as my expedition through this horrific quarter goes on, I've done a tiny bit of car stuff.  mainly consisting of me going to toyotafest and not paying much attention to cars.  Thank god for HPI, their generosity, and their mini r/c drift track that they set up there which is where I spent about 3 hrs cycling through numerous batteries..
On the way there, took some pics of Brian's car from Wes' car
I need to fix that smudge thing that's going on...

Some of my favorites from yotafest

And my ultimate fave <3

To my confusion, I found out the next day that it won 1st place in the camry/solara class.  I find that highly offensive towards this gem of a soarer.

And, I've been going across the street from the parking structure I park at for school after my last class for the past couple thursdays to help out a friend install a couple things onto his car to look make it look a little more awesome.  It still needs a good amount of fine tuning, but I can see huge potential in this setup

Nothing too crazy, but simple and nice. 
slammed on some kinda stance coilovers with some kinda ssr's. 
i THINK, stance GR+ and 19x9.5/11 -6 SSR MS1's with ichiba rear camber arms and toe bolts.  Again, i THINK.  I don't really pay attention to parts, I just like to throw them on.
pulled quite a few looks since that is exactly where we worked on the car for hours on end. even had a couple car dudes and a imports@uci president or something walk over to talk w/ us. 'twas a nice stress reliever.

Seeing as school's been especially a pain in the ass this quarter with 2-3 papers on average due every week in addition to quizzes, hw, and midterms, my free-time has recently been limited to those activities that require very little effort/energy/time, which narrows it down to my r/c.  Recently ordered a new set of more aggressive wheels.  I'll soon be ordering even more aggressive wheels that look semi-vip style to go w/ the odyssey body i just got and trimmed out.  once I get it painted, i should have ordered my next batch of r/c goodies, that include the aforementioned wheels, rigid rear axles, and 1way diff, along w/ actual drift tires, and not the abs pipes i've been popping on and off of my wheels.
I've also gotten my older r/c w/ a simple brushed setup and AM tx/rx to work pretty well at drifting, w/ a glued rear diff to lock it and a front diff that I tightened up after smearing it w/ sticky grease to give it a 1-way diff-like function.  I"ll probably be putting a sc or 86 body on it and will be calling it the drift missile lawlz.

I had to do the obligatory currency-on-wheel-lip pic to show how ridiculously ballin' my plastic lips are.

Thought I'd throw in a few pics of my dd (that i haven't washed since... about 2009?) w/ all the stickers that a dorifuto fanboy like me could ask for

And................ *sigh*