taking care of her for the moment and she is constantly playing with my two other dogs. This little shit is quite amazing, it’s 90% house trained already and has a solid 30″ vertical jump. She’s currently sleeping on my lap and we’re taking her to a friends this afternoon who is interested in adopting her. We’re going to see how she gets with their current dog, I hope it goes well as it would be a great home for her.

Doug from Topspeed in Georgia has been kicking ass in the One Lap of America this week with his Porsche GT2. Driver Leh Keen has put the Porsche at the front of the pack at every road course they’ve been to thus far. Doug called Tuesday afternoon saying they were in route to my place after the Gateway event. A bracket for there rear sway bar had broke and Leh had essentially been driving the car without a rear sway bar as the last event. They showed up about midnight and Doug and I went to work as Leh caught some much needed shut eye on the office floor. We got everything fixed up and they hit the road about 6am without a minute to spare. They had to be at Mid Ohio by 7:30 to make the first session. They cleaned house in both track sessions with the nearest competitor more than 5 seconds behind them! Those results make an all night effort well worth it. Congrats guys!

I was drained after a long night at the shop and getting basically no sleep. Just as I was ready to crash Wednesday night a wicked storm rolled across the lakefront of Cleveland. I grabbed the camera and the tripod and headed for the lake. I got some awesome pictures of the gods fighting before the camera battery died. What a way to end the day, the lightning was amazing!