Double posted because my modem hiccuped and things didn’t appear to save, but then they did because Kinja, but sometimes it showed me the double post and sometimes it didn’t show the double post.

UPDATE 2: Added deorbit burn and splashdown (~13 minutes).

I present to you the greatest ski gloves in the WURLD! These gloves have been in use since at least 2011, though probably before then. They have been on a couple ski trips, been used for skiing locally, been used for shoveling my roof, running the snow blower and have been generally abused. They have held up to every…

If you fall you die.

There was plenty of snow, the problem is that it was too windy to spin the lifts. I hung out for a while seeing if they would run, then got goaded into hiking for a run. It really wasn’t worth it. The wind made things pretty gnarly. Thigh deep wind drifts mixed with wind blown crust made for pretty dicey conditions on…

The forecast for the end of the week is looking pretty solid. Funny how skiers see a forecast like this and get all excited, but everyone else sees that and says “eff that, I’m staying in bed.” I once saw a quote, probably in Powder Magazine talking about skiers that went something like this: “skiers wait until a…

Yesterday it was actually clear shortly before sunset and we got to see a sun dog. The other one was hiding behind the trees, so I didn’t bother trying to get both in the picture. Besides, that would mean having the sun in the middle and would have just ended up with a blown out iPotato picture.

Achievement unlocked! The STI is broken in. Now I can drive it like I stole it and rev it to redline instead of keeping it under 4000 rpm per the break in procedure. Except the roads around here will be ice and snow for approximately 6 more months, so that tends to be difficult this time of year. I took the picture…

It takes 510 seconds and a couple hundred miles to get the Space Shuttle from the launch pad to orbit.  During that time you get accelerated to about 18,000 miles per hour.

Not to take anything away from Captain Sullenberger, but this may just be a more impressive feat of airmanship. TACA Flight 110 was a regularly scheduled flight between Belize and and New Orleans. On May 24, 1988 they encountered severe weather coming in to New Orleans. While accidentally flying through the worst of…

“Should I trade it in?”
“NO!” - in a disgusted voice before I could even finish asking.
This was on the way home from the hockey game late Saturday night. It was way past the Finnlets bed time so he told me he’d take a nap. About a minute later he decided it was too obnoxious and loud to sleep in the car.

Like the title says, I’m trying to find detailed wheel info for 2019 STI’s. I need to know lug nut size and center bore diameter. Why do I need to know this you ask? Well, I’ve got the replacement for the RS on the way to the dealer and need to figure out if I need new lug nuts and a new centering ring to adapt the…

Eugene B. Fluckey commanded the U.S.S. Barb on five war patrols and won the Medal of Honor in the process. I hadn’t heard about him until this video popped up in my recommended feed, but it’s well worth 8 minutes of your time.

The FoRS is gone, now to get serious about developing an STi. I’ve already found the perfect one, now just to convince the dealer that has it to swap it to the dealer who is closest to me.

The dealer has the paper to complete the buy back, the lawyers just aren’t willing to send a flat bed to pick the car up. Just emailed the salesman that sold me my last two vehicles, we’ll see if he’s interested in losing a customer over $100 for a flat bed. No effing way I’m driving a car on summer tires down my snow…

Yep, but the best kind of car v. bike.