Merry christmas

Sorry for the lack of posts ill be back to everyother day next week now that the nightmare of school is over for a min. Tune in for more of the missing adventures and even an extream test of my patience i went through.

Out Cold Remix

Man I guess I need to ease back or something. Maybe I need a vacation? Maybe I need to go on a cruise? I need to do something cause my comments on my friends relationships has been kind of harsh lately. I have sort of adapted a what ever attitude toward anything that just seems stupid. Like telling someone to do something and they didn't do it next thing you know its broke ( keeping it vague) so instead of my saying awwww that's too bad I'm like dude I told you ages ago. A friend of mine didn't heed my warning on her myspace and I'm like hmmm why didn't you listen (the vandals had a ball with the page)? I guess that's the source of my attitude maybe its cause no one is listening when I'm trying to tell them something good. Maybe I'll adjust my volume next time.

Physics time complete

I need a team like this....



Wow its been a while. I have been missing because of my physics class project. After my "partners" left me and built their own trebuchet I was either going to let them grad me on what I contributed (nothing) or build my own. Well I built it and boy did I build it. I changed designs 5 time and the end result was the best. It ended up being too big to fit in my jeep so I ended up strapping it to the top which gets you lots of looks driving down the freeway. When I took it off the top half the class came over to study it. I have to say it was one of the best looking ones out there and one of the farthest shooting ones there. I will post a pic later but first I have to give Props to my friend David. With out all his wood working tools and a place to actually build it, it wouldn't have been completed. You the man Dave. But now that that's over I can finally get some rest and sleep too. Heh just remember I have play practice at church tomorrow... no rest for the wicked eh?

Pre Turkey Day Fabrication

Hey sorry not many posts I'm still working on the trebuchet and its coming along ok. IM shooting for a test firing Saturday but I still don't know. I have run into a lot of unforeseen problems but I'm working them out. Like I wasn't going to be able to freeze the axle and I need to reduce the size so it can fit in the bearing. Well I don't have a lathe so out comes the grinder and I just rotated the axle until it fit. I went a little far but its no so small that it will cause a problem. I did make one mistake on the arm I drilled a hole out bigger than I needed and it is making the counter weight a little wobbly but I can still manage that. I still have to make a few more things, drill the axle for the bearing holders, mount the axle, make a trigger, make a tie down string and make a pouch for the tennis ball we will be throwing. That's not much to do its all pretty simple.

I love this time of year because instead of going outside and smelling smog, you can go outside and smell food. I'm not kidding when I walk down the block all I smell is cake and what seems to be sweet potatoes. I just gotta clean up my room before company comes over I got parts and screws and stuff everywhere. Well off to clean for me have a happy turkey day.

Random Friday

Well I did post since last Friday but I retracted my statements because I was not fully informed. Anyways not much been going on. Battling in physics and I do believe I will have one of the best tribuche at the physics competition. Most are going to be made out of wood boards glues together, Mine is equipped with an aluminum arm to save weight and rolls on double ball bearing roller bearings to cut down on friction. Yeah I'm going overboard but its fun and I need something to do and I like designing and making stuff. I think it will work and I'm hoping it will throw the tennis ball pretty far.

My myspace page sits idle. I still think that the most fun is actually making it. I photoshopped a background for it and tossed some colors on it and BAM one instant myspace page. But thing is I really cant find much else to do with it. I don't really have many pictures and not too much I would really change on it. Its best viewed in 1280 x 1024 so you can see the whole picture ( I have a 23" monitor breaking my desk that's why such a high resolution).

I have come to realize I have too many hobbies. I play cards, I'm trying to learn to play the organ for church, work on cars, collect DVD's, build and modify computers, repair computers, and I'm sure some other ones I just forgot. Man I need to pick a few and go with those.

So yeah today sort of random and ill get back to posting more often I got a lot of stuff on my mind but I just have to sort out how I want to write it. Stay tuned its sure to get interesting.

What Type of Pokem.... err Soul Are You?

You Are a Prophet Soul

You are a gentle soul, with good intentions toward everyone. Selfless and kind, you have great faith in people. Sometimes this faith can lead to disappoinment in the long run. No matter what, you deal with everything in a calm and balanced way. You are a good interpreter, very sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle. Concerned about the world, you are good at predicting people's feelings. A seeker of wisdom, you are a life long learner looking for purpose and meaning. You are a great thinker and communicator, but not necessarily a doer. Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.....

