Sleeping
Nothing much to mention here. Just washed the car up tonight and thought she looked purdy. Can’t wait for the nice weather to start working on it again. It’s been a rough 6 months.
A new “sig pic”.
On the message boards, you usually have a short space at the end of each post for your “signature”. Lots of people enjoy gigantic signature pictures approaching resolutions that were unheard of just a decade ago. I prefer to go easy on my posting brethren’s scroll wheels and keep mine more compact.
Spent an hour or two on this one. Tried to give the car a bit of an animated look, and give some love to those blingin’ wire wheels and white walls!
11.19.08My next project
I bought a used carburetor for my car and I’m planning on rebuilding it and installing it on the Toronado. The one that’s on there now isn’t providing the gas mileage it used to.
All the parts involved.
Some people have said It’s a pretty ambitious project. I just consider it an exercise in patience. I have a couple new tools I have to buy, and a rebuild kit. But it should be a good winter project. I would have just rebuilt the one I have, but then I’d have to park the car while I was rebuilding it, and this might just take me a while. I want to take my time, get it right, and actually learn a thing or two!
Wish me luck…updates to come!
11.18.08In the spotlight!
It’s not much. But my car is featured on the front page of Oldspower.com this week! Little things like that help make all the work I put into it worth it.
Been busy.
I know I’ve been absent from posting for a while. But it’s been busy around here lately. At least it seems like it has. This last weekend Andrea’s niece and nephew came up. I guess you could call it babysitting, but I honestly had a good time. We’re doing our part on being a bad influence. Her niece was supposed to be grounded from the TV, but we forced her to play Wii Sports all weekend. Took a lot of convincing, let me tell ya. And her nephew just ran around playing with hotwheels cars all weekend. A lot less screaming than I expected.
This week has been somewhat nerve wracking at work. Everybody is nervous because there’s rumors of paycuts. Though I haven’t actually heard anything substative on that. But mosty everyone griping that Smokey Dan needs to hit the road before anybody takes a paycut around there. And I whole heartedly agree. It’s not that I don’t like the guy. He really is a decent guy a heart, and I don’t wish anybody to be out of work. But the man is truly incompetent. He creates about as much work for everyone else as he gets done. It would rub a lot of people the wrong way if they had to make a sacrifice to save his job. Like I say, I hope it’s all rumors, but if there is any truth to them, I hope the people in charge remember that this is a business…not a charity.
Got a little bit of work done on the car yesterday at lunch. It was idling a little rough the other night, so I decided to put a new distributor cap and rotor on. The parts were cheap, and who knows when it was last done. I pulled the old ones off and they didn’t look too terrible. A little corrosion, but they’d obviously been replaced sometime in the last 200,000 miles. But I went ahead and put the new parts on anyway. Seems to run a smidge smoother, but I think the main problem is the carburetor. So I bought an old one and I’m gonna try my hand at rebuilding it. Hopefully after that it’s just like new, and I’m back up to getting 24 MPG on the hiway like I did when I first bought the thing! It just kinda sucks working on the car now that it’s cold and dark by the time I get off work.
Outside of that, I’ve found myself on the computer less. I’ve been playing a lot of the game I’m doing for my next N64 re-review. I’ve probably already spend about 4 hours playing it, and I think I might go ahead and try to beat the game again before I write the review. Some of these games it’s really hard to get into now, just beacuse they’re dated, or I have already played them to death. But the fact I’ve spent so much time on this game in the last week, it truly a testament to how great it is, and how well it stands the test of time. Look for the review closer to Thanksgiving.
10.20.08Pumpkin ale and cars for sale.
Ahh, it’s good to be home. It was a busy day. Not strenuous or anything, don’t get me wrong! Had to fill in for the “office manager” and do my own work. Suprisingly did very little of Dan’s work. It made the day go by pretty fast, but it’s still nice to be home.
Since the beginning of October, I’ve been trying to find this Blue Moon Pumkin beer. It was time to restock, so I stopped by the liquor store and they FINALLY had it! I picked up a six pack and my regular supply of High Life. The new beer is actually very good! Nice and smooth at first with just a hint of pumpkin spice as it goes down. Sweet, but not too sweet.
While I was checking out a fella asked me where I found my Oldsmobile. Said I’d had it for a while and he asked if it was for sale. With a grin on my face I said, “Sorry not right now.” Made me feel good. I’ve been kinda down on the car since the hail storm. Nice to know it still gets some looks, if only from a distance.
09.25.08What can I say?
B-E-A-UTIFUL!
I was just in awe when I saw the pictures of the Dodge Viper ACR. Not only does the speedometer read to 220 MPH!! But it’s got a massive 8.4L V10 in it. I could definitely scoot around in that!
Just check out the pics here.
You’ll see what I’m talkin about!
08.11.08Photoshop fun
I was messing around last night to illustrate something on OldsPower.com took about 30 minutes. Could be better, but not too shabby for my first attempt!
Before
After
So much paint. So little time.
Well, I decided it’s finally time to get to all the hail dents on the Toronado. Except for the fact that nobody around here sells the right color of paint. If I were smart I would have stocked up. But no. I’m not smart. Luckily Biebs was able to score some for me from Home Depot in Hays. Saweet! So I was looking at maybe starting the sand and fill the MANY MANY hail dents this weekend.
And then I’m heading over to drop of my rent check and the landlord is there. She says, “Hey, here’s that paint you asked for to paint the house!” Hooray! Which I am also excited about. Finally get some paint on the gawd awful trim on this house. So that’s gonna take priority. Except that I don’t have a ladder. Gotta get a ladder. Only its hard to haul a ladder home in either a Toronado, or a Mustang. If only I had…oh…an El Camino!
But they’ll both get done. Hopefully before the snow falls. I hope.
07.11.08Around the station
Here’s a few pics I snapped today after work. I’ve been meaning to remember my camera for a few days now. Finally got around to it.
Here’s a pic of the studio I work in now. It’s quite a bit more vintage, but it works well enough. By far the worst part is having to sit in that damn wooden chair for 4 hours. Not comfortable at all! The on air system is STORQ. Like the rest, it’s a bit dated, but it works a hell of a lot better than what we used at the other station.
Oh, and look at this. This is back behind a shop next to the radio station.
Can you tell what it is?
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It’s a Delorean! I wish I could get closer. (Wish I could buy it actually…but yeah) Pretty sweet. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to one, and I can’t get that close!
And here’s a big old Oldsmobile parked out front. Hasn’t moved since I started working there. Wish I could give it some love. Of course my car needs some lovin’ as it is now!
That’s it for now! More as it becomes almost interesting.