NAVY DAVY'S SHOT OF THE WEEK!!!

.....hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend. Hope all you deer hunters were successful. This weeks shot comes from The Red Cedar Speedway when the WDRL Touring Series was there. Brian Harris and Kerry Hansen negotiating turn one. See you at the races.......

Kind of slow getting new content posted

My goal a couple of weeks ago was to post to this blog on a regular basis. My best plans always seem to fall by the wayside for one reason or another. Lately I've been dealing with some health problems so I have had a lot of doctor appointments as well as going in for tests and scans. It all started with a bump on the side of my head that suggested there could be a blood condition that results in bumps on the skin. It's too long of an explanation to try to describe it but all the tests and scans have been normal so far. I had the bump on my head and another spot developed on my body around the same time. They snipped the other spot a few days ago, the scans showed no abnormalities prior to the last biopsy. Bottom line, it's a manageable condition and sometimes hard to diagnose. Bug bites and things like that can give false positives. I'll know more on Tuesday, I'm hoping that he'll decide to monitor things and tell me to come back in a few months.

Aside from that an old filling on a lower front tooth broke off yesterday. I'm hoping that they can put in another filling and don't have to put in a crown. Crowns suck, it's a simple procedure to get one but they're expensive and sometimes they want to put a metal post in. Dental work can be expensive, I've got insurance but dental doesn't pay the whole thing, there's a deductible and they only cover around 50%. Oh well, stuff happens.

To my friends who have seen my Ranger pickup, I'm going to have some work done and hang onto it. I hate making vehicle payments and it's been running good so far. It's a basic truck, 4 cylinder 5 speed, no cruise or air, but if I want to go racing I have to own and maintain two vehicles on one income. My vehicle is the "beater" and the wife drives our car. The 4 cylinder is slow to accelerate onto the freeways, I sweat my ass off when it's hot and my foot goes to sleep from not having cruise on long trips. Putting up with those inconveniences makes it possible for me to go racing so I don't really mind.

Photo sales have been going pretty good since the end of the season. Thanks to everybody who has bought my photos this year. I really appreciate it. You won't find me walking from hauler to hauler hawking my photos, all sales are off my website or by word of mouth. My photo sales are only meant to supplement my racing budget and they're doing a great job of that. I have been getting a lot of my photos published in Flat Out and Dirt Late Model used some of my photos in their most recent issue. Considering that I only attend about 30 races per season and don't travel much further than 150 miles it's quite an accomplishment to get that much exposure in national publications. Flat Out will be doing a feature on my work in an upcoming Salute to the Shooter so watch for that because it's going to be quite a tribute to our local drivers.

Well, that's going to do it for now. I'll make it a point to post more often.

NAVY DAVY'S SHOT OF THE WEEK!!!

......it sure looks warm in this shot. Unlike the temps we have now-LOL. This shot is a superstock heat at Kopellah back in June. It's typical of the kind of racing we saw there throughout the season. See you at the races.......

Change of heart on the content of this blog

FYI, in an earlier post I said that I was going to exercise the right to free speech including some colorful language. I didn't get any feedback about it but I decided to make this a family blog. You might see an occasional hell or damn but that's going to be the extent of the coarse language. If you're offended by the way John Wayne talked in his old movies or didn't like what Rhett Butler said to Scarlet in Gone With the Wind, well, frankly, I don't give a damn.

I decided to keep it clean because there will still be some news items posted in here.

NAVY DAVY'S SHOT OF THE WEEK!!!

.......we made the long drive over to Wausau for the Somerset Spartans football game Saturday. It was the semi final before state. They played Kettle-Morraine-Lutheran out of Wales WI. They have a great football team and it showed Saturday as they ended Somerset's run 37-20. Turnovers just killed the Spartans and the Chargers took advantage of them. Somerset needed to open their offense up and when they did it showed. KML had answers for the running game and they had a well balanced offense. Their QB had a gun for an arm. The Spartans have no reason to hang their heads though. They finished the season 12-1. not losing a game until Saturday.
This weeks shot comes from Kopellah Speedway. This is John Remington winning by inches over Cory Davis. See you at the races......

