It means "switch stance" in Korean, when training with a Taekwondo master. It's also a good theme for my first post here in over a year ( Read more... )

Got another one done ( Read more... )

I hate this time of year. The next person who tells me how wonderful fall is because of the "crisp" weather and beautiful colors, is getting a faceful of phlegmy cough. I hate fall ( Read more... )

So now that my racing season is over I can start spending my free time doing other things. One of those other things that I'd set aside nearly completely during the summer was my model-building. Well, I'm back at it now. Back in a pretty strong way too. I sat down to my work bench only about 2-3 weeks ago after many months of just not having ( Read more... )

The autocross season is over now. Oct. 19th was the last event for the club. My last event however was back on 10/4. It was a very frustrating event; I lost sight of having fun and let myself take the competition too seriously. Also, the car decided it was time to take a rest as well. It developed a 'clunk' in the steering which I've diagnosed ( Read more... )

My daughter just had a birthday, she's twelve now. Holy crap, that means it's been 12 frickin' years since I haven't been a parent. Man, I feel old. So anyway her birthday party was just last night. It went quite well considering how many kids were there. All told I think there were about 13 kids at one point. Oh yeah, did I mention too that ( Read more... )

My sister's post about her house-cleaning accomplishments inspired me to post my own bragging. I got some stuff done this weekend too ( Read more... )

Jeez, with the frequency of my posting to my journal, you'd think it was hard labor. So easy to forget to do when no one is reminding you. So easy to tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow. Oh well, it's been over a month since my last post and since my wife and sister are able to remember to post every week, I thought I oughta write something ( Read more... )

There's now an '86 Audi 4000 quattro (AWD) sitting in my driveway with my name on the bill-of-sale. It's weird, I bought it for no other reason than to "take one for the team" while the Miata is in storage for the winter, but the more I tinker with it and take it on little drives around town, the more I'm really enjoying it. It's bog slow, gets ( Read more... )

June 29th marked another autocross done and in the books for me. Once again another disappointing finish. Early in the week I was gathering up a bunch results data from previous races to submit to the Mazdaspeed Motorsports program and noticed something. Just about every event I've run so far this year I have placed either 6th or 7th place in my ( Read more... )