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10 days ago I picked up my 27th Corolla I've ever owned! It's a 1982 TE72 with 267,000km on it. 3TC automatic. This purchase was justified in my brain by the added duty beyond a daily driver, of being a tool of education, a racing school student car. I'd been giving formal and information racing instruction during our drifting events for years now. For some it was successful for others, not so much. I realized recently what a major differentiating factor was: the cars! Some students showed up in good working cars, that...

I went to the Auto Salon again this year.  I saw cars.  Here's an album   http://i.imgur.com/4BAhkzS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iRj1pGs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GJKZ5Dx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FTWFY9t.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Zg2aOZf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SdW1ZnR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hqWIziu.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OgOpwNz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aUs4Hy3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/m8APhRp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/AZIu2QG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JN1njgS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ctifiKZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0Y3U4ES.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pwbS3wC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fjsQqht.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GZ8XWqE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/52uNyZP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zUtPnRi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bifT6Jt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Nnh4FUT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cB0SOYS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3KvCfIV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5SB32gq.jpg http://i.imgur.com/H3ZUK8n.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ne58iBs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4WHDlue.jpg http://i.imgur.com/o7wd8g8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JNJL0Pa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7MK42oU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/URTp0BX.jpg http://i.imgur.com/22ubxvH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/P4pz0SA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tUyW6Hs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TCb5K5f.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nE0UASg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YQmi4O1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cIRdspU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/23yzwkb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SJC5BJq.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uU2cHZc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CWjrBGS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ffUDplW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aY52jcw.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mHHR3YO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/n5UXHXz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1mIUvXD.jpg http://i.imgur.com/WNy1H17.jpg http://i.imgur.com/yhz0b1S.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hC9tRMh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RKNkmcn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zs2Ow74.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uiKmMnK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XqzNrb5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EoEDR1k.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RcRJGit.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XDV1aIq.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0QPCW4p.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HDpTAbj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nEiKiTk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XpD7Ji2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hM2lCF2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qJ8ug05.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YCrqh3W.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iQWlInc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/34HL0Mf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5cxlUQv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Pf1PGX1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BnYpi7V.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XzgUWHH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HrUQn07.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZWp8zL2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3tzCZ02.jpg http://i.imgur.com/i5RhdX8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KNP6Jb9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mXnU9BW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zo5jKIf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nUgWl6Q.jpg http://i.imgur.com/E2LNPHJ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YLw6BrX.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2KTIGOA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6HNeuJT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/yvl4sMu.jpg...

For a zombie survival game, you wouldn't think there would be any automotive firsts....   Our first automotive adventure was DayZ's first ever car show! Country truck Jamberoo.   [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] 3 trucks gathered for a truck show![/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] Ass to Ass comparison of the two common truck body types. One got a little more junk in the trunk, or planks in the stanks?[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] I have BOOBS?!?![/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1440"]

Depression does weird things. My morals and view points on the value of life have changed so dramatically in the past few years. I now believe that no one has any real value, there is no real true meaning to life, there is no one true god/any at all, blah blah blah Nihilism to the extreme. It's truly how I feel, which is frustrating, but how? I don't generally find many things fun anymore. The idea of building and owning a car isn't exciting really, and it shows in my racecar sitting for months. Sure it'd be fun to drive...

Last year, I made a promise. I said I'd go back. So I did. Mr. Komukai and I returned to Tsukuba for this year's Hachiroku Matsuri. It was a bit of an overcast weekend, but it was actually quite warm.  Really pleased with that, to be honest. This year, WiZ didn't bring their car out, but Komukai-Sensei brought out a Levin that he picked up out in Gunma (which has subsequently been purchased by one of the students). No big surprises this weekend, other than a few loose (critical)...