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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Fixing the wheels that turn
Start out with some easier stuff. Class are going pretty good. Well, decent I guess. So far grades are going alright. I have a B in my programming class and an A in my Network Securities class. I'm hoping that I do well on the next tests that are in each class so that I can get that a solid A/B. Finally had to spend a decent amount of time doing homework the past few days.
Good news. The TDI is fixable and is getting fixed. Parts are still in the mail and should be here tomorrow or beginning of next week I hope. Then I'll have my own car to drive and I can be happy with no car issues, hopefully. I'll also be spending less on gas.
I've been getting really excited over the thought of finally starting my Quattro project. Whether or not it actually gets started soon I do not know but I've been doing the finer research on parts that I've been needing to do. I've figured out a lot of cheaper ways to get it going so hopefully I can get it done by end of this year to beginning of next year. Some where around there. My luck is a lot better with cars than it is with girls which is my next sad sad point.
I knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up for my friend Stephanie. She went off to Iraq and I messaged her about a half a week after she went over there on MySpace which I knew she got on quiet often over here. I got no reply for quiet a while and just today I went to see if she ever read my message I sent a few weeks ago and possibly send another and I see pics of an engagement ring on her MySpace profile picture. I guess she's engaged now, again. Just a few weeks ago she was talking about dumping this dude. I don't frigging get chicks, especially ones that you think you know but apparently you don't. Well, so much for that. Another one bites the dust so to speak. Let's see if another 2.5 years rolls on by with no activity. I sure as hell hope not. One rejection already from a chick I tried to make the moves on. I wonder how many more I can take before I give up again. It's starting to hurt.
Good news. The TDI is fixable and is getting fixed. Parts are still in the mail and should be here tomorrow or beginning of next week I hope. Then I'll have my own car to drive and I can be happy with no car issues, hopefully. I'll also be spending less on gas.
I've been getting really excited over the thought of finally starting my Quattro project. Whether or not it actually gets started soon I do not know but I've been doing the finer research on parts that I've been needing to do. I've figured out a lot of cheaper ways to get it going so hopefully I can get it done by end of this year to beginning of next year. Some where around there. My luck is a lot better with cars than it is with girls which is my next sad sad point.
I knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up for my friend Stephanie. She went off to Iraq and I messaged her about a half a week after she went over there on MySpace which I knew she got on quiet often over here. I got no reply for quiet a while and just today I went to see if she ever read my message I sent a few weeks ago and possibly send another and I see pics of an engagement ring on her MySpace profile picture. I guess she's engaged now, again. Just a few weeks ago she was talking about dumping this dude. I don't frigging get chicks, especially ones that you think you know but apparently you don't. Well, so much for that. Another one bites the dust so to speak. Let's see if another 2.5 years rolls on by with no activity. I sure as hell hope not. One rejection already from a chick I tried to make the moves on. I wonder how many more I can take before I give up again. It's starting to hurt.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Money Sucks
Still trying to get out of the hole I dug myself. I've posted a lot of stuff on the VWVortex to sell and hopefully a few things sell so that I can get out of the hole. Lucky me and the thing I sent out today cost 30 bucks less than what it said on the website so that's extra money. I might go and donate Plasma for money since it can net like 40-60 bucks a week if I go twice. I hear it's a slight drain on your body but at this point I need the money. If I do that for a month or two then I should be right back on track. I recently killed all but one of my credit cards and cancelled them so that I couldn't use them any more. I'm slowly paying them off and I'm still working on that student loan. Between the CC bills, paying my friend off for a non-working car, gas to get to school, and anything else that comes up it's been pretty rough. I'm trying to get a 2nd car going so that I have a back up for when the TDI dies. The TDI was supposed to be my reliable car! Some crap that's been. Trying to get the other car going will cost me around 700 bucks or so, which I don't have so I can't really do.
Another thing which is really annoying is that I can't get my car going because I was nice and gave a friend some of my rebuild parts so that he could rebuild his engine since I wasn't doing it as soon as I thought and now he hasn't returned with replacement parts that he borrowed. On top of that he still owes me 70 bucks and the parts I need to even get going, are the parts that he has. This is the same friend that I gave 700 bucks worth of parts to and he didn't pay back till over 3/4ths a year later and me bugging him every half a week. Looks like I'll start doing that again.
Work is being really annoying with the hours they are giving me. They are now factoring in my extra work I do for another department as my time I was guaranteed for the main department I work for. Unacceptable. I'm going to go and talk to my boss yet again about what is going on. Also they are working me 4-5 days a week just to get 20 hours in which is ridiculous. On Thursdays I work from 9-1, have a 3 hours break, then work again from 4 till 7 or 9. It's the most annoying thing every having to be at work for 12 hours, but only get 7-9 hours worth of work in.
School is going great. Talking to some chicks and doing great in the classes. So far everything is good.
I don't know if I'll be able to dress up for Halloween. With my lack of funds I might not be able to afford a costume. :( Maybe a friend might have some clothes I can borrow. I'll have to check a few chick friends out that might be the same size as me.
Another thing which is really annoying is that I can't get my car going because I was nice and gave a friend some of my rebuild parts so that he could rebuild his engine since I wasn't doing it as soon as I thought and now he hasn't returned with replacement parts that he borrowed. On top of that he still owes me 70 bucks and the parts I need to even get going, are the parts that he has. This is the same friend that I gave 700 bucks worth of parts to and he didn't pay back till over 3/4ths a year later and me bugging him every half a week. Looks like I'll start doing that again.
Work is being really annoying with the hours they are giving me. They are now factoring in my extra work I do for another department as my time I was guaranteed for the main department I work for. Unacceptable. I'm going to go and talk to my boss yet again about what is going on. Also they are working me 4-5 days a week just to get 20 hours in which is ridiculous. On Thursdays I work from 9-1, have a 3 hours break, then work again from 4 till 7 or 9. It's the most annoying thing every having to be at work for 12 hours, but only get 7-9 hours worth of work in.
School is going great. Talking to some chicks and doing great in the classes. So far everything is good.
I don't know if I'll be able to dress up for Halloween. With my lack of funds I might not be able to afford a costume. :( Maybe a friend might have some clothes I can borrow. I'll have to check a few chick friends out that might be the same size as me.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Halloween Costumes
Halloween is coming up and it's time to start thinking about costumes. Of course I'm going to dress up as a chick but it just depends on what kind of theme/outfit to go with. Last year I was a Victorian/Renaissance Chick Vampire. More pics can be seen on my Flickr account. I haven't thought about it a ton but I have a few ideas.
1. Pocahontas - Might be cool but not very flexible with a cool costume
2. GoGo Dancer - Really leaning towards this one. Already have the GoGo Boots so this would be fun and cheap.
3. Some Famous Celebrity - Marylin Monroe, Madona, etc.
4. Hannah Montana - Don't think many people would get this one and I'm not really digging it a lot
5. Princess - Seems kind of costly with the huge dress and tons of accessories if I wanted to do it really nicely.
The TDI died recently. Like really died. On Thursday I took it to Ken's and he fixed it up. The timing was off and I swore it was. We checked it and I was right. The cam was off by like 5 degrees it looked like. So we got it and it ran great. There was a VW meet that night too down in Stuart so after driving it for about two hours the crank pulley bolt decided it wanted to come off and it broke into two pieces about three miles from the meet location, same thing as happened the month before when it over heated. Since Thursday my car has been sitting at Ken's and who knows when Ken is gunna get the new bolt and time it all up again. I hope by mid this week. At least I have Charla to take me to class. I'm going to start putting together my old Jetta again but in NA form. I might swap over to the other cleaner chassis because it's.... cleaner but I'm going for a simple build with as little money put into it as possible, so that I have a spare car since the TDI has proven to be un-reliable.
Speaking of girls. Stephanie and I have been talking every day for the past week or so via phone and texting, talking on the phone every day. It's weird because we are talking like we are together but we aren't because she is with this Felix guy and she doesn't know what to do. She really really likes me but this guy hasn't ever been bad to her. I don't know how much she actually likes him though. I know she likes him but I'm not sure how much. The Air Force messed with her leaving date a lot so I didn't get down to there to visit her. She was supposed to initially leave on Saturday but now she is leaving tomorrow, which is Monday. That made me sad. I'm really liking her a lot now but of course I'm not pushing her to make a decision on anything just yet, especially because she is going to Iraq for 4-6 months. We'll see what happens between her and Felix over that time. Hopefully we'll still be able to talk a decent amount. I don't want to lose contact with her again without giving the two of us a go.
School is going pretty slow so far. I still really really want a laptop for class so that I can take notes on it and do some of the programming exercises on it while he does them in class. I might try and get a few people to look at it soon to see what is wrong since I don't like looking at laptops.
Oh yeah, I tried to fix the projector that Dan gave me. It was the old one he bought when I lived at the apartments. The right side of the screen was fading and I fixed that. It screeches really loudly and I couldn't fix that BUT, I'm going to try and make a hush box to try and encase the whole projector to make it quieter or bearable. I thought it was the fans but it's not. It was the color wheel bearings which go out. Apparently there was a bad batch of them that went out that broke faster. I migth be able to find another wheel that is used but they don't sell new ones any more. I think the hush box is the cheapest, easiest solution.
Money is still super tight since I haven't been able to recover from the month that I had off from work. In about a month my student loan should be coming in so then I'll be good but till then I'm going to be struggling.
P.S. Kari Byron from the Mythbusters is hawt.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I've Got A Feeling
As quoted from a Beatles song. I am starting to get more feelings for Stephanie than I had anticipated. We've been talking a lot lately and I didn't think I could gather more feelings over talking through the phone and what not but it's happening. It does help that we have known each other since Jr. High and we have hung out a lot before now. I like it and I don't. The good is that she likes me a whole lot, maybe more than I, maybe the same, and that we get along and have a decent amount of common interests and personalities. The bad is that she has a boy toy right now that might or might not keep going. I'm not sure and I don't think she is either. She's already been uneven with him and was thinking about calling it off but she doesn't want to hurt him but she does still have a lot of feelings for him. She says that he's his rebound guy after her marriage that she just got divorced from. Then there's the fact that she's going off to Iraq for the Air Force in just a few days and won't be back till January. That really really blows.
I am trying to get down to visit her before she leaves. She is supposed to leave on the 9th but they are starting to change the date in which she leaves from the 9th to the 5th. I really hope they don't because that means she's leaving on Friday and not Tuesday or something which kills my plans to go down and visit her on the weekend for like three days. There's a few factors also limiting me. This hurricane/tropical storm that is coming up but it looks like it'll be a decent ways off shore so I should still be able to drive. It's also low strength. My car isn't fixed yet and like always it's supposed to be fixed on Thursday. Supposedly of course. This has been said many times and more things keep breaking. Let's hope this time when I really really need it it'll come through. Lastly there is her Air Force people trying to make her leave early. Tomorrow I'll know if my car is fixed and if she is leaving sooner or later. Let's hope for the best.
