It may be getting time to leave

[yakkosmurf]

The winds of change are blowing in my life, and it might be getting time for me to depart. I have really enjoyed getting to know many of the members on this board in the last year, and the discussions have been fun. I hope my absence will not be permanant, but my presence here will be greatly decreased.

Two events are prompting this, and ironically, they started on the same night. While driving out to my girlfriend's apartment last week, I lost control of the Type R on some gravel on an entrance to the freeway. The car slid sideways on the narrow road, and hopped up a curb. The extent of the damage is not yet known, but it is pulling to the right, the steering wheel is crooked, and the front lip is slight scratched. It goes into the shop on Thursday. Thank goodness for the employee discount.

The purpose for the trip that resulted in damaging the R was to ask my girlfriend to marry me. She said yes, and we're getting married on Oahu at the end of March. That means I'll be moving soon (to the side of Houston she lives on), and I don't know when things will settle down. We each have so much stuff, we'd need a really big house. I also have a feeling that setting up internet access will be low on the priority list. I'd also rather spend time with her than posting messages to you guys. :D

I'll still be available to those with questions via email. It's been fun, and I hope to keep posting here on occasion, and maybe make one of those Houston meets when I get time. Take care, and I hope everyone's New Year is as good as mine is looking so far.

[silverceli2k]

Congrats on the engagment, I wish you all the best of luck. Sorry about the R and sorry to see you go...best wishes.

[ZeroGTS]

congrats!

you still gotta come out and see us sometime man!

i wish you two the best of luck.

[Miguel GTS]

CONGRATS !!!!
i wish you the best of luck and that you have a happy life together

sorry about the R i hope it returns back to the very clean machine you have

[HilfigerCelica]

Congraulations on your engagement. Make sure you post pics of the wedding after it happens. Sorry about the Type R, I hope it's back to its old self soon. We'll miss you man.

It seems like a lot of people are leaving or getting on nc.org less. I myself won't be on as much since my roommate moved out of the dorm, and the computers are in the computer labs. Let's see the AntiRice, Z6joker9, CelicaChick01, Chui, Red2000GTS............and the list goes on for people who are gone or posting less. Is it me or do we have more members leaving then coming?

[oldster]

Glad to hear the good news. I understand that the majority of the couples who marry in Houston have very successful marriages :) while most Type Rs that are repaired are never the same again:( . Course I have no data to support either of those statements.:D :D

[DaksGT]

Congratulations man, best of luck to you and your future bride, and hope everything works out with the car.
Dave

[Slant]

Congrats. You will definitely be missed around here, and I hope to see you posting soon. Good luck.

[FriedRice]

gluck!! someone send him an nc.org sticker so never forget us! good luck on ur future endeavors.... lets go to the honda forums and find us a new resident smurf eh?:cool:

[atehrani]

Congradulations for your marriage! I hope the best in regards to your relationship.

Sorry to hear about the R. Could that be an omen? Now that you're going to be a family man, what type of family car are you going to get? I doubt the baby will like the R.

Keep in touch!

[QWKsilvr808]

HEY! You forgot to contact me if you guys did come down this winter. :p

Congratulations btw - Oahu is a really nice place to put together a wedding. :)

[Spec GTS]

congradulations on the engagement, i hope u two have a wonderful and bright future together. sorry to hear about the R, hope it comes back as good as it was before. Good luck!

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by ZeroGTS
congrats!

you still gotta come out and see us sometime man!

i wish you two the best of luck.
Thanks. I'd like to make it out for a meet. Is anything going on next weekend? My fiance is out of the country, so I don't have much to do Saturday night. The R will probably still be down, but I can show up in my MR2.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by Miguel GTS
CONGRATS !!!!
i wish you the best of luck and that you have a happy life together

sorry about the R i hope it returns back to the very clean machine you have
Thanks Miguel. The only damage I've seen so far is some scratches on the front lip and a small paint chip on the inside of the front fender. Nothing that can't be fixed easily. The verdict is still out on the suspension. We'll see what the dealer says later this week.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by oldster
Glad to hear the good news. I understand that the majority of the couples who marry in Houston have very successful marriages :) while most Type Rs that are repaired are never the same again:( . Course I have no data to support either of those statements.:D :D
I'm not real worried about the wedding. Just excited.

