For those that don’t know, the staging lanes are the section of a drag strip where all the cars that will be racing line up and wait their turn to race. So the title of the post implicitly states that this is the first in a series of posts revolving around the same general idea. So what is this idea you may ask? Graduation and future plans of working on Valarie.
I am 26 days away from graduating. Well. Kind of. In 26 days I *will* graduate, but I am contemplating going right back into the fire – to get my master’s degree in one of my minors. While I desperately want a reprieve, the drive to push myself further and further all the time and the desire to financially secure myself and future family are making me heavily consider going right back to school.
What this whole thing means for Valarie is that in 28 days, I have the first jobs for working on Valarie on my calender. Then, for almost every weekend and some weekdays, I have other jobs. I have a personal goal to be able to safely and confidently drive Valarie to Shelley’s house (and back) before the end of the summer. This means I will have to get myself in gear in order to accomplish this. Unfortunately Shelley won’t be around much this summer, so while I won’t have much else to do besides work and work on Valarie, I also won’t have her help and insight on what to do if I get stuck. Next post will be when I am closer to graduation and a little insight into my game-plan and the like.
Last time I was in a staging lane I caught an alcohol dragster’s exhaust to the eyes
– Sooner Dead
