"That damned brake."

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:19:15 -0800 (PST)

From: "Kerry Burgess"

Subject: Re: Sleep journal 3/24/06

To: "Kerry Burgess"


Kerry Burgess wrote:


A few nights ago, I dreamed of being out on a two-lane highway. The pavement was nice and smooth and new-looking, perfect for long-distance bicycling. But in this dream, I was jogging, or maybe walking fast, I'm not sure. It was some kind of competition perhaps. I think the central element of the story was that I was ahead of something or somebody. The only other person I saw was my deceased step-brother. I was moving along the highway and had just climbed up a steep portion of the road that was a switchback section going up a hill. I was at some kind of plateau that then went along under the ridge of the hill. It looked sort of familar, with the uniform tree height telling me that it had probably been logged at one time. My step-brother was acting normal in this dream, as if he was still alive. But he was trying to catch up with me, I guess. I didn't feel like he was chasing me, but yet that seems to be an element of the story. At one point, he was talking to himself and I could hear him and he mentioned a name but I can't remember now what he said. In the last part, he was approaching a fire on the shoulder of the road that apparently I had started, some kind of camp fire. I recall that there was another person there, but I can't visualize that person, it is more of a presence. Not so much an apparition or anything like that, just an unidentified person. I remember thinking during the last part of the dream as I looked at the fire, which was still in sight, that I could use it to stay warm because I was feeling cold.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Monaco


Circuit de Monaco

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Circuit de Monaco is a street circuit laid out on the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine around the harbour of the principality of Monaco.


A lap of the modern day circuit

The lap starts with a short sprint up Boulevard Albert 1er, to the tight St. Devote corner. This is a nearly 90 degree right-hand bend usually taken in first or second gear. This corner has seen many first lap accidents, although these are less common since the removal of the mini roundabout on the apex of the corner before the 2003 event, making the entrance to the corner wider. The cars then head uphill along Avenue d'Ostende, before changing down for the long left-hander at Massenet.

Out of Massenet, the cars drive past the famous casino before quickly reaching the aptly named Casino Square. The cars snake down Avenue des Beaux Arts, the next short straight, avoiding an enormous bump on the left of the track, a reminder of the unique nature of the circuit. This leads to the tight Mirabeau corner, which is followed by a short downhill burst to the even tighter Grand Hotel Hairpin (more commonly known by its former name the Loews Hairpin, and before that as the Station Hairpin). It is a corner which has been used for many overtaking manoeuvres in the past. However it would be almost physically impossible for two modern F1 cars to go round side by side, as the drivers must use full steering lock to get around. It is so tight that many Formula 1 teams must redesign their steering and suspension specifically to negotiate this corner.

After the hairpin, the cars head downhill again to a double right-hander called Portier before heading into the famous tunnel, a unique feature of a Formula One circuit. (Until 2009 only one other circuit, Detroit USA in 1982–88, featured a tunnel, but the F1 series now includes racing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, which presents a shorter tunnel at the exit of the pit lane.) As well as the change of light making visibility poor, a car can lose 20–30% of its downforce due to the unique aerodynamic properties of the tunnel.

Out of the tunnel, the cars have to brake hard for a tight left-right-left chicane. This has been the scene of several large accidents, including that of Karl Wendlinger in 1994, Jenson Button in 2003 and Sergio Pérez in 2011. The chicane is generally the only place on the circuit where overtaking can be attempted.










http://www.gpupdate.net/en/videos/2227/alex-caffi-s-frightening-accident-monaco-1991/


GP UPDATE TV .NET


Fortunately, this crash looked worse than it was. Nevertheless, Alex Caffi still suffered a heavy impact and a completely ruined Footwork car after this qualifying crash for the 1991 Monaco Grand Prix. He was unable to compete in the race.










http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr504.html


grandprix.com


Encyclopedia

GRAND PRIX RESULTS: MONACO GP, 1991

Monaco GP

Monte Carlo

May 12, 1991

78 Laps, 3.328 km

There was no change to the entry at Monaco and no change on pole position with Ayrton Senna fastest in his McLaren-Honda. There was a surprise in second place with the Pirelli-shod Tyrrell-Honda of Stefano Modena ahead of Riccardo Patrese's Williams-Renault, Nelson Piquet's Benetton-Ford, Nigel Mansell (Williams), Gerhard Berger (McLaren) and the Ferrari of Alain Prost. The top 10 was rounded off by the Benetton of Roberto Moreno, Jean Alesi's Ferrari and Andrea de Cesaris in his Jordan.

