Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Skid needs a kidney transplant
Our friend and teammate Mike “Skid” Aquino needs a kidney transplant. He is currently in the hospital due to kidney failure, likely a complication of his diabetes. If you have Type O blood, please consider being a live donor.
Currently, the wait time for a donor is 3-6 years, depending on blood type. Until a […]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Quickie video of the Trabing fire from Watsonville plaza
I shot this from where we were set up in Watsonville Plaza as part of the diabetes health fair.
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Dingos in the Park
Updated: Robert is fine. He called this morning. His house is surrounded by strawberry fields. He helped a neighbor evacuate and the two of them had fire on both sides when they were leaving the house.
Richard and I took 1101 to Watsonville yesterday to take part in a diabetes health fair put on by the […]
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Desert Dingo Racing in Watsonville on Friday
We’re taking 1101 to Watsonville tomorrow to be part of a diabetes health fair sponsored by the Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust. We’ll have some of the World Diabetes Day crayons to give out and hero cards, naturally.
The Diabetes Fair will be part of the Watsonville farmer’s market on the plaza in downtown. We’ll […]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
First photos of IDF/Desert Dingo event at the Cannery
Ruth with CPMG sent me a link to her Flickr photo set shot as we were setting everything up for the June 8 public event with the International Diabetes Federation at The Cannery on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.
You can check out the shots here. Lane and Mitch, who were shooting for the IDF, should […]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Racing the Baja 500 on a motorcycle - what it’s like
We loaned Stephan one of our race radios for his assault on the Baja 500…on a motorcycle. Here’s his report.
Here is a YouTube video that gives a pretty good taste of the race (at least at the starting line). Note in the opening seconds of the video, you can see yours truly desperately trying to […]
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Hero cards have arrived!
I picked up the hero cards that Roxanne designed from Business With Pleasure today and the response has been great. Pretty much the first thing everyone says is “Coooooooool.” Then I get to say “As a matter of fact, I am a race car driver.”
We’ve got 5,000 and will be autographing them this Sunday […]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Another brief glimpse of us at the San Felipe 250
The production on this piece Race Dezert is actually pretty good compared to a lot of work out there. Don’t blink or you’ll miss us.
Click here or on the image to watch the video.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
DDR plug on great diabetes blog - Diabetes Mine
Amy Tenderich writes one of the most informative blog in diabetes-related issues - Diabetes Mine. I wanted to thank her for mentioning our June 8 event at The Cannery on Fisherman’s Wharf…
Desert Dingo Racing — Jim Graham and his diabetic Desert Dingo Racing team will make a Sunday appearance at San Francisco’s famous Fisherman’s Wharf. […]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Howdy everyone from Baja Racing News Live
Thanks to Gary with BRN for linking (”CHECK OUT THE AMAZING Desert Dingo Racing Team CLASS 11 American Desert Racing Team CLICK HERE –CLICK HERE–CLICK HERE”) to us. We’ve got a little suspension work to do, but we’ll be back in the race at the SNORE KC Hilites Midnight Special Aug. 8-10.
Several DDR members were […]
