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I wanna go fast: October 2011

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Monday, October 31, 2011. I can has wife! K and I were married October 16, 2011 (sorry, thieves, we bumped it up from June 2014). It was perfect, though the boy was running a festive fever. The honeymoon saw us visiting the beautiful US Virgin Islands, where we drank all the rum. Pics soonish (after the hangover wears off). Monday, October 10, 2011. I changed the name. Maybe it's dumb, but I don't care. Tuesday, October 04, 2011. It scares me, then, ...

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I wanna go fast: June 2012

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Wednesday, June 06, 2012. Last Day of Kindergarten. Today is Alastair's last day of Kindergarten. We're super excited for him, but last night I cried a little. So I was really excited when I found out they'd been keeping journals at school. I figured the contents would be very basic, and they were, but they were so full of insights into my little guy. Insights I hadn't experienced before, which tore me up. How could he have secrets? But enough of tha...

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I wanna go fast: July 2012

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Monday, July 23, 2012. NASA Heat Wave at VIR. I find myself in a relatively unique position. I just had what I should call a very bad weekend at the track, but I came away with so many ideas swirling around in my head. I knew going into the weekend that a win was out of reach, and that 2nd place may not happen either, but still, it was a shock to be beaten so soundly on Sunday. But I learned a lot. And I mean a whole lot. So what to do? Supercharger,...

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I wanna go fast: August 2012

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Friday, August 24, 2012. Another Month, Another Plan. So all of that stuff last month about building dedicated cars for each track? On the table, but it kind of limits what I can do with my stable of (potentially rentable) racing Miatas. I went to Summit Point with a plan. That plan was a bit hamstrung by the age of my tires (this was the 5th event on a single set of Hoosiers), but that kind of played into my hands just a bit. Lemme 'splain. Been to ...

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I wanna go fast: January 2012

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. As I've been preparing for the start of the 2012 season, I've had a lot of questions about the changes I'm making to the car: new differential (4.30 and urethane bushings), beefier clutch, wing, and moving back to stock sway bars. Will the new setup work? Will it take 2 or 3 events to figure out how to drive it? Will I trust it too much and stuff the car? ECU, header, exhaust, intake. Stock clutch, semi-racing flywheel.

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I wanna go fast: May 2012

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Tuesday, May 01, 2012. NASA Spring Showdown @ Summit Point. What an amazing weekend. I went into the 3rd event of the 2012 season with more questions than answers, and having done absolutely nothing to the car since March. My tires were on their 3rd weekend, something I've never even considered with Hoosiers (they peak early and fall off quickly, typically dying near the end of the 2nd event). Disappointed, I put it back to the original setting and w...

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I wanna go fast: I don't do hobbies very well

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Monday, March 24, 2014. I don't do hobbies very well. Then came fitness. In 2002 (I think? I signed up for a gym membership. Numbers became my obsession. Weight, weights, reps, cardio. 3 nights per week, 2.5 hours at a time. Rock climbing equipment came back out for a brief foray, but how can you track numbers if you're out getting dirty on the rocks? So if he can have a nice bike, why shouldn't I? I got it in my head about a month ago that my old bi...

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I wanna go fast: April 2015

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Wednesday, April 08, 2015. Another year, another dang hobby.or two. Last year around this time, I'd just bought a bike. We were living in temporary housing while our house was being rebuilt from the fire, and I was riding to work. What I didn't realize was that I was just about at my heaviest, having just recently crossed the 170lb mark. So I went through the Spring riding my bike, running with the kids on the soccer field, all the while gaining more...

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I wanna go fast: July 2011

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I wanna go fast. It's what makes the sauce so awesome. Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Hyperfest may have been NASA's big event, back in June, but nothing on the year's racing schedule touches the grandeur of the Pirelli Ultimate Track Car Challenge presented by Grassroots Motorsports. It holds a special place in my heart because last year I was there becoming an instructor and competing for the first time in Time Trials. And what an experience! Crew made one hell of a fast truck. With a bulletproof motor th...