I am trying to get down to visit her before she leaves. She is supposed to leave on the 9th but they are starting to change the date in which she leaves from the 9th to the 5th. I really hope they don't because that means she's leaving on Friday and not Tuesday or something which kills my plans to go down and visit her on the weekend for like three days. There's a few factors also limiting me. This hurricane/tropical storm that is coming up but it looks like it'll be a decent ways off shore so I should still be able to drive. It's also low strength. My car isn't fixed yet and like always it's supposed to be fixed on Thursday. Supposedly of course. This has been said many times and more things keep breaking. Let's hope this time when I really really need it it'll come through. Lastly there is her Air Force people trying to make her leave early. Tomorrow I'll know if my car is fixed and if she is leaving sooner or later. Let's hope for the best.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Teh ph33lin6z
Yeah it's 1337 up there. :p Any ways. I think I'm starting to get some feelings for Stephanie. In Jr. High we kind of liked each other and that was Jr. High where kids get into stupid relationships and they are just stupid. So....... she's come down to see me twice now from Georgia if that says anything about her liking me. I wasn't sure if I still liked her but after hanging out with her more I am starting to get the feelings back. We've been talking a lot lately too. It just really sucks that she's going out to Iraq on the 9th. :( I might try and visit her this weekend if my car problems ever get worked out, which they probably won't. I don't know if it's just the sexual/physical attraction that's sparking feelings or if it's just us getting to know each other again. I'm really not sure right now but I enjoy talking to her a lot. She's also really "active" and into the things I am. :p
Car stuffs.... going from good feelings to bad feelings. I want to blow my fucking car up into a million pieces. It's hating me and I'm hating it back just as much except I have to deal with it while it sits there like a little bitch. I went to Orlando but when I got there and started my car up some wires decided they wanted to commit suicide by way of massive heat/smoke/fire. So... a ground wire under the dash pluffed out tons of smoke and died. I haven't noticed anything not working except for the lack of power in the car of course. I did some digging into the car today. I did a charge pipe leak test and there are no leaks at all in the charge pipes. I replaced all of the old vacuum lines with new ones and that's all good. I also took a look into the whole wiring issue. I took some pics of the wire that got burned and those are being uploaded to Flickr right now. I also pulled the gauge cluster out and replaced the check engine light (CEL) to make sure that it was functioning. It wasn't. I turned over the car and it popped up right away. I'm guessing the previous owner killed the CEL so that they could sell the car easier. So much BS. This car is beginning to have a lot of issues that I did not sign up to have.
My friend Dan is going away to Canada forever and he left me with a lot of his stuff. I <3 him. He gave me a Modded XBox, his old semi-broken projecto which I think i can fix, two surround sound system, one amp+2 speakers, a printer, his server machine, and two other really crappy old computers. I owe him 400 bucks actually for some of the stuff. 250 for the server, 100 for the Klipsche Surround Sound System, and 50 for the modded xbox. It's all a really good price for it all. I'm probably going to go and sell my XBox 360 now because I can use the xbox for a media machine. I don't really care about the games much at all. I also got a set of two 12" subs from Tim's neighbor since they just moved out. Last thing are some old clothes of Jeannie's I think. not really sure but Chas said there were some clothes in Tim's car if I wanted to check them out. most don't fit but it was worth a look. Got a few things.
Car stuffs.... going from good feelings to bad feelings. I want to blow my fucking car up into a million pieces. It's hating me and I'm hating it back just as much except I have to deal with it while it sits there like a little bitch. I went to Orlando but when I got there and started my car up some wires decided they wanted to commit suicide by way of massive heat/smoke/fire. So... a ground wire under the dash pluffed out tons of smoke and died. I haven't noticed anything not working except for the lack of power in the car of course. I did some digging into the car today. I did a charge pipe leak test and there are no leaks at all in the charge pipes. I replaced all of the old vacuum lines with new ones and that's all good. I also took a look into the whole wiring issue. I took some pics of the wire that got burned and those are being uploaded to Flickr right now. I also pulled the gauge cluster out and replaced the check engine light (CEL) to make sure that it was functioning. It wasn't. I turned over the car and it popped up right away. I'm guessing the previous owner killed the CEL so that they could sell the car easier. So much BS. This car is beginning to have a lot of issues that I did not sign up to have.
My friend Dan is going away to Canada forever and he left me with a lot of his stuff. I <3 him. He gave me a Modded XBox, his old semi-broken projecto which I think i can fix, two surround sound system, one amp+2 speakers, a printer, his server machine, and two other really crappy old computers. I owe him 400 bucks actually for some of the stuff. 250 for the server, 100 for the Klipsche Surround Sound System, and 50 for the modded xbox. It's all a really good price for it all. I'm probably going to go and sell my XBox 360 now because I can use the xbox for a media machine. I don't really care about the games much at all. I also got a set of two 12" subs from Tim's neighbor since they just moved out. Last thing are some old clothes of Jeannie's I think. not really sure but Chas said there were some clothes in Tim's car if I wanted to check them out. most don't fit but it was worth a look. Got a few things.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Getting Better....
Over the past few days a few things have been getting taken care of and a few things are going better and better. :) Woohoo. Any ways. I talked to Vanessa and she said that she agreed on keeping it on the dating level until she gets back and we are able to hang out with each other which is awesome. :) It just sucks that it won't be for two more semesters probably.
Schooling.... I tried to get my Object Oriented class taken care of by the Intro class I took at BCC but it got turned down. :( Oh well. At least this should be a easier A. As far as payment, my dad agreed to pay for the classes until my student loan gets in so that's a big relief. I think I'll be able to get one of my books cheaper from somebody that I know from the Techrangers. Wewt. Totally different but kind of the same topic, I met one of my old classmates from BCC and she's in my Network Securities class. We are going to start car pooling... once I resolve my car issues. That'll save a ton of gas money. One a really good note, it's a chick and she's cute and obviously into tech stuff somewhat since she's in the IT program. We'll see what happens if anything. ON TO CAR ISSUES!!!
Tonight we worked on the car. The parts came in yesterday and tonight we replaced the head gasket and put in stronger ARP head studs. I drove it home and guess what... NO LEAKING!!! WOOOOOOOHOOOOO. Now for the bad news. The car lost all of it's turbo power so now it doesn't go. It goes so slowly now that it can't even really accellerate up a hill. It lost all of it's power so now I have a problem that's messing it up. It's either a vacuum line problem, boost leak, ECU reset problem, or something that's really bad. I get to try and test it tomorrow, Friday morning, before class. It's now 4:45am and I just got home about 30 minutes ago. So... I gotta wake up in about 3 hours so I can work on the car, then try to fix it so I can get to class with a fully working car. If not it's going to take extra gas/time to get to Orlando I think. Either I go slower, which I may not have a choice, or else I use tons more diesel.
Friday also holds Dan's party, his last party as he is moving away from us which I really don't like and I'm going to miss him. I wish he wasn't moving away. He's helped me a lot and been a really good friend. Hopefully he'll pay visits back and won't stray to far but he is saying he's going to Korea or something. :(
Schooling.... I tried to get my Object Oriented class taken care of by the Intro class I took at BCC but it got turned down. :( Oh well. At least this should be a easier A. As far as payment, my dad agreed to pay for the classes until my student loan gets in so that's a big relief. I think I'll be able to get one of my books cheaper from somebody that I know from the Techrangers. Wewt. Totally different but kind of the same topic, I met one of my old classmates from BCC and she's in my Network Securities class. We are going to start car pooling... once I resolve my car issues. That'll save a ton of gas money. One a really good note, it's a chick and she's cute and obviously into tech stuff somewhat since she's in the IT program. We'll see what happens if anything. ON TO CAR ISSUES!!!
Tonight we worked on the car. The parts came in yesterday and tonight we replaced the head gasket and put in stronger ARP head studs. I drove it home and guess what... NO LEAKING!!! WOOOOOOOHOOOOO. Now for the bad news. The car lost all of it's turbo power so now it doesn't go. It goes so slowly now that it can't even really accellerate up a hill. It lost all of it's power so now I have a problem that's messing it up. It's either a vacuum line problem, boost leak, ECU reset problem, or something that's really bad. I get to try and test it tomorrow, Friday morning, before class. It's now 4:45am and I just got home about 30 minutes ago. So... I gotta wake up in about 3 hours so I can work on the car, then try to fix it so I can get to class with a fully working car. If not it's going to take extra gas/time to get to Orlando I think. Either I go slower, which I may not have a choice, or else I use tons more diesel.
Friday also holds Dan's party, his last party as he is moving away from us which I really don't like and I'm going to miss him. I wish he wasn't moving away. He's helped me a lot and been a really good friend. Hopefully he'll pay visits back and won't stray to far but he is saying he's going to Korea or something. :(
Monday, August 25, 2008
Who Knows
A few things have been going on. I haven't solved my money issues as of yet. I have a few things I still need to do that I haven't had time to do but tomorrow I might be able to get a few answers since I'll have time tomorrow. Today I had all work and school.
SCHOOL!!! First day of school back at UCF. Woohoo. First class is taught by some indian guy and I hope I can understand him. I really want to get a laptop or at least get my laptop going again. I'm gunna try working on it again later today. If I can't get it working I might get one of those Asus EEE computers. They are cheap, super small, and can only do word processing, internet browsing, and light programming which is just what I need. It's also fashionable! :p My second class has a really young new guy and he seems like he is kind of out in lala land. We'll see how that class goes too. The two classes I am taking are Network Securities and Object Oriented Programming.
So I've been hanging out with Vanessa now. We've gone out on about five or six dates and we kissed with a little toung action. She went back to UF on Saturday. I find it a little weird but we hung out on Thursday which I thought was her last day but she ended up staying Friday and she didn't call to have me over even though I wasn't going to see her for a long time. I called her Saturday and it was a short lived talk and I gave her my AIM and email. I haven't heard from her since and now it's Monday night. I think she is pretty un-social and not putting much effort in. I'm not really sure but I think I'm going to call it and say let's just keep it at dating and when/if she comes back to Melbourne then we can step it up a notch if she wants to.
It's been about 2.5 years since I've got any action. My friend Stephanie came over on her two week military break and I got some nice hand action going on Saturday night at a party in Orlando and then on Sunday some good fun action back at my house before she drove back home. Time to reset the counter. :) Let's hope that the counter doesn't go very high this time. I find it funny that two girls come up at the same time after so long. So crazy. Speaking of girls though. I'm back at UCF and I have more confidence now so hopefully I will be able to hook up with somebody while I'm there.
Tomorrow my car gets fixed, or at least it's supposed to. The parts come in tomorrow and I'm going over to Ken's shop to get the stuff put in. Hopefully it'll fix everything and I'll be able to take it over to Orlando for Wednesday's classes.
SCHOOL!!! First day of school back at UCF. Woohoo. First class is taught by some indian guy and I hope I can understand him. I really want to get a laptop or at least get my laptop going again. I'm gunna try working on it again later today. If I can't get it working I might get one of those Asus EEE computers. They are cheap, super small, and can only do word processing, internet browsing, and light programming which is just what I need. It's also fashionable! :p My second class has a really young new guy and he seems like he is kind of out in lala land. We'll see how that class goes too. The two classes I am taking are Network Securities and Object Oriented Programming.
