New house!

[lutach]

Originally Posted by kulangflow

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.

I love the super dads out there (Not in a gay way btw , I hope lincpimp doesn't see this. I know he'll take it to the grave ). 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 . 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 .

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

[Sower]

Originally Posted by lutach

We were going nuts when Felipe Massa won the last F1 race

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

[JERRY2KONE]

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.

[lutach]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

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.

[Sower]

Originally Posted by kulangflow

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.

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.

[aqwut]

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...

[kulangflow]

Originally Posted by aqwut

you must've paid a snot load, especially being by the water.....

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.

Originally Posted by kulangflow

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.

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

Originally Posted by kulangflow

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.

For that money we get a mini house here in the Netherlands.. Wait I will post a picture:

Its only that house in the middle..
I think that house is even expensiver than yours..


I wished to be an American...

[Sylvester]

Heres what $1.5M gets you in Canada..

[lutach]

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 .

[jnev]

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

[rabosi]

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.

[JERRY2KONE]

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.

[kulangflow]

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!