| Saturday, January 30th, 2010 |
| 8:50 pm |
Memory lane meets life is a highway.
I decided I was going to sort through some old photos and started digging through Mustang pics I've taken over the years of the ones that I've owned. (cross posted to motorfurs) ( Stang stuff here )Things are going alright for me otherwise. Feeling better after the mess at FC. Just needed to get back into my regular routine and get back to the hobbies I actually enjoy. On that same note I've already arranged for a couple of big car shows this year. I'm headed down to Knotts Berry farm April 25th for Fabulous Fords Forever as part of the "Mile of Mustangs". Picture a few hundred Mustangs travelling south down I-5 together to Los Angeles and yeah you get the idea. I'm also aiming at heading up to Seattle July 18th or so for the MCA grand national show. This will be my "What are you doing instead of going to Anthrocon?" event. This will be a HUGE Mustang show with a couple thousand cars if they have room for them all. They're going to have a track day at Pacific Raceways too, so I'll be taking the Cobra out on track and seeing how it does on the same track that convinced me the Mach needed to be uprgraded or replaced. Current Mood:  blankCurrent Music: Just a gigolo - Louis Prima |
| Monday, January 25th, 2010 |
| 7:44 am |
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| Friday, January 22nd, 2010 |
| 1:31 pm |
Buffaslugs at FC?
So I just saw a charter buss pull up in front of the hotel and a bunch of big guys get off the bus wearing suits and carrying large bags with Buffalo Sabre logos on the bags... Hmmmm makes ya think we have company at the con. >.> Current Mood:  amused |
| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
| 1:06 am |
Christmas court
Survived Jury duty. They kept us around for about four hours. The last time I was called in was a different county and before 9/11 so the heightened security was something I didn't expect to see. Sac county does things differently than Solano it seems. Your part of a general pool that get's called in. So even if you don't get chosen for one case, you go back into the pool so they can try to put you onto another case instead. We had two cases apparently to wait for word on and finally they told us to go home since the cases were being pushed to Monday (fucking duh!) The judge did come out and apologize to us right off the hop to start the day and thanked us for bothering to show up (not that we had a choice). I still managed to make it up to the house on Christmas eve (got there at 11:30pm) and then over to my brother's place and back for Christmas. I came back early this weekend since the temps were right around freezing at 4pm with a light rain falling. I didn't want to have to face ice or snow tomorrow so coming home early was the best option. I covered about 900 miles in the last couple of days. Doesn't seem like it adds up to that much. My fortune cookie at Panda Express tonight said I would have success in everything I do. So clearly 2010 wont be full of nearly as much suck as 2009 was... Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: Rock Lobster - B-52's |
| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
| 7:07 am |
T'was the night before Judge Wapner...
Off to the courthouse... seems 2009 wasn't full of enough suck yet so I have jury duty today on Christmas Eve. FUCKIN YEAAAAH! Current Mood:  pissed offCurrent Music: Theme to the People's Court |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
| 12:44 am |
Lay off wouldja?
So today we learned something... I showed up to work expecting a light week since things have been slow for a while and not expecting to see any real work this week. Boy was I wrong! It seems a client called and asked for some corrected plans to reflect the final construction of a project from before my time with the company. Well we never got those plans right? OK... wait... Oh crap! Here they are! ... sitting on the desk of an engineer that you laid off two months ago! We'll that's good... >.> So yeah, panic before the holiday while we scramble to fill in holes. Still not out of the woods yet on jury duty either. I have to check back after work to see if I'm called in or not. We get paid for jury duty though at work so I don't have to take PTO to cover the time off which should leave me with enough for a couple of days of around FC. Love this song by the way. Awesome base beat, great vocals, and so going on my driving music CD when I get the chance. Happy holidays and such. :P Current Mood: blahCurrent Music: Life is Beautiful - Sixx:A.M. |
| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
| 12:22 pm |
MFF con report
I didn't go. See that was short. Yay! Current Mood: weirdCurrent Music: Invincible - Adelitas Way |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
| 11:52 pm |
What a rush
Second hockey game for me since the surgery aaaaaand I think I rushed it a bit. Things felt much better until I felt a distinct pop in my groin on the left side. I didn't have any push off that leg for the rest of the game. If our bench hadn't been short I would've bowed out and not pushed it. I stayed in the game and grunted my way through the pain and still managed to make some really nice defensive stops. We won 8-0 so it was good to be back and help out the defense. Plus with a lead like that I didn't have to push things with the injury. Laugh of the day was a medical bill that came in for the pathology work on my surgery. The bill was a whopping $2.72 And people say our healthcare system in the US is fucked up. Bah I say! I mean after paying someone to process the check I'm sending and the cost of the billing and all.. I'm sure that $2.72 is going to cover everything! Current Mood: sillyCurrent Music: I don't Wanna Stop - Ozzy Osbourne |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 |
| 11:55 pm |
No, last month didn't kill me.
