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How To Decant a Bottle of Wine in 30 Seconds (by testedcom)

Ran across this album today in a random mix of music I was playing.  I used to listen to listen to this album and this song when playing Quake 1 Threewave CTF online.     I first got this CD in high school from a friend who recommended it to me.   It’s been in my collection since then (since 1996 I think).

Makes me long for the days of what that Threewave Capture the Flag game style did for Quake and other games going forward.   Today the games are so focused on graphics, or ”realism” they tend to really screw multi-player up.  Making it too complex, to over produced IMHO.   Quake 1 CTF/DM, Q2 CTF/DM, and Starseige: Tribes (and to a lesser extent Tribes 2) are some of the more pure fun gaming I can remember.  

I listened to music quite a bit while playing games online…  Normally electronic, something with a beat, and something that doesnt have lots of vocals as that tended to distract from team communications. 

These are two pics I took last night with our small P&S Canon camera when I got home from the races.   The first pic of the foothills is as it came off the camera, just cropped.   This is looking pretty much due west from down town, toward Lakewood.  

The second one I just threw some filter at it and played with the vibrancy to bring out some of the colors in the sky.  

And 1/10 stock sedan racing. About to start.

One more pic of the starting of the World GT A- Main

Racing done at the MHIC race held at CORRC (in lakewood,CO).

Lead my 1/12th scale B main for most of it, and in the last minute got tangled with a back marker and only finished 4th out of 10.   Then in my WorldGT class I got a bit over zealous in my second car, and broke a front suspension part in the final couple laps fighting for 2nd. Finished 5th in the end for that class.

Overall a pretty impressive 4 days of solid racing. Raced more this week than I have since getting back into R/C 6 months ago. What a blast!

Total cost in broken parts for 4 days of racing - $3.50.  Total cost just for wheels/tires:  - Don’t want to think about it

Getting stuff ready for this weekend’s big race

Spent a couple hours tonight getting the new 1/12th scale dialed in.  The car is probably 3 - 4/10ths faster than my old car, I am currently seeing 2/10ths improvement already and thats with only having the car on the track for ~ 15minutes so far. 

Really looking forward to the races this week!

Spent this Sunday at one of the only places that seemed to be open while Kate went out and tried to shop.

Rode the motorcycle to the R/C track for a few hours to finish building up the new car for the race later this week.   Still has some tweaks to be done, but even with a bad center shock setup, the car turned laps nearly as fast as my old car.  It carries so much speed through turns it’s hard to keep up with!   It’s funny to think that such a small simple car took ~ 8hrs to build and setup so far.

New exhaust installed on the bike today - a Triumph Off-Road “TOR” ”exhaust.  more open, no cat, lighter, and a bit more open of a power band.

The bigger part was recoding the ECU for the new exhaust backpressure and profile.   Installed a Speed 3 performance tune from Arrows that was remapped into a Sprint ST file.   So far it sounds mean. Not overly loud at all, but much less muted and stealth.

A little noise inst too bad on a bike :)

While it looks funny, this is outstanding espresso! Wasn’t too sure initially, but it’s really grown on me. Thank you anchora!

In 2001, the CBO projected a cumulative surplus of $6 trillion. This fascinating graph shows how that surplus turned into $6 Trillion deficit. - Imgur

New bodies for R/C.  Painted these up for the 4 days of solid racing coming up next weekend at the ROAR regional being held in Denver.    Pretty happy about my pace so far, for taking a month off of racing, I seem to be in the same position in the field as I was before. 

And now I have 1 and possibly 2 new 1/12th scale cars coming that are supposed to be about the best cars to run.

Doing R/C, still doing some motorcycle wrenching, and a small side project I am working on, in addition to my job, etc… is making this a pretty busy time!

is it weird that a thermal imager to me would be a kick ass present?

Going retro today : A little Faith No More Epic for mid day listening?  I think so.

 A little Mike Patton makes the day go by a little easier.