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Last night I was able to pull the stock front seats out of my Spec Neon and install a Corbeau Forza. The included mounting bracket made installation a snap. I’m planning on going to RJS (in Hazel Park) on Monday to get fitted for my firesuit as well as purchase any remaining safety gear.

I can’t remember the last time it was almost 60 degrees during January in Michigan. Today it should hit a high of 58! I think that the Automakers made a deal with mother nature to keep it nice during the Auto Show. Normally, the temperatures are absolutely sub-arctic.

- Duane

Gina and I have become fans of Arrested Development. Fox recently cut their order for 22 new episodes to 18. Most fans feared that the show would be canceled. In response, SaveOurBluths.com was created (and subsequently promoted on the show itself). Check out Arrested Development Mondays at 8/7c.

- Duane

I admit it… I look forward to Christmas. I like the candlelight church service, the decorations everywhere, the holiday food, and seeing friends and family. However, I can’t stand 90% of the music. Frankly, I find it depressing… especially that crap from A Charlie Brown Christmas. I can now resume my mall shopping without that dreaded song “Christmas Time is Here!” Gak!

Scheduling our Christmas traveling accross 2 weekends instead of packing everything into one worked very well this year. I recommend it to anyone who’s family is flexible enough to pull it off. Stress levels were at an all-time-low thanks to this approach.

Now that Christmas has passed, we can take down our decorations and finish the prep to sell our house.If anyone out there is looking for a well-equipped and maintained starter home in the Livonia area, give us a shout (sms can be sent from the widget in the lower-right corner of the homepage).

- Duane

A week before the first snowfall I managed to get my WRX set up for winter: Kumho all-season tires, less aggressive brake pads (Axxis Metal Master) from StopTech, and STi Springs in all 4 corners. Gina and I drove out to Grand Rapids, enduring conditions from almost dry to near white-out. Let me tell ya… there’s no better test of your driveway mechanic skills than a 300-mile round trip immediately after pulling your car apart and putting it back together. I guess I passed.

- Duane

30 facts about Chuck Norris

1. If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, “Two seconds till.” After you ask, “Two seconds to what?” he roundhouse kicks you in the face.
2. Macgyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but Chuck Norris can kill him and take it.
3. Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
4. Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
5. Filming on location for Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a stillborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub. Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking its neck, to remind the crew once more that the good Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away.
6. Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.
7. There are no disabled people in the world. Only those people who have felt the wrath of Chuck Norris.
8. Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse kick related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.
9. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
10. Chuck Norris does not have AIDS but he gives it to people anyway.
11. Chuck Norris has recently changed his middle name to “f***ing.”
12. When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has not had to pay taxes ever.
13. There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.
14. There are two kinds of people in this world: people who suck, and Chuck Norris.
15. In the movie “Back to the Future” they used Chuck Norris’ Delorean to go back into time and into the future. When they gave it back to him with a scratch on it he was angry and roundhouse kicked Michael J. Fox, which years later was the cause of his Parkinson’s disease.
16. Chuck Norris spends his Saturdays climbing mountains and meditating in peaceful solitude. Sundays are for oral sex, KFC and Tequila.
17. Chuck Norris always has sex on the first date. Always. The only time he didn’t was in 1941, otherwise known as the beginning of the Holocaust.
18. Chuck Norris can enter up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Select, Start using only his erection.
19. Crop circles are Chuck Norris’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the f*** down.
20. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
21. When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
22. Chuck Norris once walked down the street with a massive erection. There were no survivors.
23. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.
24. Chuck Norris has two speeds: walk and kill.
25. Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
26. When Chuck Norris was born, the nurse said, “Holy crap! That’s Chuck Norris!” Then she had had sex with him. At that point, she was the third girl he had slept with.
27. Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
28. It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.
29. Chuck Norris is not lactose intolerant, he just refuses to put up with lactose’s s***.
30. Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

- Duane