1,000 Greatest Drivers: Jamie Whincup
He frequently lived up to his name, that's for sure.
I had no interest in the Super Bowl. After my last post, my mom got moved to a different room on the same floor as they finally separated her from her previous roommate. She was worried when I called her again today that she was going to be attacked again because, apparently, most of the nurses were going to a Super Bowl party, so there was going to be minimal supervision on her floor. She wanted me to come and take her home, not for the first time. She doesn’t even remember that I never learned how to drive, nor does she have any concept of time or realize that it’s the weekend and the buses don’t run. A lot of the time, she thinks I’m her brother who died in 2010. Furthermore, if I tried to aid her escape, I would probably be arrested and never allowed to see her again, while she would be locked in the dementia ward. I don’t know how to convince her that she won’t be attacked. And I remain frustrated that the housing inspector stood me up about the ramp last week.
Right now, I’m struggling to get my passion up for this, and don’t be surprised if I turn off charges again in a bit. I know I need to focus on my new work more, and my mind keeps going off in other places, and I’m losing my focus. I’ve just come up with two more books I want to write after this one, one of which would cover the “aftergifted” phenomenon of former gifted children who did not land steady careers as adults, and one about the history of anti-civility on the Internet and how it became the dominant trend. I still intend to finish this before starting any of that, but I did a little research in one of these directions over the weekend, and I need to focus on my more serious work the rest of the week, so I’m gonna cut this slightly short.
Although usually I like to provide anecdotes for each driver, Whincup’s numbers generally are more interesting than any of his career anecdotes, so I made them my focus here. His career numbers really are probably more interesting than his career narrative.