Newsfeeds on gotomn, personal Blog with some local items...

I finally purged the last remaining press release from my blog. It took a couple of weeks to delete two years of content from this thing. As you can see I'm leaving Navy Davy's "Shot of the Week" and a few other items of local interest in the blog and will be posting my MRC articles and personal thoughts as well. I know it doesn't look like a big change to you guys but I was spending an hour a day uploading press releases to this blog. After browsing around the internet at some of the newsfeeds that are available to racing websites I realized it's redundant to post this stuff myself. One hour a day average time spend reposting news and results is 365 hours per year or over 15 days spent duplicating what the newsfeeds do on your website automatically. Welcome to the modern age (LOL) the days of websites being cluttered with 100 banner ads and the webmaster cut-n-pasting news and results onto our pages are a thing of the past.

I created two sections on the main gotomn.com page which now incorporates news and results from the hoseheadsforums.com newsfeed. In addition to that you will find a column of links for my favorite tracks and series on the left side of the page. If you click on the track name it will open the track website in a separate window where you can find the latest news and info for each track. In addition to that you will see links for "news", "results" and "schedules" under some of the track listings. These links will open a window to the SpeedNet newsfeed in case it hasn't been posted on the track website yet. Under the tracks you will find links for my favorite series. Please note that you're not going to find every last track or series on the main page of my website. These are my favorite tracks and one of the criteria is that they've got to be Sprint Car friendly. If a track runs Sprint Car specials and I like to go there then it's going to be listed on my front page. If a track is located too far from where I live and I don't go there then it's not going to be on my front page but that doesn't mean you won't find it on my Links page. The front page is designed with dirt track Sprint Car, Late Model and Modified fans in and around the Twin Cities in mind. Don't bother to email me and bitch at me if you don't see your favorite track listed on my front page. They're my favorites, not yours, this is my website and not yours. You want links to every damn Pure Stock track from eastern Wisconsin to Montana you're SOL because the gotomn front page isn't where you're gonna' find it. Go to the 20/20 board or someplace where they give a damn if that's what you want. I'm not anti-entry class but on the other hand I don't want my main page cluttered with everything on wheels.

Yeah, I'm going to tell it like it is on my blog. If I go to a race and something sucks I'm not going to pull any punches and feel like I've got to paint a rosey picture. If I have a really good experience at the races I'll be sure to talk about that as well. There's no agenda, it's basically whatever is on my mind. If a post on one of the message boards gets under my skin from now on instead of getting drawn into an argument on the message boards I'll post my thoughts on here. When you come into this blog all bets are off, think of it this way, you just pulled up a lawn chair and took a beer out of my cooler. You chose to join me around my campfire so you never know what you're going to hear us say.

That's going to about do it for now but check back every week or so and I'll probably be venting about something that I read on one of the boards somewhere. No sponsors, no obligations ;-)

NAVY DAVY'S SHOT OF THE WEEK!!!

...it was gut check time for the Somerset Spartans football team Saturday as they played the very tough and well coached Tomahawk Hatchets in Somerset. This was the third round game of state playoffs. Each week the opponent gets tougher.Saturday was no exception. Both teams played hard and at the end of regulation stood tied at 20. Somerset got the ball first in overtime and Justin Trautmiller faked em to the outside scoring a touchdown. The two point conversion failed and it was Tomahawk's turn. This is where the Spartan defense came up big. They stopped the Hatchets on four downs for the hard fought victory and will play Kettle-Morraine Luthern next week at a site to be determined for the right to play at Camp Randall Stadium in the State Championship game on Nov. 15.
Saturday night we attended the Red Cedar Awards Banquet at The Stout Ale House in Menomonie.
This weeks shot comes from the DTRA 100. I've seen Late Models and Modifieds lift like this but have nevet seen a Superstock doing this. It was quite a sight and one that had me laughing. It's Lance Leu of Medford lifting er high.
See you at the races.....GO SPARTANS!!!!!!!!!!!