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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Last weekend I did an E46 M3 brake fluid change on my 2006 M3. Craftsman Auto Care, a long-time friend of the CCA National Chapter, invited us into their Ashburn location. It was the first DIY event in a while, mainly because the club organizers were traveling a lot in the summer. Changing the brake […]
It’s been a while since I talked about the planning and research that goes into a BMW DIY project. Right now I’m in the midst of deciding how to tackle replacing the radiator on my 2002 BMW E39 M5. To the best of my knowledge the current radiator is original to the car. It now […]
It’s been quiet this summer on the M car front. It’s good news there hasn’t been big maintenance needs, not so good news that there were no DIY events in the past few months. Here’s a post about something else that didn’t quite happen – I came close to purchasing a Dinan S-1 M5. Of […]
It seems like it’s all AI, all the time recently in Washington D.C. A flurry of executive orders and the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan were announced last week. Coverage I’ve read explains that the plan focuses on encouraging innovation, speeding infrastructure development such as data centers, and implementing export controls on technology such as […]
Last month I attended a National Capital Chapter DIY event held at Scandanavian Import Service Center in Rockville, MD. It was time to replace the differential fluid in my E39 M5, as well as swap out the air filters and the fog light halogen bulbs. I hadn’t changed the differential fluid since 2013. That sounds […]
We recently got back from a two-week “workation” in western North Carolina. We rented a house in the small town of Newland, not far from the Tennessee border. It was a nice break and of course we visited some nearby vineyards. We visited three wineries, and each was a different experience. They all had live […]
Last week Gabriele and I attended another wine tasting hosted by Unwined in Alexandria. We’d previously been to one of their events focused on Rose, and they’ve got the process down. They operate a restaurant next door called Revel, and on Monday nights it is reserved for wine events from 5-6:30. All of the wines […]
This weekend I completed a front-end refresh on my E46 M3 that I started thinking about last year. Last March I sent my headlights to Lightwerkz and had more modern projectors retrofitted into the stock assemblies. That got me thinking about what else up front should be refreshed. So this weekend I replaced the plastic […]