Lets get ready to rumble!!!!!

I was getting ready to brawl! Here I am napping when the phone rings and its the engine shop.
Shop Owner: "Your car needs a water pump and since we used your old one its not under warranty."
Me: " Umm ok now why didn't you replace it?" (still waking up)
SO: "You said you had one put on and we could use this one."
Me "Ummm no I didn't I said I put it on not too long ago."
SO " Well its not a part we replaced so its not under warranty. Sorry so we cant fix it."
Me "Well man I really need it but ok ...."
(interrupting me)
SO "Oh and it will be $65 for us looking at it"
Me "I'm sorry what did you say?" (waking up now and sitting up)
SO "Yeah its $65 for us looking under the hood. I mean we did check it out for you."
Me "Hold on you Grabbed onto the pulley and shook it for 3 seconds and that $65?"
SO " Yeah I have to pay my people too so its $65 either that or you can give us $256 to replace it"
Me "No way I can put it on myself for that price its a $45 part"
SO " Well its still $65 for us looking at it and .....
(me interrupting and getting up)
Me "I tell you what ill be there in a few mins ...(phone click from me slamming it down)"

Yeah really all the guy did when I dropped it off was shake the pulley. Nothing was taken off the car shoot I even opened the hood and showed him what's wrong! Just for the record I graduated from high school with straight A's in 4 years of auto shop and I'm studying to be a certified mechanic, fabricater and welder so I know what I'm talking about. I even told them what was wrong with the engine when I brought the car in! So long story short I go there and they are trying to close up but I get him to give me my car and he didn't charge me $65 because I was not a happy guy and I'm sure the look on my face was pure annoyance. But the thing is, I'm not mad they didn't fix it. I'm not mad they wanted to charge me to replace it. I'm mad someone didn't tell me to it was going to be $65 to shake a pulley for 3 seconds shoot I would have told them to go to h-e double hockey sticks and walked out. If I ever open my own shop and someone brings in something that is a no brainier to diagnose and even tells me what's wrong, I'm not going to charge them anything. If anything ill be passing them a cup of coffee for making my job easier.

Slow weekend....ahhhhhhhh

Man I didn’t know it has been so long since I last bloged. Well a lot has been going on; my father had surgery on his hernia which turned out awesome it just took forever! We got there at 8 surgery was at 10 and was only supposed to be 2 hours but ended up ending at 3 pm. I guess they were making sure they put everything back right. So my father is resting comfortably and watching TV most of the day. Nothing too much been going on with me went to some clubs with my friend those were awesome I thought a girl was trying to get his number so I run off so he can have some “alone time” I come back and he alone. So I ask him how it went and he says that she just wanted to know if she could stand there next to him because some guy kept asking her for her phone number and following her. I guess he did the right thing by saying yeah but that still seems awkward. In these days and times I guess you can’t be too careful. I just did a lot of people watching and rocked to the music it was waaaaay to many people on the dance floor and with out someone to dance with it wouldn’t have been any fun anyway. Ah yes my jeep has died once again. Water pump this time but I think I caught the shop in a lie. On the receipt for the engine it says they put a water pump on it but there is no price I'm willing to bet that they used the old one off the old engine and stuck it back on there and charged me like it was new. Well jokes on them because I took it back this morning and was like fix this please. So I’m hoping I will get this back later today. Other than that nothing much has been up, pretty uneventful weekend but some times its better that way.

Quick Update

Its late and I'm sleepy so i will make this one quick. Going out of town tomorrow to help deliver some trucks! I think this is going to be lots of fun and I love going out of town. Also Crush update shes got a boyfriend just glad I found out before I even bothered to try to talk to her like that. Oh well back to square 1 and I think I will leave it like that for a while.

Baby shower?

