F’n apartment dwellers
well i found out who complained about my dog barking and they are the reason i had to get rid of him. good thing mom took takumi home for a few days so i can find a new place to live. it was ppl who live below me that comlained….but guess what? now they have a dog and it woke me up bright and early sunday morning my day to sleep in becasue of its barking. now if i were an a$$hole id call up my landlord and complain, but im not. plus i hate my landlord.
When did I get the ‘dumb ass’ tattoo?
Once again I offered to work in an effort to help out someone and find out that they were out at another bar partying. I put in a ten hour day and was freaking beat when I got home at midnight or I’d have halled my ass to Dodge and dragged her out of the bar she was at. I am definately not a fighter and would have gotten my butt kicked, but I’d have put out a good try! Nothing like doing a ‘good deed’ and feeling like a freaking dumb ass!!
08.15.06What a Disaster
Maybe it’s my youthful ignorance, but anymore it seems like nothing is as it seems. The radio in my Toronado was in far from mint condition when I got the car. The display didn’t work, and none of the tone controls worked. It pretty much just turned on, and turned up. I could listen to the radio and that was about it. But it was a Bose system. It sounded decent, but never really got loud. I wanted to upgrade the stereo and hopefully get a little more out of the Bose speakers that I was sure still had some life left in them.
And then.
I pick up a nice Pioneer stereo and a kit to mount it into the dash. First I have to get the old stereo out though. Little did I know what lied ahead of me. I knew I was going to have to take off the drivers side dash trim. I was prepared for that. Or so I though. I got all the screws out and the panel loose, but the darn thing was wedged between the upper edge of the dash and the steering column. After about 45 minutes I started thinking the only way for me to get it off was to remove the whole feakin’ steering column. (I deeply despise the people who design cars.) For some strange reason I got the idea to put the gear level and reverse. Wouldn’t you know that did the trick.
So now I can clearly see the bracket and the screws that hold the radio in. There they are just smiling at me, an all too easy reward after all the hastle I went through to get the trim off. I remove the screws and tug to pull the radio out…and it doesn’t budge. Ugh! So I start feeling around what I can, and for the life of me I can’t feel anything.
So now I have to remove the ashtry and ashtry bracket that is below the stereo to see if there’s anything underneath. Upon doing that, I get a little bit of a chuckle. This truly is a luxury car. Inside the ashtray there are two little vacuum lines to pull cigarette smoke out of the car. Sheesh.
After I get the ashtray out I am able to feel a bit more around the radio and finally find what’s keeping it in. There’s one last bolt left on the passenger side of the radio, right by the air vent. And the only way to get to it is…to remove the glove box. UGH! Luckily I’m a pro at this part since I’d taken it out and put it back in several times when I was fixing the heater door. Andrea gives me a hand getting that out, and I can FINALLY reach the last bolt holding the old radio in, take it loose and pull the unit out. Praise the Lord! Nevermind I’ve all but completely disassembled the dashboard now.
Here’s a shot of how it looks now:
One would think that this is the last of my headaches. Oh what else could go wrong? Just wire the new stereo to the old speaker leads and mount that bad boy in there! Well that’s just what I did. And lo and behold, the unit powers on, but it’s eerily quiet for a stereo that’s supposedly on. Nay, it’s silent! What have I done!
Well I start reading around on the net to try to figure out what the heck I did wrong. Come to find out, this Bose sound system that is in my car doesn’t rely on the stereo to power the speakers. OH NO! Each speaker has to have it’s own built in amplifier. And the outputs of my shiny new Pioneer stereo just aren’t compatable with ANY OF THE SPEAKERS IN MY CAR! Well isn’t that plesant.
So I picked up two Pioneer speakers and got them mounted in the front today. And I ordered two more Pioneer speakers off eBay for the rear, because of course they have to be an odd size. 4″x10″. So what started out as a $150 head unit swap is pretty much turning into a $300 complete redo of my car stereo. But damn it when I’m done it’s going to sound goood!
07.22.06Looks like no new job for me.
Well I never got a call back from the guys at Manhattan Broadcasting, so I’m guessing they filled the position with someone else.
Kind of an interesting story though. They actually offered the position to our night guy at the radio station, who has considerably less experience than I do. He’s never done music, never really done any imaging. He actually turned them down though, so he’ll still be working nights for us. But still, kinda weird that they chose him over me. Like I say you never know.
I’m not too bummed though, like I said, hopefully it’s all for the best. I just wanted to let everyone know that I won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. =)
06.14.06a day in the life of a tech at FHSU
edit: pics removed
just a couple of request that i have recieved today… the first one well we break stuff apparently when we go into other ppls offices. we apparently dont have enough work so we create more work for ourselves. then the next picture yeah just read what is highlighted im still trying to figure out how to do that.
05.13.06now i dont think i ….
i’m still alive, contrary to rumour. i’ve never had such a stressful school year in my entire life. but i’ve broke free from those chains and now i’m loose for three and a half wonderful months.. until they drag me back. (i think the relation to prison is actually quite appropriate.)
well i didnt get my n64 for xmas but im sure itd prolly would have been slightly less as exciting this kids xms
05.6.06Is it a sign of a tough day/week ahead?
I stepped outside this morning to have a cigarrette. When I open the screen to come back inside there is a big brown moving spot racing me over the doorway. My first thought is, “SPIDER!” At my age fear does not make me jump higher, it does increase the speed factor though. I zipped in and turn around and it was gone. Granted, I didn’t get a good look, but a moving brown spot isn’t good in my book. It appears it’s time to use that indoor bug spray again and call the landlord to remind him to buy outdoor strength crap and spray out there.
Ever have one of THOSE days?
I asked my landlord to PLEASE spray for spiders. It’s my one gigantic phobia. So, a few days pass and no spraying has taken place. Now for the story… I finish washing my hair and wrap it in a towel last night. As I am walking I see something out of the corner of my eye and it is a friggin’ spider hanging off my towel (head). I know Matt can imagine the total panicy scene. I’m running and screaming and ripping the freaking towel off my head. THEN, today as I am washing a load of laundry… I grab the clothes basket, hug it up to me and walk through the house. I touch all the clothes as I load the washer and see nothing. BUT, as I get ready to turn the washer nob I see something in there that looks like dead grass and start to grab it…ANOTHER G.D. SPIDER! Just as I have my hand a few inches away the ‘dead grass’ crawls out of the clothes. That little sucker is gonna be the cleanest spider in town! I’ve had it!
Needless to say, even though Duane has a 12 hour shift coming up at the hospital tonight his ass is getting up early enough to spray this house with the spider killer spray himself.
03.27.06no longer responsible
ok i was in the forums at neowin and came along a post about Hilary Clinton calling up the National center of disease control to do a study to see if “gaming” that right i said it “gaming” was a disease
Matt made a good point over spring break about having a study done on the effects of bad parenting on children, then maybe they might relize games arnt the enemy we should be pointing our finger at.
anywho as i was reading about this again i got to thinking about this:
here in the U.S.A, we have reached a new age.
NOBODY is responsible for their own actions.
Remember that.
Holy shit! I killed somebody! Bob made me do it!
Bob: Joe made me do it!
Joe: I blame the media!
Media: Videogames.
Videogames: Personal responsibility?
Personal Responsibility: [AFK] –> (away from keyboard)
You’ll never guess…
It’s the 5th, payday was the 1st…guess what I am still waiting to get?????? Ironically, it is such a habit up there that I didn’t even realize it til yesterday.