and blessed be thou

Finally...damn check engine light is off. Not only that, the truck is now smooth as ever. I forgot how rough she had gotten. Nice and smooth now, gotta love it.

Ford-1, me-0

Went and bought a new DPFE sensor today, finally, $73!. Fuckin' a. Oh well, hopefully the truck will run like it's supposed to now and not all funky like. The tranny and O/D light haven't been acting up, so maybe it fixed itself, or it was just the cold. Either way I'm seeing it as a good thing, as that's more money in my pocket. I think I'm gonna buy an OHC....but wait till you see how I'm gonna mount it. As usual, it won't be stock looking at all. In my neverending pursit to add the latest and greatest to my truck while still keeping things looking sleek, I've though up of a way to integrate the OHC info in a easily read location. There are currently two places I'm thinking of, one will be uber easy to pull off, the other one won't. But, the more difficult install will be more convient, I'll settle less on things that I'd have to change to make it work, etc, etc....besides, I'll have the free time here before too long. Two words for it: ass abd kick, you decide the order.

BTW, OHC stands for Over Head Console, the thing above the rearview mirror in Explorers that displays the temp and direction.

GT-0, GTO-1

Went to get a part for the ol' Ranger today at the dealer...checked out the 05 GT 'Stang while I was there....um, it's crap. The exterior is half decent, you can fix that, but the interior is craptacualor. Nothign flows, everything is clunky, protrusions on top of the dash, speaker protrusions from the door (a good 1 1/2" protrusion), cheap looking plastic, cheap feeling plastic, fit and finish aren't as good as the 04 F150...HUGE steering wheel (for a sports car) infront of HUGE gauges that are hard to see...white on black numerals in deep pockets make them hard to see....and the skinny font doesn't help at all either. No way I could live with that interior everyday. Nothing like the flowing lines of the GTO. Granted the GTO does have some cheapies feeling bits, but overall it is much tighter then a GT, more ergonomic, more luxiorious, easier on the eye, etc, etc. Give me the keys the a GT and it'll be on eBay, $1 starting bid, NO RESERVE. Give me to keys to a GTO and you'll never get them back...even from my cold dead hands.

now that's a new trick...

As many of you know, today was Christmas. Yes, belive it, Christmas already. I was able to get ALL my shopping done yesterday. Yup, all of it. I didn't want to procrastinate, but it turned out that way. Got my parents a new surround system to replace the one that got zapped by lightning a few months ago, and a movie each. Got my bro a game (KillZone), my sis Sex in teh City Season 4, and bro in law the Metal Gear Solid 3 guide. Think I did good. I got almost everything I wanted, plus more. The things I wanted are in the mail, so I'll get them eventually, and prolly more as my mom remembers where she put stuff, lol. Got some air wrenches, a nifty tire/wheel/brake looking clock, real nice actually, AFI, Breaking Benjamin, and Enimem (however you spell it) CD's. Kill Switch, Resivor Dogs, few other things. I'm plenty happy, and thats the point. Gettin a few more things tomorrow when my sis and bro in law come over. Thats about it for now...time to send some email off....

give me liberty, or give me pie!

I've got to work tonite...how shitty is that? I needed to get some Xmas shopping done, but looks like that'll have to wait until tomorrow...or Sunday, or whenever. Just been too busy working to have time to go shop, and when I wasn't working, I was shopping with someone else and couldn't get what I needed to get. Excuses, excuses, I know...but it happens. On a good note, the tranny in the truck seems to not be acting up anymore...but I'm not holding my breath. I'll still stop by the dealer sometime tomorrow and pick up the DPFE sensor I need, I'm hoping that'll solve my problems. And on a GREAT note, my missed Turkey Day fun is hopefully going to be made up next week. We have to compare schedules first. She has mine, but she's not sure of hers yet....so who knows. With my luck, it'll be Turkey Day '04 all over again. Cynical? Indeed.

ah damnit....shitty shitty shit

Been having some tranny issues as of late....afraid it's gonna cost me a bit to get it under control...but I won't know till I take it into Ford. Maybe tomorrow I'll take it in. I'll see if I'm still having tranny issues or if its just this cold. Son of a bitch...............why is it nothign ever seems to go my way? I make plans and everything seems to be coming together, then all of a sudden, boom...they fall through. Wha?? Dang....

that's right, it's smokin' time

So I went down to PTC (PeachTree City....a city just south of me, bout 15 mins away, LOTS of money....) to look for a job at this one shop that I've heard about. Well, they aren't hiring...yet...but I did get to talk with the guy a little bit and I think he may've been impressed with me for what I knew and was saying. I wasn't trying to impress him or anything, just casual conversation more then anything, but what we were talking about wasn't your average, run-of-the-mill convo. So, who knows. Anyway...remember how I said PTC has money? Well, on one rack was a Ferrari, another rack a Porsche, a classic MG parked under the Porsche, a Nissan 240 slantback with a freakin RB20 R33 Skyline engine crammed in it, a red top SR20DET sittin on an engine stand, Benz sittin on the dyno...and what was out back? An R33 Skyline front clip. Money indeed. Somethin tells me I need to do ANYTHING to get involved with this shop. And this guy was cool as hell too. So, that looks promising....Had an "out of truck" experience today as well. There is this real nice yellow Protege 5 running around town..seen him around quite a bit. Well, I was driving back home from PTC ona divided highway, he going opposite of me, when we passed he honked his horn and gave a wave. I didn't have much time to react before he passed though, unfortunatly..woulda given him the same courtesy. I looked around to see who he could be honking at...no one but me. Cool as hell.

