Hi all. It's simply not to be I guess, something always has to go wrong, not work or simply brake down whenever it's not the best timing. Last (long) weekend, which was supposed to be a very entertaining three day racing weekend feast, my trusty pretty cool looking video card gave up on me, leaving me doing just about anything but racing. It went wrong when I started Grand Prix Legends and wanted to join the race Stefan hosted on the new circuit of Dijon-Prenois where we wanted to do some serious practicing before the race of next weeks Thursday. Both because it's a rather new circuit to us (it was long called the Grand Prix of TBA before we knew which circuit it was going to be) and simply to have fun as well. I think in the end I did about 15 laps in total so far and I sincerely hope that I'm able to increase that number big-time before the race. Saturday evening we all went to mom and her friend to have diner and that was very pleasant. The past couple of times I was over there it was for moms computer. We still need to dot the last 'I's before it's done but that's mainly because of me forgetting all kinds of small things when going over there. That's also the main reason why I always prefer to 'do' pc's at my own home, and not on a remote location which is almost an hours drive away from my place where I have everything close by. 'You can't always get what you want' is what the Stones sang and I'm starting to believe they were right ;-) So today first thing I did was sending out a emergency distress signal, closely resembling that Bat sign in the sky whenever there's serious trouble, and e-mailed my dad if he would try and get me another video card ASAP. Luckily he read it and is right on it as we speak. This is the benefit of having a dad who sells computers I guess, if there's anyone able to get it fast it should be him. I sure hope he's able to get me the new one in time, please please please ... :S Apart from that 'small' inconvenience we still had a lot of fun, simply doing some other stuff instead of racing. One of the things was that we've introduced Stefan to GTR, which he loved very much and with which he did numerous laps on a variety of circuits. This was partly still on Friday, when the video card bits were still working and we could still run together. Later on in the weekend he did some more laps and he might just get one for himself too, who knows. It would be cool to have him for the 24 hours of Spa too, but he needs to do a lot or practicing until then to get some feeling with the cars and track. But who knows ... there's always hope, isn't there :-)