Do any of you have any of the above for the Monday music? I usually can come up with something pretty easily but would like to see if you have something to share that I may be unaware of...or would just like to hear.
Also, How was your weekend? You guys sure have been quiet or is my writing boring? Regardless, I would love to hear from you. Like how Vanessa did in her 'cross race. Is Shawn back home yet? Anything from the Chief would be great, have not talked to her or heard from her in a long time. How was Leah's birds on the brain? How is that guy in PDX doing? Not to mention Autumn.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you
I want to say thank you for the people you are and taking time to read my rambles. Have a wonderful time with your families or who ever you will spend today with.
Vanessa, would you do me a favor sometime? Go have a REAL Ensalata Caprese for me. Since it is impossible here in the states and I am unable to make it back there to have one myself. I have been craving one everyday for the past week.
Vanessa, would you do me a favor sometime? Go have a REAL Ensalata Caprese for me. Since it is impossible here in the states and I am unable to make it back there to have one myself. I have been craving one everyday for the past week.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Unfortunate and inconvienent
I was due to hit the road for the strip or in other words "Sin City" on the 12th but my truck had other plans for me.
It started on Sunday the 9th, when all of a sudden my truck had some what a mind of its own. Or in this case I should say my transmission. I was driving down the road and out of now where it just kicks out of gear. My truck is an automatic by the way. Anyways, as I suddenly panic as there are cars behind me as I cease to accelerate, my instincts quickly take over and I attempt to change gears via the column shifter. When that failed as well as putting it into neutral and back in gear did, I slam it into 4 wheel drive and bam! it works and I start my way down the road. Although It worked, I quickly headed home which luckily was only about 3 blocks away.
I knew I had a serious problem on my hands but was not aware how severe it was on the gearing, as well as on my wallet. I ended up borrowing a friends trailer and my parents lent me their truck. I hauled it to a highly recommended mechanic and started the waiting game. With having to order parts and me having to get some money together, It was gone for close to a week and a half. So needless to say, after driving my parents truck and me having to wait to see what the bill came to, I made the decision to not head to Vegas and hang with friends and see some dirt racing at LVMS. There were 219 modifieds alone for the weekend! Anyways, I ended up spending $1400. Which cut out my trip to Seattle for Thanksgiving. Denver for my upcoming birthday weekend. And last but not least my Christmas fund...
Oh well I will make things work somehow. At least it happened while I was still at home and not half way to Vegas in the middle of no where, with no cell signal. Hopefully I will make it to Vegas next year. Now comes the decision of holding onto my truck or going for a new in the very near future...
At least I pulled it with another Ford. Regardless it was sad to see my truck broke down like that.
It started on Sunday the 9th, when all of a sudden my truck had some what a mind of its own. Or in this case I should say my transmission. I was driving down the road and out of now where it just kicks out of gear. My truck is an automatic by the way. Anyways, as I suddenly panic as there are cars behind me as I cease to accelerate, my instincts quickly take over and I attempt to change gears via the column shifter. When that failed as well as putting it into neutral and back in gear did, I slam it into 4 wheel drive and bam! it works and I start my way down the road. Although It worked, I quickly headed home which luckily was only about 3 blocks away.
I knew I had a serious problem on my hands but was not aware how severe it was on the gearing, as well as on my wallet. I ended up borrowing a friends trailer and my parents lent me their truck. I hauled it to a highly recommended mechanic and started the waiting game. With having to order parts and me having to get some money together, It was gone for close to a week and a half. So needless to say, after driving my parents truck and me having to wait to see what the bill came to, I made the decision to not head to Vegas and hang with friends and see some dirt racing at LVMS. There were 219 modifieds alone for the weekend! Anyways, I ended up spending $1400. Which cut out my trip to Seattle for Thanksgiving. Denver for my upcoming birthday weekend. And last but not least my Christmas fund...
Oh well I will make things work somehow. At least it happened while I was still at home and not half way to Vegas in the middle of no where, with no cell signal. Hopefully I will make it to Vegas next year. Now comes the decision of holding onto my truck or going for a new in the very near future...
