Topic: Family related news

I picked up my kart today!!!



Its used and old, cost less than Gabes kart, a lot less. It is a pretty nice kart though. It is a Coyote Widetrack, with a Yamaha KT100. It has a 4 hole can, which means I can race in Senior Sportsman, or even Masters(over 35) at some places. At the local track they call it spec-100 can. If I put on a tuned pipe, I can run it in yamaha medium, or yamaha heavy.

This is the class I wanted to race, and I have been looking around for a used kart in this class. I have to say I was not all that interested in a Coyote, but I watched this kart and a kid named Austin smoke everyone every week in this kart. His dad Kenny, threw in a Mychron3, again old, but still very useful, and a starter(worth a few hundred bucks each). He put a fresh motor on it for me, so I will not have have to have it re-built till the end of my first season(worth another few hundreds bucks). He even bought a new battery for the starter. I cant say enough about Kenny he was so nice, and gave me such an amazing deal.

I still need a seat, Austin kept his, as it wouldn't fit me anyway. I need some protective gear too, but after that, I just need to add fuel, and go racing. I'm very excited about next year!!!!

So I'm making him a clock for his upcoming birthday.



I love it when he makes me things, and he seems to like it when I make things for him.

Well Jess quit her job, and she is home now. It was s decesion we made together, but I wish it was planned out better.

Both cars are now paid off, no day care expenses, no more tolls to Jersey, much less gas consumption, and cheaper gas as well. We are still running in defecit, it's marginal but it adds up... and as always two birthdays in october followed by christmas, has taken its toll. This giant, soul sucking mcmansion is quite an expense too... but I do love it, and I love my family having a more than we ever dreamed.

Just bad timing really, the next few months will be hard, vacation options will be limited next year. We just need to get used to living differently. Change can be hard. We are all healthy, marriage is good, gabe is "the benchmark" in his class. Pretty good problems to have actually.

I dont recall talking up this book to him ?

Yangbo has a big Chinese New Year party... and I had a really good time. the food was f-ing awesome... seriously what a feast. He even broke out one of those bottles of chinese alchohol, looked like a small kerosine bottle(and I think I'm going blind now)... I dont know what its called, but Yangbo said that this is what Nixon and Chairman Mao drank when Nixon visited China. Back then it was only available to party members, and though it is available to the public now it is considered "the best" and its still pretty hard to come by.

I found a book here about it. I may want to read.

anyway here is the most memorable picture of the night... as always the Gabe man. As you can see he is working hard... and someone left their hoegaarden to close.

Click the image for a few more pics

The fall soccer season starts next week, and Gabe was so excited we had to try on some of his new gear. It's not easy finding gear this small but the soccer post in Allentown got us what we needed. What they didn't have in stock, they had delivered directly to our house.

Click below to see a few more pics, the only thing was I couldn't get Gabe to hold still, he was sooo excited, it was mostly action shots of him showing off his cleats, and his big kicks.

I should have more pics from the field in a few weeks.

I know I said I wouldn't do it. I said it is too expensive for what you get. Well I got one for free this week, and couldn't resist, so I activated it, and ported my number. Here is what I think, after playing with it for the weekend.

I wanted to post up a few pics of my t-rex... alsmot ready to fly.
I just need to do a little tuning.

I put them in a new galley here

Also I just had to add another picture if my little guy...

DONT MESS WITH THE GABE MAN!