Uncle Biek

Today must be a good day. First of all the weather forecast said it would be an average of nineteen degrees today, which is a bit warm but still in the ‘ok’ margin, and I drove passed a beautiful dark silver Cadillac CTS on my way to work this morning.

One of my colleagues informed me today that as of today we’re going towards the shorter days again in terms of sunrise and sunset. For someone like myself, a not all that sun resistant kind of person, that is as good as news gets.

This also means that we’re going towards the Autumn again, which is by far my favorite season. I like clouded days, don’t mind the rain should it come with it but absolutely love the colder temperatures. Somewhere around eighteen degrees centigrade (or lower) is perfect for me and at that temperature I don’t even mind a few sunrays to come through.

Let’s hope the time flies from now on :-)

As the more regular visitors of Biek.net may have noticed I’ve been messing with the styles ‘a bit’ lately. This means that you may experience different layout and color settings, even when reading the site.

= Don’t be alarmed, this is (to some extent) completely normal =

The one I’m currently using is so far the best and easiest to read I’ve found so I’ll use that for now I think. But you never know what the future brings though so … :-)

‘This has got to be the best Le Mans ever’ is something you’ll usually hear from someone just returning from this awesome event but when it was all done and over with yesterday afternoon those were my exact thoughts.

I’ve been following this event for many years now and since being there hasn’t been possible yet I’m doing this from my home. Usually this meant I was reliant on the scarce hours that were aired on Dutch TV. But not any more.

Last year I already saw more than ever since the entire event was broadcasted live on the internet (though that might have been slightly less legal than, you know, legal ;-) and after asking my friend Google for a new stream we could enjoy the direct stream from Speed TV which were broadcasting a good nineteen hours of the event.

Add to that the online chat I had going with a friend in the US and Bas, the broadcasts on Dutch TV and live standings we had running and you may be able to understand why my weekend was a very tiresome one but absolutely great nonetheless.

I had planned to watch the whole thing non-stop but at around a quarter to four in the morning I just about fell off my chair so I simply had to turn in for a few hours of sleep. I missed about four and a half hours of the race while I was sleeping and when I came back again a lot had happened. As usual. Everything happens when I’m not looking.

Still this was the very best Le Mans ever, but I’m hoping that next year I can improve on that experience by actually being there. Hey, one can dream … :-)