IMS - Day # 7 - Traffic Control - 2nd Day

Sunday started cold, and stayed cold.  TLE and I both had "under armor" on the entire day, plus our IMS parkas, as the high only reached 53, however, the sun was out the entire day, which helped, somewhat, to offset the cold.  Everyone I have talked with says it was 30-40 degrees warmer this time last year.  Of course, this also causes a problem for the race teams.  They can run practice laps, but until the track surface warms up enough they cannot really open up their cars and run max speeds, although I did see a few cars hit 218+ mph when I went up on the ramp to watch during one of my breaks.

Our routine each day will be pretty much the same, except starting this Saturday our clock in time is 5 am....Saturday is "Poll Day', and the gates open at 6:30 am!  After that we clock in each day at 5:45 am, then on Race Day, May 26th we clock in at 3:15 am!

Okay, well we have 14 days to go on our IMS marathon.  Don't get me wrong, this is nothing like Amazon.com in the sense that we are not walking and standing for 10-12 hours straight.  Every other hour we can sit down, eat a snack and relax.  I'm sure you can appreciate how much easier on the feet and legs that is.  

Our overall supervisor, Linus Rude, has taken a liking to TLE.....well, who wouldn't, right?  He occasionally wisks her off to the Administration building to give another lady a lunch break, or just one gate down to spell another lady.  She is liking the variety.  

We didn't get any pictures today, but I did upload a video to Facebook of a couple of cars running practice laps.  Monday's blog entry will definitely have pictures of our work area.

We worked the full shift Sunday right up until 6 pm, and ended up walking a mile plus home as it would have taken too long to catch a shuttle.  We still haven't quite figured out the shuttle routine yet, and I think the drivers are still in a learning curve because they do not seem to run on a schedule you can count on yet.  We arrived "home" around 6:30 pm, and while TLE took a shower I turned on the TPC gold tournament to see if my boy Tiger was doing well, and he was at 13 under par tied with Sergio Garcia.  Tiger had just finished the 17th hole, and Sergio was just teeing off at 17.  17 is an island par 3.....you must carry the entire distance to the green over water.  Sergio's first shot landed in the water, and so did his second....he went from being tied with Tiger to losing 4 strokes to par on one hole, and then hit the water on 18 carding a double bogey on the final hole, so he lost 6 strokes to par in the last two holes.  At any rate, Tiger won his 4th tournament of the year.

TLE went to bed at 9, and I was not far behind at 9:15.....I think being in the sun most of the day took a little more out of us than the first day.  The forecast for Monday is slightly warmer with a projected high of 60.......here it is May 12th and we're happy if it hits 60.  One of my co-workers asked if I would rather have it in the 90's.....no, I would rather have it cold......well, honestly, I would rather it was 70 degrees, and I could wear a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, but I also wish rainwater were beer, and it's not!

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