I just wanted to thank you all again for the compliments and congratulations.

It blew my wife away to read this thread. Without previous knowledge, she figured the forums were just a bunch of kids talking nonsense. She didn't realize that this is a community of friends that supports one another in multiple facets of hobby and life. She is very impressed with the RC-M community.

As am I.

Thank you.

My wife thought the same thing. She has actually looked at some more recent threads and changed her mind a little. Luckily my wife is extremely supportive of my hobby and is also thankful I spend my money on it instead of the low life things other womens' husbands do with theirs.

RC has been a good therapy for me. With the Depression, Anxiety and stress that Autism has brought on me, RC has been a good medicine for all of that. You guys here have helped me a lot in keeping my RCs rolling. I enjoy looking at all the families evolved in RC. If I had the chance to give you all here a gift, I would.

kulangflow, I forgot to tell you that you have a beautiful family.

lutach, I understand a bit about how you've felt with the Autism thing.

My son was born missing some important pieces of his brain. He's basically a 2 year old newborn. He can smile and laugh (which forunately he does a lot) and hold his head up, but he can't speak, can't roll over, can't sit without support and he's 99% blind (he reacts to light). He has severe seizures and requires constant medication and has enjoyed countless nights in the hospital. Fortunatley, he eats like a champ, and he's otherwise as healthy as a kid can be.

There's no name for what he has and there's nothing to indicate what progress he might make or how long he'll be with us. Like your daughter, we're just happy to have him as long as we can have him and the joy he brings into our family. He's not without his stresses, but we'd never give him up for anything. As long as he's healthy, we're happy.

Anyway, this hobby is a great release for the stresses of life. I like to think that my son enjoys it as well even if he can't express it. I often tell him all about how the cars work and tell him my plans for them and what-not. He is a lot of fun and a great kid to be around. Chicks love him too. :yes:

I love the super dads out there (Not in a gay way btw :lol:, I hope lincpimp doesn't see this. I know he'll take it to the grave :lol:). It basically keeps all of us going strong as we know we're not alone. My daughter loves RCs and she's already finding out how cool it is to jump a MicroT off a ramp. Afterwards when all the little parts breaks, I show her how to fix it. She's lights up any place that's boring, I wish I had half her energy. I already had people asking me if she can participate in the Special Olympics for kids, but she has a little problem when she looses and I'm working on that with her (She doesn't like to loose). Other people wants to see her playing soccer, but I can't have her like me when she gets older. She also like to play volleyball and she loves racing. We were going nuts when Felipe Massa won the last F1 race :party:. We all have beautiful kids and yes they bring us all a form of joy that sometimes it's hard to explain. My daughter and I get into our little own space sometimes and nobody can come between us when we get into that mode. It's hilarious sometimes as we laugh just about anything and when the Knock-Knock jokes comes up, oh boy we bring the house down :rofl:.

Edit: Keep up the great work, you keep guys like me going strong.

God bless you kulangflow. What you just said there just really got to me and I appreciate hearing it. I wish more people looked at things the way you are instead of seeing others as a burden. Thank you.

On a totally unrelated topic . . . Massa is awesome and I feel one of the most underrated drivers in F1.

backing up.
 

Backing up just a bit. My wife also is very supportive of me being involved with this hobby, and quite surprized when I share some of the threads on RCM with her. She is also impressed with the level of maturity and friendship with people who for the most part have never metin person, and from around the globe. I for one love coming here every day to see, read, and share our daily adventures in our hobby and in our lives. You guys are great and thank you for showing up.

Caring for and loving our children is an incredible gift no matter who or what they may be. We have eight kids from 9 to 28 and we love everyone of them the best that we can.

Hey Lutach. You can give us all a gift. Keep up the work on that ultimate ESC project of yours. We will all benefit from your efforts some day, SOON we hope. Thanks.

You guys are awesome.

Off topic sorry: As for the ESC, I haven't received an answer from Suppo yet. They promised a lot of things and I don't even know what happened to my MOSFETs that I sent to them. I already sent them an e-mail asking for the ESC with the aircraft software and no answer.

Beautiful home dude... I just purchased a new home as well... I'll share some pics soon as I move in.. you're lucky you have a beautiful property there.. I paid $344,000 for my new home... you must've paid a snot load, especially being by the water..... You have a beautiful family, a joy that I will never have...

My wife felt the same way too. We currently have an 8-year old son and an 18-month old daughter and both are very interested in RC. We usually spend our weekends in our home-made track or the beautiful beaches here in Japan. She always though that we're just a bunch of kids at heart trying to live a 2nd childhodd :lol::intello:.

But the best part of her reading this post is..... she gave me the go ahead to buy another truck to convert to brushless. I'll probably go for a Mugen MBX5T Prospec :yes:.

Jerry, 6 more years and hopefully I'll be retired from the Navy like you :rofl::rofl:.

It's not very close to the water. I think that first pic is an optical illusion or something. You can see the lake from the deck, but it's a few miles away.

I only paid $215K because it's in Utah, where housing is reasonably inexpensive compared to the rest of the states. If this same place were in SoCal it would probably be 2 or 3 times the price. Lucky for me it's here. :yes:

if your house was in so cal it would be 10x what you paid

+1 to that azjc. :yes: Maybe 5x more would be closer though... :lol:

Just want to say kudos to you dads out there doing right by your kids. Especially the ones with special needs kids. I know it ain't easy.
It's pretty crazy the way the housing market's gone (or everything else for that matter) the last 5-10 yrs.

