the coolest nerd

This is the first time I really went out on a Halloween, and I kinda regret not doing so in the past, this weekend was a lot of fun — as you can see from a gallery of photos here!

Friday — Jon’s Birthday @ @lpha Bar + Lounge on Geary. Some guy had the Burger King mask, so I’m glad I didn’t buy it too. Two Kings in one place? That sounds like trouble..

Look who I ran into, it’s Adrienne! Haven’t seen her in ages.. Cool jacket!

Saturday Night at Club NV, Anna as a cat without ears, Nancy as.. I’m not sure, and Stacy as Tinkerbell without wings. All of them cooler than my CSI t-shirt though. =) I didn’t catch the name of the gal with the horns.. =/

Tina’s debut on the site, hope to see more of her on here!

Later that night.. (thank goodness for the extra hour daylight savings gave us) we ran into Young and I stole her halo for this picture. =) Her costume looked great too. =)

Sunday @ Luau’s Halloween Party though I couldn’t get Emmy to wear her sexy lolita costume we still had fun, here we are laughing at something or other.. =) It’s rare to get a chance to go out with Emmy, but it’s worth the wait! =)

Thanks to Stan I had a more complete CSI costume, here I am throughly investigating a glass for evidence of some sort.. Ning the jaguar is an eyewitness at the scene…

As requested.. the sumo video we recorded while waiting for food last weekend.. sorry the volume is low, not bad for my first video in iMovie. (^_^)
The song you can’t really hear is “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot.

These are some recent photos, there are still some older ones that I need to put together into a gallery, since so much time has passed anyways theres no harm in waiting longer — I’ll lump them all into a future update. There are some great ones too; even a couple videos are coming!

I do have permission from both Ning and Erika to post this photo, I even asked to make sure, surprisingly neither said no! I’m not sure if they’re even drunk.. (>_<);;

So the day before Mazda Extreme Street I was wondering if the rims from my other car would fit on the FC, so I swapped them. I think it looks OK — but they bling a little too hard for such an old car. (haha, I used bling as a verb) (-_-);;

I like this photo, nice angle. I’m very tempted to sell this car, I’m not sure I can justify having three cars for a whole lot longer.. It is a bit difficult to deal with them all.

I want this go-kart so bad. It’s gotta be super fast! Piiiika-Chuuu!! On the front of the kart there is a picture of Charizard too. Awesome!

Our trip to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey was a huge waste of time. Not only did we come back empty handed, but we wasted lots of time traveling, prepping, and sitting there doing nothing.

For a complete rundown on the events of the day, you can read my write up at barotary.com. There are photos included as well.

I know it seems like I’ve been complaining a lot lately. Someone cheer me up.. please? (-_-);;

Even though Sevenstock 7 was just more of the same, it was still a pretty fun trip. If you’re curious about the event, there are tons of photos available here.

LA is fun. I don’t know that I could stand to live there, but it is worth going once in a while. It wasn’t too hot this time so that’s probably why I was in a good mood the entire trip. People down there just seem to be a lot more friendly than here, it’s weird, I always thought it was the other way around. (-_-);;

Special thanks to Bentley for letting us crash at his place. Inebriated Gran Turismo is always fun; though I kept winning. Rematch next time!

I did forget to go to Diddy Reese though, and Wes keeps telling me how good they were, damn it!

I’ll be at Laguna Seca this weekend for the American Le Mans Series. I’m entering my FC3S into the car show.. Wish me luck! =)

I haven’t posted any photos for a while, so here’s a sample of what you’ve been missing. I’ll post the rest soon. Look! I’m blinking as usual.. I need to learn to stop! (>_<);;

This was supposed to be an update filled with photos, commentary and whatever else I usually write about, but apparently I lost 95% of my pictures. They’ll display on the camera fine. (Well, most of them. ) So it looks like I’ve got very little to show for the trip.

90% of the photos ended up looking like this. Most of them much worse. I don’t know who those two guys are, they just ended up being in the background.

Out of the two or three pictures that did end up OK, this is the only that looks presentable. (The others are in-car pics or the back of other cars, not interesting if you can’t see the rest of it.) That’s Stan and Jon staring at the spoiler. I’m sure they’re jealous and want a huge BATMAN style wing too. (^_-);;

I’ll update again in the morning. I did end up with a few other goodies, some cool t-shirts, the Yamaguchi (Making of the) RX-8 hardcover and some random posters that I picked up. I got lots of extras to give to friends, but they’ll have to make time to get them. Seems like everyone is busy nowadays.

The other thing I ended up with is.. a new RX-7. I’ll post more details about that in the next update.

Looks like fun in LA this weekend! I leave tomorrow afternoon with Stan and Jon to meet up with Wes, Seth, Ghetto D, and countless others at Sevenstock 8. This will be the first year I don’t take a car down to show off; after my car was broken into I sorta lost interest in the whole scene. I think the trip will be a good experience for me, it’ll force me to decide if I want to continue or just move on, and get a different car. (>_<)

If anyone wants anything from LA, let me know. I’ll be grabbing a huge box of cookies from Diddy Reese! Westwood is always fun to hang out in, too bad I don’t know anyone at UCLA anymore. Hanging out there was always more fun since I got to hang out with Faithy and others.

I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures. (^_-)