The car is kind of an afterthought at this point. I'm just anxious to figure out what's wrong with it. I can get a discount on parts and do the work myself. I might go that route. I might not. We'll see how much time I have. It should be back to its old tricks before too long. Pretty soon, it will be my daily driver, since I'll be 5 minutes from work.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by FriedRice
gluck!! someone send him an nc.org sticker so never forget us! good luck on ur future endeavors.... lets go to the honda forums and find us a new resident smurf eh?:cool:
I'd like to think I'm not that easy to replace. That topic could probably be debated for a week around here.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by atehrani
Congradulations for your marriage! I hope the best in regards to your relationship.

Sorry to hear about the R. Could that be an omen? Now that you're going to be a family man, what type of family car are you going to get? I doubt the baby will like the R.

Keep in touch!
Family man? Hold on a second there, Nelson. That's not going to happen anytime soon. (So we're planning). If it does happen, I could do the baby thing in the R. The next car purchase will be the Jag the wife wants. After that, I'll look at my NSX. We've decided we can manage a kid or two in a 4-door sedan. Neither of us wants to drive an SUV or a minivan. My parents had two kids and never had anything that size. I figure we can do it too. The R would be fine to keep as a family car when I get the NSX. :D

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by QWKsilvr808
HEY! You forgot to contact me if you guys did come down this winter. :p

Congratulations btw - Oahu is a really nice place to put together a wedding. :)
I know I did. My bad. What color is your car? I saw a Celica GTS outside of the The Willows restaurant near Waikiki Jan 1 or 2. It was dark colored with a body kit and such. I thought it might be you or someone you knew.

[QWKsilvr808]

Ahhh yes, that was our friend Tony's car - "ohmygts", he works there at the Willow's restruant. :) His car was in Import Showoff this past summer.

Mine is silver. ;) That's okie - I forgot about you coming down until reading this post, haha. Hope you had fun?

[yakkosmurf]

Ok. That was a nice restaurant. I might have a dinner there the night before my wedding. We'll see.

[ringthree]

I have learned a whole lot from you and thats a great compliment to you.

You will be missed. Try not to be a stranger.

[Lift Power]

Congrats on marriage proposal but at the same time I feel for ya Type R.

[2000 XYR]

Congrats and good luck. Don't let her make you sell either of those cars. I got married and sold my sapphire blue '88 MR2, and I've regretted it ever since. Then I got divorced.

I wish better luck to you than I had. :D

[DaksGT]

Originally posted by ringthree
I have learned a whole lot from you and thats a great compliment to you.

You will be missed. Try not to be a stranger.
I second that

[Diesel949X]

Congrats and good luck...

peace

[darkduwende]

congrats! :)

[Unity112]

Sorry to hear about the R, but wow, a type R as a family car. :) That is pretty nice.

Congrats on the wedding. Best of luck to ya'll.

[afghan]

Congrats and very good luck to your soon to be wife and you.

[trncelica]

Hi Yakko, regardless of what happened, I would like to say congratulation on you getting married. Sorry about your type r.:(

[static]

Damn yacko.. whether I've agreed with you or not, I must admit that this place will not be the same without you. Congratulations to you and your future wife... and I wish you both the very best.

You will be missed.

Take the best of care..

[larryd]

well yakko.. you and i have had our moments, but ill miss ya man.. i hate to see ya go.. so on that note dont be a stranger.. :)

CONGRATS on the engagement.. thats really cool.. the R will be fixed. remember afterall, its only a car :)

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by ringthree
I have learned a whole lot from you and thats a great compliment to you.

You will be missed. Try not to be a stranger.
Thank you. I take it as the strong compliment it is. I will try to be around when I can. I just wanted to explain things so people wouldn't be wondering where I was. I hope to be around from time to time.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by 2000 XYR
Congrats and good luck. Don't let her make you sell either of those cars. I got married and sold my sapphire blue '88 MR2, and I've regretted it ever since. Then I got divorced.

I wish better luck to you than I had. :D
She doesn't want me to sell the car. She likes driving it. I am going to get rid of my MR2 when I move. It needs a lot of work at this point, and I won't need it living five minutes from work.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by static
Damn yacko.. whether I've agreed with you or not, I must admit that this place will not be the same without you.

Thanks. I appreciate people saying it won't be the same without me. But I do hope the board carries on strong in my absence. I'd like to come back and see things better than I left them.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by larryd
well yakko.. you and i have had our moments, but ill miss ya man.. i hate to see ya go.. so on that note dont be a stranger.. :)

CONGRATS on the engagement.. thats really cool.. the R will be fixed. remember afterall, its only a car :)
I will make it a point to visit when I can. Yes, we have had our moments, but I don't think our disagreements have ever been that major. We've learned a lot from each other.