So I've been hanging out with Vanessa now. We've gone out on about five or six dates and we kissed with a little toung action. She went back to UF on Saturday. I find it a little weird but we hung out on Thursday which I thought was her last day but she ended up staying Friday and she didn't call to have me over even though I wasn't going to see her for a long time. I called her Saturday and it was a short lived talk and I gave her my AIM and email. I haven't heard from her since and now it's Monday night. I think she is pretty un-social and not putting much effort in. I'm not really sure but I think I'm going to call it and say let's just keep it at dating and when/if she comes back to Melbourne then we can step it up a notch if she wants to.
It's been about 2.5 years since I've got any action. My friend Stephanie came over on her two week military break and I got some nice hand action going on Saturday night at a party in Orlando and then on Sunday some good fun action back at my house before she drove back home. Time to reset the counter. :) Let's hope that the counter doesn't go very high this time. I find it funny that two girls come up at the same time after so long. So crazy. Speaking of girls though. I'm back at UCF and I have more confidence now so hopefully I will be able to hook up with somebody while I'm there.
Tomorrow my car gets fixed, or at least it's supposed to. The parts come in tomorrow and I'm going over to Ken's shop to get the stuff put in. Hopefully it'll fix everything and I'll be able to take it over to Orlando for Wednesday's classes.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Realization Time
I've been saying this month is really tight, well, I didn't realize how much I have screwed up my expenses. I've messed up big time. So big that I am losing sleep over it tonight. I started doing a virus check on my computer and went to look at my CC bills. Well, they total a lot more than I thought they did so as a rash move I just scratched them all up so that they are un-usable and took all of them off my Paypal accounts so now I can't use them. I should have done that a long time ago but I didn't. What I'm hoping to do is consolidate them all into one CC and hopefully get either a student loan or some credit card loan from my bank. I'm going to go down there and talk with them to see what they can do for me. I've screwed up this time, and I don't know how I'm going to hide it from the fatherly figure. I can get a small portion of it paid off by simply selling a lot of my car parts. I'm not sure how much I can get but I'm hoping I can get about 2-3k paid off in car parts. The past two months have been horrible for income because my work is so unstable. Between the flucuating hours, my appendectimy, the break since the students were gone, and the hurricane I've had over a month of time off from work with no income. I can scrounge up 2-3k easily and then if I push a few things here and there maybe I can work around to getting 5k or so. With that smaller amount I'm hoping I can get a student loan since I am now back in school to pay for the other portion of the debt. Then I'll kill all my CC's and be done with them until I get a good foundation to stand on financially wise.
Tomorrow/Today I'll be spending with my dad going shopping and raiding my garage for things to sell. Hopefully a ton of small parts here and there for 20-50 bucks each should pull in a decent amount of cash. It'll get me going for this month and hopefully pay for everything next month. I have to talk to my dad about school payment and see what he thinks. I'm going to suggest a school loan of course.
Any ways. Good new though! I made another move with Vanessa and we made out a little. Woohoo. I'm getting brave! Not really but yaaa. :p Any ways. She is leaving today, Friday, for UF and last night was the last night I got to see her before she left. I'm glad that I was able to do that before she went away. I think it helped us out a little bit because it seemed like it broke up some tension, nervousness. Since she'll be at UF that's yet another expense I'll have to put out in order to see her. :(
I'm looking at selling Plasma for a short while. I hear it can bring in about 200-300 bucks a month if you do it twice a week. Two hours per session which is four hours a week for four weeks which is sixteen hours a month for let's say 200 bucks. That's 12.50 an hour. At 300 it's 18.75 an hour. That's really not bad and you can read/do homework while you do it. That's totally perfect for me! I can study while I give blood. At least I'll be so bored that I'll want to study/read the books. That should supplement some more money and enable me to bring in about 1k of income a month that can go to gas and CC bills. I'll be spending roughly 250 a month on gas and then I guess 750 on CC bills which will lower them fairly fast, at least one would hope. Any ways. That'll give me a decent boost in income for maybe a month or two while I really need it.
I'm gunna go and see if I can catch some shut eye before I worry myself to all hell. Peace.
Tomorrow/Today I'll be spending with my dad going shopping and raiding my garage for things to sell. Hopefully a ton of small parts here and there for 20-50 bucks each should pull in a decent amount of cash. It'll get me going for this month and hopefully pay for everything next month. I have to talk to my dad about school payment and see what he thinks. I'm going to suggest a school loan of course.
Any ways. Good new though! I made another move with Vanessa and we made out a little. Woohoo. I'm getting brave! Not really but yaaa. :p Any ways. She is leaving today, Friday, for UF and last night was the last night I got to see her before she left. I'm glad that I was able to do that before she went away. I think it helped us out a little bit because it seemed like it broke up some tension, nervousness. Since she'll be at UF that's yet another expense I'll have to put out in order to see her. :(
I'm looking at selling Plasma for a short while. I hear it can bring in about 200-300 bucks a month if you do it twice a week. Two hours per session which is four hours a week for four weeks which is sixteen hours a month for let's say 200 bucks. That's 12.50 an hour. At 300 it's 18.75 an hour. That's really not bad and you can read/do homework while you do it. That's totally perfect for me! I can study while I give blood. At least I'll be so bored that I'll want to study/read the books. That should supplement some more money and enable me to bring in about 1k of income a month that can go to gas and CC bills. I'll be spending roughly 250 a month on gas and then I guess 750 on CC bills which will lower them fairly fast, at least one would hope. Any ways. That'll give me a decent boost in income for maybe a month or two while I really need it.
I'm gunna go and see if I can catch some shut eye before I worry myself to all hell. Peace.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
What's a Hurricane?
So that so called hurricane, Fay, came through yesterday. It went down to a tropical storm which means it was just a huge storm with higher winds. It was nothing but it's been raining for about 24 hours straight almost. A few small stops here and there but almost constant. The back yard is totally flooded and looks like a shallow lake. The roads are pretty flooded too and some places there are 4-6 inches of water. I'll take some pics of it when the sun comes back out a little bit and it stops raining.
During the rainy day I had Vanessa over. Since my dad's flight got canceled I wasn't doing anything so I picked her up, brought her to my place, and we watched a movie, "The Breakfast Club" since she hadn't seen it, and watched some anime. We cuddled and talked a lot. :) It was a pretty good time. She's been kind of holding back. Like at the movie theater keeping her arms crossed on her lap. So I've had to been kind of up front with her and say, "Hey, why don't ya do...." Kind of bad for me since I'm shy too and nervous but so far it hasn't been to bad. Yesterday was actually really good for me and I lightened up and wasn't nervous at all. I started to get some confidence back which made me happy.
School starts next Monday and my car still isn't fixed. I'm still pissed that I paid 4k for a car that I was told worked totally fine. I even asked if there were any problems with it at all and he said none at all. I've also had to put money into parts and what not so I'm down another 300-400 bucks into this frigging car so needless to say I'm pissed at Ken. He is doing some of the work of installing the radiator and the head gasket which is awesome. I'm glad he's doing that but I still have to buy the parts. Because of all this crap I'm really low on cash. Between the monthly payment to Ken, my CC debt, and the last four weeks I've had off from work I'm kind of up shit creek. Today I'm going to raid my garage if it stops raining and trying and find more stuff to sell online. Maybe make another 200-500 bucks. I think i can easily get another 1k out of parts if I try. I still have to pay for school and what not. I think I'm going to put in for a student loan now that I'm 24 I don't need my dad to fill out the FAFSA so I won't need to get him involved. School is gunna be another 600-700 bucks in classes and then I have another few hundred in books.
Work is cutting hours or so says one of my co-workers. They guaranteed me 20 hours a week when I signed on so we'll see what they do there. They are limiting out hours to 12 hours per day though for all the residential staff. I don't think that's going to work that well. For me I'm not going to do this. If they do 12 hours for 3-4 people to work per day, then that'll mean most people are going to have 3-4 hours shifts. I won't work short shifts like that. That means I'd be working 5 days a week at 4 hours per day. That's messed up and un-acceptable. There's a reason why I only want 20 hours a week, that's because I don't want to be working a lot of days a week and if I have to work 5 days a week then I'm just going quit and find another job.
That's all now. Gunna get going. :p
During the rainy day I had Vanessa over. Since my dad's flight got canceled I wasn't doing anything so I picked her up, brought her to my place, and we watched a movie, "The Breakfast Club" since she hadn't seen it, and watched some anime. We cuddled and talked a lot. :) It was a pretty good time. She's been kind of holding back. Like at the movie theater keeping her arms crossed on her lap. So I've had to been kind of up front with her and say, "Hey, why don't ya do...." Kind of bad for me since I'm shy too and nervous but so far it hasn't been to bad. Yesterday was actually really good for me and I lightened up and wasn't nervous at all. I started to get some confidence back which made me happy.
School starts next Monday and my car still isn't fixed. I'm still pissed that I paid 4k for a car that I was told worked totally fine. I even asked if there were any problems with it at all and he said none at all. I've also had to put money into parts and what not so I'm down another 300-400 bucks into this frigging car so needless to say I'm pissed at Ken. He is doing some of the work of installing the radiator and the head gasket which is awesome. I'm glad he's doing that but I still have to buy the parts. Because of all this crap I'm really low on cash. Between the monthly payment to Ken, my CC debt, and the last four weeks I've had off from work I'm kind of up shit creek. Today I'm going to raid my garage if it stops raining and trying and find more stuff to sell online. Maybe make another 200-500 bucks. I think i can easily get another 1k out of parts if I try. I still have to pay for school and what not. I think I'm going to put in for a student loan now that I'm 24 I don't need my dad to fill out the FAFSA so I won't need to get him involved. School is gunna be another 600-700 bucks in classes and then I have another few hundred in books.
Work is cutting hours or so says one of my co-workers. They guaranteed me 20 hours a week when I signed on so we'll see what they do there. They are limiting out hours to 12 hours per day though for all the residential staff. I don't think that's going to work that well. For me I'm not going to do this. If they do 12 hours for 3-4 people to work per day, then that'll mean most people are going to have 3-4 hours shifts. I won't work short shifts like that. That means I'd be working 5 days a week at 4 hours per day. That's messed up and un-acceptable. There's a reason why I only want 20 hours a week, that's because I don't want to be working a lot of days a week and if I have to work 5 days a week then I'm just going quit and find another job.
That's all now. Gunna get going. :p
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Dating Yaaa!
So I finally got a date after about two and a half years of being single. Woowoo. Her name is Vanessa and she's awesome. :) She's into anime, gothic lolita, sci-fi things, and is really nice. We've been out on three dates so far and I've enoyed myself. I hope she has too. One bad thing is that she's going to UF and she's only home for the summers so I have no clue how that's going to work. I'm also not sure where her and I stand as of yet as we haven't really talked about it. That's next on the agenda. She's kind of shy though with the whole moves thing and so am I. I am terrible at making moves. I get all frantic and nervous. Besides that though I've been having fun and have a good time hanging out with her.
