As usual, I woke up at 7am and was in the gym by 9am after checking some e-mails. I was on the treadmill and planned to run for 1hr. As I reached the 30min point, the dude who was on the trekking machine kept staring at me and the machine. Obviously he wanted to use the running machine...I didn't like getting peaked at every 30sec...but I figured I can use this to simulate the race situation where you need to run with some pressure!?! I managed to hold him off for 30min and successfully ended my 1hr run!!!lol

午後は家で原稿を書いて、来週の締め切りに追い込まれない様にしっかりとお仕事。気がついたらもう６時であっと言う間に一日が終わってしまいました。

After eating lunch, I was back to work writing some articles again. Writing in Japanese is not as simple as writing in English and it takes a lot of time to think about using the right Kanji Character as well as how you want to phrase the sentence as you have to be polite...even when you write. Well, it's already 6pm and time to bath my son.

Went to the gym in the morning and spend most of the afternoon writing articles that are due next week. It's always good to get a head start. However, just I was about to finish working...my tooth started to ache and I just couldn't concentrate anymore to finish up the article. I guess it's time for a dentist visit...which is my least favorite thing because it costs money and it hurts!?!

Last night, we went to our friend's house to have the Thanks Giving Dinner. Well...we ended up eating Peking Duck instead of a Turkey...but what the heck...they are both birds right?!? Although the Black Friday is very attempting to go out and shop the sale merchandise getting ready for Christmas...we opted to stay home and avoid the chaos. Well, I guess there were less shoppers today because of the economy but we definitely need to stay in budget for the holiday season. Since we were home all day...I spent couple of hours at the gym and went for 10km run to shrug off some stress on not being able to spend money!?!

The Thanks Giving Day is here....and it was a quite day. It would be interesting to see how the consumer will react to the Black Friday with the way economy is. I was up for the usual routine going to the gym in the morning and than since I was able to get all my work done last night, I spent most of the afternoon just relaxing with my son. We will be off to our friend's party tonight and hopefully we will be getting some great meal there!!

We are finally getting some rain here in Los Angeles. It seems like we had no rain in Summer and Autumn...and here comes the winter. I don't like driving in the rain here in California because people are pretty slow driving in the wet as well as traffic...and accidents...and it's just frustrating. I wonder where is the worst place to drive in the rain?? As from racing stand point, when I used to race Karts here in California...they used to cancel the race when it rained because no body had wet tires for Karts. I must say it takes a lot of practice to go fast in the wet which I learned when I lived in England for short period of time...and it is always wet there!!

Since the Thanks Giving is coming up this week end...I didn't realize that tomorrow is kind of like Friday...I've been running around the town for my dad picking up all kind of stuff for his souvenirs for our family. It's kind of funny that we ask to get the clothes from Japan for our kids and my sister wants us to get them clothes from US. I don't think the kids don't mind but I think it's about satisfying the Mom's to make them think that they are diverse..!?!

今週末のThanks Givingデーは何をするのかな・・・？またフライドターキーかな？？

As we approach the winter, the day is getting shorter and shorter. We better plan things for Thanks Giving Day. Perhaps, we may attend to our friend's part for another Fried Turkey?!?

LA Auto Show is finally over but am busy again since my dad is in town for couple of days as well as having to finish up couple of articles that I was requested to write about just after the show. The deadline is coming up so I better pick up my pace!?! I will probably get some rest of over the Thanks Giving week end so I will have to stay full throttle till than.

It was a real busy week for me and didn't have any time to update my blog... It got real busy once the LA Auto Show started on Weds since I had to finish couple of articles that day by 9PM. I got everything done by 7PM and went to LAX to catch my flight to go to Vegas. On Thurs, I was at the Speedway all day giving hot laps to the Yokohama Tires clients who are introducing their new high performance tires. Than back to LA that night to join the get together of all the people from Japan who is in car business and that party is called Sam's night because it is hosted by Sam Mitani who is the Intl Editor at Road & Track.