At least I pulled it with another Ford. Regardless it was sad to see my truck broke down like that.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Yes You
Hope all is going well with you. Glad to see that you are able to have some freedom on the internet. Not to mention being able to stop in and read this blog. Let me know when you are get back.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sal In Harlem (In response to Chaya)
I am not voicing my side on the presidential election, just as I see that Chaya has kept her side to herself. Chaya correct me if I am wrong but what you are getting at, as well as what I am getting at, is that the majority of people who voted in this election really were clueless and still are. Regardless of who they may have voted for or didn't vote for. Please listen to the youtube video below. The radio personality has nothing to do with how these people answered. Even though the questions were asked to people in Harlem. I believe that these questions could have been asked all over the country and the response would have been very similar in an unnerving way just as it is here...
Monday, November 17, 2008
More waiting...
The new adventure was instead of me driving north to get back home, I drove south back to Texas. Yes, down to the west Texas town of El Paso. Luckily I got ahold of my friends and they let me in the gate to this place so I could go sleep in the plush motor home/race hauler.
My buddy Mike woke me up the next morning when he got there after seeing my truck. The race cars were not ready to go so we busted our tails to get ready and loaded and to the track by race time. The race that was going on that weekend was the Fall Nationals, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, which is about 45 minutes from El Paso. It was a 3 day show, Friday at 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Basically you had to qualify for the big race on Sunday with the shorter races on Friday, Saturday and the last chance race on Sunday.
It was a very busy weekend since we were taking care of 3 different cars. Of course there were alot of suspension changes we had to go thru as well as countless tire changes made. And you can't forget rebuilding a front left tire assembly, consisting of A arm, spindle, brake calipers, rewelding some stuff, torsion bar just to name a little bit. Also swapping engines in one of the cars.
Well unfortunately none of our 3 cars made it to the big show on Sunday, so we had to sit back and watch who would be taking home the top prize of $10k. The race started off well and it looked like it would be interesting but about 10 laps into the 50 lap race, the track went away and turned into a one grove race track. So for the remaining 40 laps we had to watch a boring race of follow the leader. In a way I am glad that we didn't make the big show because it really would have been depressing for our drivers to be out there and to watch them in that situation that could not have any good outcome.
Finally as the races wrapped up on Sunday evening and we were done loading the cars and everything up, it was back to El Paso. We got back to El Paso around 10 p.m. We jumped in our personal vehicles and went and ate. I wasn't the feeling the best from being in the warm southern sun and was pretty tired. I wasn't able to eat very much, so I sat and tried to enjoy the last few minutes I had with my friends. When we finished I told the goodbye and then it was back into my truck to head back to Las Cruces as I started to make my way home.
Needless to say I pushed myself extremely hard and drove thru the night after leaving El Paso at 11:30 p.m. and pulled into my driveway at 6 a.m. It was very difficult to keep from falling asleep several different times. Somehow I managed to make it in one piece though.
I am terribly sorry because I really wanted this story to include more details. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. I really see myself coming out of my not blogging phase. I had some depressing news come my way this weekend and last week was a rough one as well. I was able though to get some advice from friends and it really helped me to get pass those events and people. That was a big problem of mine as I was waisting my time on someone who was not willing to waist time on me.
Thank you again for stopping in.
My buddy Mike woke me up the next morning when he got there after seeing my truck. The race cars were not ready to go so we busted our tails to get ready and loaded and to the track by race time. The race that was going on that weekend was the Fall Nationals, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, which is about 45 minutes from El Paso. It was a 3 day show, Friday at 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Basically you had to qualify for the big race on Sunday with the shorter races on Friday, Saturday and the last chance race on Sunday.
It was a very busy weekend since we were taking care of 3 different cars. Of course there were alot of suspension changes we had to go thru as well as countless tire changes made. And you can't forget rebuilding a front left tire assembly, consisting of A arm, spindle, brake calipers, rewelding some stuff, torsion bar just to name a little bit. Also swapping engines in one of the cars.
