Well I was at the event for all of 5 minutes. I missed the drifting due to an unexpected change in my work schedule (had to shoot a wedding when I only thought I had to shoot a deluxe.) I did try to make it anyway, but all I caught were the remains of the car show.

Most of these cars were dime a dozen. Like, this TC crew is collectively unique, and while attractively built, I see all of them on the road literally everyday. Kinda takes away the specialness. I see your show car everyday. What makes this show any different? You’re going slower than usual?

But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t see a few that I was fond of. I’m a sucker for battle scars, for real, but I wish I saw this RX-7 and the crew of Silvias it was sitting with in action.

Oh well, no doubt this won’t be their last appearance.

Well, it has been quite an interesting few days. I’d have said something but as I found out hours ago, dogs had chewed through my internet cable outside the house and it wasn’t simply the provider being stupid.

I like the saying, “May you live in Interesting Times”. I first heard of it in Drew Curtis’s It’s not News and it says that it’s a curse of Chinese origin. In contextual relation the book I gathered it from, it’s essentially wishing bad news upon people. Natural disasters, diseases, terrorist attacks, all make interesting times and, in a sense, interesting news. Contextually, that’s what it means, but interesting times isn’t necessarily limited to bad things; in that sense, the phrase has quite a bit of relevance to the past few days.

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