This past weekend we were offered free tickets to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race here at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and actually had Budweiser Suite passes which we couldn't use, since Charlie could not be admitted, so we sat two rows down from the concourse about 20 yards south of the Start/Finish line. Great seats.

Charlie loved the "600 Series" races which was Legends cars, Thunder Roadsters, and Bandaleros that race on a tight quarter mile which includes part of the front straightaway and the pit road.  He really liked those cars.  Charlie has sensitive hearing so he didn't need his earplugs for those races and because it was "General Admission" seating for the Truck race, Rick and Peg were able to take Charlie right down to where the action was for those small races.

It was a long day.  We got there around 1pm and the Truck race didn't start til 6:30, but even the woman in the row directly in front of us started talking to Charlie and commented on how well behaved and how "into the racing" he was during the truck event.  It was a 144 lap race and Charlie made it til lap 125 when there was a LONG protracted caution for a wreck and clean up of the track and drying of some oil, then...Boom Boom, out go his lights, and he was sleeping on the blankets and pillows in our row.  He loved it.  I'll be adding a photo album as soon as I'm done typing this blog and you can check out Charlie at LVMS.

On other fronts, my medicaid is FINALLY pending so I can get back on track with my Doctor within a week or so and stop paying over $2500/month for my prescriptions.  Very good news.  I also have my final meeting with the Social Security Doctor on the 9th and should receive my final determination within a month of that date.  Believe me when I say, I'd much rather be a productive member of society and paying taxes, but when the body and mind give out, that's why I paid IN all of that money for Social Security, and now it's time to withdraw.

I'm cross posting this blog on Myspace and LiveJournal so those reading on LJ you can go to http://myspace.com/voiceofpoker to find the pictures of Charlie at the races, if you're reading this on Myspace, just click on PICS on my homepage and the album will be there.  I'll also be adding a couple of videos from Saturday as well.

That's it for now