'Tis just a flesh wound....I'm not dead yet!

Nope, I"m not dead, just been kinda busy sorta....Got an X-Box for Xmas (my parents rock BTW, thanks folks) and been playing the HELL outta Halo and Need For Speed: Underground. I got Underground on 12/26 and beat it yesterday, I have no life. So now I'm playing Halo. No clue how far I am though, but I'm at the part where you gotta follow that 343 Guilty Spark fellow, The Library I belive the mission is called. The Flood keeps kicking my ass hardcore style...I give both games two big thumbs up. Overall I got a good bounty for X-Mas: Rage Against the Maching: Live at Olympic Stadium (thier last performance together) CD, Deftones/Deftones CD, Hoobastank/The Reason CD, 2Fast@Furious DVD, X-Box, Halo, '41 Willys Street Rod, '53 Ford Flipnose, clothes, stuff, etc. All for which I'm very grateful.

But I do have some sad news. Friday, 12/26 we had to put down my brother-in-laws dog. We were going to keep her while my sis and bro-in-law went on vacation, on the way over here she somehow fell out of the back of the truck. She was tied down, and as a result was dragged a short distance. She was messed up really bad, a good bit of her organs were outside her abdominal cavity. No chance a vet could help her. There were chunks of what appeared to be liver or kidey in the back of the truck. So it was either we put her down, or a vet. It took 3 .22 bullets in the head to finally get her down. She was a full grown purebreed German Massive Rotwieler. A .22 was too small for the job, but was all that was avalible. Her suffering was kept as minimal as possible. It's really sad to be digging her grave next to your own dogs grave and hear that .22 go off 20 feet behind you.

Best wishes and Hapy Holidays to everyone, I hope yours (pre 12/26) was as good as mine. Lets be safe this New Years. If your gonna drink, call a cab or sleep over, if your gonna fornicate, wrap the little man in his poncho.

New Freestar wallpaper...

OK, I"ve got a new Freestar. I fixed some problems with the old one that I wasn't happy with. I have NOT updated the wallpaper page yet, but you can get the new one below:

New Freestar Wallpaper

You can still get the onld one on the Wallpaper page, I'll have both avaliable when I update...

Added a Wallpaper page, so far I"ve only got 2 wallpapers up, the Scion xB and the Ford Freestar. Both are sized 1024x768. I may expand them to different sizes, but probably not. They can be found on the Other Stuff>Wallpaper page.

I downsized the Freestar preview pic below, caused problems. Click it to see it fullsize. I also tweaked the sidebar width....although some pages are still messed up, like the wallpaper page. Not sure why, I"ll update the pages with the problems when I update the site next. Not really sure when that will be, but I'm finally gonna bring all my photoshops and maybe projects over here with a common template. Hope to do that soon.

Ranger Forums - Takes the words right out of my mouth

"I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big campfires. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a Killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America.
Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss. White
America; and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they
are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I know what sex is, and there are not varying degrees of it. If I received sex from one of my subordinates in my office, it
wouldn't be a private matter or my personal business. I would be "FIRED" immediately!

I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry self if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation recount votes when needed. I know what the definition of lying is.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor. I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he makes, and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you. (Gore)

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries.

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.

And if you don't like my point of view, tough. DON'T PASS IT ON!! "

Not my words, but most of them make a LOT of sense. Andy Rooney is the belived source, but he didn't say it. Not sure who did, doesn't matter though.

Fun at the Movies

Gather 'round kiddies, it's story time...

Last night was a fun, fun nite. Got to see lots of old friends, some unexpected old class mates, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. It all starts at about 9:45pm, EST. Met up with two friends at a Taco Hell. Got some grub while we waited for our other friends to arrive before heading off to the movie. As usual when we get together, we were loud, obnoxious, cussing, laughing, and generally being asses. I think most people in the resturant left. Eh, oh-well. There were 5 of us, and whenever we get together hillarity ensues. At least to us, most of our funniness are inside jokes. An old class mate of mine, Amit, walked through the door. Hadn't seen that SOB since we graduated. We caught up, but then we had to leave to go get in line for the movie. He had the Mexican Pizza. I had the #9, 3 soft tacos.

