Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Saturday, August 3, 2013

1st or 2nd place in Valley Challenge KRCA elimination round

I flew my SNAFU and Star to an official 2nd place in our club elimination round for the Valley Challenge.  Ashton came in 1st or 2nd too, haha.  Officially he got 1st and I got 2nd, but I found a major scoring error later which switches us around, but it does not matter.  Our top 3 finishers go on to the final in 2 weeks.  If other clubs do not send their top 3 finishers, we will also take our 4th finisher for a flyoff amongst our club only.  This is the money round so I get to fly in it, and it doesn't matter if I was 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th except for bragging rights.  I brought up the scoring error to Bob later by e-mail and do not want the finishing order changed.  Ashton is a good guy and deserves the glory, at least for 2 weeks, haha.  I flew decently today, and really only erred bad on one task...the hop and stop.  I used the Star expressly for this, and got the plane over the first row of balloons but the speed was too much to stop short of the second row of balloons.  I had the bad luck of crosswind and slight downwind at the time of my attempt.  All in all, a real fun day!

Official Results ( technically my score in Task 4 should be +25 while Ashtons's should be -86)
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