Well unfortunately none of our 3 cars made it to the big show on Sunday, so we had to sit back and watch who would be taking home the top prize of $10k. The race started off well and it looked like it would be interesting but about 10 laps into the 50 lap race, the track went away and turned into a one grove race track. So for the remaining 40 laps we had to watch a boring race of follow the leader. In a way I am glad that we didn't make the big show because it really would have been depressing for our drivers to be out there and to watch them in that situation that could not have any good outcome.
Finally as the races wrapped up on Sunday evening and we were done loading the cars and everything up, it was back to El Paso. We got back to El Paso around 10 p.m. We jumped in our personal vehicles and went and ate. I wasn't the feeling the best from being in the warm southern sun and was pretty tired. I wasn't able to eat very much, so I sat and tried to enjoy the last few minutes I had with my friends. When we finished I told the goodbye and then it was back into my truck to head back to Las Cruces as I started to make my way home.
Needless to say I pushed myself extremely hard and drove thru the night after leaving El Paso at 11:30 p.m. and pulled into my driveway at 6 a.m. It was very difficult to keep from falling asleep several different times. Somehow I managed to make it in one piece though.
I am terribly sorry because I really wanted this story to include more details. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. I really see myself coming out of my not blogging phase. I had some depressing news come my way this weekend and last week was a rough one as well. I was able though to get some advice from friends and it really helped me to get pass those events and people. That was a big problem of mine as I was waisting my time on someone who was not willing to waist time on me.
Thank you again for stopping in.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
On another note, CONGRATULATIONS
For those of you that know them, Russ and Katie had a baby girl yesterday. She wasn't due until Dec.1 but mommy and baby are both healthy and there are no problems to speak of. Congratulations to the Gibsons!!!
Waiting...
I am sitting here waiting for my towels to dry, so that I can take a shower and get to bed.
I was slowly working on a blog to post here about my current happenings and adventures. However somewhere in the middle of taking the notepad where I have been going, I seem to have misplaced it somewhere. So I apologize for not being able to go into the detail that was supposed to be presented. Lets see, where did I leave off?
Well Tuesday Oct. 28, I drove down to Albuquerque and caught my plane to Dallas. The flight was a pleasant one with just barely an hour in the air. From there I got on a smaller plane and flew to Longview, Texas. We were late leaving DFW because of some light that had to be changed on the plane. However, the pilot was able to step it up in the air. So instead of the scheduled 45 min. flight, we made it in about 20 min. or so.
Although the stay in Longview was short, I was pleased. I had never been to East Texas, it was a very nice area with lots of trees. The hotel they put me up in was one of those long stay hotels. My room had a kitchenette, living room, seperate room that included the bathroom and a washroom. Then a seperate bedroom. Oh yeah, one last thing...a gas fire place! I was thoroughly impressed. I flew out Thursday afternoon and made it safely back to Albuquerque. So upon gathering my luggage and paying my parking fee. A new and different adventure was just starting...
I am terribly sorry but I am fighting my falling eyelids. I promise I will continue with the rest of the story tomorrow. Thanks for stopping in!
I was slowly working on a blog to post here about my current happenings and adventures. However somewhere in the middle of taking the notepad where I have been going, I seem to have misplaced it somewhere. So I apologize for not being able to go into the detail that was supposed to be presented. Lets see, where did I leave off?
Well Tuesday Oct. 28, I drove down to Albuquerque and caught my plane to Dallas. The flight was a pleasant one with just barely an hour in the air. From there I got on a smaller plane and flew to Longview, Texas. We were late leaving DFW because of some light that had to be changed on the plane. However, the pilot was able to step it up in the air. So instead of the scheduled 45 min. flight, we made it in about 20 min. or so.
Although the stay in Longview was short, I was pleased. I had never been to East Texas, it was a very nice area with lots of trees. The hotel they put me up in was one of those long stay hotels. My room had a kitchenette, living room, seperate room that included the bathroom and a washroom. Then a seperate bedroom. Oh yeah, one last thing...a gas fire place! I was thoroughly impressed. I flew out Thursday afternoon and made it safely back to Albuquerque. So upon gathering my luggage and paying my parking fee. A new and different adventure was just starting...
I am terribly sorry but I am fighting my falling eyelids. I promise I will continue with the rest of the story tomorrow. Thanks for stopping in!
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