life update

So I got to see Dad's last race of the year. And he won! It was a long race, not in length, but time. It probably took an hour to run the 10 laps they got in before calling the race on account of how people would not stop wreckings.

But that still gave my Dad his third win of the year, which secured his place as Rookie of the Year (which is funny because he's been racing since the '70s but not on dirt so he qualified) and 4th or possibly 3rd in points for the year, he's very happy.

My mom and step-father evidently bought the absolutely trashed foreclosure we went and looked at a couple of weeks ago. So at some point, I'll have a house. But not for a while as it's not currently liveable.

My step-mother invited me to Florida to visit her and Dad again this winter. Which I wasn't expecting since I did that last year. But she thought I might like a break this winter since I'm not going to be able to go to Sicily like I thought I would because European trips are expensive and I've now got a house so I should probably not be spending money on trips for awhile.

The bad news is my town is all over the news because of a propane explosion that killed a firefighter. The building that blew up is maybe 5 miles from where I live. If I'd been home this morning, or at work, I would have heard the explosion. The road is still closed and traffic is being diverted, so I had to tell someone I was going to my house to be allowed through at one point. That was fun.