So, I think I'm gonna go to Washington/Oregon state to visit family come in a few weeks. Tickets are gonna be from $500-$350...ouch, but, it'll be nice. Looking forward to that for sure.

Got a little ouchie on the truck today. Draggin my front valance over curbs caught up with me...nothing a few fender washers and some wrenchin time can't fix...

Whoopise:


Whoopise #2

All better....aka Money Shot:


All better #2

keeping up with the jones'

Ah damn I was jonesin' all damn day today. The bad and good thing about my job is I have a lot of time to myself...leaving me ample oppurtunity to think and talk to myself (yes, I do talk to myself, all the time actually...no i don't carry conversations with myself, I do answer myself though....and no, I don't do it around others; all genius' have thier quirks...don't judge me!...lol, carrying on...). Sometimes that's a good thing, cause I can think and talk things through. Sometimes, like today, thats a bad thing. All I did all day was jones about this fuckin' girl....note the word order there. Really I don't have a good reason to worry, but I still do it...she has that effect on me, what can I say? I think I've pretty much decided to leave my job at the end of the month. My parents are going to Washington to visit my father's family the first or second week of Jaurary, and this would give me time to go with them...who knows...I might just stay. Yeah, prolly not...but still. Ive just got too many other talents and skills in area that interst me far more then forklift repair, refrigeration tech, and warehouse repair. I'm cuttin' bait and hitting open waters before it's too late. I really need to start thinking about another job though. I still got a few weeks.

Don't you love discovering new music? ::Enter stage right BLUE ROOT:: They sound pretty decent...a kinda 311's sound and vibe, which isn't a bad thing at all. It's got some more harder riffs then 311, kinda giving is a generic pop-rock-trendy-tennie-bopper feel to it, at least from what I can tell from the samples. I may have to buy the CD...Along with this one. Over two hours of music from underground bands for $8. Has heaven split and spilled forth it goodness? Well, no, I'll find that out in two, three weeks...but this might be close.

and they all lived happily ever after...

Well, I'm super pissed right now. Apparently, my father and I working on the same shift is an inconvience for some people (warehouse people, seperate from the shop in which I work), and so they complained. As a result, I'm being moved to 2nd shift. Now, here's the kicker...my father and I are not the only family unit working there, on the same shift. In fact, someone else in the shop work sthe same shift with his wife, and his father in law (her father). There is another father-son group, a brothers group, so on and so forth. But, I'm being singled out and being forced to change because a few people want to bitch about it all. Fuck that, I'll just fuckin' quit. I don't play around like that. THe problem is the head shop boss is letting other people run his shop...he doesn't have the balls to stand up and say no. My father and I are pissed, as well as everyone else in the shop. Not only that...the shop boss told me to expect to be moved to a different facility within 6 months. Yeah, fuck that too. My father is fortunatly behind me in my wanting to quit. My mother is not so convinced. She is, I dunno....uptight about it or something. True, I need to work, but she thinks that if I quit now, I have to have a new job lined up tomorrow. At least give me some time to rest and relax, damn. I don't see myself doing this job in 5 years as it is...so fuckit. If nothing is changed by the New Year's, I'm leaving. If I do stay on day shift, then I'll stay. But as soon as they want to move me, I'm gone. Whatever...maybe I'll feel better in the morning...maybe not. Fuck it all. I don't care if this all is one paragraph, fuck it all.

blue ballin' bastard...

Hmm, how many week till Christmas? Too many...hopefully my missed date over Turkey Day will be made up in full plus some sometime over the Xmas holiday...we'll see tho.

need....300C.....now.....

Nice....I need a 300C STAT. Look at this puppy....gimme that thing now...





Other then the paint, wheels, exhuast, and stance...it looks to be stock. Even though the top looks like it has a chop on it...I think thats the paint job making an already low roof look even lower. Damn, I gotta have it.

i'm talking about ass hot, spankable

So, been a bit. I'm still not dead. Not as tired either. Working days now, and only 10 hours. Pay is not gonna look good, but I'll get by, lol. Next week is not gonna be fun, lots of work to do...prolly 12 hour days too. Feel like the good ol' days.

Took the engine out of my bros 74? Impala cause he popped a freeze plug. How in the HELL this car didn't catch fire and how it ran at all is amazing...most of the wires, including stater wires, were simply twisted together, and most didn't have any kind of wire nut, tape, or anything on them. My father and I tore it down tonite and many of the bolts were lose as hell, wrong kind, or missing. On the engine mount bolts, three on each side, two on one side were finger tight, and one was missing altogether on anotehr side with another being finger tight. No exhuast gaskets...I mean, it's a total shit case. We're gonna rebuild most of it and make it right again. Holy hell though....

The Ranchero is seeing some new mods in the future (hopefully)...Mustang II front suspension, and MAYBE a 429 dual quad Cobra Jet engine...new rear end and soem bracing. I'm thinking of getting a basic body solder kit to repair some of the pinholes and such...shoudln't be that hard since I do leading at work...just adapt my style. Also looking at getting a welder to actually get to work on the good mods.

The Ranger may or may not get shaved...haven't decided yet. My father is up for it, of course, not sure about the mother yet though. Hell, if we just do it, she can't say anything, right? Right.....Sent the money off for some new, one peice headlights. Hoefully be here by next Firday (two weeks from now, not the one coming up). Also gonna get some HID bulbs to spice things up a bit.

Also, people who make promises and don't follow through aren't so bad afterall...espically when it's out of thier control. Let's see how Xmas plays out though...