6/15/06

I really need to concentrate on finishing George. I'm not too far off, I don’t think, so it really shouldn’t be too tough. We’re going to the shop tonight and I am going to do some work on that car. I am not going to crawl under Barbecue Bob and see how the muffler is going to fit. I am not going to cut my 3” Hugh bend in half and weld it to the outlets of the muffler to make the tailpipes. What I am going to do is take any Barbecue Bob parts out to the car and lock them up with the rest for the time being. George is the car I need to “finish.” I am really getting excited about Barbecue Bob though. I can hardly wait until I can get going on that project. George! I have to concentrate on George! Thing is, George is in the “dreary details” stage whereas Barbecue Bob is in the fun “parts collecting and thinnin’ about it” stage. I guess I could be tire shopping for George. I do need tires for the turbine wheels I'm going to run on that car. I suppose I could run the Cragar SS wheels for the time being. I mean, they do have good rubber on them and it would be a shame to let them dry rot. Ok, I'll run the SS wheels for a little while and buy tires for the turbines later. I also need to buy tires and adapters for Mr. Wiggly's Vector wheels. Did I ever tell the story of shopping tires for that? The day they arrived, or at least the next shop night after, John and I went to the Boys of Pep to look at those cheap assed tires they sell. I knew I could get a really wide tire in their raised white letter tire for a good price. We found that a 245/60-15 was only one dollar a tire more than the 235, or something like that. Or was it 225 versus 245? I'm not sure now. John kept saying, and I'm paraphrasing, “I know the wider tire isn’t necessary, but those four dollars would haunt me for the life of the car if I got the narrower ones!” It was enough to convince me. I'll go with the wider ones, like I needed convincing! Before I do that though, I need to order those adapters so I can bolt the wheels up to the van. I think I'm going to head off to the internot and see if I can find that guy again. Well, that could have been easier than it actually was. I went in to my old-mail box to try and find the message about the dude selling those adapters on e-Bay. I didn’t find it because it had been erased weeks ago. Oops. I next went to e-Bay to try and search him out. I found someone selling the adapters but it just looked like he’s reselling the TransDapt parts I can get anywhere. TransDapt doesn’t have 5 on 4.5 to 5 on 5 adapters by the way. I sent that dude a message, after saving him to my “favorite sellers” list, asking if he had the right size and then searched again. I found the dude who is making his own adapters. When I went to ad him to my “favorite sellers” list I found that he was already there! I could have just clicked on an existing link and been there half an hour earlier. I found the adapters I needed and ordered them. Hopefully they will arrive soon and I'll have to go buy tires for Mr. Wiggly! I was thinking about the fender situation on Mr. Wiggly as well just now. I think that if the tires stick out past the fenders, I'll probably grab some of that plastic garden-edging material from Lowe’s and rivet it to the fenders to make extensions. I'll have to see just how much the tires are going to stick out before I do anything and I have to get the adapters before I can even do that. So, I guess I'm dragging that cart out in front of the horse once again. Did I really say “loose interest” about something yesterday? I really should proofread this before sending it to Spiderman. Oh, wait, no, I did mean to say that, yeah. It was a bit. Yeah, that’s it. I went back to see if I had told y’all about the Kampus Kop freaking out on me yesterday. After the service guys were finished in my office, we packed up all of those ‘sploded lamps to send back to NEC. We took them down the stairs and loaded them on a cart to take to the van. We got to the parking lot and there was a Kampus Kop standing out front. I asked him what was up and was told an ambulance was on its way. One of the service dudes took off to go get the van while the other and I waited. No sirens were to be heard. The van pulls up and I tell the KK that we’re going to throw this box in the back and then they’re leaving. He shrugs and says ok. Still no sirens can be heard. The driver hops out and walks around the front of the van. About the time he gets to the passenger side and I'm about to get the cart to the van, another KK comes running out screaming to move the van. I say to him, “We’re just going to toss this in and they’re gone.” “NO! MOVE THE VAN NOW!” KK shrieks. The driver has started back around the front of the van while I'm trying to soothe the KK. “Ok,” I say, “we’ll just shove this in and…” “THERE’S AN AMBULANCE COMING!” he shouts. “YOU CAN’T BLOCK THE DRIVE WHEN AN AMBULANCE IS COMING! MOVE AROUND THE CORNER TO LOAD THE BOX! DON’T JUST STAND THERE DOING WHAT YOU WERE DOING! MOVE THE VAN!” Still, there are no sirens to be heard. By the time he had finished with his last tirade I had the box in and the door closed. The driver pulled in to a parking spot and walked back to apologize but the KK had stormed back inside. Still, no sirens. The other KK just rolled his eyes and shrugged again. I waited for at least a minute after the guys got back in the van and left before I ever heard a siren. I waited another thirty seconds or so and never saw an ambulance. I finally left. So, you’d think that would be the end of it, right? Oh no, this morning the tech who wasn’t driving was back to baby sit a Town Hell meeting and the same KK came up to us. We figured he was going to apologize for overreacting. Hell no! He had the balls to say, “Next time we tell you to move the van, move it or we will issue a citation.” What the flying frog fuck? How the fuck am I supposed to move the van any faster? Am I supposed to shit a magic wand and make it disappear? The driver was moving back to the driver’s seat the whole time I was shoving the box in and the KK was screaming at us. Get the fuck over yourself you Nazi-bastard sack of shit! Now, don’t get me wrong, I actually used to like this guy but this has put a serious damper on any respect I have for him. I tried to just let it slide but I'm going to avoid him for a while until I'm not pissed off about it any more. So, I guess I'll call it a rant on that note. Have a day.