Ugh so sleepy and must go to class I would fall asleep in my car but I don't think I will wake up in time for class. I usually sleep in the hallway in the chairs outside the room but people keep thinking I'm dead asking me am I alive (no I'm not joking) so I stopped that. What better way to stay awake at school than to blog!!! Ok well I'm sure there are more entertaining things to do but what the heck I got time. Hey how about that election though? Senate and House both democrats now I was amazed they pulled it off. But the killer was Rumsfeld (SP?) resigning.... And they say it has nothing to do with how the election went .... yeah ....right.

This weekend I will be building a tribuchet for physics class for a group project. Bad news my "partners" built their own so I will be doing my project alone. So what is there to do when you have to make your own group within a group? SMASH the other people and leave them looking sad when they loose!! So it will be Tom VS. Team Physics 2 weeks from now. I just need some camouflage contact paper so I can decorate it and write "Army of One" on it when I'm competing throwing the tennis ball. I am going to enjoy this .... MUHAHAHAHAH! Wish me luck.

Make Your Mark

Yeah its election day time to get out there and pick who your going to let run your state and courts for the next 4 years. Yes I know its raining but VOTE ANYWAY!!! I managed to get a chance to vote during lunch at work which is a good thing because I didn't know if I was going to make it in time after coming from school. But one thing I wish we could vote on, road improvements. One really nice piece of stupidity is the new islands in the middle of Livernois near 8 mile. I'm not sure how far this horrendous piece of road design stretches because I refuse to drive on that street any more. The street was all ready too small and now its smaller and you cant turn where you need to. I want to see a plow truck try to turn in the holes that not ever a Geo Metro could turn easily in. I was praying the whole time I was swinging my extended cab f-150 around in on that I would not have to stop and back up to make it. Put that on the ballot please, and use a artist rendering of what its supposed to look like. I'm sure everyone would have squashed that and it would have saved the DOT some money. And heaven knows this state needs that.

Battle of The Baby Shower!

Went to the baby shower and well I can say it was pretty interesting. Kristen was right when she said you play a lot of games..... Which I lost. I don't get to watch too much TV so I failed at the "Name the TV Shows Kids" game. I don't know anything about babies so I failed at the "Baby Word Scramble" game (what the heck is colic anyway??) really badly. I failed at the "Baby Word Search" game just because I'm not good at timed word searches. Then there was the "Forbidden Word" game. That was was pretty interesting because you couldn't say certain words and if you did you had these toothpicks and you had to give one to who ever caught you once you were out of toothpicks you are out of the game. I lost that one only because I had to leave early because it was my sister b-day and I wanted to get there for that. But hey I can say I won one thing! I was the first person there so I won the door prize. HA! Take that ladies!!! But it was pretty interesting and it was fun too. No I don't plan on crashing everyone's baby shower. Oh yeah and for the record I wrapped the gifts in newspaper ... Felt more manly that way.

Fly Tom FLY!!!

Ok so I have been running all over the town doing errands since my jeep is down and I borrowed my parents truck. I thought well I better plan for weekend after next since my parents are renewing their vows next weekend and I wont be able to do much. So I grab my friends baby shower invitation and I check out what time its going to start when something catches my eye. Hmmmm that's strange it says November 4, 2006 ..... Isn't that today. Well yeah it is, and I cant believe it is today its my sisters b-day too so I'll have to run all over to go to both. So I picked up the drinks for my parents thing, got my sister a card, went shopping for gifts for the shower ( which is a blog ill post later ... I have no idea about this stuff), got my sister a cake made, came back did laundry, and am now taking a small break before running out again. Well I had a lawn to do today too but I wont get a chance so ill take care of that tomorrow. Well back to the grindstone stay tuned for the later blog entitled: "What is a breast pad..ECT" later folks.

Whats a Breast Pad???

Ok so I'm shopping for baby shower gifts and I'm looking through the baby isles. Not only am I lost people keep asking me questions and I absolutely have no clue. I wanted to get her something for her and something for the baby so I'm looking down the list. Breast pad is one of the things that was on there but I was like ok why do you want a wonder bra accessory for a baby shower? After asking around I found the correct use of the pad and yeah I feel stupid. But hey I have no experience with baby's. When I had to babysit my infant niece she always wore cloth diapers. Well I have no idea how to fold a diaper so lucky thing I had the internet. Nothing like looking at a screen and then looking at the baby and trying to fold the thing while she's kicking. I don't even like to hold babies they are just to wiggly and it feels like I'm going to either drop it or break it some how and you have to hold the head and stuff.... I wont even comment on the hand and arms poking from my sister stomach while she was carrying my niece. So if you ever ask me to hold your infant I think ill have to most gracefully decline....

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!