Don’t let that happen to you


Got sent home early today but instead of sleeping I bowed into peer pressure and got a myspace page. Turns out I found a lot of old friends that I haven’t seen in a few years so hopefully ill get a chance to talk to them. Got an invitation to a baby shower to! Yeah I know what your saying baby showers are for ladies but this is a very long time friends of mine and she’s having a unisex baby shower. So for the first time I’ll have to figure out how in the world you use the baby registry at target, how to wrap something to look like a woman did it ( that means ill let someone else do it unless she wants something wrapped in comics from the Sunday paper) and actually try not to get riled up if man bashing happens. What is it exactly that you do at a babyshower anyway, well besides eat? I just hope I'm not the only male that shows up……on second thought….. that could be a good thing.

1 out of 3 is that bad?

Zip, zero, nada, and nein yep that’s the total number of things that actually got completed this weekend. Yep had it allllllll mapped out and unfortunately nothing got completed. I have to credit myself none of this is my fault I did everything in my ability to get it done. I went to repair some computers since I do that for fun on the side and well they were pretty bad so I had to bring them back to my house. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to complete them due to another failure in a plan. I was supposed to move my mustang to an aunts house ( it wont be ready till next year) and pull my fathers parts car out the garage and put the real project car in. Well no one listened to me once again as I said “ Hey lets just get the car in the garage and the other one out and lets clean later.” Well no one paid attention to me and as the drive way got more and more cluttered with junk I became more and more frustrated. “You know we should have been done by now!” I exclaimed as I inhaled fertilizer from a broken bag that rolled off a shelf we didn’t need to move. “We need to get this car out and this one in!” Well everyone just kept pulling crap out not heeding my warnings and then once the side was clean and the whole driveway blocked the question was raised, “ok how do we get the car out?” I just looked around and was like “Don’t ask me I have no idea I told you we need to get this in, we won’t finish before dark, and I still need to tow the mustang to the other house.” So after everyone stood around and casually tried to pass the blame off on me which I promptly was having none of that nonsense and replied with my usual, “ I don’t know no one was listening.” We cleaned up the rest of the drive way and called it a day. So …. no car moved, no computers fixed, 1 mustang was moved. I just don’t think 1 out of 3 is all that good do you? Maybe next time someone will listen. Probably not……

Mudbogging

Election time is coming up have you made your choice yet? The race is heated here for governor and boy is the mud flying. I was just pondering if someone came into a race for anything political and absolutely threw no mud, no my opponent did this back in 1908, no my opponent eats ramen noodles imported form Germany so he took jobs from china nonsense, would they win? I’m just wondering if someone who stated the facts only would win because he/she only stuck to what was going on in the here and now and not back in ’94. It would be interesting to see if someone ran a race that way would the public appreciate hearing what the candidate plans to do to fix what is going on here and now and not even bring up how someone was going to be blown away in 5 years. I know I would appreciate it because then the few commercials I did see would help me to make a better decision for what I want since I'm not at liberty to go searching much for facts on both candidates. With school and work and helping out here I don’t have time to really read up as much as I should. But I believe it would be in the interest of the candidates to make good use of the air time that they do buy to state their intentions for people like me who are on the go all the time. Just my 2 cents.

Crushing blow

Man I see why it is called a crush because it smashes you like a trash compactor shaping you into a small cube and then spitting you out. Just every so often I have break free from the compactor and stretch a bit. Its kind of silly thinking of someone that much and not saying anything but I guess my yahoo relationship type test says it all. So one miniite I’m walking along thinking man she’s a beautiful woman then if I interact with her too long I find myslf getting compressed. Nothing wrong with that but you cant let it distract you from what your doing and for me I gotta investigate a lot before I try to ask her out. So every so often I have clear the old hard drive and look at things fresh. What can I say I’m a machine. *insert Terminator theme here*

Reboot!

BigTomTom internal systems config ,,,,v1.3

Loading………..

C:/ SystemsCheck.exe

Please wait……………

Errors found: 3

Corrupt emotions registry…..

Infatuation beyond normal limits…..

