We're seeing an arms race.

Then the other side keeps upping the ante.

The campaigns can bluff a good game and say a state is in play when that state really isn't in play. These advertising dollar decisions tell us what they're really thinking.

We just do that on Friday nights to get the jitters out before we go race the mod. We seem to have some time on our hands. We moved our shop out to the house this year and that has made a big difference.

I'm looking forward to racing in Nashville this weekend. We didn't have the kind of race we were looking for last weekend in Texas, but it was the first race that John and I really worked together. Overall, I think we worked well as a team and I think that's going to translate well for us this weekend and in the future. We just needed to get the kinks out of our system.

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.