昨日はショーの内容を纏めて夕方はミーティング。週末に入ってようやく落ち着いた所です。で、このあいだのZの写真です！写真より現物の方が格好いいですよ！！

Well...here is a pict of the new 370Z which I took on Thursday. I think it looks better in real life!!

Just got back from the LA Auto Show. I was pretty busy going through all the press conference and was back home by 4PM to finish the article on several cars that were announced today. I just had dinner and I am off to Vegas to do some hot laps tomorrow for Yokohama tires and their clients at LVMS. Good to be busy but was too busy the last couple of days...at least I will get to have some fun tomorrow!!

Got up early today and dropped off my son at the pre-school. Than I was off to work right away testing the new Acura TL and the Mazda 6. I already drove the 6 so I was looking forward to driving the new TL. They both have 3.7L engines and I thought it would be a good comparison but they both seems to be in a different class where it is relatively difficult to compare against each other. Having said that, I like both cars for sure. But would be ideal to have the looks of the 6 and the performance of the TL.

明日はな〜んとニューZを試乗する予定です。しかも、今夜はお食事会で、今週はLAショーもあるので連日大忙しになりそうです！

I am off to dinner meeting now but I am really looking forward to tomorrow since I get a sneak preview test drive on the new Nissan Z!

I didn't realize how bad the wild fire was until I woke up this morning. I opened up the window and the color of the sky looked like as if it was already 3pm!?! In the afternoon, it seems as if the wind direction has shifted and my car got covered with ash when we went to the grocery store!?! I hope the fire is going to be put out real soon...

今日はNASCARの最終戦も終わり、マカオのF3のレースも終わり、これでいよいよレーシングシーズン終了ですね。それより、マカオでの国本選手の勝利には感心します。セッションのリザルト／タイムしか見ていないけど、彼の才能は凄いかもしれませんね！若手が頑張っている以上も自分も頑張らないと！！

The racing season is finally over with the Homestead NASCAR race and Macau race being over. I was real impressed with Carl Edwards spirit as a racing driver but was more impressed by Kunimoto who won the Macau F3 race. I think he is a natural talent that may become the first Japanese driver to win a F1 race. Although the season being over...I will have a lot of work to do to get things settled for next season and I better keep working at it!!

My son learned a new trick today. He learned how to stick a remote in the the VCR!?! Obviously not what he needs to learn but seems like he is learning how to stick everything in to things that you are not supposed to do. I don't mind him playing with the VCR since we hardly use the machine but I just hope that he doesn't brake the DVD player!!

My dog Pit isn't feeling so well this last three days. He doesn't seem be to be sick...but sounds like something is hurting. He doesn't want to jump on the bed but can walk and doesn't seem to hurt when I examine his legs an body... He may have a hip injury...but I am a bit concerned with his symptom and may be time to go for a medical check at the Vet....which I am not looking forward to because the medical bill seems more expensive then the human bills at the Veterinarians. Having said that, Pit's health is our priority so I better book an appointment as we speak.

Since it was Veteran's Day today, the city was pretty quite although most of the business was still functioning. It felt like a Sat since it was such a slow day, but I suppose it is a day to honor the military veterans rather than getting us some rest.

が、街はなんだかガラ〜ンとしていて、土曜日みたいな感じでなんとなく気合いの入らない一日でした。

I still managed to spend good quality time in the gym today and back to work getting things prepared for next week's LA Auto Show.

I was not feeling so well yesterday and my son wasn't doing so well either so we both stayed quite in the house through out the day. I felt like a LAZY Boy but I guess we are allowed to do that on Sunday. I was back up full throttle this morning and off to the gym, My son was at pre-school today and he seems to understand the system and looks comfortable attending to the classes which is a bit of a relieve since I was worried about him not wanting to go to schools...!?!

自分はトレーニングを終えてから、お昼過ぎから来季に向けてへのミーティング。良い話ができて、あとは前進するのみ！！引き続きフル加速で頑張ります！！

Well, I had a great work out and had to go to meeting to talk about prospects for next season. I think the meeting went great and we just need to keep moving forward to make the deal happen!!