Believe it or not I'm still alive. Just haven't had much to post about. Things have calmed down since the crapfest of last month. The bills have come rolling in from the surgery and it looks like I got tagged for about $1,500 for having my appendix go splodey. The ambulance driver's forgot to get my insurance info so metro fire sent me a direct bill for $1400. That one had me screaming, but the insurance knocked it down to $275 out of pocket on my end. With my health back to normal I started getting the work done on the cars that got put off from being stuck in SF all year and then knocked on my ass by the surgery. I've got the dash gutted on the 65 Stang and I'm in the process of getting everything working properly. I pulled the gas tank out last weekend and replaced it with a new one. That was the first time that tank was out of that car since the spring of 65 in Dearborn, MI and it showed. I scraped the trunk for surface rust, prepped it and shot it with undercoating before replacing all the dress up items. It looks way so much better in the trunk than when I bought it. I got the rear seat for the 89 convertible back today from the upholstry shop. The guy did an awesome job with what I gave him. I have a set of 2001 Cobra seats for the car. The front seats bolt right in, but the rear seat for 01 is significantly larger and shaped differently. I had him skin the 01 seats and match them to the 89 seat cushions. I'm very happy with the work he did. You can't even tell that they aren't supposed to look anything like they do. I have to wait till I get up to the house over Thanksgiving to get them into the car though. I rejoined my hockey team last week. Playing my first game since the surgery wasn't so bad (it's been six weeks). I was flying around pretty well for my first shift. By the end of the game my legs were just burned out. It was nice to get back out there though, I was getting tired of getting cut mussing up my normal routine. Cause we all know if you let the surgery win, then the terrorists win... or something. Halloween today and still have no plans to do anything or go anywhere. Maybe I'll hide in the garage under the car some more. >.> No MFF for me by the way. Airfares were holding around $300 for a direct flight out of Sacto for a while, but I couldn't nail down room space. Current Mood:  busyCurrent Music: Break - Three Days Grace |
| Friday, September 4th, 2009 |
| 8:33 pm |
You've got me in stitches...
It's been a week since my fun with the ER. I did the return clinic/checkup today to close things out. They let me see the scars (wheeee) and explained further what they found. From the description my appendix had been ruptured for a while and infected much of the general surrounding area. They poked at me and said things were improving but that there was definitely still some swelling in the area as is to be expect. I was warned that it's possible anytime in the next month that I could develop symptoms that worsen, but they don't expect that'll be an issue. At this point I should be done with this barring anything really stupid popping up. All in all I'm doing ok, I went for a long walk today with minimal pain and I can finally sleep without having pain wake me up every couple of hours. Life is kind of getting back to normal. I spent some time today thinking about my luck in all this. I took a hell of a chance putting things off when I knew better. The hospital I wanted to go to wasn't taking ER patients so they sent me to Suttter Memorial which is a very highly rated hospital for abdominal surgery. And I don't know where I would've been if this happened three years ago. I was working full time but carrying no medical insurance, as I have for most of my life. It was important to me in taking this job that I actually have benefits, and I'm so very glad I did. I don't know how much of a mess the ambulance ride/ER visit will make of me financially but I'm hoping the medical coverage does it's job. Without coverage I'm pretty sure this would've been really ugly. I really don't know how people are expected to get by when things like this happen without the kind of backing I have to save my butt. Too many random thoughts when you're stuck at home all week. The big kicker in all this was that I have a flight tomorrow to Miluakee that I bought weeks ago to make up for a trip back on July 4th that work submarined. So once again after getting a certain folf's hopes up, I have to take a rain check on things. I'm just not going to risk the potential worst case here and catch a cold by going through an airport and travelling right now. My vacation time is also well beyond tapped out so the standard policy of seclusion and "No, I will not be attending _______con" continues. Current Mood: boredCurrent Music: Ain't no Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant |
