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Getting married and having  a baby has prevented me from attenting previous events… Elise is now almost 1.5 years old and I’m STILL not able to spend any time on my car!

Well, this year the nice people at Willowsprings Raceway have opened up Streets of Willow to us and I am doing my best to spend some time on the car and get out there!

This weekend will entail…

  • Flush my brake fluid
  • Changing the oil
  • Mounting some tires
  • Remove some stickers
  • Fixing some aero
  • Buying more zipties!!

Sounds like a lot of work… let’s see how much I can squeeze into so little time.

How about haunting you in a good way?  Logan just showed me an old picture of Nadine that Steve Demmitt took back way back when… it was definitely my favorite photo shoot ever.

Turns out Steve Demmitt was featured in a Digital Photographer magazine and he proudly presents that infamous photo of Nadine!  

 Cover of Digital Photographer Digital Photographer - Steve Demmitt

Source: Steve Demmitt’s Blog

I’m fed up with my current hosting company, so this site is moving. It may be down for a couple days as I try to figure out how to reconfigure it, but I’ve got everything all backed up so this old site will look the same.

I actually bought bensonhsu.com and I’m thinking about meshing these two sites together and continuing this blog there.

Also, my RSS feed address might change and that may screw up your feed readers if you’re using it. Please check in next week if you don’t see any updates on here!

For Father’s Day, I REALLY wanted a good steak, but with our current money problems I knew we couldn’t afford a good steak. So what’s the next best thing? Going to my favorite butcher near San Marino who dry ages their own Harris Ranch beef. Still really expensive ($20 per steak) but cheaper than high grade steaks at a steak house!


We got 2 very healthy sized New York steaks. Look at the beautiful fat in the meat!


First time grilling my own New Yorks… I learned my lesson – sear for a shorter amount of time and then cook with indirect heat longer.


Ate outside with a Malbec (<3) and some roasted new potatoes.

I gotta say… even though I didn’t do the greatest job cooking the steaks, the flavor was just so awesome. After I had my first great New York steak at Houston’s last year… I pretty much never want to eat any other cut of steak.

Yeah so I got a stage 3 red maple and a stage 2 bonsai. Then I got Mine’s river rocks to prevent compressor surge.


All joking aside… I actually do want carbon fiber double doors for the entry way. Does anybody know if somebody makes those? How about suicide doors? OHHHHH!!