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Summer ended abruptly last week. I didn't make it to Catalina once this season. While I did make it out to Reno for the air races, a plane crashed into the grandstands on Friday night and canceled the remainder of the racing weekend (for the first time in over 100 years of air racing.)

That's actually a big deal. Consider how many times a race car has crashed and flew into the stands, killing spectators. Same with motorcycle racing. While I don't think you really have that problem very often with sailboat racing, I'm sure it's happened a few times with powerboat racing. Yet, in 100 years of air racing, it's never happened. And that's with there being what I'd estimate to be about an average of 3 crashes per weekend of racing. There could be dozens of mayday's called over a racing season, and even a death every few years, but they all happen over the race course. History was actually made that day even though all you'll read about in the news was "Some dudes died a horrific explosive death."

At any rate, this was a pretty sucky summer. I did get to hang out with Greggster on the way back from Reno though. And I hung outwith a bunch of other cool people too. So it certainly wasn't completely devoid of enjoyable happenings. Plus I got to go out and do some cool stuff with Danger girl lots of times, but that's to be expected. I mean it's kindo mandatory and happens on virtually a daily basis. Not much sense writing about it, but then again it's plenty fun.