From there being a Mrs. E90M3. Well technically it'll be Dr. E90M3, but that's besides the point. It's starting to feel surreal.

That's right, two weekends ago I got married.
Both @OpposResidentLexusGuy and @golfr-guy were in attendance. Used the M3 as the get away car, and since we sat in the back, it's where the four door comes into its own. I don't have a picture of that yet, but I'm sure I'll post it when I do.

Unfortuneatly, despite both being fully vaccinated, we couldn't really leave the county, so the honeymoon I would have wanted to do wasn't really an option, so we went to Amelia Island for the week. Where we saw @bluemazda2

Not really him, but probably a close cousin. We did have dinner at the Ritz one night and got the Corolla valeted. Naturally, they parked in front with the other nice cars.

I got a good chuckle out of it.

It was nice to be off for a week, but I was happy to get home. Looking forward to the next chapter of my life.

Moving from my one bedroom apartment into a three bed room apartment that will see me through July 2022, which is when my fiancée finishes residency. We combined phone plans in early January, and the wedding is less than three months away. It's getting very real.

@trivet

Mentioned last week that my fiancée and I took engagement pics and the M3 was coming along. Well, a preview was posted last night and this was one of the pictures included.

@patbateman It's takes like this that make me happy they decided to jettison us off.

I'll post more at a later date.

This is a new one, whited out tail lights. If you can't tell, we're at a stoplight and his brake lights are on. What a fucking genius, note the obligatory Florida plate.

At least on kinja oppo, I had talked about my fondness of the B-class after I had one as a rental in Germany. Maybe it was a bit of a holiday romance, maybe it was a bit of forbidden fruit. Whatever it was, that fondness remains to this day, so I bought a 1:18 model of a B180.
Now, I had gotten a smaller one at the Mercedes museum when I was in Stuttgart, but I wanted a larger one.

Here's the real car in parking deck at the Porsche museum.
With a similar angle on the model.

Here's the engine on the model.

Here's the one on the real thing.

I popped the hood at the car wash because we were worried about getting charged extra for bringing back a muddy car. Here's @golfr-guy washing it.

Why was it muddy? We parked in a muddy field and slept in it at Le Mans.

Sadly this one isn't a stick.

Unlike the real one. Me driving in France.

And hitting the limiter on the autobahn.

Did quite enjoy that car.

So it'll live on my desk, at least for now near my E90s.

For reference, here's the model I bought of it in Germany.

Some of you may know, I love duck. In fact, when my then fiancee, now wife, asked me where I wanted to eat for my birthday dinner I told her I wanted to eat some place that served duck. Naturally, she found a restaurant with duck on the menu and you can see a happy E90M3:

If you remember from the old Kinja days I made a couple posts about cooking since I like to cook. Now you'd think I'd have attempted to cook duck before, but I hadn't. First of all, I had no idea where to buy duck, let alone cook it. The question of where to source it was answered when I inquired about it at Whole Foods; I was lead to the freezer section where I was shown duck breasts and whole ducks.

When my now wife and I started spending entire Saturdays together, one thing we did was cook, since she also likes to cook. That became even more common place as the relationship progressed, and now even more that we're married. Yesterday, I was tasked with finding a recipe for dinner. Flipped through one cookbook, but I didn't find anything that caught my attention, so I pulled out the Joy of Cooking and flipped to the index and found what page the duck recipes were on. This recipe caught my attention:

I don't have a grill, so I decided I'd cook the duck breasts in some butter with a little salt.

Cooked the duck with the skin side down for right at 10 minutes, where I flipped it and cooked mine to about 130°F and my wife's to about 145°F. I sliced the duck, and drizzled the Hosin sauce mixture over the duck and the asparagus. My wife made potatoes au gratin, so we had that as well.

It came out fantastically well, I can't believe it took me until now to try cooking duck.

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@snuze Driving mine in PA traffic wasn't quite as rewarding.

@snuze I drove one once, and I can tell you that it was the worst car I've ever driven. Now, maybe I'd have a change of heart if I got to rag one out in the middle east.

@snuze First oil well? As in the first one they drilled in the county? Looks like it's still producing.

@houstonrunner Fit all the grandkids in this! It's also way under budget.

@ibrad said in The pipe o' crack found the Pajero.:

@ita97 Add says LHD!

It is, if you sit in the left seat and reach over to the pedals and steering wheel.

@kingt I always like the CLK-GTR more, because hood ornament.

@i86hotdogs

@kiltedpadre there's someone at my work work frequently drives a red one, so I see one a decent amount.

@jawzx2 Look very tasty.