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Early this month, on the night when a seemingly promising new romantic entanglement “ghosted” on me (that seems to be S.O.P. these days when 2 people spend a few good nights together and one wants to try to move it up a notch), I gave myself a “consolation prize”, which wasn’t bad: my 3rd “’68-ish”Continue reading “NEW BUILDS: Charging Ahead!“

A few new developments at Mark IV, not least of which is that all the buildings initially populating both sides of the town’s main street parallel to the track are now in place! A few cool new die-cast “supporting characters” are also coming in. The “Big 64-pack Muscle Car Rumble” is coming, I promise…as soonContinue reading “Construction at Drag City”

I won it! I got the LAST body for the sports car fleet on ebay today: this is the car that will complete the sports car fleet, bringing the number to 64 cars. I won’t say what it is yet-you’ll see it soon enough-but the 63rd car has already arrived and is waiting to beContinue reading “What’s In A [Nick]name?”

So it turns out I have to go into the office tomorrow to deal with an “emergency” networking problem involving a firewall that finally died (I’ve been warning them about it for 4 years!) and had to spend much of this Saturday preparing for that, so although I completed by full fleet of 64 muscleContinue reading “Race CALLED on account of WORK!”

It almost brings a tear to my eye to look upon the barren table in my toy room that was once bustling with race-day activity. As of tonight, Drag City Mk II is no more; all the diorama elements have migrated out to the larger layout, leaving only the Matchbox garages and the Tyco track,Continue reading “Mark II Descending 🙁“