oops

some unknown stranger reminded me about blue bunny
he is so cool
i want to be just like him!
(grin)

gigitty gigitty go

1. So far who did you talk to the most today? The guy who owns 2 chargers (I worked on his garage today.
2. What is the best name for a butler? Sasaphrass
3. What is the thing you are picked on most about? Tough guy blue truck
4. What was your last weird encounter? I work with teens! Nuff said?
5. What’s the weirdest story of one of your scars? Swing set fell on my head
6. Do you remember the part from Bambi when Bambi learns to say bear? No
7.What color is your toothbrush? Toothbrush?
8. What is your middle name? Thomas
9. Can you eat well with chopsticks? Let’s go find out!
10. What odd things creep you out? Pdubs boogers
11. Have you ever felt an earthquake? Yup.
12. What do you do with the hot grease when you’re done cooking bacon? Smear it all over my dog and set her loose in a waterslide!
13. How many good friends do you have? Four or five, somewhere in there.
14. What’s the weirdest thing you have ever eaten? Grass hoppers
15. What color are your socks today? Blue and white. Both solid colored socks.
16. What is your favorite word that starts with the letter G? Gigitty gigitty gu!
17. Who do you blame for your mood today? Ummmm Rob!
18. If Ricky Martin had a trademark what would it be? Pink elephant!
19. What is something scientists need to invent? The stupid fixer!
20. What is the closest object to your left foot? An internet blue cord!
21. Who is your favorite Golden Girl? Sophia.
22. Do you have an inside joke that has to do with numbers? Oh yea
23. What is the longest amount of hours you have slept in a row? Round about 16
24.What story do you tell most often? Everyone favorite seems to be the lama story so probably that one.
25. How do ugly people make you feel? Jeff U. makes me feel glad!
26. Where was your mother’s hometown? Like about 7 towns. Let’s say northern Ontario
27. Where was your father's hometown? Stony Creek
28. What are the posters on your walls? I am married
29. Say two words that rhyme. Done.
30. Do you use online terms in real life? Not really.
31. What do you think people think of you? You wouldn’t worry about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did!
32. Do you think this year will be better than the last? Sure, why not. And if not, meh.
33. Who is the 1st person on your incoming call list and how do you know them? My sister Becky
34. Do you know who Salad Fingers Is? No but whoever it is they have mean parents!
35. What is the stupidest thing you have ever done? Bought a Chevy. Never again…oops
36. What is your favorite commercial of the moment? Dairy queen Monster cookie blizzard
37. What does it take to make you cry? Haven’t cried since I was 7
38. What are you looking forward to? Guys camping trip
39. Have you ever cried because you thought you were ugly? Dumb question, and probably not
40. Who did you kiss today? My wife and boy
41. What do you like to do when you are alone? Not be alone
42. Who are your 2 favorite characters on Lost? Hurly and Lock
43. What is missing from your life? Full time job and a slurpy
44. Would you be ashamed if you wore hippie clothes? I don’t think so
45. Grab the closest book, what does the 7th sentence on the third page say? Its am son’s picture book and it says “boat”
46. When was the last time you slept with a stuffed animal? Like never
47. If it was your last day on earth what shoes would you wear? My brown ones they are so cool
48. Do you own a Super Nintendo? Nope.
49. What do you think of Law and Order? Nice idea, highly unlikely!
50. Can you name all 7 dwarfs? As long as there are no more questions, yes.
51. Who is the hottest drummer you know? Definitely Jeff C. Wow, what a hottie...
52. Have you ever pretended to be Jewish? Not all of me...
53. What was the last thing you thought you lost, but ended up finding it? Gerber
54. What were you doing at midnight last night? Watching treasure hunter
55. If you had a ball of clay what would you mold it into? A steering wheel
56. What does your Milkshake bring to the yard? Mold!5
7. Do you have any famous relatives? Yup Dr. Norman Bethune
58. Chicken nuggets or chicken fingers? Mmmmmm yumm
59. Pirates or Indians: Indian motorcycles are cool!
60. Pulp OJ or No Pulp OJ? Cold!
61. Drive or Ride Passenger: Burnouts
62. Regular Hot Dogs or Cheesy Hot Dogs: Cheesy
63. Beach or Pool: Probably pool.
64. Renting a movie or Going to the theater: It's nice to see movies in the big screen, especially the big action movies. Those need a big screen to be appreciated. However, the really cheesy movies that I like, there's nothing better than throwing it in the DVD player at one in the morning and seeing horrible acting and bad special effects. Vive le 'B' movie!
65. Ever push all the buttons in an elevator? Sigh!
66. Ever bake with an easy bake oven? Ummmmmmm No!
67. Ever gone to school when you didn’t remember you had the day off? Not in a million billion bazillion years.
68. Ever "Jungle Boogied"? .I work with youth!
69. Ever owned a Spiro graph? No and I still want one
70. Last TV show you watched? Documentary on the making of Superman
71. Last food you ate? Peanut butter and jam.
72. Last thing you bought? Buns
73. Last thing someone bought you? Ummmmm, don’t know
74. Last thing you laughed at? Mandy. She is a funny girl!
75. Last person that spent the night at your house? Darrell
76. Last thing that gave you chills? You can not penetrate my defenses!
77. Last song you sang out loud? He reigns by the news boys!
78. Last time you ate ice cream? Yesterday
79. Who was the last person to text message you? Darrell.