Modena made a good start but Senna took the lead with Modena second ahead of Patrese, Mansell and Prost. Berger ran into Piquet at the first corner and Piquet was out. Berger would disappear soon afterwards. After stopping for repairs he was charging back when he hit the wall in the Swimming Pool area while trying to wipe his visor. Modena suffered badly from traffic and so fell back to Patrese. Pierluigi Martini was the cause and he became the first man in F1 history to get a 10-second stop-go penalty, which meant going into the pits and waiting 10 seconds before being allowed back onto the track.

On lap 30 Prost overtook Mansell for fourth place but otherwise the order was stable until lap 43 when Modena's engine blew up in the tunnel. Patrese hit the oil and spun wildly. This left Senna with a huge advantage over Prost with Mansell, his engine problem suddenly curing itself, beginning to charge. Alesi continued his lonely race in fourth and Moreno did the same in fifth.

On lap 63 Mansell dived ahead of Prost with a wild manoeuvre but Prost was smart enough to keep out of the way of the errant Williams. Prost's race was ruined when he had to pit to have a wheel tightened and so he finished fifth behind Senna










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 6, 2006


My step-brother, Michael, died 11/25/86. We didn't have a Thanksgiving celebration that year.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/13/07 10:20 PM
I wonder if this character has something to do with my artificial memory of my step-brother, Micheal, who killed on 11/25/1986. It could work either depending on whether that character was created before I left in 1986 or after. He could represent a pilot I was assigned to work with during that deployment. Who knows. I am at a severe disadvantage on all this because I feel as though I am guessing at so much. The criminals that are working over time to avoid prosecution for stealing my identity and property will latch onto anything in desperation that I get wrong. None of it matters though. They lost this battle before it even started. The Navy and other allies are being a hell of a lot more generous with them than I would be if I was in charge of this operation.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772116/

Charlie Schlatter

Date of Birth: 1 May 1966

Bright Lights, Big City (1988) .... Michael


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 10:28 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Re: Journal May 20, 2006, Supplemental


Kerry Burgess wrote:


The other day, it dawned on me that my school assignments between the Taylor and the Wainwright were also clues. I started at Orlando


I toured some caves on a road trip to Great Lakes


And then I went to Dam Neck after, but between GL and DN was when my step-brother died, according to my memory. He pulled through a graveyard a few hours before he died and said something about how I "should get used to it."


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:39 AM Thursday, September 15, 2011


That damned brake.





I awoke with a new perception about the dream I had just before waking up this morning where I again found myself in a dream stomping on the brake pedal of the automobile I was driving. In that dream, first was while going forward and then again while the car rolled backwards.

Just as I woke up this morning, I saw myself driving along a city street and then I saw a motorcycle police office seeming to take notice that I was driving forty five miles per hour through a thirty five mph zone and I knew I was going to get a speeding ticket. I accidentally hit the horn in the center of the steering wheel instead of trying to hit the brake with my foot in the floor. Then I was stomping the brake pedal on the floor and I was approaching a stop sign and I was frustrated because I wasn't slowing down and then I made a right turn at the stop sign and then there were signs along the darkened road indicating there was no parking on the roadside so I drove on a ways until I found a gas station where I was going to pull in and wait for the police officer to catch up with me. Then I was in the parking lot and two people in a car which was not marked as a police car were saying something to me and in the dream I think the passenger was asking me something about why I run from a police officer chasing me , because I had seen in my rear view mirror a marked police car go through that same stop sign where I made a right turn but he made a left turn and was going the other way from my direction, and then there was some dialog that cleared that up and then the driver got out and was going to write me a speeding ticket and he asked me something about "Icarus" and he might have asked me in casual conversation if I had seen lately "Dr. Icarus Crane" and after waking up, or in the dream, I understood he was referring to the "Dr. Rush" character from the television series "Stargate Universe," which could be something I dreamed about because I already have a series of blog plans planned out for today on a similar topic, and then I was sitting in my cluttered car and we were in a different part of the same parking lot and the police officer was writing me a speeding ticket for 45 in a 35 and I was stomping on the brake pedal because the car was rolling backwards and the brake pedal was not working and ten years ago I would have written about this dream and I would have wrote that was a foreign dream where the narrator told me just as I woke up that I should try the emergency brake to get the car to stop.


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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:15 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Thursday 11 July 2013