Shawny D. ChiefSac

Rally Rally Rally

Just arrived in Prescott, Arizona for the Prescott Rally.  I get adrenalized just thinking of driving rally...easily the wildest thing I've ever done.  12 hour drive down here.  Not at all glamorous and we have a problem - possible spun bearing in the motor.  Don't know how long it will last.  BUT I race Friday afternoon (night driving!) and Saturday.  Follow the results of each stage (8 stage, 100+ mile race, 4 stages per day) at this link:

http://www.rallydata.com/Results/Prescott_2009_NatScoreBoard.htm

Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk

In my endless travels China is one place I have been to dozens of times now.  It is still a picture-a-minute.  Of all the many accidents I've seen (and been in) in China, this is the first time I've ever seen a milk truck disaster.  I love the Chinese version of a semi-truck.  Always open-air with a massive net over the top.  Clearly not so effective this time.

  Just another reason to back up traffic.

Now of all the burning cars I've seen (and I've seen many), this is the first burning car I've seen in China.  For some odd reason, when I used to live in California I swear I saw a flaming vehicle once a month.  In fact, one time I even saw the car in front of me catch on fire...I actually dialed 9-1-1 for them!  Then, when they pulled over and got out, we just sort of watched it burn.  

I mean, what do you do?  It's an oil fire and unless you have a fire extinguisher, the flames shooting out from underneath the car, threatening the fuel tank, are pretty much gonna do their thing.  In this case, the car must have gone up fast...not even a fire-truck on the scene yet.

China really is a picture a minute.  

The past few weeks at LoveSac have really just been all about the grind.  TONS of new product development work and office work...not much to write home about.  So I just thought I would share these weird photos I took on my trip.  Hope you enjoy.

 

Look.  It is a giant gold dog and a giant silver dog on the back of a flat-bed semi-truck.  

Look.  This is actually my absolute favorite China vehicle (see my blog about 10 posts previous for the entire list).  If you CLICK ON THE IMAGE it will enlarge and maybe you can see what is going on here. 

 It is a raw internal combustion engine driving the front two wheels directly, pulling the cab and truck bed behind it.  Much like a horse-drawn carriage, only pulled by a crude ode to the modern man, instead of a horse.  The best of these motor-carriages are actually turned by giant handle-bars that the driver holds onto, turning the whole direction of the entire motor/front-wheels part of it, pulling the driver behind.  THIS is the kind of thing that in another 5 years will be totally gone from the ever-modernizing China.

Finally, there was this fish.  This fish is very LoveSac. 

-- Shawny D.