| Sunday, August 30th, 2009 |
| 11:39 pm |
Appendicitis
So I got back from the hospital today. After the party at SJH's place last weekend I went home feeling alright, buy Sunday something felt a little off but I just didn't think much of it since I only felt mildly nasueas. I went to play hockey (we lost our semi-final in OT after leading 2-1, with 2 minutes to go). When Monday rolled around I went to work and felt excruciating pain in my midsection all around and thought I had somehow messed up my back, so I went home early. I took Tuesday off from work because I was still feeling pain, and again most of it was upper body soreness from hockey I thought. Wednesday I felt good enough to work although I still felt soreness and by the end of the day after sitting in my chair I thought my back was acting up. By Thursday I could tell something was wrong. I started poking at the area that hurt and realized it was probably either my appendix or some kind of hernia... well naturally it wouldn't be my appendix I mean who ever gets appendicitis?! I haven't met anyone yet that had it... so I scheduled a doctor appointment for Friday instead of heading directly to the ER like I should have done. Friday the doctor saw me and worked me over pretty good trying to see if it was a hernia or something else. Finally she checked my temp and saw I had a fever so she called for an ambulance and sent me to the ER right away. After running a scan on me and poking me some more they concluded my appendix was inflamed and sent me into surgery. I woke up sometime Saturday morning feeling notably weak and helpless like I never have before and worried about how close I had come to this being a very bad thing. AFter a couple of days of re-hab time in the hospital they released me today. It was only before I left that I talked with the surgeon this morning and she told me that my appendix had indeed burst. So as it stands right now, I'm looking at staying home to rest for at least a week. This will allow time to see if I get better or worse from this since I let it get too far. So, as you see, I'm alive and alert, but not being awarded a completely clean bill of health, yet. So that's it for the immediate what have you been doing in the last month post. :P Current Mood: LuckyCurrent Music: Domino - Genesis |
| Sunday, March 15th, 2009 |
| 12:12 am |
911 ain't just a chicken thang
So tonight was my first experience with using 911. While I was travelling eastbound on I-80 I saw a pickup truck that was weaving between the lane lines repeatedly and with very erradic behavior. I thought maybe they might be struggling with something in the cab, but the interior light was off. I followed the truck for a bit and saw it swerve into the lane on either side and almost sideswipe two vehicles. He was also speeding up and slowing down randomly. I do some stupid stuff on the road sometimes when I'm having fun... and I know a DUI brings all kinds of hell to a person's life in fines and court issues. It's the kind of stuff I wouldn't want wished on anyone... I was thinking of Furp while I called 911. Maybe tonight, for as much hell as that driver might face in court, I saved his/her life or somebody elses. Thinking of you Furp. Current Mood:  thoughtfulCurrent Music: Rock 'N Roll Train - AC/DC |
| Monday, March 9th, 2009 |
| 1:06 am |
Weekendz
The weekend: Spent three hours driving home to Sacto on Thursday night after getting out of work at 7pm. Was granted Friday off because I was caught up on hours. Friday, five hours driving up to the house. Took mom out for a birthday dinner in Eureka I owed her from a few months ago (add another 2 hours of driving) and to give the Cobra a run since it's been sitting in the garage for a few months. Saturday get up early, get the chainsaw ready and take down a few rather large trees. The real skill being in that I had to land the trees in tight areas without hitting structures. Best moments of the day. Working about 30-40feet up in the air on a long extension ladder, cutting limbs off a tree when one of them settles onto the chainsaw and pins it in the trunk about 30 ft up. Also cutting the top part of the main trunk off while the ladder is leaning against it and tree is actually growing sideways enough that apparently topping the trunk causes it to act like a springboard. This brought new meaning to tree hugging some 30ft up. Sunday, left the house at 10am, took 101 south and reached the bay area by 8pm. packed my hockey gear and played our final league game of the season at 10pm. Got "home" 12:30am. Yay weekend. Now I sleep like six hours and go deal with an engineer on spin mode. Current Mood: tiredCurrent Music: Through The Never - Metallica |
| Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 |
| 8:01 pm |
Zoom-zoom-BOOM!
