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Spotted this sweet VW Thing at Bobs Big Boy Burbank this past friday night.

Friends of Garage Woolery were invited to attend a Memorial for Mike who is no longer with us.  Terry and I attended and we happen to see a few clean miatas there.

Terry’s Green Miata

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The rest of the pictures are being hosted on my Facebook page

Rolled out with Terry Pham, Leslie Pham and Mike Kim.

This meet gave me some much needed motivation to polish up my miata. 

The owner of this machine even went the extra step and converted it into 5 speed!  Every part of the swap except the header was also done by the owner.

No further info was available.

I showed up to Balcony kind of late.  I didnt get a chance to shoot much

After my shitty experience at Bally Total Fitness North Hollywood, I decided to send this email to the manager.

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I was there today to speak with you about the 7 day pass and everything.  I was greeted by your salesman who was on staff at the time.  From what I have gathered he is the only armenian there.  I did not see his name his name tag was messed up.

He does not know how to sell me, he did not determine my needs or offer me any options.  Being as unprofessional as he was really upset me to the point where I simply left.  He wasted my time and bullshitted me.

He informed me that the “policy” did not qualify me for a 7 day pass because I was going into the service in a month.  Him and I went back and fourth for a while about this.  I told him that Jeff called me and he knew I was going into the service and that he would have told me right there and then if there was a problem.  Only after he pissed me off he mentioned that I can buy a 10 dollar/a day pass or a 30 day pass.

I originally wanted a 30 day pass way before I was even contacted by you, If I didnt want a membership I never would have filled out the free pass knowing a staff member would contact me.  He had no position to deny my 7 day pass, he wanted me to buy a membership before even setting foot in the gym.  I told him I wanted the pass to get a feel for the gym and see if I liked it.  I would not pay for a membership for a gym I am not familiar with. (this is where the 7 day pass solves that problem)

He said, before I said anything “You are going into the service anyways you dont have any intention of buying a membership” I replied “Yes thats true, but I also wanted to buy a national membership, so that I can go to any location…. New York, Connecticut, San Diego or even Los Angeles.”

I am not the only person who has complained about your salesman.  Many people have told me to stay away from that gym and that idiot salesman but I ignored them because the gym was located near my work and it would be easy for me to go to the gym on the regular.

Looks like your incompetant salesman lied to my face about my free 7 day pass and access to the gym.

“You now have full access to our huge selection of cardio and resistance-training equipment, and you are welcome to try a variety of our Group Exercise Classes*, including Yoga and Pilates Mat.”

Even though ballys north hollywood is the nearest gym to my work, the poor excuse of a salesman and his failed attempt to help me out made me decide not to join and I will not be recommending that gym to anyone I come in contact with.  I will be posting a copy of this email to my website, my blog, my fitness message board and sharing this experience with everyone I know.

Please dont contact me.

I kept it simple: while my friend mike kim was borrowing my lights and triggers to shoot a car, I used my bare canon 550ex on-camera.

We were posted up somewhere in Northridge and instead of being somewhat bored, I got creative.

I pointed my bare flash into a silver collapsible reflector.  I had my friend hold the reflector and tilt it towards my subject.

Sandra, who had no idea and against her will, volunteered to be my subject.

Light adjustments in Lightroom2, I did some skin smoothing on one.  It may have been a little more than I wanted but eh… I like it

I had to connect my old computer up in order to burn a disk of images, and while I was at it I figured I might as well save a few images for my current computer

Jin got creative and edited her own pic, the rest are whatever

I just installed a very useful plugin that will allow view these blog postings on your droid, iphone, blackberry, nexus HTC or whatever phone you use.  This plugin will cater to those phones that use applications and all that.  The description details said my website will look like a cellphone app based platform for my readers.  So I hope.