QUICK RAMBLING NOTES AFM at Buttonwillow May 27-28, 2004 With all the chaos in my life I hadn't hit the pavement since last year so, feeling super rusty, I packed up and headed out to Buttonwillow while praying that all the my daily dirt bike routine would count for something. In practice I wasn't able to beat my times form last year and did my best to come to terms with the serious probablity of having to fight for eigth place. However, when the flag dropped I found myself an active part of the lead pack consisting of Jay, Yoav, Val and myself. I guess I just needed some more motivation. After a lot of position swapping, sliding backwards and forwards through the pack, we eventually caught up with lapped traffic which boned me and I ended up finishing forth. It was pretty neat have been a contender though!