We get to the theater and while we're walking to the end of the line for LOTR, we see two more old class mates, so we line-jump the 10 people that were behind them. We let others line jump in front of us, so it's all good. So now theres 7 of us, and as usual, we're loud, obnoxious, cussing, laughing, and generally being asses. I think we made the people around us in the line hate us. Eh, oh-well. Two friends from a friends college who was seeing the movie with us showed up, we let them line skip, the group count is up to 9; Grant, Michael, Kevin, John, Joe, Matt, Kenny, Scarlett and myself. There were no less then 3 conversations going on at any one time in the group, so I"m not even sure what all was said....all I know is at one point we broke out into the Strong Bad techno song, "The System is Down". At that point I"m pretty sure those around us hated us. Eh, oh-well. While standing in line two more old class mate walked by, one who I hadn't seen since Elementary school. We caught up on old times. There were 8 of them, and the line was long, so we didn't let them line skip, we are assholes, but not total assholes. These two girls walked by, looked like they were 12, but wanted to look like they wanted to be 15, you know the kind. So Kevin asked how old they were, one of them smarted off saying she was 15. Kevin said she was lying and she was only 12, to go back home it's past your bed time. This was hillarious, we cracked up laughing. I think we pissed her off, cause she kinda stormed off. Which is pretty funny. She tried to get her friend to come with her, but she didn't, which was even funnier. This event lead to a series of jokes and comments about fornication with minors and such...you know, "If there's grass on the field, play ball", "old enough to bleed, old enough to butcher", that kinda thing. Simply sick, but hillarious at the same time. Strange how that works out. Kevin saw a college buddy, she had a fuzzy sweater that felt nifty, and it was warm. We saw two other old class mates, but they were going home, so no line skipping.

The movie was just simply amazing. In the words of John, only two words can describe that movie, "bad" and "ass". And as usual we added our own commentary to the movie, some was funny and got laughs from surrounding movie goers, some weren't. Yes, we are the talking type, even in good movies. But not the annoying kind that talks at full voice through the whole thing, just the peeving kind that mutters things every now and again. So yeah, the movie was long, 3 1/2 hours long in fact. It was good up until the ending, which just like the book, sucked. Its like JRR got tired of writing and just said Fuck It, I'm ending this quick as possible. The battle scenes kick ass, Legolas (the man-hot Elf) does some more stuff that just blows your mind. Aragon kicks ass, the dead people of the mountain rule...OK, so I may have some names wrong, but you get the picture.

After the movie Kevin, John, Matt, Joe and myself went to Wa-Ho, or Waffle House. By now its like 4 am. Kevin had to be at work at 9am, but being the tropper he is, had a grilled cheese sandwhich with us. I had three scrambled eggs and toast, yum. I forget what happened there. It was 4 am and anything that happens after 3 am tends to get lost in memory. We were loud, obnoxious, cussing, laughing, and generally being asses. So yeah, I think we made the trucker guy in there mad. And the waitress. Must not be used to youngin's. Eh, oh-well. It was freaking cold last night, about 35, wet, and with a good 15 mph steady wind. Ridiculus. So all in all, saw some friends, pissed some folks off, saw a great movie, pissed more people off, ate, pissed even more people off, and got a cold from standing outside. Good times, can't wait till next time.

New Stuff/Changes

I made a few changes to the site to help it out a lil'. It seems when people were leaving comments (thanks BTW, all comments are welcomed and encouraged), they were leaving them under the wrong message. Easy enough mistake, as the link to add a comment was kinda just in the middle of two posts, so it was confusing which one to press to comment on which post. So I modified my code so that the comment link now appears under the author link....I also added a few lines of space between each post, hopefully this will help out.

I also added an Archive link to the sidebar. Please keep in mind that the archives are ONLY avaliable on the home page, I don't plan on updating the other pages to include an archive link, I really don't see the need in it.

Oh, I also added a title and URLs to posts, I'll see how I like it and decide if I want to keep them or trash them....again, comments are welcome.

Access of Trance-

Men have died from time to time,
And worms have eaten them, but not for long.
And above all, the Music be the fool of Love,
Play on.

Give me Access of it.

Give me Access of it.

So heres that Freestar chop I've been working on. I really didn't have a direction before I started, so I'm not sure what else to do. If you've got any ideas, let me know.

Things done:
Lowered
Shaved
Speedgrille
Mazda mini van front valance (yup, thats a STOCK front valance of a Minivan by Mazda in Europe, it's not the MPV and I forget the name)
Mirrors of the same mini van
Aston Martin wheel (Vantage)
Changed from tu-tone to monotone
Roll pan
Who the hell knows what else....stuff....buncha stuff.

I want to add a wide body kit, but there are no fender flare to extend, so I have to make it from scratch...oh boy, what fun.



Original can be found here

fixed the menu fiasco...BMW pic was too big...

Been workin on this BMW 7 series chop for a while. As with all my chops, I'm never done. Since this pic I've added some blurring to the paint to make it look less wavy, and reworked the side windows, and removed some of the roof for a sleeker look. I'm also working on a Ford Freestar chop, so look for it in a few days.

Click the pic for full size.


And the original can be found here.

Check out his new band that was brought to my attention....Medicated Becky. Pretty nifty rock band. Unfortunatly you can't hear them quite yet, MP3.com is down...Actually you can hear one of thier songs, Crawl Away, here. (click the picture....as most pictures posted here, they are links...)

