Had to get the roof fixed a bit so I could finish up drywall in the garage. Life is so weird at times, it all started with upgrading my breaker box so my power wouldn’t trip all the time, then I figured I would add more lights in the garage, then my electrician/neighbor points out that I have termites (so I got to get bagged eventually), then because I want to finish drywalling the garage (something the homebuilders forgot to do when they hashed my house out on a Monday some 30 years ago) I notice my roof is leaking so i can’t drywall till I get the leaks fixed. So now after a costly upgrade on the power, I got these roofers here. But I am sure glad I hired the pros. They are building this back legit and it will take all but oneday, old wood off, new wood and paper back on, painted and call it a day. That’s ninja fast.

Well it’s good to know now that Ray is capable of driving a Suburban. We test drove one in Irvine yesterday, it was pretty sad rolling into Tustin Auto Center. From Whittier to the OC I called a few of dealerships (no one is stocking anything) after visiting a Chevy dealer in Fullerton. They didn’t have one Suburban in stock nor did they have much of anything, just a bunch of 2009 used trucks. And for once I wasn’t gang raped by the snake-oil-salesmen. For the first time I actually had to go look for a salesguy and when they searched their database of cars and noticed there were no subs in the system they literally just said “sorry” and just let me walk off the property. No “what’s your contact info” or “interested in this” just a simple “bye”. Same thing at Tustin, they were so chill that they just asked for a copy of my license and just gave me the keys and Ray, Sho and I just drove off, no babyseat, no salesguy. It was sort of sad though having passed that dealership literally tens of thousands of times I have never seen it so dead, didn’t matter if it was Lexus or GM it was a ghosttown. What makes matters worse for GM is they peddle a product which is expensive, super-sized and impractical with gas consumption which is laughable. I guess that’s why when GM hit $5/share and I thought it was a deal it just continued to burn into flames. I couldn’t buy half a Ruckus now much less a BMX.

Dropped by Sparco to see Alan and grab some gear for the 2010 drift season. It’s nice that Alan returned, always good to have a buddy behind the scenes. It’s crazy to think it’s almost March, feels like it just turned 2010, 1 month more and we will be back on the road.

Mai’s son turned 1 today!

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