I'm still working on the stupid TDI. I hate this darn car and I'm pissed at Ken for selling it to me and saying it had no problems at all. Taillight went out the other day and I got a frigging ticket for it. There's another 14 dollars down the whole and time wasted. The coolant is still leaking after replacing the radiator with a brand new one, the expansion tank, the expansion tank cap, and bypassing the heater core. So it's definitely the head gasket. I don't think Ken is going to pay for any of the parts to fix the head gasket but he is going to do the work for sure. It's beginning to be the biggest pain in the ass car in the world.
School starts on the 25th. Money is due on the 9th. I've got two classes and the car has to make it there and back three days a week. Hopefully it'll be fixed by then. If it's not I'm gunna sell it.
I'm lacking funds right now which sucks but I'm 24 now so I can get student loans without having to go through my dad and getting him to fill out the FAFSA. I might go and get a student loan to help pay for the credit card debt I have and help pay for gas and the parts that I need to fix the TDI so I can get to class.
I'm still working on the stupid TDI. I hate this darn car and I'm pissed at Ken for selling it to me and saying it had no problems at all. Taillight went out the other day and I got a frigging ticket for it. There's another 14 dollars down the whole and time wasted. The coolant is still leaking after replacing the radiator with a brand new one, the expansion tank, the expansion tank cap, and bypassing the heater core. So it's definitely the head gasket. I don't think Ken is going to pay for any of the parts to fix the head gasket but he is going to do the work for sure. It's beginning to be the biggest pain in the ass car in the world.
School starts on the 25th. Money is due on the 9th. I've got two classes and the car has to make it there and back three days a week. Hopefully it'll be fixed by then. If it's not I'm gunna sell it.
I'm lacking funds right now which sucks but I'm 24 now so I can get student loans without having to go through my dad and getting him to fill out the FAFSA. I might go and get a student loan to help pay for the credit card debt I have and help pay for gas and the parts that I need to fix the TDI so I can get to class.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Information Technology
I got back into UCF!!! I am back in and I am now signed up for two classes. I am limited to two classes per semester but that's good enough for me. Once I get my UCF GPA up I can take more but two for now is enough. I have to drive over to UCF three days a week which really blows but it's three gallons per round trip which isn't to bad.
Speaking of travel, my TDI either has a blown head gasket or a cracked head. I'm hoping for the head gasket. Hopefully it'll all be fixed up in the next week or two. Along with that I should be getting a few more things done. Next week the car gets lots of work. :)
I asked a chick out today. OMG OMG OMG. I worked with this chick at the zoo last week with one of my students and she was cool so this week I knew I was working with her again and she was still cool so I asked to see if she wanted hang out some time. :) I got a number. OMG!!!
So that's a quick update. I gotta get going to work. :(
Speaking of travel, my TDI either has a blown head gasket or a cracked head. I'm hoping for the head gasket. Hopefully it'll all be fixed up in the next week or two. Along with that I should be getting a few more things done. Next week the car gets lots of work. :)
I asked a chick out today. OMG OMG OMG. I worked with this chick at the zoo last week with one of my students and she was cool so this week I knew I was working with her again and she was still cool so I asked to see if she wanted hang out some time. :) I got a number. OMG!!!
So that's a quick update. I gotta get going to work. :(
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Woowoo
Good and bad news. First the good. I'm back in UCF as of yesterday when I get the acceptance letter. Woohoo!! Bad news, I got the bill from just the hospital so far and it's 17.4k dollars. LAWL. That doesn't include the doctors bills. So I'm probably looking at about 24-25k dollars. My dad and I are working now and breaking apart the bill to see how much everything is overpriced and my dad is going crazy with the whole legal aspects and seeing what way we can attack it.
Today was my first day back at work and boy did it make me feel better. It's kind of weird how that works. Any ways. I'm off to Orlando now to spend tomorrow with the friends. Peace out.
Today was my first day back at work and boy did it make me feel better. It's kind of weird how that works. Any ways. I'm off to Orlando now to spend tomorrow with the friends. Peace out.
Friday, July 11, 2008
TDIRefil - 02 - 02
This is my second receipt/fill up that I've had in my TDI. As you can see I went a total of 600.4 miles says the trip counter and the receipt says that I used a total of 13.18 gallons. That comes out to roughly 45.55 miles per gallon. This was with a combination of highway and city driving. I used all this in about a week. I went to Orlando twice which is a 70-80 mile trip one way and then I used the car to go to and from work all week.
As for the price of diesel. It blows but hey... it's only 17% more in cost of the fuel for 100% more in gas mileage. I think that says it all. People are always like. But it costs more! The extra cost doesn't out do the extra miles you get, not by a long shot. As for cost per mile. This last tank cost me a total of 10.39 cents per mile. It's 12 miles to work, 24 miles total so it costs me 2.49$ to get to work and back.
As for the price of diesel. It blows but hey... it's only 17% more in cost of the fuel for 100% more in gas mileage. I think that says it all. People are always like. But it costs more! The extra cost doesn't out do the extra miles you get, not by a long shot. As for cost per mile. This last tank cost me a total of 10.39 cents per mile. It's 12 miles to work, 24 miles total so it costs me 2.49$ to get to work and back.
The Healing Game
I've been just lazing around the house healing up the three incisions I have in my belly. I've been playing a ton of this Warcraft Mod for Counter Strike Source. It's pretty pimp. The wounds are healing nicely but I wish I could say the same for my financial situation. The hospital is probably going to charge me in the range of 12-24 THOUSAND dollars for this operation. Gotta love the US of A. So, I'm working on taking care of that slowly. It's going to be a long time till my dad and I get that figured out. He said we are going to fight them to get the bill lower since they over price like hella.
Drove my car for the first time in about a week. Woot woot. I need to go deliver some packages in it today. :) I love driving. I think the coolant leak, MIGHT, be fixed. I'm not really sure. I was letting it cool down this morning before I checked it to see. Pretty soon here I will be going out to look. If it's fixed, OMG AWESOME! I have until this coming up Wednesday off from work. I think I should be good to do small spurts of light car work so I will hopefully be doing a few things to it shortly here. Pics will be posted of course.
I've got a huge party today. This is the day before my B-Day and my friends are holding a party that is celebrating about four people's birthdays. It's kind of insane. Also it's a going away party for our friend Billy and Liz. I think she's leaving with him. He's moving to CA where he got a job.
Drove my car for the first time in about a week. Woot woot. I need to go deliver some packages in it today. :) I love driving. I think the coolant leak, MIGHT, be fixed. I'm not really sure. I was letting it cool down this morning before I checked it to see. Pretty soon here I will be going out to look. If it's fixed, OMG AWESOME! I have until this coming up Wednesday off from work. I think I should be good to do small spurts of light car work so I will hopefully be doing a few things to it shortly here. Pics will be posted of course.
I've got a huge party today. This is the day before my B-Day and my friends are holding a party that is celebrating about four people's birthdays. It's kind of insane. Also it's a going away party for our friend Billy and Liz. I think she's leaving with him. He's moving to CA where he got a job.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Appendix GONE!!!!
So... the human body has all sorts of stupid shit that it doesn't need. One of which is the appendix and now I don't have mine. It got soar or infected on Saturday morning, I felt like I had a stomach ache for about 5 hours and it only got worse so i went into the hospital where they said I had appendicitis. On Sunday at 1pm I had my surgery and now I'm back at home. Got home around 10pm Sunday. Gotta go lay down now.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
New Cars Suck
So you go and get a new car and expect it to work fine... and low and behold crap happens of course. On top of that stupid man hole cover that hit the car now it's over heating.... well... it was. I fixed it thank god. I think I fixed it.
I put on a few nice things like a set of Votex Long Fogs, Smoked Side Markers, and a Early Vento Grille. It's pretty pimp already and a set of coilovers are on the way along with smoked side blinkers. Once I get the 5 lug swap on there it'll poke out the wheels a tad more, have better looking stock wheels, and they will be bigger. :) I'll also have better stopping power because i'll have rear discs and larger front brakes along with stainless steel braided brake lines. :) I'll get some pics up soon.
I should be taking it down to a body shop soon to get the body work done.
I put on a few nice things like a set of Votex Long Fogs, Smoked Side Markers, and a Early Vento Grille. It's pretty pimp already and a set of coilovers are on the way along with smoked side blinkers. Once I get the 5 lug swap on there it'll poke out the wheels a tad more, have better looking stock wheels, and they will be bigger. :) I'll also have better stopping power because i'll have rear discs and larger front brakes along with stainless steel braided brake lines. :) I'll get some pics up soon.
I should be taking it down to a body shop soon to get the body work done.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
TDI FTW
So far I've been driving my new vehicle for about 700 miles now. My first tank got a big 43mpg and now this tank is getting slightly less. I think it's because of the different diesel from a different shop but it could be because of my driving style with this tank now that I am used to it and i've been in a rush a little bit more lately.
A day or two ago I put in the Bose speakers, smoked front end turns and long fogs along with the fog light harness and fog light NA headlight switch. It's slowly becoming a decent daily driver. :) There are still a few problems with it. The coolant light keeps going on but I'm sure there isn't a leak so I just think it's the water reservoir sensor. I need to delete/clean out the EGR and add in a DV/BOV some how. That'll be posted later.
I've been looking for mods because most of my exterior mods are almost done. I've got almost all of my exterior mods on order or already here waiting to be done. :) I've started looking at some performance modifications but don't know if I am going to get them for a while. I can't really afford it so I won't be getting them for a while. :)
My brother bought me TF2 for my B-Day. It's a early present. I've been playing it recently but haven't had a chance to play it with my bro which sucks. It's a cool game though. I'll be trying our Portal pretty soon.
I got my AA diploma in the mail today. :) Kinda cool. Time to start applying for other schools other than UCF.
A day or two ago I put in the Bose speakers, smoked front end turns and long fogs along with the fog light harness and fog light NA headlight switch. It's slowly becoming a decent daily driver. :) There are still a few problems with it. The coolant light keeps going on but I'm sure there isn't a leak so I just think it's the water reservoir sensor. I need to delete/clean out the EGR and add in a DV/BOV some how. That'll be posted later.
I've been looking for mods because most of my exterior mods are almost done. I've got almost all of my exterior mods on order or already here waiting to be done. :) I've started looking at some performance modifications but don't know if I am going to get them for a while. I can't really afford it so I won't be getting them for a while. :)
My brother bought me TF2 for my B-Day. It's a early present. I've been playing it recently but haven't had a chance to play it with my bro which sucks. It's a cool game though. I'll be trying our Portal pretty soon.
