5/1/08

Holy crap! We’re already in May! Ok, I'm not going to freak out about the year flying by. Everything will be all right. Just relax. Breathe. Ok, I'm better now. So some dude who came by the shop a couple years ago found my phone number again and wants to buy some 1200s from me. He’s in Florida so it is going to be a major pain in the ass for him to come get them. I'm wishing now he hadn’t caught me in an “I gotta cull my herd” mood. I agreed to sell Herman, Johnny, and the Louisiana Purchase to him. Yeah, I know I don’t own the LP any more. I'd have to buy it back and then sell it to Florida dude. Not really culling my herd but the DFW herd. It would prevent me from ever trying to resurrect that car again. Ok, I just spoke to the current owner of the LP and it looks like I'm not going to be able to buy that car back after all. Mr. Florida is supposed to send me an e-mail this evening so I can send him some pictures of Herman and Johnny. Hopefully they will scare the dude off and I won’t have to deal with this after all. I'm really having regrets about talking to the guy in the first place. Why, oh why did I answer the phone? Oh right, because I can’t “not know” who is calling me. I'm a little OCD that way. Speaking of OCD, I think it might be time for a DLR Inventory assessment. I will always have a relatively new daily driver. Right now that is Darth Versa. Shi-Chi was my “midlife crisis” and “fortieth birthday present” car so I'll probably always have it. As long as I have Shi-Chi, and there is the possibility of cross country trips to Lotus Seven events, I'm going to need a trailer. If I have a trailer I'm going to need Fifi. Besides, mom wants a pickup in the family so I guess I'll keep her. That is I'll keep Fifi. Keeping mom goes without saying. The Chickenhawk was my first 1200 so I'm way too emotionally attached to it to ever let it go. I paid $5.00 for George. I can’t sell him. Ok, I won’t sell him. I've tried twice now to sell Mr. Wiggly with no success so I am going to consider it fate and keep him. Besides, I really like that van! Johnny is a perfect candidate for the faux rally car I've always wanted so if Mr. Florida gets scared off that will be its fate. Fingers crossed! Herman has a title. That’s really all he has going for him to be honest. I'll hang on to him until it isn't possible to justify it any longer. I like Barbecue Bob but he will have real value once running. I need to consider him expendable. I need to continue to worry about that HVAC system and just sell the hell out of him once he’s up and running. I know several people interested in him so I need to check my emotions for that car right now. Done, he’s dead to me. Barbara needs to find a new home. I really do not need a V8 powered B-210. Ok, I don’t need any of them, shut up. I think Barbara needs to go away. Of course all the dead shit out back needs to go away, and will when the time comes to move the shop. So, what else is there? I think that's it. So I need to find parking spots for seven to nine vehicles. I think I can manage that at the house with the existing garage, a two-wide by two-deep garage extension, the back patio, and the driveways. I think if there are only a few parked in plain sight, the neighbors won’t have a problem. We’ll see. I think I have a solution to wriggling the trailer through the new garage to the back patio. I think I'm going to make a trailer parking tractor. I have that 12 horsepower engine and lawn tractor transaxle already built into that sub frame assembly. I just need to finish out the frame with a couple steering wheels and a trailer hitch. I can see it in my head, I think it will work. Well, speaking of seeing inside my head, I've seen the inside of my eyelids one too many times just now. I think I'm going to call this a rant and shut it down for the day. Talk to y'all tomorrow.