Firewall disabled……

C:/ dir emotions

C:/Emotions/ delete.exe

Are you sure all data will be lost?
Y/N

Y

Deleting files 100%

C:/ reboot


Ahhhh much better man that was getting crucial nothing like clearing the memory and starting fresh. Back to business as usual. Have to keep that in check or else I can get a little carried away. What can i say.... I'm aquarius. lol

EEEEEEK Im So Afraid!

Went to a “haunted house” tonight notice the quotation marks. Man I think I was going to go to sleep while walking through it. Now I know it’s supposed to be fake but come on it can be fake and scary to. It takes a lot to scare me so I knew I was going to casually stroll through but if I was scared all you could do is scream and take 3 steps to the next room. I need to make a haunted house, there is an old hospital for the criminally insane that’s abandoned down in Monroe I would have to use that and put in some pyrotechnics and I would at least need 100 volunteers to inhabit that place. Most importantly it has to have room to run! If they are scared where are they going to go when they are screaming? All I have to say is make sure you sign the waver before you come to my haunted house because someone isn’t going to make it out. MUHAHAHAHAHAH!

Low battery....

I can’t believe this it’s like hmmm the 3rd time its happened. I look at my cell phone and it beeping at me as usual… low battery. No problem I’ll just whip out my charger and….. wait …. where's my charger??? Then a flashback pops into my head of me unplugging the phone from the charger in the hotel but leaving it in the socket. Oh yeah way to go me leave the only way to charge my cell in another state. Well looks like charger shopping tomorrow … man too bad I cant afford that other cell yet. Well T-mobile here I come soon because I'm sick of this phone anyway. Besides its so broken I can’t even turn the volume up and down any more. Looks like ill have to advance my cell phone savings plan a bit.

Conference time complete!

Be it ever so humble there's no place like home! Finally back and boy was it a fun weekend! The turn out for the woman's Conference was pretty small so most of the time me and some friends ended up just acting crazy and hanging out. Ever want to have some fun? Download some "Game over" sounds from your favorite videogames and play them when your friends either do something stupid or strike out. One of my cousins wanted to "talk" to some girls over in a small corner of the room so I was trying to get him to go say something. Well he waited so long that they all ended up leaving walking right past him. So what else could I play off the phone but the Pac-Man sound when he's eaten by the ghost and the sad theme of the Price Is Right when you loose the showcase showdown or a mini game. I got a lot of time to ask women their opinion on some relationship issues but I didn't bother to mention the "he cant have zero partners" one. All in all it was a good weekend hotel room was "ok" it smelled like someone sprayed a bottle of fabreeze (sp?) in there and closed the door for a year but it was a very comfortable bed. I happened to run into the mother of a old friend of mine she gave me my friends newer number so now I can keep in touch by texting her so ill do that every so often. I just don't want to bug her too much as I have been known to over talk some times... Kind of like now.... Well anyway I typed this at school and I need to jet off to class, nothing like physics to bring your day down. But I will perhaps post some more stories form the weekend when I get home and some pics of us acting crazy if I get them from my friend.

Up In Flames

Well I have been working on a soundtrack for me a friend of mine suggested it. It’s a soundtrack that would describe me from a while back up till now so I have been putting that together cause it seemed like a cool idea. So I found an ending theme which I decided to use and its Joe Satriani’s “up in flames”. Well that’s a fitting title because right after I got the CD I went to check on the old shop I was looking to buy form the city and guess what? Well it appears to have gone “up in flames” a few days ago. Apparently someone was I guess sleeping in it since it was abandoned and well I guess it was cold so they started a campfire….. indoors…. So that building is pretty much shot since its now a smoldering pile of bricks.

On a good note going out of town tomorrow, so if anyone actually does check in on this blog, just to let you know I will be gone till Sunday and I will post on what I’m sure to be a colorful weekend when I get back.

