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Today was so slow I started to murder out my wife's E91 Estate. She kindly walked over, asked why I was painting her grill, and proceeded to ask me to stop. By May ill be building the grandstands of my new grass tennis court.
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Vincent 2008 328ix/5 Touring 2009 E350 4Matic 1987 325is 2024 Integra 6spd 2021 CX-9 1998 M Roadster - Sold 2021 Taco - Sold 2009 E91 Touring - Sold 2005 S$ Avant - Sold 2007 Carerra S - Sold 1976 911S - Sold Acura MDX - Dead 2000 e39 528i/5 - Sold |
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I have quite the backlog here, feel free to start at the top or bottom of the list.
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Digging a pond. Digging is perhaps not the right word. I live on the side of a talus covered mountain. Everything is ether uphill or downhill with the common element being a dirt skimmed layer of rocks. Moving rocks, large, small, giant and in between in order to create a depression might be a better description. The joke “Oh look, a rock” got old on about day 3. We do have some fun. Drilling and blasting some of the bigger ones into manageable sizes and blast flaking intrusive ones. Fire in the hole!
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http://vimeo.com/29896988 “Those that can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire. "There is grandeur in this view of life...." Darwin. The mountains are calling and I must go. “The earth has music for those who listen” Shakespeare. You Matter. (Until you multiply yourself times the speed of light squared. Then you Energy) “We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence’. |
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Cleaned out my clothes closet. Realized that 70% of what I own Says PCA racing on it in some form or fashion. VIR club race seems to really like the shirt they gave out as I have 6 of them in various colors. WG CR is really partial to their jackets however you'd think they'd change the style after 5 years.
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Scott Bresnahan Purcellville Va. 2014 GTB1 World Champion 8 Time National DE champion 88 911 Cup 2021 GT4 13 Boxster S 1969 Saab Sonett 2013 Cayenne 2014 F150 Hurricane race trailer with A/C 05 Cup car 02 Koni 996 |
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No "have time" here. Work is busier than ever, plus the decrease efficiency of having everyone work from home means most tasks take longer/ require more attention.
7-year-old starts online schooling tomorrow, which takes away another big contributor to the inefficiency of working from home. If any junior engineers (civil and/ or structural) or architects need work, we may have a spot or two, even if it is a contract thing for just a couple months..
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David D. '87 Targa - 2024 was the year, beeches... |
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Work is just as busy as ever, but took last week off just for a break and puttered around the house.
For the first time in a year, I actually got the track car off the trailer on which it's stored. Spent a few days fixing some things, and identifying more broken things to contemplate over the next year when I pull it off the trailer again.
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Jerome Welte '97 Spec Boxster '20 Nissan Titan XD '02 BMW 330i convertible |
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My wife and I go for drives locally and looking at neighborhoods -- pollen is getting to us so we don't get out of the car of open the windows. Have driven by Jerome's house 3 times but never seen the 944 off the trailer - photos or it didn't happen!
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Peter (not "Pete") K. 2026 Lucid Gravity Grand Touring (EV Tow Vehicle) 1997 Spec Boxster #671 2016 Cayman S 2016 Toyota Highlander--wife's DD 2017 VW GTI SE (DD) Gone and missed: 2003 Miata ("SM") race car 1992 Miata ("SSM") race car 2009 911 C2S Coupe 2004 Toyota Prius - sold to son's girlfriend 2006 Dodge Durango 2003 Acura MDX 86 Black 911 Coupe race car 86 Gold 911 Targa 82 WineRedMetallic 911 Targa |
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Pulled the roll bar, harness and LWB out of the 997.2 because it doesn’t look we are going to the track anytime soon and it gave me something to do. The car is completely back to stock.
Finished landscaping the front yard. Opened the pool early and killed all of the algae that accumulated over the winter. Landscaping the back yard next week. Oh yes that work thing is completely out of control, busy as ever and totally inefficient working from home. 10,000 steps a day walking aimlessly around the neighborhood. Next up I think we will detail all of the cars, just for kicks.
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Karl Lucky owner of a couple 911s 1963 LeMans Convertible 336 HO V8 with a manual 3 speed 1965 Honda Sport 50 |
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Both P-Cars washed and waxed. Both Toyota’s washed and the Behemoth (Tundra) got the spray-on ceramic coating. I like how fast and easy that stuff is applied! Ti got a new rear roundel and my father’s M3 got a new front one.
Now I’m down to the real project: sketching the new garage! I’m drawing up ideas on my iPad. We want to have a Colorado ski lodge exterior look with some timber frame style. Also want a large window and deck facing south to overlook the adjacent horse farm. Of course room for lift. Standing seam metal shed roof extending over bay doors. Today I’m contemplating clearstory windows along west elevation for natural afternoon light. I have a good buddy who is an architect with a Chief account so he can generate proper drawing and evolve the design from my sketches. We have worked on our master suite and basement renovation and it has worked nicely.
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Bob 04 GT3 86 Carrera 97 318ti "Guys, I'm coming in, I have too much grip." |
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Can you orient things so the rake edge is along the side with the overhead door, instead of the gutter edge? Then you don't need to worry about sliding snow coming down in front of the door, or water cascading over the gutter and splashing against the door/ coming in under the door.
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David D. '87 Targa - 2024 was the year, beeches... |
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