I took the day off because I woke up feeling like my face was going to fall off. Really what happened was the AC came on last night before I went to bed and blew all kinds of pollen up ons. I started coughing, sneezing, leaking from my eyes, bleeding internally – you know, the usual. I have speculation that it is the pollen from the Texan Mulberry Tree that’s fucking me up but I won’t know for certain until April 16th, when I go in for an appointment with an allergenist. Even then, I’m skeptical if I’ll really know who/what to blame for this misery.
I’m having a bit of trouble getting used to Office ’07. The problem is the menus are different, so when I go to look for various menu items I realize they’ve gone completely missing and now I have to hunt through the new menus (which aren’t really “menus” so much as they are “tabs”) to find what I want. It’s a good thing I’m computer literate (mostly that is) otherwise I’d probably have to buy one of those idiot guide books or take a community college class just to run a spell check.
Cashews, like goldfish, smile until you bite their heads off. They’re a strange nut in that they’re softer than most – but not as soft as pinon. They’re kind of sweet in taste, but not Kool-Aid (it’s funny how “Kool-Aid” comes up in spell check but “allergenist” doesn’t) sweet – more like fresh snow peas sweet. These are also salty, but that’s only because they’ve been salted. Tasty? I think so.
I hate the anticipation of waiting for things to come in the mail. I’m still waiting on some euro parts to come in the mail. They were supposed to be in about three weeks ago, so every day for three weeks I’ve hurried to the mail box in hopes of two fucking switches and some tail lights. This afternoon: still nothing. Yesterday I did however receive a nice letter from a certain someone, that was nice.
Gah, I’ve got it. Until the parts come in everyone send me letters. Address ‘em to Raven Rotsaert, with the text: “Your parts from Europe still aren’t here asshole!”
I’ve begun what I thought would be a tedious task of ripping my CD’s to the new computer only to discover two (fucking two!) un-opened, never been listened to albums. Imagine my excitement, who even buys CD’s anymore? You know the thing is, because the iBook was so old it wouldn’t authenticate with any of the online music servers and I couldn’t download any new music. I was still out buying albums for $15-$13 at Hastings, when I could have gotten the same thing on iTunes for $10. I do like going to Hastings and buying albums from bands I’ve never heard of, only based on the cover art. I’ll probably continue to do this even though I’m in love with the preview feature on iTunes.
Right now I'm jammin out to some old skool Green Day, with Blink next in queue.
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for the record, that took me an hour to do in Paint Shop Pro for what would have taken me 5 minutes in Photoshop... and It would have looked real with PS. I jacked the car up for the sole purpose of the above photo - entierly because of Dan's comment - heres the origonal image:
The turbo outlet will be clocked 180 degrees so that it is pointing straight down, the piping will be plumbed down behind the engine block aside the downpipe, and then between the oil pan and transmission, into a single horizontally mounted 18.5x6x3 core. We're mimicking the location of the eip tuning SMIC. Click to enlarge the pic and you'll get a really good feel for future location. In the end, other than the location, it will be completely different from the eip setup.
Instead of running the return pipe from the intercooler to the intake manifold on the passenger side like the eip set up does, we'll have it going up on the drivers side. Making it more similar to this second picture. This will make for less overall pipe and make the bend into the throttle body more natural. Note however, that the pipe you see on the right of this second picture wont be there on mine (that's the one routed behind and under the engine block).
After much todo and debate I've come to the conclusion that I'm not, in now way, an ipod kind of guy. Fuck it, its not my thing, I'm not particularly hip, and I suck at making my own playlists - inevitably incapable of selecting tracks by myself for myself for what myself feels like listing to. 
Just thinking about it right now... question. Why is it that every advertisement for dating/interested in meeting other singles/find love/do it doggy style with hot bitches/meet new and exciting people/relationship advertisement illustrates a female and not a male? 
My brother is all about the supplements, and he's got Nate using them now to! Both of them have noticed an increase in short and long term memory capacity after taking ginkgo biloba. Fuckin' seriously.
For anyone having second thoughts about seeing the movie Grindhouse, do it. I saw it. It was money. Every second. Warewolves of the SS by Rob Zombie especially won it over for me, and then there were the females, those bitches were smokin!
There's a new addition to my familly. The new addition ships April 9th and comes with Windows Vista. This will be my first non-mac computer... so Dan et. al., I hope you did a good job on this whole "windows" thing.
