Sunday, April 29, 2012

4/29/2012

Visited the care center, seen some souls that I haven't seen in 16 months!!!

Last time I was there Marco's didn't do ANY singing, well he's been singing for a few months now. Sure enjoyed singing with Marco's along with his wife (Silvia) playing the piano. Marco had a GREAT message!

After services Marco and I went over to Larry's home and visited with his family. Larry felt up to seeing us, one at a time. GREAT loving time with Larry, didn't talk about his cancer, talked about how to better service the residents in the care center!!! That is JUST LIKE Larry!

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Talked with Marco about me coming back, once or twice a month. Don't know IF I'm going back.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

4/26/2012

Received some VERY BAD news today. Larry the paster that I ministered with at a nursing home has 2-3 weeks left because of the cancer he has!

I will be at that nursing home this Sunday to assist the minister that replaced me, so I could minister at the RC tracks on Sunday!

I do not know if this will be a one Sunday thing or a every Sunday thing.

IF it's every Sunday, RC racn' will take a BIG back seat to the nursing home ministry.

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

4/21/12

RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

4/15/2012

FZRC (Sarasota)

Lot of changes this last week!!!!

1. Decided to sell the Losi XXX-SCT! Trying to race one of two SC trucks each week is taking away attention to the SC that is raced!! The Losi, every week, has a over heated motor, put the same motor/esc in the SC10 and the motor temps are just right!!!!

2. RC10T4 put the J82 buggy F/R wheels on to see how that works. Tested fine at FZ today.

3. Received a Duratrax Evader ST for "Make a RC Wish". Tested this today at FZ, worked very well motor temp was only 112. Put a 27 turn brush motor in with a Novak Explorer II esc.

4. Raced the SC10 in Mod SC with a BOOSTED Novak 13.5 motor. The track is a bit ODD as it is still "GREEN". Remember they did a redesign a month ago and they are only racing every other week so the "Groove" is still not there like it was before the redesign.

Qual'd 3rd finished 2nd! :-)

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Looking at a race visit to eHz in Winter Haven 4/21/12.

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

4/6/2012

FIRCC (Plant City)

Planed to race the SC10! The only problem I had was tires, didn't have "THE" tires for the track and I'm NOT going to buy a full set for a track I don't race at more than 4 to 6 times a year. PLUS see * below. Other wise the SC10 was just SWEEEEET!!! :-)

Seen MORE ex-Farmers racers :-) We all had a GREAT >>> FUN <<< time.

Didn't make a A-main , BUT the B-main was just SWEEEEEEET!!!

Harold started in 1st, I was in 2nd, by lap 2 Harold choose to race with me NOT just drive away and do lap after lap after lap!  He and 3rd bumped and I got a half lap lead that he NEVER made up!

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*One of the racers told me that FIRRC was looking at doing away with the off road track :-( and put in a gun range. They plan to keep the on road track.

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Friday, April 6, 2012

4/1/2012

FORGOT to post again!!!!!!

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FZRC (Sarasota)

The LARGEST turnout ever 111 entries! The Super Cup (SC) race at Hurricane RC was raced out so some of the SC racers stay around to race at FZ

Losi XXX-SCT

Tested the XXX-SCT on the NEW track design, as I knew how it ran on the old design. By lap three had a handle on the new design.

AE SC10

New parts for the steering came in on Fri, rebuilt the steering and added in line hubs and axles to see how they work.

After 5 laps of practice I put the XXX-SCT away, changed rear tires on the SC10 and out to qual 1 I went! Finished 8 of 8! :-( Changed rear tires again and BINGO finished 4th in 2nd qual, that put me in 11th of 20.

5 minute B-main by turn 4 I was in 2nd and finished in that position for a bump up to the A-main! :-)

By turn 3 of the first lap of the A-main I was in 3rd by the timing line I was 4th, stayed in that position for most of the race. I thought 2nd was about to pass me so I moved over, it WAS the 5th place racer!!!! As I moved over a half lap later for 2nd, 6th got by me!!!

Still to be ONLY 2 laps down from 1st and 2nd who normally lap me 3 or 4 times means the SC10 was HOOKED UP!!!

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