Smash Somethin'

Well something did get smashed but turns out it was my finger. My partner in my diesel class well turns out he has never worked on anything so hes not quite adept to telling someone to move their hand before he drops a 30lb 18wheeler pinion gear assembly on their hand. Yep have a nice blood blister and my whole finger is a nice shade of plum. Well one good thing though i have master the art of typing 4 fingered! Sorry about the non frequent updates I swear I am going to get back on a every other day schedule. I had to get used to what kind of schedule we have here and get a few things straightened out with the roomates i have here in the apt. But so far after four weeks its not so bad i have gotten into the regular swing of come home, study, eat, study, warcraft, study, sleep. But i swear ill put blog in there some were.... come on you gotta believe me.

Boot Camp Aint Got Nothin On This

prelude to a sweet computer

Well there should be a picture of the school there but unfortunately i kinda deleted them off my camera and well..... that was that. Sorry i have been gone so long but it was a crazy build up to moving to PA and going to school.

Lets start off with my lovely jeep. Right after i decided to go my drivers side door decided it wanted to leave the car. Well i didn't get to that problem at the time but i noticed my brakes were not going to be up to the task of getting me stopped on some of the what seems to be 45 degree angled hills here. So upon examining the brakes i noticed that apparently the rear brakes haven't been working in oh say since i got the car. So after staying up to 2:30 am and rebuilding everything .....EVERYTHING on the rear brakes and 4 trips to the parts store the car stopped like a champ. But now the tires decided they wanted to start getting soft and making strange vibrations. Off to the tire shop i went and $530 later i had a pretty sweet set of Yokohama Geolander tires to handle the 12" average snow fall they have here in January. After those my transmission decided it didn't want to leave first gear. I took it to a transmission shop but they could not find anything wrong with it so they wanted to take a chance on a $200 throttle position sensor. I told them i would wait on it and promptly picked it up and got the part for $40 and after 3 mins removing 2 screws it was in. Didn't solve the problem but hey it runs better but after a little practice of patting the gas at the right time it shifts good..... sorta. After those tires i needed a front wheel alignment so i had a guy at work do that for me so i set up an appointment for 3:30pm. Unfortunately my watch was some how set 1 hour ahead at the watch shop where i bought it so it ended up not getting done until 9:30 at night.

Where that might have ended the saga for the car i still went to bed at 12:30am and woke up at 2:00am to drive the 6 hours to get here. Upon packing everything in the car and setting up the GPS laptop (another blog in its self) i prepared to ventured out into the wild highways of Michigan. after getting the car warmed up taking some pictures with my folks i went to adjust my rear view mirror.... which promptly fell off. But needless to say i have arrived safely and I'm sure i will have plenty of stories to tell but those will come on another day.

For now I'm back and better than ever.