I got my AA diploma in the mail today. :) Kinda cool. Time to start applying for other schools other than UCF.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
PinkAccents - 02
Last night my friend and I decided to do a ghetto texture top euro look alike bumper by spraying truck bed liner on the top. Bumpers can be bought like this OEM and the look is totally awesome but a bumper like this costs 150 bucks+ 80 for the euro rebar... where I did it for 8 bucks which was the cost of the spray can. Then about an hour and a half of prep time and paint time..... so while I we were waiting I decided to have a little fun with the spare parts I had and my TDI badge. I painted my TDI badge pink and pink coated my front turns and dummy panels. :) It looks so sweet. I kind of like it. I might keep it that way but buy a set of clear long fogs and pink those properly to get the whole smooth look going right. Exterior mods are slowly being done. :)
ManHoleCoverDamage - 03
So I was starting to leave from a stop light because it turned green and a man hole cover pops out and is rolling in front of my car. I thought it was a hub cap because.... man hole covers never just roll down the street. So.... it rolls past my car and because the heavy side was towards my car it turned in towards my car and kabam! The heavy 50+lb man hole cover hit my car and left a deep, sharp, 1" long dent in the front passenger side door and in the rear passenger side door is what you see. It's about 2 feet long scrape and it's dented in because of the weight. I have owned my clean, dent free car, for about four days now and this crap happens. It wasn't ment to be for me to have a clean car. :(
Monday, June 16, 2008
1998 Jetta TDI
Just testing my Flickr and Blogger connection. :) Just got the two semi linked up so that I can post single images pretty quickly. Cool little feature they put into Flickr. Might have to edit the template though. We shall see.
Any ways.... So far I've put about 35 miles on the TDI and the gauge hasn't moved a bit! So awesome. On my old VR6 Turbo car that would have eaten up like 3 gallons. Well, off to bed now, for real this time.
Any ways.... So far I've put about 35 miles on the TDI and the gauge hasn't moved a bit! So awesome. On my old VR6 Turbo car that would have eaten up like 3 gallons. Well, off to bed now, for real this time.
NEW CAR!!
I picked up my new car and pictures can be found on my Flickr account. It's a new 1998 Jetta TDI! So awesome! It's got 149k miles and runs great. Mods will be coming soon. Already swapped over a few small things like billet door pulls and diamond plate door mats. Yeah, it's a little bit tacky but they actually look decent and work great. :)
My brother left today and it's fathers day today. We went out and saw Iron Man. It was my 2nd time and it was still awesome.
Tomorrow is going to be kind of busy. I want to try and get a few things done with the new car and tomorrow we are finally getting it registered, titled, and insured. Insurance should be cheaper so hopefully my dad will like that. I also have work tomorrow and need to do a few errands. I'm so glad I have my own car now!
This week is kind of insane. I have about 18 hours in residential and another 8 or so in other departments. It'll probably work out to about 30 hours this week but the kicker is that I am also going to Orlando to get some paperwork done and hopefully get into UCF.
Time for bed.
My brother left today and it's fathers day today. We went out and saw Iron Man. It was my 2nd time and it was still awesome.
Tomorrow is going to be kind of busy. I want to try and get a few things done with the new car and tomorrow we are finally getting it registered, titled, and insured. Insurance should be cheaper so hopefully my dad will like that. I also have work tomorrow and need to do a few errands. I'm so glad I have my own car now!
This week is kind of insane. I have about 18 hours in residential and another 8 or so in other departments. It'll probably work out to about 30 hours this week but the kicker is that I am also going to Orlando to get some paperwork done and hopefully get into UCF.
Time for bed.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
A NEW CAR!!!
Well... not yet. My friend Ken is selling a 1998 Jetta TDI!!! OMG A DIESEL ENGINE!!! YAAAA. He is selling it for $4k and it's in great shape and just had a ton of work done to it. Work as in maintenance stuff. The interior is decently clean, the exterior isn't a 10/10 but it's more like a 7 out of 10 I'd say. It's got it's small nicks and what not but not bad at all for a 10 year old car. Kind of weird that it's 10 years old and only a 1998. So..... I'm working with him on doing some sort of payment thing. I hope he'll do it and I just pay him like 2k up front or something.
My brother is coming to town. Woohoo. He will be here later tonight. It'll be good to see him again.
I started posting a ton of my parts on the VW forums. Hopefully that'll give me enough money to keep going and get that car.
My brother is coming to town. Woohoo. He will be here later tonight. It'll be good to see him again.
I started posting a ton of my parts on the VW forums. Hopefully that'll give me enough money to keep going and get that car.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Clearing Up
Some things are starting to unravel themselves... somewhat. I talked to my dad and we worked out a few things. It should be better now. So I'm glad that shebokel is over. He said that I should just go at the pace I want to go instead of pushing me to get through school. He started to think how his life is and how mom's life was and realized that just because he got through school it didn't make him happy and mom worked her ass off and died before she was able to get the payoff from going to school.
I've started to go through my garage to see if I can find stuff to sell. So far I've spent about five hours cleaning the garage so I can get to the stuff that is worth money. So far I have about 600 bucks in parts that I can sell. I'll be listing the stuff up soon. Tomorrow I have the day off and I might request Wednesday off because of some reason I will speak about in a second. So.... pretty soon here I'll have enough funds to get the car going and what not.
Work sort of took a small dump. My boss is kind of stupid. She's cool, but sometimes has her moments. I kind of have multiple bosses. I work for different departments and in those departments I have different bosses. Dur. So, the person who deals with the cars is the director of the company. I asked her if I could use one of the cars to get parts for the bus when I was fixing it and she was all mad because I didn't go through the chain of command. WTF. I just took out the middle man and saved time.
She went off on tons of stuff. Another thing was that she got talked to apparently by the director because I was doing personal stuff while we had down time at work. WE HAD NOTHING TO DO. So I decided to work on personal stuff and use the down time to my advantage. WTF WTF WTF. I can understand if she just said not to do it in a place where I'd be seen by others but she ranted about it. Since I was using my personal phone and making phone calls and such she said that I need to limit my use of my phone while working. Whatever.
Next was that I thought I'd ask if I could rent one of the houses to live in for a while. I don't know why she would be mad about that but she was. She has no decisions over that at all.
Then I asked for a raise in pay. She has no control over what I get paid so I asked the director who makes all of the pay decisions. I work for all departments so I figured that'd be ok. On top of that I asked if I could get paid more for other departments that I work for which my Residential boss has no control over either. So I don't see WTF that was all about.
While I was talking to the director of my work place casually and just talking I mentioned that I was told that residential hours had been cut. She said they haven't been cut and then we got on the topic of that because she decided to check what the hours were with the time sheets that were printed out on her desk. All I did was mention that residential hours were cut and my boss got wind that we had that conversation and she thought I was asking for more hours and took it a whole different way. I wasn't asking for more hours at all, I was just stating what I had been told.
I guess I messed up a little here. I had gotten into a car accident as I posted before. I am pretty sure I told everybody and I didn't think it was that bad of a problem. I tried to tell everybody at work and she says she didn't get told that. I'm pretty sure I did so I don't know WTF is up with that. Then she went on about what if I couldn't catch one of the students if they fell. Mean while I'm thinking, what about the other smaller girls that work there. They can't hold those people either or catch them. She's mad because I couldn't do the manual labor that I ALWAYS do there. I'm one of the two men there that can pick up heavier objects and because the two of us got injured at the same time she decides to take shit out on me. That's just wrong. She's all like, you should have called in and told me you couldn't work. I could pick up things that are of regular weight like 25-35lb's but nothing like a frigging desk that she asked me to move or huge file cabnits. I don't think my regular RESIDENTIAL duties call for lifting cabnits, desks, and large amounts of chairs on a daily basis. If it does why don't the other residential members EVER do that stuff. Oh yeah, because I'm one of the guys that does more than is what is asked of him and when I don't do that 150% they think I'm slacking and screwing up. F that shit.
She got on me because my car isn't running. She's like. You are a mechanic and were getting paid a lot for a while. Why don't you have a reliable car? Hummm, maybe because I don't have STABLE hours to afford a good car. I'm working on a reliable car but to make a reliable car it takes lots of money. Gimme a frigging break.
She said that some co-workers complained that I was on drugs or some crap. The prescription drugs that I got from the hospital. I had mentioned them at the picnic we had on Friday because I was talking about the accident and I said that I had tried one of the medicines and that it just made me want to sleep and that I wasn't going to take it any more. She should know I wouldn't come into work with heavy medication. How dare she suspect that I might do that.
Now I know I did mess up. I made a small change to my schedule. I was supposed to work till 10pm and my co-worker was supposed to get off at 9pm. She says that her boss, the director, yelled at her but that's not possible but she hasn't seen the time sheets yet because they haven't been turned in yet. She's just made that I made the change without asking her whether it was alright or not. My other co-worker was staying till 10pm any ways to do school work then go home because she can't do school work there. It hurt nobody and it worked out a lot better for the both of us. On top of that I didn't bother her at all and she sometimes calls and says that she's upset that the other employees call her on every little thing. This was a little thing. She needs to chill the fuck out. But, I did mess up there.
Lastly she said I need to leave personal issues at home. Such as the car, living there, and phone call stuff. The car thing is a work in progress and she should know that, the living thing... ok, and the phone thing was explained already. I'm going to have a talk with her on Wednesday to tell her some of these things. She says she wants me to talk to her more and that we need to be more of a team so I will explain myself to her since she wants that.
Tomorrow I leave to talk to UCF and turn in my papers to them. My written up letter, admittance sheet, and anything else they need. I gotta get to bed so peace out!
I've started to go through my garage to see if I can find stuff to sell. So far I've spent about five hours cleaning the garage so I can get to the stuff that is worth money. So far I have about 600 bucks in parts that I can sell. I'll be listing the stuff up soon. Tomorrow I have the day off and I might request Wednesday off because of some reason I will speak about in a second. So.... pretty soon here I'll have enough funds to get the car going and what not.
Work sort of took a small dump. My boss is kind of stupid. She's cool, but sometimes has her moments. I kind of have multiple bosses. I work for different departments and in those departments I have different bosses. Dur. So, the person who deals with the cars is the director of the company. I asked her if I could use one of the cars to get parts for the bus when I was fixing it and she was all mad because I didn't go through the chain of command. WTF. I just took out the middle man and saved time.
She went off on tons of stuff. Another thing was that she got talked to apparently by the director because I was doing personal stuff while we had down time at work. WE HAD NOTHING TO DO. So I decided to work on personal stuff and use the down time to my advantage. WTF WTF WTF. I can understand if she just said not to do it in a place where I'd be seen by others but she ranted about it. Since I was using my personal phone and making phone calls and such she said that I need to limit my use of my phone while working. Whatever.
Next was that I thought I'd ask if I could rent one of the houses to live in for a while. I don't know why she would be mad about that but she was. She has no decisions over that at all.
Then I asked for a raise in pay. She has no control over what I get paid so I asked the director who makes all of the pay decisions. I work for all departments so I figured that'd be ok. On top of that I asked if I could get paid more for other departments that I work for which my Residential boss has no control over either. So I don't see WTF that was all about.
