Tired

My friend recently got a flat and asked me to help him out.  I went to his house, put air in the tire and drove it to my buddie’s shop to get fixed.  I kind of knew something was up when I asked him if he drove around on it and he said he did take it to the store when it was flat.  Any ways, when we pulled the wheel off we found this.

That is a 12mm socket next to the tire.  If you don’t have run flat tires, do not drive on a flat and think it is alright.  If you do, have the tire changed out or you might end up with this ticking time bomb.

Bolsa Cruisers 07

A bunch of my buddies invited me to go on cruise with them to Ensanada.  It ended up being pretty fun if you rule out the part that I was throwing up a majority of the time.  You would figure that since its my business to sit in cars that go fast, I would be immune to motion sickness.  But recently I have developed an afnity for barfing.  As soon as we stepped foot on the boat, I felt queezy.  Hour later, puke.  Hour and a half after that, puke.  Have dinner, puke.  You get the picture.  But here are some pics I took of the festivities.

Ensanada Bay

We did a lot of eating.

The food was pretty good.  The best thing is you can order room service at anytime and the price is already included in your ticket.

Everyone’s room turned into a mini part.  Mostly cause our group was really big and the rooms were really small.

We ran out of stuff to do, so we mostly just chilled.

There is also a dining hall where you can eat whenever you feel like it.

So there you have it, my cruise pics.  There are more, but I got lazy about photoshopping them.  So thats all until I feel like adding more.  If you get sea sick, I would consider another vacation.  But if you are looking for an affordable vacation and you like to eat, this is right up your alley.  Thanks to Tommy and Pete for the trip.  And thanks to everyone that went making it that much more fun.

Props

I was driving home from tonight and I thought to myself about how, if I ever got to write for a magazine, I always wanted to give props out all the people that inspired me or influenced my career.  You know the section where the editors rant monthly about anything and everything they want to get off their chest.  Well, I realize now that the readers don’t really care about that kind of stuff and it just makes you look like an ass if you go on and on about who you know.  But on my blog, I don’t really care who thinks I’m an ass, so I am going to do it anyway.

Dynamic Autosports, Speed Image, Silver Bullet, Hypersports, XS Engineering, Turbo, Import Tuner, Designcraft, Blox, IDRC, TPR, Ezekiel, In4mation, Apexi, Wicked Street Garage, NPD, Auto Produce Boss

Kenneth for getting the CRX that started it all. Eddie, for giving an idiot a chance. Weyland and Aric, for pushing me to learn how to work smarter so I can go back to chilling. Eric for keeping it real and showing me what buff was. Dave, for letting an idiot be part of a team. Gary. Jensen for always pushing the envelope. Len for showing what form and function is. Mike for showing me whats outside of OC. Jason for always suckering me into helping him. Scott for calling me kuso all the time. Todd, for being the brother. Toshi for guidance on how to link two worlds. Kenji on if you stick to it, it will happen. Benny for the backup. Jim, for verifying that you can make something out of just an idea. Vinny for letting me in the game. Ryan for teaching me about fashion. Chaz for saying “just do it dude.” Tony, my right hand man. Rob for being there. Greg, for showing me that there are things more important profit. Naoto for taking everything to the next level. Kevin for putting tools in a kids hands an showing him what to do with them. Fujioka for the path to tomorrow.

This list keeps growing as I move forward in life.  But, I felt like its something that I needed to vent.  The trut is, these people have some how pushed me to go further in my career and no matter what, they deserve their props…

AR15

I was waiting for my buddy to recieve some tires the other day, so that I can take a car to get some tires swapped and decided to clean up the AR after months of storage.  I haven’t fired it since before I left for Japan and really miss it.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a sight for it right now and really need one.  I have been thinking about getting an Aimpoint, but my friend told me to look into another brand.(the name of which escapes me) 

I bought this thing before the ban in 1999.(yes it is legit) I can honestly say that I still like it today as much as the day that I got it.  I have a Bushmaster lower with an ASA Bull Barrel upper.  I shoots really comfortable and doesn’t really rise up at all.  Hopefully my funds and time can get to a point where I can have some fun with it again.

D1GP

The Boss came out for D1 with the rest of the crew last week.  Honestly, I was really stoked to see the old man.  Its fun to hangout with him and the rest of our crew.  It was also good to see everyone I don’t usually get to see on a daily basis anymore.  The old man did call me late night to come help him change a tranny… until 3am… and then made me go with them to the track at 7:30am… and them take them to go eat, but thats just part of the job.  All of you who are JDM fans out there.  Trust, you don’t really want to be JDM.  There is no such thing as no when the boss calls on you. Props to Dom for the popcorn.  If we can’t make it in cars, we can take up street performing.

Unfortunately, Quoc hit the wall because of mechanical failure.  I felt really bad for him, especially it was pretty much the first time that he really got to drive that car.  I guess it is really true that the winning team is the most prepared team.

I won’t be making it to PRI, even though I really want to go.  If any of you are going to TAS, then let me know.  I will go to this one for sure.  The only thing that will keep me is if they try to deport me… again.  Happy Xmahanakwansa and Merry Festivus.

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