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.

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.

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.

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.