While I was talking to the director of my work place casually and just talking I mentioned that I was told that residential hours had been cut. She said they haven't been cut and then we got on the topic of that because she decided to check what the hours were with the time sheets that were printed out on her desk. All I did was mention that residential hours were cut and my boss got wind that we had that conversation and she thought I was asking for more hours and took it a whole different way. I wasn't asking for more hours at all, I was just stating what I had been told.
I guess I messed up a little here. I had gotten into a car accident as I posted before. I am pretty sure I told everybody and I didn't think it was that bad of a problem. I tried to tell everybody at work and she says she didn't get told that. I'm pretty sure I did so I don't know WTF is up with that. Then she went on about what if I couldn't catch one of the students if they fell. Mean while I'm thinking, what about the other smaller girls that work there. They can't hold those people either or catch them. She's mad because I couldn't do the manual labor that I ALWAYS do there. I'm one of the two men there that can pick up heavier objects and because the two of us got injured at the same time she decides to take shit out on me. That's just wrong. She's all like, you should have called in and told me you couldn't work. I could pick up things that are of regular weight like 25-35lb's but nothing like a frigging desk that she asked me to move or huge file cabnits. I don't think my regular RESIDENTIAL duties call for lifting cabnits, desks, and large amounts of chairs on a daily basis. If it does why don't the other residential members EVER do that stuff. Oh yeah, because I'm one of the guys that does more than is what is asked of him and when I don't do that 150% they think I'm slacking and screwing up. F that shit.
She got on me because my car isn't running. She's like. You are a mechanic and were getting paid a lot for a while. Why don't you have a reliable car? Hummm, maybe because I don't have STABLE hours to afford a good car. I'm working on a reliable car but to make a reliable car it takes lots of money. Gimme a frigging break.
She said that some co-workers complained that I was on drugs or some crap. The prescription drugs that I got from the hospital. I had mentioned them at the picnic we had on Friday because I was talking about the accident and I said that I had tried one of the medicines and that it just made me want to sleep and that I wasn't going to take it any more. She should know I wouldn't come into work with heavy medication. How dare she suspect that I might do that.
Now I know I did mess up. I made a small change to my schedule. I was supposed to work till 10pm and my co-worker was supposed to get off at 9pm. She says that her boss, the director, yelled at her but that's not possible but she hasn't seen the time sheets yet because they haven't been turned in yet. She's just made that I made the change without asking her whether it was alright or not. My other co-worker was staying till 10pm any ways to do school work then go home because she can't do school work there. It hurt nobody and it worked out a lot better for the both of us. On top of that I didn't bother her at all and she sometimes calls and says that she's upset that the other employees call her on every little thing. This was a little thing. She needs to chill the fuck out. But, I did mess up there.
Lastly she said I need to leave personal issues at home. Such as the car, living there, and phone call stuff. The car thing is a work in progress and she should know that, the living thing... ok, and the phone thing was explained already. I'm going to have a talk with her on Wednesday to tell her some of these things. She says she wants me to talk to her more and that we need to be more of a team so I will explain myself to her since she wants that.
Tomorrow I leave to talk to UCF and turn in my papers to them. My written up letter, admittance sheet, and anything else they need. I gotta get to bed so peace out!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Move, Pay, or Deal
Dad has been getting on my case lately about him supporting me. He's saying that I'm not doing anything with school and that I'm spending to much on my cars. Which I will agree that I am spending a lot on my cars but it's not as much as he think it is. I don't know how much he thinks he spends supporting me so I think I need to talk to him about leaving, paying him, or just expressing that he is driving me nuts. I am doing stuff about school so I don't know what he's talking about. One thing that is killing me is that I don't have a running car to get around in which I have been working on too.
One of the reasons why he's getting on my case so much right now is because he is having hard times at his job and I am the only one that he can express any emotion to, whether it be good or bad emotion. Usually it's bad and he doesn't deal with stress very well at all. Also he is going to be losing his assistant soon so he will have to be there full time and that will raise his stress level a lot because he doesn't deal with the stress that well. My mom used to talk to me about it and I noticed it to because when he works from 9-5 he gets really cranky.
I need to get to sleep now so I can get to work tomorrow.
One of the reasons why he's getting on my case so much right now is because he is having hard times at his job and I am the only one that he can express any emotion to, whether it be good or bad emotion. Usually it's bad and he doesn't deal with stress very well at all. Also he is going to be losing his assistant soon so he will have to be there full time and that will raise his stress level a lot because he doesn't deal with the stress that well. My mom used to talk to me about it and I noticed it to because when he works from 9-5 he gets really cranky.
I need to get to sleep now so I can get to work tomorrow.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Car Accident
I got into a car accident about 4 days ago. I was riding shotgun in my friends VW Fox doing about 50mph on Palm Bay Rd. and some lady decided she wanted to make a turn across the road right as we were crossing the same intersection. Both cars got totaled and my friend and I just got some internal bruising on our chests because of the seat belts. It was insane. It's my first car accident I've ever been in and I think I can say my first time I've ever really thought, OMG, I might die.
So there's that. We went to the hospital the next day and got some meds. They gave us some muscle relaxant that put us out for over 15 hours the next day. I'm never taking that stuff again unless I want to sleep. I'll just deal with the pain in my chest.
I am trying to get my car going. I've been slowly, very slowly, going through my garage and collecting the parts I need to get my car back together. I still have to rebuild the motor and get a bunch of parts for it that will cost over 1500 bucks more than likely. I have a lot of parts though that I bought that I can sell and get all that money back pretty easily. I am going to start selling the stuff fast here because now I need the money and can't afford to have all these parts just laying around doing nothing. My plans are to have my current Jetta that I've been driving around to be my daily driver in NA form and my parts car Jetta to be my race/fun car. It's going slow.
My entry into UCF continues. So far I've got almost all the paperwork done and I am just having people look over it right now and see if my letter is all good and looks good. I think that's the biggest deciding factor. If I get in I will be so happy and have a lot off my chest. :) Then I'll know what I am doing for the next 2-3 years of my life. If I don't then I have to get into some other university in which I might have to move to some city that I know nothing about and move out of my house in which I would cost me a lot.
My job is going downhill. I am down to 18-19 hours a week now because the bossaroo decided to come in and cut hours like a mofo. The whole place is low on hours. It's frigging stupid. I'm going to be looking for another job during this summer so that I can confirm that I have some of my CC debt paid off and I will have my car running in tip top shape.
Lastly I am starting on a diet again so I can lose some weight. The joy of looking at delicious food and not being able to eat it and having to limit my proportions so that I never really feel... full.
So there's that. We went to the hospital the next day and got some meds. They gave us some muscle relaxant that put us out for over 15 hours the next day. I'm never taking that stuff again unless I want to sleep. I'll just deal with the pain in my chest.
I am trying to get my car going. I've been slowly, very slowly, going through my garage and collecting the parts I need to get my car back together. I still have to rebuild the motor and get a bunch of parts for it that will cost over 1500 bucks more than likely. I have a lot of parts though that I bought that I can sell and get all that money back pretty easily. I am going to start selling the stuff fast here because now I need the money and can't afford to have all these parts just laying around doing nothing. My plans are to have my current Jetta that I've been driving around to be my daily driver in NA form and my parts car Jetta to be my race/fun car. It's going slow.
My entry into UCF continues. So far I've got almost all the paperwork done and I am just having people look over it right now and see if my letter is all good and looks good. I think that's the biggest deciding factor. If I get in I will be so happy and have a lot off my chest. :) Then I'll know what I am doing for the next 2-3 years of my life. If I don't then I have to get into some other university in which I might have to move to some city that I know nothing about and move out of my house in which I would cost me a lot.
My job is going downhill. I am down to 18-19 hours a week now because the bossaroo decided to come in and cut hours like a mofo. The whole place is low on hours. It's frigging stupid. I'm going to be looking for another job during this summer so that I can confirm that I have some of my CC debt paid off and I will have my car running in tip top shape.
Lastly I am starting on a diet again so I can lose some weight. The joy of looking at delicious food and not being able to eat it and having to limit my proportions so that I never really feel... full.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Just a Day Thing
I think my negative thinking was just a one day thing. I am a lot better today which s nice. I hung out with Greg all day. Him and I always have a good time and we don't get on each others nerves which is awesome.
Tomorrow I am going to UCF to try and get back in, or at least submit the paper work since I can't do it online they say. I hope they say I get in. That'll relieve a lot off my back. Otherwise I gotta go see a few counselors about what will transfer over and what classes I should take at BCC in the Fall semester to keep going to school and continue my degree even though I'm not in UCF yet.
I figured out my car situation. I've got 3 cars right now. The bus, parts jetta, and my old daily driver. I'm going to take all the turbo stuff out and get the old daily driver back to NA form with a brand new rebuilt engine with AC and all that jazz. Put in the cams, l/w lifters, l/w flywheel, chip, intake, exhaust and then call it a day. Since I have all that stuff and can't use it any ways on the other car. I should have everything to put it together except the transmission which will cost me about 300 bucks or so. Then some other small parts and for about 1k I can probably have that thing running around again NA style. As far as looks after that, swap over the GLX stuff, and I might rat ride it out and rust the sides and repaint the center. Who knows. Then the parts car will become the insane Jetta and the bus will get taken apart to see what happened to it on the BABE Rally.
I should have enough money for now to get by. I have money coming in from my BABE Rally guys, money that a friend owes me, and my paycheck. I should be good for this month to get my car going and pay off stuff. Then I gotta take a break for a while.
Girls girls girls! I wish it was a easy fix for this as it sounds for the car and schooling situation. My youngin 17 year old that I wanted to have some fun with and maybe date turned 18. That's just a good thing mentally. She was already still legal and she's kind of cool but as I talk to her more I find that she's very closed off about her feelings and doesn't talk much about herself. She has a hard time opening up which I don't like. I found a old friend from Elementary or Jr. High on Facebook and I don't know why I never really talked to her back in the day but now I am trying to. I always thought she was kind of cute back in the day and now she's more cute and seems to have the same interests. I dunno yet, I'm going to meet up with her in a few days here hopefully. See how she is now a days. If anything I have another local friend to hang out with.
I just started using Pandora for my music. Kind of. I am still in Orlando from my BABE Alternate journey and using my friend Greg's laptop and have Pandora open on it all the time. So far I'm loving it because of the new music all the time and it's just so pimp. I've also started using twitter.
I think my website is going to be transformed so that my blog is the main page. Having it as an alternate page doesn't work to well. I dunno yet.
Tomorrow I am going to UCF to try and get back in, or at least submit the paper work since I can't do it online they say. I hope they say I get in. That'll relieve a lot off my back. Otherwise I gotta go see a few counselors about what will transfer over and what classes I should take at BCC in the Fall semester to keep going to school and continue my degree even though I'm not in UCF yet.