LOUD LOUD LOUD

So, as per Charlotte’s request, this is a story about how I got new speakers to put in the S10. Mandy and I were out one afternoon going to buy me some jeans, when we were suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable urge to follow the orange signs that proclaimed, “HUGE garage sale in such and such community center. Admit ion free. As my wife and I walked in we saw that the size of the sale is greatly overrated but it still demanded a look. So as my wife and I walked around we saw a ton of normal garage sale stuff that we didn’t want and the people wanting to sell it wanted to get way to much money. You just kinda walk around and smile at people while staying far enough away that if people ask if they can show you something you can look at them in a manor that says, “Oh, I didn’t know there was anyone behind this table and as such did not see you there for it wont be rude to not answer and walk away rapidly!” (If anyone out there wants me to believe that they have never done that … well I just don’t!) anyhoo I found a table that was not manned, and it had a set of automotive speakers. These were the size that the S10 takes and might just be the thing to finish up the interior! So I walk over and pick up a speaker. I’m checking it to see if it has any life left in it and I see a middle age man hurrying over to me. I had already decided that they were too old and probably too much money, I tried to leave before he got to me, I swear I did, but he out speeded me. It’s kinda like when you see the lady at Superstore trying to get you to sign-up to Presidents choice financial, and you realize you can’t not talk to her. It’s a sinking feeling. Anyway he comes over to me and says “it’s nice to see someone who knows what he is looking at!” then he asked me to make an offer. This is a request that I hate. You either insult him with too low an offer or you get soaked. In my case I actually didn’t want to give him any money for the speakers. There were too many unknowns. Were they blown? Did they even work? This is info you need, so I said “I am not interested”. He said they were only $30 this is WAY too much money so I repeated my statement that I was not interested. He asked me if the price was too high and I said that it probably was too much so he yelled to my walking away back, well then how about $15? I turned around and said “honestly dude, they aren’t for me! I just wanted him to quit talking about the speakers. I was trying to leave. He then shouted at me from across the room, “would you just take them then?” he was actual desperate sounding, so I said “Sure” picked them up and took them home. The best part of this story is that they sound like brand new speakers! They fit and sound great!!
So there you go Char, how was that?
I Bought a new steering wheel for the truck. It is out of a 93 GMC camper van. It looks good and I will post pics soon. I also got some seats for it as well as an intermittent switch for the wipers. It’s too hot to install this stuff yet but I will soon. I’m going to bed now. Night!

grunt

Today I worked on the S10. New speakers that is all, no more. Finished.
Chris is in town and we will get a chance to hang-out./ this should be very good. Chris didn’t know about his own brothers breakup. Nether did his mom. This guy must learn to tell people what is happening. His own mom found out from his brother and his other brother found up from me. TODAY! This happened weeks ago. SCOTTY IF YOUR LISTINING, GO TELL YOUR DAD! This is nuts. Also Mandy wants me to put in a fence. I might just!

just another odd peterism

So here is what happened. I went to the S10 with the intention of installing a new tach (measures how high the engine is revving) the truck has a factory tach but it won’t work. My plan was to cut the dash where the old tach is, remove the tach and install the new tach in its place. This would have given the truck a very clean look as well as keeping the “hotrod” theme so I went ahead and pulled the instrument panel and pulled the old tach out and had a look. I fit the new tach in its place and began to wire it. Here is where it gets annoying. I also pulled the dead volt meter and just for fun tested it. And the dadblasted thing works perfectly. Hmmm. So I pulled the old tach and hooked it directly to the engine. Then I started the engine and the tach worked. So do the other gages when I pull them out and when they are wired directly, they all work. So me being the smart person I am I figured there must be a simple wiring problem. Please oh please let it be a bad ground! It very often is and that is an easy fix, but no such luck. This is a power problem. No power is getting to the gage cluster, so I figure I will simply wire past the cluster and make the gages work individually. Here is the aggravating problem… I can’t bring myself to wire past everything (6 gages) when I know full well that there is very likely only I wire that is causing me issues. I WANT TO TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT! But I won’t and I will spend millions of hrs tracing down some stupid problem so that I can fix it to do exactly what it would do if I took the easy way out. Sigh. On a better note, the tach works!
P.S. this is my air compreser

S10 #2

U.g.l.y. you aint got no alibi, you ugly, uuh uuh you ugly
you aint ugly!
i love the smell of motor!

