Hi Gang Arlo here with my first entry in the new blog. I really wasn’t to sure what to write about until I had a chat with our Program Director  ( Mike Beck ) His idea was for me to write about whatever random thoughts popped into my head. After he realized who’s thought process he was talking about we had a good laugh. His next suggestion was that I write about my trip to Richmond for the NASCAR race.  With everything that’s been said, and written about the finish of the race I believe it will go down as one of the major moments of this season. I thought it was a testament to Virginia’s race fans that Richmond added  7,000 seats last year, and not only sold all the tickets, but people showed up in spite of $3.50 a gallon gas. They also scored the highest TV ratings for a Richmond Spring race. I had a major Homer Simpson moment during Driver introductions. Some background is in order, last year Richmond International removed 4,000 seats that they labeled “restricted, or obstructed view”, and built a huge new 11,000 seat front stretch grandstand for a net gain of 7,000 seats. Last fall I looked in vain for those missing seats, and just couldn’t find them. This year I was laughing at the crowd reaction to certain drivers as they circled the track, until they entered turn 3, that’s when I let out a big “Doooaaah”. All the seats in the lower level between turn 3, and 4 have been removed. If comedian Bill Engvall had been sitting in our section I would have been handed  “my sign” for sure. I still don’t know how I missed them. But did I call my friend Aimee Turner the track’s Public Relations Director, and just ask ? Nooooo!  Well there’s always next time. By the way I’m typing this on my new laptop computer. Who would have thunk it, me knee deep in the wonderful world of Wi-Fi. It would be almost tempting to drag out that line about “Teaching old dogs” , but we’re not gonna go there. Till next time “Bye-Cycle” Make it a great day”  ( arf arf ).  :- )     Arlo