Ah want to hear the ending theme? Here’s Joe playing “up in flames” live which is personally one of my favorite songs by him.

http://www.satriani.com/webcast/2005-11-02/

Stay safe out there folks and have a good weekend. GO TIGERS!!

Je ne comprend pas!!

Ok I know I said I had enough of commenting on the love and dating stuff, but man while listening to the radio I happened to hear some lunacy i’m confused about. Ok so while cruising in the test truck today I tune into a local radio show asking women how many men have they slept with. While I find this extremely fascinating I was stirred to anger when I heard a fact that seems to be so backwards that I just can’t comprehend the basis behind it, and I’m hoping that someone can explain it to me. So while discussing the topic of how many men these women have slept with, a few made the comment “Oh I don’t want a man who hasn’t slept with anyone, he needs some experience or something is wrong with him. I mean who wants to be his first one…” Whoa!!! Hold the phone! So if a man decided that he wants to keep himself for a wife that’s a negative thing in today’s world? And also in the past are you telling me you never had a first time? You just were already getting some before you were born or something?  Everyone has a first time and what if that one guy you decided to sleep with was like “I’m sorry [insert random name here] you need more experience before I can get down with you.” One lady said “I can’t be with a guy who has zero he has to at least have some experience.” Ok so if I was talking to you and wanted to take the relationship to the next level I would have to say “Hold on I don’t have any experience in bed let me bang this random girl over here so I know what i’m doing.” For some reason I don’t think too many girls would be cool with that. So apparently I was born in the wrong time wrong place or something because me personally there are too many diseases and such to pass around out there to simply couple up with everyone. Not only that what’s wrong with holding sex for if not your wife, someone you plan to spend your life or truly love? Not some spring fling you met at the club just because he buys you a drink you decide to knock some boots. But later in the show some ladies comment: “oh its ok to have a past sexual history as long as you either keep it secret or you know it’s a lower number than 10.” But apparently they want their man to forget about all the past ones but hell no they can’t forgive a man for having ZERO!! I just don’t understand the thinking behind all this I mean sure I could have gone out and gotten some from my past girlfriends but I had more respect for them than that. So since I don’t have any experience in the sack they think I won’t be as fun or what? That’s what I want to know ladies why are men who go out and bed the whole town ok, but the brother who doesn’t get any because he chooses to wait for that one special someone to share a bed with, nope he’s a looser. I know not everyone thinks like this but if you are a girl and you think having zero people you have slept with is a negative for a guy, can you please tell me why? I’m not knocking what your doing but man I'm just curious to know why.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

You know I just don’t understand some people. I mean if I’m not a big guy,  I’m not going to insult the biggest guy at work. This thin and I mean thin guy was a little upset because we got a late start at work. So when on of the other guys came over to get some gas in his vehicle and was talking to me, the thin guy decided to insult the big guy and I guess he was thinking the big guy wouldn’t hear it!. So it went down something like this:

Me: “Yeah so you had to turn around hunh? How did you miss the exit?”
Big Guy: “I looked up and you all were gone so I kept going (gets out of car walks past
         thin guy) and someone wouldn’t let me over…..
Thin Guy:  (leaving gas pump walking past) “You’re up B****”
Big Guy: “and I had to squeeze in and….. wait um what did you say?
Thin Guy: “Ummmm I said …… you’re up B****…. Uh”
Big Guy: “That’s what I thought you said…”

Ok so right about now I’m praying that we don’t have to call 911 and tell them to bring a body bag for the thin guy because man big guy was mad! But he let it slide this time.

Big Guy: “Ok I’m going to let that go but don’t call me no B****. No one calls me that
          And I don’t play like that.”

So later I found out Thin Guy apologized and all is peaceful for now but still, what the hell was he thinking? I never call anyone out their name especially a B**** because you don’t know, even if the guy wasn’t big he still could have been like a 3rd degree black belt or something. Oh well the way things are going we are all going to end up in sensitivity training. We have already had a drivers training refresher course….. that was bad enough.

