WrinkleRed

I've spent some time away from my projects the last few weeks enjoying my time off in the last few weeks of summer.

My friend Jason just bought a sweet house in the woods outside of Pittsburgh, so our California friends flew out for a visit.

The house was designed by Alan Dunn, I'm a huge fan of the design, layout, attention to detail, and the entire property!

I picked Billy and Neel up from the airport and we began our weekend... at 2:30am Satuday haha.

We all stayed at Jason's the whole weekend, this was my view waking up. Take note that isn't a television, that's a strategically placed sofa so they can enjoy the view.

I've been told Dom and Mia are NOT named after The Fast and the Furious characters... but I'm skeptical.

If I had to choose one picture to summarize the weekend, this might be it.

I love the detail of the house; even the fire pit was designed, located, and built with the experience in mind.

We also consumed a lot of food.

This weekend, some new friends Alex and Gus came to my shop with some toys. These guys are my MBA classmates, and I invited them out after they expressed a mutual interest in cars, tools, and gun stuff. While I don't personally own any guns, most of my friends are really into them.

Alex owns a gun shop, and brought along this suppressed full auto MP5. Fro, our resident machine gun expert, approves. I didn't get any more pics, but it was fun to shoot!

I also attended the annual shop party hosted by my friends Ian and Andy.

You may remember this mini-bike from last year.

It's been beefed up with a new exhaust with fresh pipe dope!

Tim also fabricated a chain guard. For safety.

Johnny D's ride lays in wait.

'Murican muscle.

These guys bought a TIG welder recently and started stepping up their fabrication game. The mini-bikes are intentionally shitty, they normally do quite good work.