It's with great dread and anticipation that I look at the upcoming week.
First there is the fun! Richard dropped off the RV at NHMS this morning and tomorrow we'll drive up with a few more things and...just so we can wander around the track a bit. Watch the incoming RV's. Think about the great empty grounds that will be seething with humanity come next Saturday morning. I've said it many times, the NASCAR circus is an amazing feat of organizing and promotion. Seriously, Barnum & Bailey's train has nothing on the hauler parade that criss-crosses America continually for much of the year. This is spectacle on the grandest scale.
Now, the not so fun...well, not entirely true. Thursday night, come midnight, the final Harry Potter movie will open to thousands of dressed up muggles. About 1,500 of them will be at my theatre. In about one hour I will need to feed and seat these 1,500 patrons. It is enough to make one shiver in their shoes.
It is in itself something of a spectacle, these midnight screenings of the latest and greatest film. We will have capes, hats, wands, tattoos on foreheads, owls (fake) perching on arms and long, striped scarves wrapped around necks that would otherwise be bare in the summer heat. By and large, everybody laughs, is very patient and mostly cooperates with those moving the cattle in and out of the holding pens. And all the craziness will be over when the projector turns on and does its magic (yep--praying that the projector gremlins don't play any games on us).
So, you see, it's a big week. But before there is the Harry Potter insanity followed by the sudden appearance of a major city in the midst of the New Hampshire forest, there is tomorrow: Sunshine and 84, so says the Weather Channel. We'll wander around the track and enjoy the rumble of various vehicles as track personnel scurry to ready for their own version of a movie opening.
And I won't have to stress about a thing.
That's tomorrow. I'll worry about the rest when it gets here.
See you at the races!
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