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.