S10 pics for char

the pic below is the B&M ratchit shifter!
I love this shifter
this is the truck's stance! low low low!
kinda hard to see but the silver spackle is what
I am debating replacing this is the bent role pan (where the bumper isent)


cool exaust

mmmmmmmm hotrods

The wiring is almost totally fixed. The truck now runs, charges the battery, has a radio, fan, lights, windshield wipers, brake lights, and some of the gauges even work. (They all need to work) I took the hood off and the dash out. I have cleaned up the inside and found out that it has NEW carpet! I have fixed most of the speakers and the one that is still bad will be replaces very quickly. The truck runs good now! I still need to wire in the new electric fan and the kill switch. It needed to have the ignition interrupt switch (a switch near the shifter (on the floor ) that stops it from starting in gear and driving down the back ally without you in it!) realigned and the wires had fallen off anyway. This is why the truck wouldn’t start for 2 years. One quick fix later and we are golden! Now time to replace the steering wheel. I think I will go for one off a mid eighties firebird. They look cool and the one currently on the truck looks terrible. Now for the seats. The ones in it are a good enough stile but they are broken and dirty. If I ever want my mom to ride in the truck I will need to make sure it is clean. Also with the new carpet the junky seats look terrible. I will get some seats out of an astro van. I like those ones. I am going to put in a new cam also. The one in it is very mild. It is called an R.V. grind and It could stand a much hotter cam. Also they sound cool. The engine has roller rockers and flat top pistons already and with a new cam it would be the perfect nitrous motor. The tranny is built to handle way more power than what it has so this wont be a problem. I found one for $100.00 used and I might just need to do that. We will see. I am also thinking of redoing the dash. The one in it looks good but it has a kind of paint on it that they no longer sell. That one I don’t know about yet. It also has a role pan instead of a bumper in the back and it is bent in. so I want to pull that out. Then a clear coat repaint and we are done. We will see!

ticks

also I hate ticks

Wheeeeeeeeee Hotrods

Today I started to work on the most recent hotrod to grace my shop. Some of you may have seen this particular truck before. It is the Chevy S10 that my brother-in-law originally built as his high school ride. It is a red extend-a-cab that is lowered front and back with a roll pan at the rear! It has duel exhaust with chrome tips. It has a warmish 350 Chevy with a 200-r-4 tranny. Its kinda groovy. It has some cool features. It’s an extend a cab so I fit (for all the angry skinny people out there, that’s not a given!) it is already lowered, so I don’t hafta. (its hard work and i am a lazy bum so I don’t want to do it) it has already existed in its current form for 15 years so we know the combo works. It has brand-new tires so I don’t have to buy them! It has a cd player and used to be a stereo truck (it might be again. I don’t know yet) it has big dirty power! (best for last) and its got big stinky power! Now for the bad. Woooooooo electrical problems,(no problem its my specialty) busted drivers seat($15 at a wreakers), no return spring on the seatbelt($3 at a wreckers), leaky gas tank (aprox $10 a wreckers), oil leak(new gasket), chronic overheating (new fan already bought) and a bad sending unit for the gas gauge (comes with the gas. tank) this is a new toy to keep me occupied. This is how the story of getting the truck home goes. Last night I had to get the truck started. It had lotsa battery power and lots of gas (an electric fuel pump makes it a no braner to start) but when you turn the key, nothing! No dice. So we check the wiring. Everything looks bad but it still should work. All fuses good, but when you turn the key, Zippo. Never mind that, i am a smart guy so I just wire past the switch and it starts right up. This is cool cuz it hasn’t run in 2 years. It started instantly. Rad! Then I put it in gear and we have no problem. Righteous! Shut it off and go home. Today hotwire it and drive it home! It now is at the garage and is causing a problem. The front goes over the bump into the garage but the frame hits and lifts the back tires up into the air. They spin good that way. So I jack up the back of the truck and stuff wood under the tires and it backs up. Then give her shizzy and ram it into the garage (I need to fix that) now i am in the garage and the truck wont shut off. This shouldn’t be a problem but the truck is doing something called dieseling. This means that the engine runs backwards. So when it is in drive the truck goes backwards and when its in reveres it goes forward. This causes many different problems but the big one is that it wont stop. Fine. Whatever. It finally stops, then the rad explodes and boils over for about 20 minutes. It is now sitting on a bed of floor dry with no hood, no seat no steering column, no radio, no wiring and no battery or coolant. I am in such a good good great mood. Wheeeeeeeee Hotrods!

billion?