For any one that doesn't know, I'm a big college football fan, the entertainment factor of collegiate ball is so much more then pro ball. Of course, living in the south and routing for an SEC team helps too. Ain't no ball like SEC ball...go Dawgs...anywho, this is about the poor saps over in California, particulary the Trojans of the University of Southern California. Ranked #1, yet NOT playing for the national championship? What the hell? They are the best team in the country according to the polls (at least the BCS poll, which determines bowl games), and yet, they won't get the National Championship trophy...even if they win thier next, thier final, game? How seriously screwed is that? I'd love to see LSU and USC fight it out for the National Title....good ol' SEC boys vs. the pretty boys from the Pac-10. While the BCS rankings for the most part seem to be fair, and I don't feel it should be disbanded altogether, I do belive it needs to be rethought. Hand out National title bids to the #1 and #2 teams, period. No nothing else, no confrence rulings, none of that horse shit. I don't care if both teams are from the same confrence and have to play three times in the same season.....gives them bragging rights. For any USC fans out there, I'm with ya....and if you win your next game (forget the bowl name, Cotton?, Orange?, Rose?, Fiesta? that they are going too) and LSU loses, I'll reconize USC as national Champs. Now if both LSU and USC win, which ever team that is ranked higher (probably USC) at the end of both games SHOULD be called nation champs...same hold true if both lose. If LSU wins and USC loses, LSU will get my nod for Champs.

Be one with the ladder theory, embrace it and you shall succeed. Reject it and thou shall spend the rest of thine days forevermore grazing in the Abyss.

Its an interesting read, one that for the most part holds true, and applies to most fe/male relationships. A shame I'm always on the Friends Ladder, and usually low at that....damn my pitiful luck.

It's still cold outside, so I hope your sweetie spent the nite.....time to stay warm, Old Testament style...

Recently I came across this amazing tid bit of info: COLD SUCKS. Sucks big, fat, greasy, floppy monkey balls. No, scratch that, DONKEY balls. Which as we all know is much, much worse then monkey balls. Cause monkeys are cute to some people, but no one says "Awwww" when they see a donkey. Unless of course perhaps that donkey was on the side of the road, with a broken leg or two or four and is dead trying to walk back to the farm after it bought it. But then it's a pity aw, and not a "oh-looks-he's-so-cute-I-just-want-to-take-him-home-and-smoother-his-monkey-ass-in-kisses" aw. Nothing like a chimp in a diaper to get the maternal instincts in us all flowing and undulating, coarsing thorugh our veins like so many diaper-clad chimps, or something, I dunno, I forgot my point. Oh yeah, it's cold outside. So don't go out there. Make a fire, call your sweetie (make HER come over to your house, fuck the cold), and get to makin with the sweet, passionate love doin. Good times, yup.

X_mas wish and dream list:
X-Box (~$170)
-and-
Parts to fix my broke PS2 (~$14)
-or-
PS2+ (~$170)
CD's (Killing Mona, Sevendust) (~$15/ea)
Games (NFS:Underground, one other I can't think of) (~$50/ea)
2" front lowering springs (~$??)
-or-
4/5" lowering kit (~$600)
Tint for the truck (35% on all windows, including full windsheild) (~$100)
Infinity 6820cf and Dynamat Xtreme for the rear to match the front (~$130)
New headunit (unsure which kind) (~$300-$800)
Wheels/tires (17" 10th Anniversay Mustang Cobra wheels) (~$700?)
Ibizan/Greyhound

Now dont let this list fool you, I by no means greedy. Nor will I pitch a fit or whine if I don't get all of this. Heck, I do'nt care if I get none of this, I'm happy just to spend time with family. This list is merely one of things I would like to get done in 6 months (some a lot sooner), not for Christmas. But holding true to the tradational tradation of making a list and sending to Santa, here my list. And come on, who among us never put things on our list there was no way we were getting....like ponies, world peace, whatever.....I thought so, lol.

OK, so I'm basically done with the interior of my ST model mentioned below...other then paint and details of course...oh and the MIA parts. As soon as I come up with a color scheme I'll be doing it up...may even do flocking where nessacary. But today I worked on the body. I stripped it down to bare metal, which looks killer, really gives it a WIP (work in progress) look. I want to do some body mods like shaving to it, but I dont have a grinder handy, so it'll have to wait. But as soon as I get a grinder and some body filler, I'm gonna go buck nasty on the mods....who knows, maybe even custom body panels, who knows. No pickies though. Oh, I reinstalled the fog lights on my truck...yee-haw.

I haven't been feeling up to par the past few days.....got real cold real suddenly down here...and I'm getting a touch of the cold as a result. So I've spend most my time indoors, keeping warm and sleeping...good times....Anywho, I'm working on a 1:18 scale model Sport Trac...I'm trying to get it to lay frame...It lays alright, lays hard...Draggin' pumpkin baby, gotta love it. It's 'bagged' and body dropped, don't ask me how many scale inches, cause I dunno...all I know is that it lays rocker. I've been trying to finish the interior, so that the model is as complete as possible. Gotten a lot done, but I've lost the headliner, modified dash, rear window, and a rocker panel...so I dunno what I"m gonna do about that, oh-well. Heres a pic of it from a while back, its now sportin black primer...