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Hey Kulingfow we know how excited you were getting that new house, how are things going for you and your family? How is the new house working out for you? Did you get an R/C shop setup yet? Give us the scoop.

Howdy Jerry!

I'm still loving my new house. I did get my R/C stuff set-up in my basement office. I'll have to take some pictures for the thread. It's not much, but it gets the job done.

My family is doing well. We're actually expecting our third child now. My wife is 10 weeks along today, so we're pretty excited about that.

My son is doing pretty well. They keep screwing around with his seizure meds and every time they do he has a really hard time adjusting to them. It'll be a huge relief for all of us when they finally find the right combination that will work for him and not dope him up too badly.

His medical bills have been an issue recently. I'm actually starting up a side-business to help out with it. The business is Super8 and Regular8 film transfers to DVD. I don't have a name for it yet. I have the equipment, and I actually made a test transfer last night. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. I still need to make some tweaks to get the white balance and color to look right, but I think the quality is pretty good. It's my family Christmas from 1982. If you're bored enough to watch all 5:46, I'm the 4 year old with the Dukes of Hazzard collection at 4:42 and playing with stompers at 5:15.

I appreciate you checking back up with me. I hope all is going well in your new abode as well!

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Let us know when your you are ready to accept orders. I have some tapes that need to be transferred!

mark

I loved Stompers! :lol:

Here are some pictures of my new home.... Still have cleaning to do... I let the in-laws stay with us for a few months... they just moved out 4 weeks ago... http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii49/aqwut/Home/
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g?t=1230242026
http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/i...rrent=000A.jpg

nice pad man ! mini castle, wish I could show you a pic of my house to make you jealous,(not) but imagine a 1 story dump with rotting aluminum siding and squirrels all over, but with nice cars infront of it LOL.. Maybe May when my lease is up ill get around to moving. Not that I dont have the cash, I have 5 75+ gallon fish tanks and 500lbs of live rock I dont want to move, good weeks work there.

:gasp: WOW what a great update Sir.. Love the home video!..:yes: I'm extremely happy for your family and wish you and especially your BOY a fab new year!.. :party::party:

Have a great one Sir..

P.S.
Aqwut
DAM!!!! :surprised: That’s bitchen!.. I love the look of those types of home!..

Great job guys!..

Great thread to read through. What a great bunch of people here at RCM. Wish I had time to read every thread, sometime some slip by and look what I missed. Thanks for showing us the home and family. Great investment for you and the family. Now the roots can start growing deeper for you and yours. If I run into anyone that might need be able to use your services I will pm you.

Is that a red ferreri (SP) in the drive way?

Thanks for the replies and comments!

Aqwut, that is seriously a killer home! Congrats!

Hey how much do you charge for conversion... My wife's always wanted to do this for her father...

Sweet dawg:D

:surprised: :surprised: :surprised:

For that money we get a mini house here in the Netherlands.. Wait I will post a picture:
http://www.directwonen.nl/koop/ajax/...to=1791467.JPG
Its only that house in the middle..
I think that house is even expensiver than yours.. :whip:


I wished to be an American... :lol:

Heres what $1.5M gets you in Canada..

Very nice houses. But if you take the $1.5 million and go to the most beautiful place in Brasil, you will get something about 4 times bigger then that, with a beach for a back yard, full size swimming pool, exercise room, tennis court, soccer field, custom BBQ area, a huge garden full of trees with some amazing fruits, artificial lake full of nice fish and more. Plus you still have plenty of $$$$ to throw a nice Brasilian style BBQ party :lol::party:.

Sold !!!

Wow, I didn't even post the picture. I can't find the address of my family's homes. The google image is of my friend's house which looks very similar to some of the houses my family has.

My father went to Rio a few times, said it has the worlds nicest ass's LOL He's no perv either, a suit and tie man, so it must have been exceptional to get that response from him.

Go there one day. You will know exactly what your father was talking about when he went.

Nice homes you guys! Here is what $215K would get you in SoCal.

http://www.bristolpackaging.com/Imag...dboard-box.jpg

Woah, very nice house.

Jesus... $215k would get you something like this here in wisconsin.

http://www.ccunderwriters.com/nice%20house.JPG

I haven't worked out the pricing stuff yet. I'm starting with all my dad's film. He has like 20,000 feet so it's taking a while.

I won't be charging too much though. I've been researching many others so that I can charge the least. I just want it to be affordable for people so they can get it done before the film deteriorates to dust.

If it's okay with Mike, I'll put a new thread on here as soon as I figure out a pricing structure.

Thanks for the interest!

Wow... I'd move there in a heartbeat if I could...

dont know what you are aiming for, didnt read the whole thread, but I can I simply guarantee the best pricing for film to cd or whatever you need. Wifey spent 6 years working up walgreens photo ladder. You can trust me to send it to and I will have what ever you want done ( runs 280 photo labs now)probably get it for free but Im not digging myself grave here..PM me ill give you my wifes cell if you are interested

they usually chagre $25 for 300ft

Wisconsin is really a nice state. Accept the winters can be very harsh sometimes.:yes: