Oh, THERE’S my blog!
Alright. It’s been a long time since my last blog. Sorry about that. Everything’s just kinda seemed ho hum the past couple weeks. Not sure what the deal is. Maybe it’s the weather. It’s been so wet and dreary lately. I’ve been wanting to get my oil changed for a week now but the ground has been so wet and it’s been raining pretty much every day. I don’t want to get more messy than I already do when I change my oil. =P
So I’m getting back into the site here, I promise. Though if you’re familiar with any of my websites in the past, I always seem to go on hiatus at some point. So we should all be so glad that it only lasted two weeks! Funny thing is there isn’t much to blog about since my last entry. I beat all the missions in Guild Wars: Prophecies. And I’ve now racked up over 500 hours on that game. Though I must admit that probably half that time is AFK (away from keyboard) time. EVEN STILL, that certainly solidifies my nerdiness, and lack of better things to do for that matter. But hey, at least there’s no sort of monthly fee to play the game like there are most games of that type. It’s fun to get on and just piddle around for a while and get off, or get on and spend a couple hours on a mission.
As for now. I’d best get back to work and get the weekend ready to roll. I have a remote tomorrow, but it’s over by noon. Then I have no idea what I’ll be doing. Andrea’s sister is coming into town tonight, so who knows where I’ll be dragged this weekend! Pray for me!
New show clip
Updated out of nowhere! A new show clip on the Matt McBain Show Page !
When you can’t find a Wii.
I swear we stopped at every Wal-Mart from Wichita to Manhattan on Sunday night. And no one had a Wii. I was dead set on getting one to. But in desperation we decided to pick up Guitar Hero 2 since Andrea got addicted to it last weekend at her sister’s house.
It’s pretty fun. A lot like that Dance Dance Revolution game. But I’m convinced that it’s harder than actually playing a real guitar!
Woo Hoo for Wii!
Jamie and Bryan bought a Wii and I’ve had a couple days to give it a try. What fun! It’s a lot different than I expected, but not sure what I expected. I took the Wii age test and I am 54. There’s lots of room for improvement! I can’t say I will run out and buy the system myself, but I bet I play it quite a bit when I go to Jamie’s!!!
Work in progress…
There’s a kind of an annoyingly hectic joy that comes with restoring a car and trying to drive it at the same time. Although I don’t really consider what I’m doing a restoration. Just fixing stuff. Add random weather in the mix, and it’s a wonder I get anything done on the car at all! If I had a garage it’d be a little different story. But for now I have to take over the warehouse at work.
I think I’m getting close to the halfway point on this little project. The board is out. The old fabric and the foam is out. I still need to get the sail panels out and get them stripped. Then just need to do a little repair to the board and start gluing the new fabric on.
Here’s some pics as of this afternoon:
This is all the old foam. Yummy. Some of it was still in pretty good shape beneath where the sun visors are. The original color of the foam is kinda a banana yellow. Apparently after 22 years of heat and humidity, rotten orange is the color it becomes. Quite crumbly.
Here’s the actual rigid board that the old material was on. It’s all scraped and sanded and just about ready for the new stuff. It’s a material similar to the rigid poster board you can buy at Wal-Mart or what not. It’s got a thick paper glued to each side of a stiff foam. Some of it has deteriorated around where the seatbelts go to the roof. I’ll patch it up enough to give the new foam something to stick to, and the molding should hold it all in place once I get it back together.
This is what my car looks like right now, hehe. Wires everywhere! You can see the sail panels by the rear window that are sagging a bit that I still need to remove and recover. It’s the usual chaotic destruction that I drive around with for a while when I’m working on these kind of projects. Luckily (usually) when I get it all put back together it looks better than before. Let’s hope that’s the case this time.
I’ll be out of town this weekend going to Andrea’s nephew’s 1st birthday party. So the project is on hold until then. But hopefully early next week it’s all done and ready to go. Next update when she’s done!