Happy Holidays from the guy that only pops in here every once-in-a-blue moon! I regret being less helpful this year; it was mainly due to the RC car forums, where people would spam the same topic around several forums, and where newbies would ask the same questions over and over and over again, and sometimes spam the forum with dozens of threads on topics closley related. Granted, I, like everyone else here, was once a newbie, but I was like, "Is everyone going to not like it if I start this thread?" so I'd search around first, and I still think that now, and do that now.

Now, onto the presents, yeah, I'm a rotten egg. I got all my gifts before Christmas; a whopping two things. I got myself a Sony DSC-H2 megazoom digital camera, and since my sister got a new iPod, she came over and gave me her old iPod Mini. I dislike iPods with a burning passion, but if its free, and avalible, I might as well use it, right? Speaking of my sister, I'm almost done repairing my Avistar 40 MKII after she landed 20 feet north of the runway. She was like, "I didn't crash; the runway didn't keep up!" [&:][&o] She did a perfect landing, heading straight, and even flared before she touched down; the only problem is that she was 20 feet off. Ripped the gear out, and the entire bottom of the fuselage to the landing gear block.

Now, who is going flying on 01 January 2007? I'm going to weather the cold (50 degree F ) Paso Robles morning to log the first flight of the year at the field. Actually, for the last two weeks, its been around 20 degrees in the morning, and all the roads were icy. For those of you that live in the snow, we have two snow plows from the 1980's stationed in San Luis Obispo that serve the entire county. I'm also going to Reno, Nevada in my 2WD Dodge Dakota pickup so that should be fun putting on chains. Would've gotten a 4x4, but four wheel drive vehicles have higher maintinence costs and things of the sort, plus I only go to the snow once a year, and I can drive fine through the sand with two wheel drive and the tires at 15PSI.