T-minus 14 days and counting until I depart for St. Louis and 20 days until the rally starts. I get butterflies thinking about it!

Part of the proof that things are getting interesting is that the official 2007 IBR Rules (Microsoft Word) were released today as the 2007 IBR Website was launched.

Two changes I noted include a specific prohibition on digital cameras (which either was a change or I had misread the rules initially….but is fine since I decided to go with Polaroid after the Utah 1088) and that fuel logs are not quite the “all or none” affair they have been in the past. Fuel logs are worth up to 10,000 points with errors costing portions of that amount including missing or incorrect information at 500 points per error and missing receipts at 1,000 a pop.

This seems a bit kinder and gentler than my experience last year in SPANK, but I’m still going to strive for flawless logs this year. I’m still not quite healed up from the butt-reaming I gave own self at SPANK last year.

I would bet there are other changes, but I haven’t spotted any others on my initial read through.