I figured out my car situation. I've got 3 cars right now. The bus, parts jetta, and my old daily driver. I'm going to take all the turbo stuff out and get the old daily driver back to NA form with a brand new rebuilt engine with AC and all that jazz. Put in the cams, l/w lifters, l/w flywheel, chip, intake, exhaust and then call it a day. Since I have all that stuff and can't use it any ways on the other car. I should have everything to put it together except the transmission which will cost me about 300 bucks or so. Then some other small parts and for about 1k I can probably have that thing running around again NA style. As far as looks after that, swap over the GLX stuff, and I might rat ride it out and rust the sides and repaint the center. Who knows. Then the parts car will become the insane Jetta and the bus will get taken apart to see what happened to it on the BABE Rally.
I should have enough money for now to get by. I have money coming in from my BABE Rally guys, money that a friend owes me, and my paycheck. I should be good for this month to get my car going and pay off stuff. Then I gotta take a break for a while.
Girls girls girls! I wish it was a easy fix for this as it sounds for the car and schooling situation. My youngin 17 year old that I wanted to have some fun with and maybe date turned 18. That's just a good thing mentally. She was already still legal and she's kind of cool but as I talk to her more I find that she's very closed off about her feelings and doesn't talk much about herself. She has a hard time opening up which I don't like. I found a old friend from Elementary or Jr. High on Facebook and I don't know why I never really talked to her back in the day but now I am trying to. I always thought she was kind of cute back in the day and now she's more cute and seems to have the same interests. I dunno yet, I'm going to meet up with her in a few days here hopefully. See how she is now a days. If anything I have another local friend to hang out with.
I just started using Pandora for my music. Kind of. I am still in Orlando from my BABE Alternate journey and using my friend Greg's laptop and have Pandora open on it all the time. So far I'm loving it because of the new music all the time and it's just so pimp. I've also started using twitter.
I think my website is going to be transformed so that my blog is the main page. Having it as an alternate page doesn't work to well. I dunno yet.
No Posting!!!!
I haven't posted on here in like two months or something. I dunno, maybe it's been longer. Any ways. I just got back from my alternate BABE Rally trip. The BABE Rally fell through and you can check that out at our BABE Rally blog at http://ricketyvan.com.
For some reason I am getting depressed now. I think it's everything that is just hitting me in the face right now and that I am starting to get behind on things, mainly my life. No running car, don't have a stable job, don't know if I can get into UCF, in debt, and no girlfriend. I was just on a up but now it seems to have doubled around and kicked me in the face. Maybe it's just a tonight thing but I don't think it's going to be. :(
For some reason I am getting depressed now. I think it's everything that is just hitting me in the face right now and that I am starting to get behind on things, mainly my life. No running car, don't have a stable job, don't know if I can get into UCF, in debt, and no girlfriend. I was just on a up but now it seems to have doubled around and kicked me in the face. Maybe it's just a tonight thing but I don't think it's going to be. :(
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Depressed
I've been pretty depressed lately. It's a combination of a lot of things I think. Between the cars not working, lack of money, feeling of segregation from the VW group I hang out with, lack of a girlfriend for two to three years, and work throwing me around like a frequently used cunt rag it's starting to take a drain on me.
Hopefully in the next few weeks my cars will be up and running. It's going to take more money which will hurt that situation but at least I'll have my car or cars going. I don't really know what's up with the group. I just feel like they have been turning on me. I've been feeling like this for a while. Maybe it's all in my head, maybe it's not. I'm not really sure but it sure does annoy me and it makes me sad. :(
The lack of a girlfriend thing is just a nat that picks at me every time I go out with people since most everybody else has some sort of significant other. It makes me want to jump out of my bus's rear door as it maxes out doing 75mph on the highway. Maybe a semi passing me will run me over.
The work thing is starting to get more and more annoying. They scheduled me for the next three weeks with working two days and getting like ten hours. I've been getting around 20 to 30 hours a week so.... why did they do this? Because Caleb is the way to nice guy that picks up everybody's shift when they can't do theirs and does all the stuff that people don't want to do. So.... instead of giving me a schedule so that I can plan crap, they give me crap hours and hope that I'll just wait around for them. That's what you get for being to nice. You get shit on. Like usual. Wouldn't be the first time.
I've been playing WoW a lot more lately. Maybe it's to take my mind off of my depression. I've also been watching House a lot. So far up to season four. I need to check if I'll be caught up or not.
I've got a Calculus Two test this Thursday that I haven't studied much for and for some reason I couldn't get to sleep tonight and I have work at 9am. Today is going to be really sucky and it's going to put me more behind because of my lack of discipline. I could blame it on the depression lately but what's the fun in that. Excuses are lame. I'm just lazy I guess.
Hopefully in the next few weeks my cars will be up and running. It's going to take more money which will hurt that situation but at least I'll have my car or cars going. I don't really know what's up with the group. I just feel like they have been turning on me. I've been feeling like this for a while. Maybe it's all in my head, maybe it's not. I'm not really sure but it sure does annoy me and it makes me sad. :(
The lack of a girlfriend thing is just a nat that picks at me every time I go out with people since most everybody else has some sort of significant other. It makes me want to jump out of my bus's rear door as it maxes out doing 75mph on the highway. Maybe a semi passing me will run me over.
The work thing is starting to get more and more annoying. They scheduled me for the next three weeks with working two days and getting like ten hours. I've been getting around 20 to 30 hours a week so.... why did they do this? Because Caleb is the way to nice guy that picks up everybody's shift when they can't do theirs and does all the stuff that people don't want to do. So.... instead of giving me a schedule so that I can plan crap, they give me crap hours and hope that I'll just wait around for them. That's what you get for being to nice. You get shit on. Like usual. Wouldn't be the first time.
I've been playing WoW a lot more lately. Maybe it's to take my mind off of my depression. I've also been watching House a lot. So far up to season four. I need to check if I'll be caught up or not.
I've got a Calculus Two test this Thursday that I haven't studied much for and for some reason I couldn't get to sleep tonight and I have work at 9am. Today is going to be really sucky and it's going to put me more behind because of my lack of discipline. I could blame it on the depression lately but what's the fun in that. Excuses are lame. I'm just lazy I guess.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
House!
I've been watching a lot of house recently. Trying to finally get through those episodes that my brother gave me. He gave me all of the seasons. :) Love my brother.
So I'm kind of crazy and decided I wanted to do a VR6 swap into my bus. It'd cost just about as much as rebuilding the current engine because so that's the main thing. It'd be cheaper for the end result for what I want to do with the bus in the end. So it's awesome.
Work cut some of my hours. Well... they have been for the past two weeks so far. It's been giving me time to do other things, but I've been really lazy and haven't really done crap. :( I need to get off my ass and start making T-Shirt designs, making my dad's website for his band, and fixing my bus/car.
So I'm kind of crazy and decided I wanted to do a VR6 swap into my bus. It'd cost just about as much as rebuilding the current engine because so that's the main thing. It'd be cheaper for the end result for what I want to do with the bus in the end. So it's awesome.
Work cut some of my hours. Well... they have been for the past two weeks so far. It's been giving me time to do other things, but I've been really lazy and haven't really done crap. :( I need to get off my ass and start making T-Shirt designs, making my dad's website for his band, and fixing my bus/car.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
It's Raining!
Not only outside but all over the place. My bus decided to take a crap on me yesterday. The steering wheel is now locking up every once in a while because I can't get the key into the stock ignition lock thing. So... after locking on me twice yesterday I am going to drill it out today, once it stops raining and I can get my electric drill into the car.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
TIRED!
I've been on and off sleep for the past few days. Sleeping in the most odd times of the day. For instance I am going to be going to sleep right after I type this up and it's about a quarter past seven right now. :( Seven AM that is. I just installed a 120gig SATA harddrive I found laying around my house so now I have the 160 and a 120 in my machine. WEWT.
I got a new phone! Woohoo!!!! It's the LG enV. It's totally awesome and has a full keyboard. I told dad that I'd pay the extra 30 bucks a month for unlimited texts. So now I text ALL THE TIME. It's awesome.
So I've been talking to Alan's girlfriend a lot. Quick back story. I met her after Alan had met her but I met her on my own and she was in some weird bad relationship at the moment and I tried to get her to go out with me but she had that going on so it was a no go. She broke up with that guy and then went out with Alan. Well... Alan is a really lazy guy. So lazy that if he knew I talked about him on here or if I spurted out life changing, revolutionary things on here he would be so lazy that he wouldn't want to waste the energy to log on to this website and read about it. So........... his girlfriend has been talking to me complaining to me about him and his ways. His Alanness. I saw this with him because he treated me the same way in a friendship sense and now he has a girlfriend and is totally neglecting her. She talks to me because I have more of a girl side and see eye to eye with her. I see more so on the girl side of relationships than I do the guy side. I don't know why but whatever. So we talk a lot and I know they are going to break up, it's just a matter of when.
I want them to break up and then again I don't. There's the side of me that says. If they break up then Arielle could be happier and find a guy that would treat her better... possibly me. That'd be awesome. Any ways. There's also the side that says, if they break up Alan will see what he had and has now lost and maybe he will change the way he thinks of life. More than likely not sinece he's stuck on his point of view but it's a hopeful outcome. There's also the total opposite side that doesn't want to see them break up just because they will both be hurt and what not. I think they'd make great friends, but not good lovers. It kind of seems like Alan treats Arielle like a friends with benefits sort of thing. He never takes her out, never does anything for her. She comes over and cleans his room, puts away his laundry, helps him with homework and what not. She will be cleaning his room and he will sit there and not help. It's ridiculous.
I have my first Calculus 2 test today. Hoepfully it'll go well. I've been studying a decent amount for it so we will see how it goes. I gotta get to bed though, Peace out.
P.S. The bus is now my daily driver and is up and running, the Jetta is still blown.
I got a new phone! Woohoo!!!! It's the LG enV. It's totally awesome and has a full keyboard. I told dad that I'd pay the extra 30 bucks a month for unlimited texts. So now I text ALL THE TIME. It's awesome.
So I've been talking to Alan's girlfriend a lot. Quick back story. I met her after Alan had met her but I met her on my own and she was in some weird bad relationship at the moment and I tried to get her to go out with me but she had that going on so it was a no go. She broke up with that guy and then went out with Alan. Well... Alan is a really lazy guy. So lazy that if he knew I talked about him on here or if I spurted out life changing, revolutionary things on here he would be so lazy that he wouldn't want to waste the energy to log on to this website and read about it. So........... his girlfriend has been talking to me complaining to me about him and his ways. His Alanness. I saw this with him because he treated me the same way in a friendship sense and now he has a girlfriend and is totally neglecting her. She talks to me because I have more of a girl side and see eye to eye with her. I see more so on the girl side of relationships than I do the guy side. I don't know why but whatever. So we talk a lot and I know they are going to break up, it's just a matter of when.
I want them to break up and then again I don't. There's the side of me that says. If they break up then Arielle could be happier and find a guy that would treat her better... possibly me. That'd be awesome. Any ways. There's also the side that says, if they break up Alan will see what he had and has now lost and maybe he will change the way he thinks of life. More than likely not sinece he's stuck on his point of view but it's a hopeful outcome. There's also the total opposite side that doesn't want to see them break up just because they will both be hurt and what not. I think they'd make great friends, but not good lovers. It kind of seems like Alan treats Arielle like a friends with benefits sort of thing. He never takes her out, never does anything for her. She comes over and cleans his room, puts away his laundry, helps him with homework and what not. She will be cleaning his room and he will sit there and not help. It's ridiculous.
