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.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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.
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