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  • Dining in St. Simons Island Georgia

    Dining in St. Simons Island Georgia

    We recently returned from a “work-ation” in St. Simons Island, Georgia. We have been there multiple times, and it’s nice to travel to a place very different from home but also familiar. The island has a number of fine dining establishments and we take full advantage when we’re in town. Not to bury the lede […]

  • Dinan Champion Wheels for the E46 M3

    Dinan Champion Wheels for the E46 M3

    There’s exciting news on the E46 M3 front this month. I purchased a beautiful set of Dinan Champion wheels from a fellow member of the NAM3 forum. I’ve been keeping my eyes open for a while but had never seen a set as perfect as this before. I’d come close in 2024 to buying a […]

  • 2025 Retrospective

    2025 Retrospective

    Happy holiday season! It’s that time again to look back at the Work, Wine, and Wheels posts over the past year. The publication cadence continued to decline as I was busy running my StoryTech Consulting business. However, as you can see from the graphic above, traffic to the site actually increased in 2025; in fact, […]

  • E39 M5 Brake Lines

    E39 M5 Brake Lines

    Two Sundays ago I was driving home from the final club DIY event of the year. I had done a simple oil and filter change on my 2002 E39 M5 (at 118,100 miles) and inspected the car while on a lift to research future projects. There were a couple of things that needed attending to, […]

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