Ike Flooding in Maplewood Our little, normally dry, creek that runs through Maplewood flooded on Sunday with when what was left of Ike had rolled through St Louis. We turned out not to really notice at our house. Only after Katie had tried to go out during the day did she find that most of the routes away from the house were blocked with water.

We took these around 11:30-ish and by the time we were on the way back from looking around the water had already gone down drastically.

A quick video:


And the pictures:
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  iRacing.com It's been a long time coming, but iRacing.com is finally launching soon. It's been a long trip through testing, but I really do think it's going to be the future of sim racing. There has been a few tries at filling the void left behind when Papyrus shut it's doors, but nothing quite compares to this. Now that the veil has been lifted, look for more iRacing information here on the site. In the mean time check out the official site iRacing.com and over to youtube for InsideSimRacing's preview video.

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  I-55 Raceway Opening Night '08 Went down to Pevley, MO Saturday night for their opener. My spaz camera work getting snipits of modified hot laps, pro 4 heat race then the starts of the latemodel, modified and sportsman features.


YouTube link of video

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  It's a SandStorm One week ago today I was sitting in the dealership picking up my new FJ Cruiser. It's a 2008 4wd automatic with locking rear differential, the convenience package, rubber mats and the 17" aluminum wheels.



It would have been pretty difficult for me to decide on it had it not been for the internet. Edmunds.com was a great starting point to compare and price everything out. Their inside line pages had a great long term test of the FJ that was a really good read. The Toyota website, in addition to all the car things you expect to see on a website also have the FJ Cruiser Bulletin. It has a lot of flash showing off the engineering, off road abilities and the real community of FJ owners. That's what finally lead me to the fjcruiserforums.com. It was invaluable in purchasing my FJ. They have tons of information all at your fingertips via the search feature. There was a great excel spreadsheet that helped in pricing the truck. Lots of comments on the extra features. Comments and pictures on what other people were adding in modifications to the truck with different roof racks, rock rails and various extras. One of the best is the A-TRAC switch install. A-TRAC is only on the two more expensive upgrade packages each cost around $1,200. But as it turns out everything is there on any FJ with a rear locker, except the switch. So for a ~ 60$ switch you can have A-TRAC enabled. All-in-all the site helped me pick just what I needed because I can add the accessories later, that might not even been stock, when I want them. I am one very happy 1 week old FJ owner.  ¶ 7:00:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Matt and Betsy's Wedding pictures Here's the pictures from Matt and Betsy's wedding. They're combined pictures from ours and Ryan and Jen's camera. Some turned out blurry but they're the best ones we had so we left them in. There's also a few from the Oakhurst crew from the next day at the end of the set.

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