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Let the people rejoice!

You know how a few weeks ago I was worried I was about to be axe murdered because someone was banging on my door in the middle of the night, but it turned out to be the volunteer fire department, and then my neighbors and I all had to have carbon monoxide checks done, and then NYSEG also came to join the block party and it was a whole thing?

Well, after that, we didn't have hot water. And then we continued to not have hot water. For weeks and weeks. BUT!!

AS OF THIS EVENING.

✨ WE HAVE HOT WATER AGAIN!!! ✨

Just for the record, here are all the races Kyle Larson ran during this same time period, not including NASCAR qualifying efforts, because Americans will use anything other than the metric system:

410 winged sprints - Joker’s Jackpot (Ohio) - P1 ✨

410 winged sprints - Knight Before the King’s Royal (Ohio) - P3

410 winged sprints - King’s Royal (Ohio) - P3

NASCAR Cup @ Dover (Delaware) - P4

410 winged sprints - Lernerville (Pennsylvania) - P21

NASCAR Xfinity @ IMS (Indiana) - P4

NASCAR Cup @ IMS (Indiana) - P2

360 winged sprints - Knoxville 360 Prelim (Iowa) - P2

360 winged sprints - Knoxville 360 A-Main (Iowa) - P2

NASCAR Cup @ Iowa (Iowa) - P28

410 winged sprints - Front Row Challenge (Iowa) - P1 ✨

410 winged sprints - Knoxville Nationals Prelim (Iowa) - P1 ✨

410 winged sprints - Knoxville Nationals A-Main (Iowa) - P19

NASCAR Cup @ Watkins Glen (New York) - P39

So ends 25 days (i.e. 14 Kyle Larsons) without hot water.

🥳🥳🥳

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PHEW, OKAY. I have now made it through enough of the 2025 racecar photos that I no longer feel threatened by their looming presence. 🫠 I was having a whole crisis because I was like "oh no, five hobby USB drives, only one USB port in my brain" so hopefully now I will feel more settled!

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NASCAR Xfinity Series | Pennzoil 250

Indianapolis Motor Speedway July 26, 2025

#17 Kyle Larson (Hendrick Motorsports)

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The Pennzoil 250 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway

NASCAR Xfinity Series July 26, 2025

British driver Katherine Legge pulled double duty during NASCAR's Indianapolis race weekend, racing the Xfinity #32 and Cup #78.

Cousins Harrison Burton and Jeb Burton race each other at the Playoffs cutline.

There's no real storyline here--I just thought it was funny that the leaf car and the toxic waste car were racing each other.

The #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota hosts a rotating slate of drivers--for Indianapolis, Aric Almirola. The nameplate above the door, which usually sports the driver's name, here honors JD Gibbs, one of Joe Gibbs' late sons. (The #19 would later be intentionally punted straight into the wall by the #21 of Austin Hill, resulting in a one-race suspension for Hill.)

Dancing across a number of rain delay cautions, Xfinity series points leader #7 Justin Allgaier and guest driver #17 Kyle Larson would trade the lead several times. (Until the #17 gets loose under the #7, sending the #7 into the wall and surrendering the lead to the #7's teammate, #88 Connor Zilisch.)

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The Brickyard 400 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway

July 27, 2025

P1: #23 Bubba Wallace (23XI Racing)

P2: #5 Kyle Larson (Hendrick Motorsports)

P3: #11 Denny Hamlin (Joe Gibbs Racing)

The Brickyard 400 is one of NASCAR's Crown Jewels, and arguably one of the most prestigious races on the schedule. In its 29th running, Bubba Wallace broke a 100-race winless streak, locked the first 23XI car into the Playoffs, and became the first African American driver to win this race.

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Hendrick Motorsports @ The Brickyard

July 27, 2025, Indianapolis Motor Speedway

#5 Kyle Larson: Qualify P13 -> P2 Finish

#9 Chase Elliott: Qualify P30 -> P13 Finish

#24 William Byron: Qualify P6 -> P16 Finish

#48 Alex Bowman: Qualify 21 -> P9 Finish

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Rain delayed races = golden hour

The Great American Getaway 400

Pocono Raceway (Long Pond, PA) June 22, 2025

Kyle Larson, #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

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Editing that first photo made me feel like I was painting a fantasy unicorn princess because of what the light was doing. I was just like, welp, let's go haaaaammmm!! 🤭 Wanna see the raw?

Thunder Mountain Speedway | Center Lisle, NY

July 19, 2025

Summer as the sun goes down with CRSA 305 Sprint Cars (and some modifieds).

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oooooooohhhhhh he angery

Thunder Mountain Speedway | Center Lisle, NY

July 19, 2025

His name is Ryan and he flipped onto his lid in hot laps and came back out to race the feature anyway. Spiteful and full of a baby's venom

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I know last year I was like “this is probably the last time and then I’ll buy new headlights.” But then I was like, weeee~lllllllllll so here we are again. The right sides are blue because I did it Friday morning before work and then didn’t have time to do the other so finished it out just now. Poor little cyclops car, ahaha. 👁️ I have more paint correction I could be doing but now I am bored and hungry!!

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I’m at my volunteer shift with the Bike People this morning and someone is restoring a tiny red bike for a 3-year old nephew’s birthday. They bought all-new red grips and red rims and were talking about adding racing decals because the mom loves F1 and the kid loves Cars. So we were like “YEAHHHH LIGHTNING MCQUEEN” and I said “get a little 95 on the side, and you’re golden.”

And they were like, “Haha I could not pull that number out but you had it locked and loaded!”

And their wife joked about me, “Watches it every day.”

And internally I was like WORDS CANNOT EXPLAIN HOW MUCH WORSE I AM THAN THAT HAHAHAHA

Hi 👋 I’m normal

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Two Japanese American drivers shared tracktime at The Brickyard last weekend~

Indianapolis Motor Speedway | NASCAR Xfinity Series

July 26, 2025

- Ryan Ellis (b. 1989), racing the #71 for DGM Racing and Jesse Iwuji Motorsports in his second full-time Xfinity season. Ellis finished P21. Don't know [1] Ryan Ellis [2]?

- Kyle Larson (b. 1992), in his fourth Xfinity entry of 2025, racing the #17 for Hendrick Motorsports. Larson finished P4.

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Thinking about this today. I think it's incredibly endearing that Kyle Larson's parents still watch all of this races, even though there are so very many, and he is now one entire adult. Born race fans, that's for sure!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KL. Good luck in Iowa (Knoxville 360s and NASCAR)!

Let’s be honest. My favorite person in all of NASCAR is Kyle Larson’s mom.

I mean, I’ve drawn fan art of her before and everything! XDDD

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Sometimes it’s just love at first sight.

I SAW THIS CORN CAR AND NOW I’M ROOTING FOR JUSTIN ALLGAIER IN XFINITY.

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I'm just going to reblog all the corn on this blog. Here's the corn car beating Kyle Larson in 2018! (I know it doesn't look like he's beating the 42 here but trust me, eventually the corn prevails.)

also, RIP DC Solar, my favorite pyramid scheme

THE BOYYYYSSSSS

source

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I should post the additional corn for context:

This book says “political theory,” whatever that is, but my heart says 🌽

get me outta here I must tend my crops these racecar’s ain’t gonna grow themselves

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This book says “political theory,” whatever that is, but my heart says 🌽

get me outta here I must tend my crops these racecar’s ain’t gonna grow themselves