Yes, it is only a car, and I'm not that concerned about it at this point. Too many other good things going on. Good luck with the Eclipse. I know you'll do great things with it. See you around.

[DrivenFast]

Congrats, live long with your wife, have kids, and best of luck.

[Chumpchiggy]

Well Yakko, we too, have had our dissagreements here and there but, I've always thought you to be one of the major influences of knowledge on the site...

You will be missed, by all the true car enthusiasts here...

Chiggy

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by Chumpchiggy
Well Yakko, we too, have had our dissagreements here and there but, I've always thought you to be one of the major influences of knowledge on the site...

You will be missed, by all the true car enthusiasts here...

Chiggy
Thanks. Hopefully, by this point, you guys have learned enough from me to spread the knowledge to others without me. ;)

[pj808]

Just a quick note to say sorry about your car..I know how it must feel to have something happen to one of your babies. Congratulations on your upcoming marriage. Best of luck in the future for you. I, for one, am going to miss all of your insightful comments and opinions that you've shared for the two or so years you've been on here and other msg boards. In a few years there will be mini-yaks running around to set us straight on the facts. :-) Again, best wishes on your new adventure.
pj

[6SPDGTS]

I know I also havent agreed with you on a lot of topics but that does not mean I did not learn a lot from you. At least I was getting the information form a source who knew his information. Best of luck with the wedding planning and the future with your wife. Also you know what your doing so the whole car thing will work out.
Peace
Ryan

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by pj808
I, for one, am going to miss all of your insightful comments and opinions that you've shared for the two or so years you've been on here and other msg boards. In a few years there will be mini-yaks running around to set us straight on the facts. :-)
Thanks for the kind words. As a teacher, the spread of misinformation bugs me quite a bit. Especially since the program I work in is so short on documentation. This makes it easy for false stuff to become seen as fact. I've tried to keep that from happening around here when I can. As for the mini-yaks, that isn't planned for a little while in the future. And no, I won't be driving a family car.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by 6SPDGTS
I know I also havent agreed with you on a lot of topics but that does not mean I did not learn a lot from you. At least I was getting the information form a source who knew his information. Best of luck with the wedding planning and the future with your wife. Also you know what your doing so the whole car thing will work out.
Peace
Ryan
Thanks. Coming from you, that means a lot. I will be sure to visit. I'll also still be working to make sure I keep up on my information.

[VZV21]

Glad see you make it in one peace to propose. Congrats.

Email me at my work sometime (tnguyen@pica.army.mil). It's nice talking to other mechanical engineers sometimes (like Chui).

[zooq]

yakko
Congratulations man, best of luck to you and your future bride.

[XYRCNCP]

Congrats on the engagement man! Good luck with your future plans, good luck with the car. gotta tell ya, you have been one of the most influential people on my thoughts about the Type R, very knowledgeable (sp?) I have enjoyed most of your technical posts. Hate to see ya go, but you gotta do what u gotta do.

Peace, dont be a stranger, come to the site from time to time.

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by XYRCNCP
gotta tell ya, you have been one of the most influential people on my thoughts about the Type R, very knowledgeable
Thanks. That's very nice of you to say. Wedding plans are going well so far. Working on figuring out the honeymoon plans this afternoon. It should be fun.

[t2000gts]

congrats on the whole getting married thing :D

it's been fun having you around, you've usually been one of the constant posting members (with some content in their posts) on this board, we'll all miss ya.

sorry about the car :( hope you get it fixed. although an NSX sounds quite fun and you'd be the only person i know with a itr as a family car :silly

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by t2000gts
congrats on the whole getting married thing :D

it's been fun having you around, you've usually been one of the constant posting members (with some content in their posts) on this board, we'll all miss ya.

sorry about the car :( hope you get it fixed. although an NSX sounds quite fun and you'd be the only person i know with a itr as a family car :silly
I've enjoyed being here. I will be stopping by from time to time when I can. Right now, for example, she's in Japan on a business trip. :sad I would like to think that I have been fairly consistent and knowledgeable around here.

As for the family car, I'm sure the Type R will do fine when the time comes. I'm sure I'll find some sort of cover for the seat before putting a kid and a car seat in. :silly