I have my first Calculus 2 test today. Hoepfully it'll go well. I've been studying a decent amount for it so we will see how it goes. I gotta get to bed though, Peace out.
P.S. The bus is now my daily driver and is up and running, the Jetta is still blown.
Monday, January 28, 2008
It's Late
I'm the best procrastinator ever! Not really but tonight is pretty bad. I ended up playing WoW for way to long because one of my online friends asked me to play some arena. I knew I shouldn't have.
Tonight I can hopefully get some of dad's website work done for his band's website. I also need to get some homework done. At least like 15-20 problems or something.
Car problems though haven't been solved yet. I ordered the starter for the bus and it should be coming in soon. I've been able to use my dad's 4Runner for the time being thank god. I'm hoping the starter comes in by Tuesday or Wednesday so that I have a car to drive to work. I'm not sure how hard it is to put into there but we shall see. It looks like it is pretty easy to do.
Tonight I can hopefully get some of dad's website work done for his band's website. I also need to get some homework done. At least like 15-20 problems or something.
Car problems though haven't been solved yet. I ordered the starter for the bus and it should be coming in soon. I've been able to use my dad's 4Runner for the time being thank god. I'm hoping the starter comes in by Tuesday or Wednesday so that I have a car to drive to work. I'm not sure how hard it is to put into there but we shall see. It looks like it is pretty easy to do.
Friday, January 25, 2008
I Frigging Quit
Got my car fixed or so I thought. After about twenty hours of work replacing the head gasket I took it for a spin and it blew up even more. There was a fire because oil got on the exhaust manifold and now it runs really badly. So... the motor is gone and needs a 1k-1.5k dollar rebuild. I don't have that kind of money so my car is out of commission for the time being. :( It makes me sad. I've been down for the past 2-3 days now because of it.
Hopefully this next week I can get the bus working and i'll be good to go with transportation. I'm also really screwed on money which is bad. I haven't quiet done all I could do with my T-Shirt stuff but I should be good this month. Once next month rolls around we will see how I do. Hopefully I will push through this depression and get off my lazy ass.
Between my car hating me and me not being able to find a girlfriend for the past 2-3 years I've been pretty down lately. There's gotta be something wrong with me but nobody tells me.
Hopefully this next week I can get the bus working and i'll be good to go with transportation. I'm also really screwed on money which is bad. I haven't quiet done all I could do with my T-Shirt stuff but I should be good this month. Once next month rolls around we will see how I do. Hopefully I will push through this depression and get off my lazy ass.
Between my car hating me and me not being able to find a girlfriend for the past 2-3 years I've been pretty down lately. There's gotta be something wrong with me but nobody tells me.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Car Work
Last night I started working on the car. :p I made a short video that you can find at the bottom of the page.
I also have some new images in my Flickr account if you wish to look at those. Here's one of my block. It looks pretty good. Hopefully I'll have it all put back together by the end of tonight. :)
http://gallery.calebhammel.com/videos/volkswagen/1999Jetta/Misc/Takepart.avi
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Car Problems Made Me Super Sad
So. I'm not really sure what the hell is wrong with my car. Right now it's smoking fromt he crank case breather and sometimes out of the tail pipe if it is revved. It sucks hardcore. So my car is being really stupid. It could be a piston ring or it could be a headgasket. I'm hoping it's a headgasket as I already have the stuff to fix that. I really hope that is the problem and then my car will be fixed. :)
I should be getting a new phone soon and hopefully upping the plan so that I have unlimited text messaging. That would be awesome. Not only will my phone fully work but it will also last a while without having to charge it and it'll be good for texting. Wewt. I am thinking about getting the LG ENV. :)
I should be getting a new phone soon and hopefully upping the plan so that I have unlimited text messaging. That would be awesome. Not only will my phone fully work but it will also last a while without having to charge it and it'll be good for texting. Wewt. I am thinking about getting the LG ENV. :)
Weightlessness
I don't know if weightlessness is even a word but.... I have almost gained back all my weight that I lost in October. Good job to me on eating tons of food. So now I am back to eating not so big of portions and trying to eat more healthy. Hopefully I can get down to the 180's this time.
Online dating sites don't work at all. I now declare them useless. I've been trying to find somebody for a long time now on those sites and probably messaged 30+ ladies, none of which replied. I'm starting to wonder why I'm not getting any replies. I've heard of two of my friends that went out on multiple dates from guys that messaged them. Maybe I should take all of the pics off. I dunno.
Well. Gotta get to work. Taking the aspergers kids to a zoo internship today. :p
Online dating sites don't work at all. I now declare them useless. I've been trying to find somebody for a long time now on those sites and probably messaged 30+ ladies, none of which replied. I'm starting to wonder why I'm not getting any replies. I've heard of two of my friends that went out on multiple dates from guys that messaged them. Maybe I should take all of the pics off. I dunno.
Well. Gotta get to work. Taking the aspergers kids to a zoo internship today. :p
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Bleh
After much drinking yesterday night and talking with the fatherly figure I feel better. It still sucks but whatever. For some reason I feel lifeless today and not really motivated to do anything and I have to go to work in like... 30 minutes. Ew.
I got up today and watched one of the best movies ever, Short Circuit. YEAH! 1986 FTW. Just got done getting Short Circuit 2 which I'm going to watch when I get back from work tonight. Movies make me feel better, although I am really happy that my car is working fine now and hauling ass.
I got up today and watched one of the best movies ever, Short Circuit. YEAH! 1986 FTW. Just got done getting Short Circuit 2 which I'm going to watch when I get back from work tonight. Movies make me feel better, although I am really happy that my car is working fine now and hauling ass.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Girls Suck
Well. I know I shouldn't really be sad about this but the younger lady that I was getting friends with benefits found a boyfriend already. The benefits only last one day. It sucks. So now I'm depressed. I don't think I'm ever going to find a significant other. I know that's just the depression speaking at the current moment but I've been single for 2+ years now and it's really getting to me. I'm drinking right now because I thought it might be a good idea. I'm going to watch a chick flick later on tonight. It's what I do.
So yeah. I don't know what to do. I can't even get anything from a god damn 17 year old, none the less somebody my age. I'm a sad sad individual. I guess I'm just not dating/relationship material. She said she didn't want to go out with me because she didn't want a relationship right now but now she's going out with that guy. So what a load of bullshit that was. It just means that I'm not good enough right? It seems that I'm not good enough for a lot of ladies. I seriously think I need to be an asshole in order to get chicks to like me. It has never failed with the assholes so far. I lose at life.
So yeah. I don't know what to do. I can't even get anything from a god damn 17 year old, none the less somebody my age. I'm a sad sad individual. I guess I'm just not dating/relationship material. She said she didn't want to go out with me because she didn't want a relationship right now but now she's going out with that guy. So what a load of bullshit that was. It just means that I'm not good enough right? It seems that I'm not good enough for a lot of ladies. I seriously think I need to be an asshole in order to get chicks to like me. It has never failed with the assholes so far. I lose at life.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Benefits Rox
Christmas is over and now it's the New Years. So far so good if I do say so myself. Right now I'm at a friends house. I had a party yesterday night and I decided to stay on my day off to hang out with my friend Alan and his girlfriend Rel. They are awesome. We went out to see enchanted which was a good movie but some how I fell asleep. It kind of sucks. We went to Chilis afterwards.
I am taking Calc 2 this semester at BCC still and I am going to be working about 30-35 hours a week. It's going to be kind of insane. Hopefully things will go alright though and I will get through Calc 2 and get done with Calc 3 and continue on my goal to get through the Computer Science degree. We shall see.
My car is fixed as of yesterday. I got the two motor mounts replaced.... well... front one replaced and rebuilt the tranny mount with the poly inserts that were sent to me. Also put in a new used battery and it sucks so I gotta go and buy a new battery still. Oh well. No biggy. I think I am going to build up the bus soon for a daily driver. I have been doing a lot of research on cheap but good builds and I think I finally came down to a conclusion for what I wanted. It should be decently fast. I don't think I'm going to get around to building it though for a long time though because I have a lot of debt that I need to pay off and there are other things that need to be done to the bus first before I get done with the engine.
I haven't done much more stuff with the shirts except I did look up a decent amount of silk screne companies that I am going to use to run off my next set of shirts. It looks like I can get the cost down to about 5 dollars per shirt and if I charge about..... 13 bucks per shirt I can make about 8 bucks profit which is a pretty good amount of money per shirt. If I can sell like, 10 shirts a week then I am set with money. It'd be awesome. I plan on selling a lot of shirts at the VW shows too. There are about 2 every month and if I go to all of them here in Florida I should be doing pretty good.
Don't know if I ever made a post about the young person that I have been sort of seeing. I know I made one post about her a while ago but.... two days ago we talked and we are officially friends with benefits. We made out the other night which is cool. I'm glad we talked about it. I don't know if I'd want to be in a relationship with a 17 year old. That's kind of weird. It is legal though in Florida as long as I am under the age of 24. So I'm safe there. It should turn out for the better though. At least I hope it does.
I am taking Calc 2 this semester at BCC still and I am going to be working about 30-35 hours a week. It's going to be kind of insane. Hopefully things will go alright though and I will get through Calc 2 and get done with Calc 3 and continue on my goal to get through the Computer Science degree. We shall see.
My car is fixed as of yesterday. I got the two motor mounts replaced.... well... front one replaced and rebuilt the tranny mount with the poly inserts that were sent to me. Also put in a new used battery and it sucks so I gotta go and buy a new battery still. Oh well. No biggy. I think I am going to build up the bus soon for a daily driver. I have been doing a lot of research on cheap but good builds and I think I finally came down to a conclusion for what I wanted. It should be decently fast. I don't think I'm going to get around to building it though for a long time though because I have a lot of debt that I need to pay off and there are other things that need to be done to the bus first before I get done with the engine.
I haven't done much more stuff with the shirts except I did look up a decent amount of silk screne companies that I am going to use to run off my next set of shirts. It looks like I can get the cost down to about 5 dollars per shirt and if I charge about..... 13 bucks per shirt I can make about 8 bucks profit which is a pretty good amount of money per shirt. If I can sell like, 10 shirts a week then I am set with money. It'd be awesome. I plan on selling a lot of shirts at the VW shows too. There are about 2 every month and if I go to all of them here in Florida I should be doing pretty good.
Don't know if I ever made a post about the young person that I have been sort of seeing. I know I made one post about her a while ago but.... two days ago we talked and we are officially friends with benefits. We made out the other night which is cool. I'm glad we talked about it. I don't know if I'd want to be in a relationship with a 17 year old. That's kind of weird. It is legal though in Florida as long as I am under the age of 24. So I'm safe there. It should turn out for the better though. At least I hope it does.
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