K everyone pay attention! If a cop car is driving down a road at high speed, with the lights and siren on, do not try to blast in front of it at a 90 degree angle and then almost broadside the car. No kidding. Ask Darrell. It was so close Darrell laid on the horns for about 5-6 seconds (he never does that) it almost was a very very sad and messy seen.
I saw a 56 Chevy wagon for $500.00 dollars just outside moose jaw. I don’t have $500.00 but if I did that car would be mine! Scotty, go buy it for me.
Today I was working for a guy who is a billionaire! No kidding this dude has a billion dollars. He has 2 airplane bunkers to house ONE motor home. One is in Calgary and one is in Texas. Now this is not just any motor home. This one was $750,000 it came with a FREE hummer 2! Now everyone is welcome to look down there noses at him for being rich but I want a free hummer! No bad joke necessary I already snickered)
I hate Chevy. I drive one all the time for work and it sucks. There I said it. Now everyone knows.
I want to get some new shorts but can’t find the right ones. Here is my criteria, under $30.00 (non negotiable) I want them to be just like jeans but shorter. No goofy “vegetarian” pockets no different material no nothing. Just jeans short. I can’t find them. They are nowhere. They have vanished. Now here is the problem (girls cover your eyes) all my shorts and pants (not including suit pants) have holes in the crotch. I don’t know why they all wear out there. But they do! Ever since I was a kid. How weird is that!
Does anyone know how to add a function to the quick launch function?

I think Troy is Red

I think the best kind of ice cream is maple walnut
I think the best kind of dog is a mutt
I think the best kind of music is fast and loud
I think the best kind of fruit is juice
I think char is groovy
I think people are able to not fly
I think we should all have a snooze
I think I want to go and spin my tires
I think Rachael needs to update her blog
I think I want to go for a swim
I think farts are funny
I think girls are weird
I think I should listen to more loud fast music
I think the way we do school is dumb
I think Troy is red
I think some are bigger than others
I think I will stop now…

my place on earth!

I will now type 2 sentences. One I will do with my eyes on the keyboard, one I will do without looking. So here we go ahem… my truck has a bad motor! And now without looking…my ruecj ras a cad noioe. And there you go 9 letters! That’s all I got. It kills that I can tune a car with my eyes closed, can fix most of Jeff Ulriksens van problems over the phone (ya gotta ask him about that one)(grabbing the hot end of the stick ain't the funniest story anymore!) but typing is just impossible. Aaaah well. So we had a good day today but didn’t get as much done as I had hoped (read…everything finished) but its all good I think. I am doing a garage renovation job called total garage, and I hope it will continue to go well. My coworker just quit because of difficulties with scheduling (the boss didn’t schedule work for us to do and he needs to pay rent)( I have another job as well as this one) my boss inset the most organized, intact he is the least organized person I have met. Not exaggerating either. He can be best described as scattery. I want the job to go well but we will see I guess. We seem to spend stupid amounts of time just driving around picking up supplies. I want all the supplies ordered paid for, and waiting all at one place for us to pickup. I want accounts at places we buy stuff from all the time. I want lists of places that have the supplies we need. I think this is the way any business should operate. We live in Calgary where the money is readily available to make a business crazy successful but this one isn’t doing the business it should. At least that’s what I think.
So Chris and Terra just had a new baby, Scott and Andrea are due any time now Charlotte and Rob are due in 6 months. It seems to be the time of the baby. Every time someone has a new baby my response is “maybe I can sell them a car! They are going to need one.” Does that make me a “shuk and jiver?” cuz i'm ok with that if it does. Its kind of a fun thing to be known for and in the words of Jeff Ulriksen “there are worst things to be known for!” wonder what he was referring to. Hmmmm. Anyway there are lotsa babies around.
I am trying the contacts that you can wear for a week without removing. So far they are great. Cant feel them and they don’t get blurry when I get up. They breath really well and don’t move around on my eyes. AND THEY WERE FREE!! These are my testers and I have another kind comeing to try. This rocks so far. It is enough to make me want to postpone my desire for laser eye surgery. If these things workout, this is going to be killer. I wish my eyes were good. But alas they are not, the good news is that my prescription hasn’t changed in three years. That’s good. Maybe they will start getting better! Mabey not. Oh well. Anyhoo that’s enough staring at the kea board tonight. I’m going to bed. Nighty night