Hey Gumbii,

So you were a security guard. Do you still shoot? My main hobby before I started spending a ton of money on my aquariums was tactical shoots. I worked at the local shooting range during college and did firearms instruction. I still shoot about every other week.

I will start typing in paragraphs, fortunately for me I don't have to type a lot of letters in my job. That's cool that most of you guys could put your own stuff together. I don't have the time nor the skill to build my own stuff. My brain doesn't work that way:) I'm not made of money or do I like wasting it, but my saying is to buy it right the first time and take care of it and have it forever. Some of the most successful business owners I work with dropped out of high school and started their own businesses. Many of them make as much or more than the doctors I work with. If you have the passion for hard work and the balls to start a new company, that's what usually leads to success. Not only financial, but the satisfaction of being your own boss and not having to answer to politics. I think college is often overrated unless you are planning to go to professional school. Shit, I don't use my college degree. However, it taught me to manage my schedule and set goals and how to measure those goals. That's about it. My diploma sits in my gun safe and the only time I used it was for my job resume. Anyways, thanks for all of the help.

We definitely come from all walks of life:) I worked at the US Marshals and DOJ in college and I used to be in their warrants division. DE's are pretty cool guns, but a little too big for my hand size. I prefer Kimber and Les Baer 1911 .45's, Glocks, HK's, and Sigs myself. I used to teach cops how to shoot, so they could qualify to carry off duty. Anyways, stay out of trouble, I would hate to be talking to you when your serving 25 to life. ha ha.

My grandpa came here from China when he was 16 all alone and didn't know a word of English either. He never saw his family again and it was definitely a different time back then. He built his own shoe shop in downtown Sac and raised a family of 8. I have the utmost respect for those who come here for a better life and are willing to sacrifice themselves for a better life for their family. It's very hard to assimilate into a different culture and be able to keep your own. I'm a 3rd generation Chinese American and I don't speak a lick of Chinese. I wish my parents taught me a little. I guess you would call me a twinkie.(Yellow on the outside and white in the middle) ha ha. I don't know if I could do what you or my grandparents and great grandparents did and pack up in search of something better. I will never know because I never had to escape a communist gov't. Anyways, it's great getting to know a little more about you.

Gumbii.........

never joined any honda tuner clubs, i was a mamber of the PCA {Porsche Club of America} and rode as full member in the CMA {full colors} for many years - - -i loved my bikes {alas lost them as well} but the PCA became a very uncomfortable place and i only stayed for 2 seasons.................i was in the KC area and those people were status drivers and not passion drivers , i think that why i love this site so much, like others have said.....it's the passion that brings us together, not money, not job status, hell not even the size or amount of tanks we have........................not to many places in the world that this kind of muti cultureal simbyosis - - thats why i loved riding with the CMA - - i met and hung out with Hells angels, razors, even met a few chingalings and every other type of biker out there and if only for a few hours at a ralley, we all got along.....................

oh .......i got a couple Z3 fenders for your Sol if your interested - - i think they are both in good shape i'd have to dig em out

Boss

they're steel, and one is damaged - - -must have gotten folded in the move from KS.............cheap ass tin ..............so i got one, lol - - cabon is sweet ut i never had any on the Porsches........to much cha ching for me