10 Questions: Dale Jr.

1. What non-racing event are you most looking forward to attending with Rick Hendrick?

Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Non-racing? What other events are there? You mean there's other stuff outside of racing? OK.

Let me think on this one. Man, I don't know [because] I don't do anything besides race.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.:
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Maybe it'd be a Redskins football game or something, because I'm a huge Redskins fan.

I tell you one thing I am looking forward to. I'm looking forward to my first Hendrick [Motorsports] Christmas party. I haven't heard anything about 'em -- I'm just looking forward to going.

2. Your dog Killer's about to enter young adulthood, so what do you feel is his biggest challenge?

Earnhardt: Yeah, he's 3. He's gotten way better at the accidents, which was his last challenge. But his biggest challenge now is that every time I let him out of the house, he runs to my sister's house.

She [Kelley] lives about 300 yards up the driveway. And he goes up there to play with her dogs and it pisses me off 'cause I want him to just go out, use the bathroom and come back inside.

But he wants to go up there, and the next time I see him he's full of mud and other smelly things -- he's got crap all over him and it's a pain in the butt having to keep him clean.

If you let him out and expect him to come on back on his own, no -- that ain't happening. I've got to stand out there with him and holler at him every time he starts heading in that direction.

He's like a horse that knows where the barn is.

3. What home entertainment accessory do you not have, that you feel you must have?

Earnhardt: I'm not without anything right now. As far as everything goes, I've got it all covered.

I've always been attracted to electronics, and home stereos and things of that nature. The fun thing is going to be seeing the next thing they come out with.

I thought my 61-inch TV was pretty big -- but not after I saw that 70-inch that Sony had out here. So I'm going to go for the 70. I'm going to actually try to get something bigger than that, even if I have to remodel my living room.

The one thing that I don't have is a projector so I can put a sheet in a tree -- you know, hang a sheet up in a tree and watch things outside, out at the pool and stuff.

It would be kind of cool to have a projector so you can watch TV while you're out swimming in the pool.

4. If you had time to waste, how would you waste it?

Earnhardt: If I had time to waste, I would rent a house on the shores of South Carolina -- somewhere around Charleston -- that had a front or a back porch, one or the other, facing the beach.

And I would drink cold beer for about four days on that porch. That takes care of what I would do with a week's vacation, too. (Continued)