Well, last week when coming back from work someone came up on me kind of fast so I hit the gas to get out of the way. When I did that and checked my mirror I thought I saw some smoke. It was dark out and had been raining though so I though it could also be water kicked up behind the car from taking off. Nothing else seemed wrong but I've been keeping an eye on it. Tonight when I fired it up everything was fine, and I pulled around to the front of the condo to load up the car. When I fired it up again the check engine light came on and the car will not let me throttle up, even when sitting parked with the car out of gear. I limped it back into its parking space and I'll have it towed to the local Mazda dealership. Since it's under warranty that should all be covered and they should set me up with a rental car if it's something serious. I suspect some kind of engine failure, so we'll see. I bought a pretty heavy duty warranty with it. I love what Mazda did in producing this car but it was the first year they offered this package and that's usually reason enough to worry that they missed something. I'd pull the battery to reset the computer and see if that makes it go away but the last time I did that was on the Mach 1 and it turned out to be a critical failure, soooo I'm not even gonna try to fuck with this one. Plus I'm missing out on my hockey league again dammit. *bleh* Current Mood: annoyedCurrent Music: Wouldn't It be Nice - The Beach Boys |
| Sunday, February 1st, 2009 |
| 5:20 pm |
Superbowlage
Hey if the Steelers win the Superbowl I'll go to AC this year. How's that sound?! I'm just saying that cause they won in 06 when I went last time. >.> And my god... did Bruce Springstein suck on a brillo pad over the course of the 90's? The Boss has no voice anymore! Con crud is finally breaking up too! Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Glory Days - Bruce Springstein |
| Friday, January 30th, 2009 |
| 10:03 pm |
Cons and for the sake of the public good...
As I finish off my second box of Kleenex (jumbo size!) in two days and struggle to breathe without coughing up a lung and sucking it back in... I want whoever the fuck thought it would be a good idea to show up at a convention and get everyone else sick to just stay home next time. Sorry to ruin your fun but it's not worth me losing half a week of work to fight off the damned furry plague you thought it would be such fun to bring with you. *growls* Current Mood: sickCurrent Music: When I Grow Up - Garbage |
| Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 |
| 11:48 pm |
For those what not in the know. At FC is was out wearing my new suit. It's a Javachicken suit and I've dubbed him Cracker Jack. The first one to hunt for the "surprise inside" is liable to get punched in the face. *nods* Anywho, if you saw this critter running around, yeah, that was me.  Current Mood: tiredCurrent Music: Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 |
| 12:56 pm |
Everything old is older again!
I guess it's B-day time for the most eeeeeevil of blue wolves. As a fox, I begrudgingly wish Brokken a happy B-day. I do have to wonder though how much longer the lil guy is gonna be a blue wolf before it all just turns gray. Oi and then the shedding! Krezzzy! *nods* New years was ok for me. I didn't get as drunk this year which meant I was actually concious for the passing of the new year this time. I spent pretty much all of the next day in misery for it and sleeping it off. Props to Dizzy for hosting another great party. FC plans are pretty much non-existent at this point. I haven't got a room and I'm not registered for the con. With the way work pisses and moans for every day I take off, I'm not sure how much time I can get, if any. I'm not that sore about it though. I've got a hockey league game that Sunday that I have no intention of missing. Last year I didn't really have much fun at FC, so my expectations are mostly on the "why even bother" level at this stage. Also in regards to the party at Dizzy's. Someone dropped something of significant value in the street outside his place. If anyone left the party missing this something significant, please get in touch with me and let me know if what I found is what you lost. Current Mood: blankCurrent Music: Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire |
| Monday, December 22nd, 2008 |
| 9:38 am |
Most awesomest fan frustration evarh?
I used to think the paper bag over the head wearing "'Aints" fans of New Orleans were some of the best examples of fans being utterly frustrated by the team's ineptitude. The Detroit Lions however have clearly provided enough years of futility to allow fans far more creative time. Which is why I believe this is the best fan pic I've ever seen.  When your team is the first 0-15 team in NFL history and well on the path to being 0-16... somehow the idea of nuking them just seems so appropriate. Current Mood: mischievousCurrent Music: I Love the Nightlife - Alicia Bridges |
| Thursday, December 4th, 2008 |
| 11:47 pm |
Jeff Dunham and cake?
Ticketmaster just sent me an email of upcoming events in San Jose. It would seem that comedian Jeff Dunham is going to be at HP Pavilion on Saturday April 18th next year... that just happens to be my birthday.. Hmmmm... food for thought... Current Mood: sleepyCurrent Music: Stages - ZZ Top |
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