Get Out There and Grab Some Gears!!

Nothing like the feeling of grabbing a stick shift vehicle and rowing some gears!! To me nothing says driving like driving a stick shift. Mad at the stupid driver in the other lane? Mash in the clutch down shift like a mad man  drop the clutch and floor it instant acceleration, not all slow like an auto downshifting plus it just looks cool. Its also a theft deterrent since not many people can drive sticks cause there just are not that many in the US these days. I got to drive a stick at work the other day and man I had a blast I wish my mustang was done so I could shift some in that. Nothing like listening to the engine slow you down coming around a long sweeping turn in the country side AHHHHHHHH… that was one of the best days I had at work. Yeah I know its weird but driving can be relaxing with the right vehicle on the right type of day. You know windows down music cranked sun beaming down in the blue sky and its warm out but not too hot and your just out on the open road with not much traffic ah man those are the best.

Unfortunately I was sucked back to reality when I got back and had to go sit in physics class! Ugh what a horrible way to end a great day than 3 hours of listening to stuff I really don’t like. I mean I got A’s in high school in physics but this guy just has me with a big question mark over my head. Well since we switched chapters I understand what we are doing a little better now so it’s at least getting more interesting but still I’m like euuuuuuuw.

My father has to have surgery too he says he doesn’t want to but he has a huge hernia and he needs to get it taken care of. So ill have to take some more time off work but they are pretty easy when it comes to stuff like that so I don’t think Ill have to worry too much about taking the time off. Well at least ill make some cash next week while at the women’s conference. No not like that ….. Get your mind out of the gutter.

A Poem About Me...

Solo
 
I walk alone slowly down the street
As I walk I look down at my feet
Treading on the path that ancestors laid down
My heart heavy I can feel it pound.
 
It’s like walking up a fast moving river
Water so cold that that it makes me shiver
I long for a warm hand to hold
Some one caress and protect from the cold
 
But from those I meet I only encounter bitterness and strife
Some that even want to snuff out my life
The time of day they won’t even pay me
But when trouble rolls around and things get hard over to me they try to flee
 
What happened to when I held out my hand offering support?
But you tuned you back with a snort!
Or when I reached out to give you a hand
But you step on me and leave me face down in the sand.
 
Now look your gasping for air
And screaming as I walk past that it’s not fair.
I would have given you my all to have and hold
I even offered as much as my soul.
 
But it’s not good enough for most out there
So I watch as you drown as I continue walking on air.
One day way up in the sky
I will look down and spot with my eye.
 
Someone who walks the same path as me
One that won’t mind when I be who I be.
One who will let me hold their hand
And together leave footprints in the sand.
 
 
T

One of my friends asked me to write a poem describing me so I made this up in a few minutes not the greatest I haven’t written poetry in a long time. I’m still on the search though any takers? Lol. J/k.  Thanks Jez for the inspiration.

Ugh physics...

Spent most of my day looking for tuxes for my friends wedding, it was cool hanging out with him again had lots of laughs. Ugh physics tomorrow well at least ill get to come home for a while before I have to go to class since there is a 4 hour gap between work and class on Mondays. I wouldn’t have the huge gap if the truck hadn’t broken at work so now it’s back to the other building while they try to find out what is wrong. This past week I been kind of sick and that was actually not that bad since I had a lot of time to think. I went over a lot of things in my head (what else can you do when your super sick) and I been able to really realize a lot of stuff …. Heh i'm going to keep it off of here though. I made a plan for the next year and hopefully I can pull it off with the new budget I got planned out. Even if things don’t turn out like I am hoping at least I can still go on vacation somewhere next year and have some fun and possibly finish my hotrod and pick up a old shop for me to fix up and start turning into a loft for me (well that’s my contingency plan for if things are going like I think they are which is not good) to live in later. Wish me luck.