{"id":696,"date":"2011-03-16T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=696"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:40:32","slug":"curse-you-jason-liepins-or-old-hobby-reloaded-phase-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/curse-you-jason-liepins-or-old-hobby-reloaded-phase-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Curse you, Jason Liepins (Or&#8230; &#8220;Old Hobby Reloaded: Phase One&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in high school I spent a lot of time and money playing around with RC (Radio Controlled) cars and boats. But then I went away to university&#8230; didn&#8217;t take them with me, and sold them all at a garage sale during a summer break. That was about 15 years ago. Haven&#8217;t thought about RC since.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend a couple my sister knew from Sault Ste Marie came to visit: and the husband, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Jason-Liepins\/649657090\">Jason Liepins<\/a>, wanted to go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancehobbies.com\/\">local GTA hobby shop<\/a> to find some parts for his new RC boat. Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>So we went on a Saturday afternoon, and we had the parts we needed about 60 seconds after walking through the door. But since it was a bit of a drive to get there&#8230; may as well look around for a bit, right? What harm could that do?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; seeing all the changes RC has gone through in the last 15 years started to gnaw at my mind. I made it out of the shop with credit card intact&#8230; but starting browsing&#8230;. browsing random RC sites for reviews&#8230; then looking at the buy+sell forums&#8230; then Craigslist postings&#8230; Ebay&#8230; Kijiji&#8230; and before you knew it I was starting to underbid on some used equipment: not too serious about it&#8230; but pricing out what it would take to get started again.<\/p>\n<p>And one of those bids was accepted. Curse you, Jason Liepins&#8230; for taking me to that hobby shop. Because I left my apartment at 6pm tonight&#8230; and returned 2 hours later with a wallet $275 lighter. But with a prize as well:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_associated_rc8_800.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_associated_rc8_800.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/thumbs\/thumbs_1_associated_rc8_800.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"1881\"\n             data-title=\"1_associated_rc8_800\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_e92e70a35c6d7956c946e98504331e34\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/cache\/1_associated_rc8_800.jpg-nggid041881-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"1_associated_rc8_800\"\n             title=\"1_associated_rc8_800\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Team Associated RC8 buggy, electric conversion, with extra parts, tires, battery and servo. It has begun. This car actually doesn&#8217;t have any electronics in it, yet &#8230; it&#8217;s an expensive paperweight. But now I start again&#8230; Kijiji&#8230; Ebay&#8230; Craigslist&#8230; forums&#8230; trolling for deals to make it move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in high school I spent a lot of time and money playing around with RC (Radio Controlled) cars and boats. But then I went away to university&#8230; didn&#8217;t take them with me, and sold them all at a garage <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/curse-you-jason-liepins-or-old-hobby-reloaded-phase-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Curse you, Jason Liepins (Or&#8230; &#8220;Old Hobby Reloaded: Phase One&#8221;)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}