7/29/08

I just rode back on the shuttle with the guy who is organizing the BNSF Family Day Car Show. He asked how my car was coming along and if I thought it would be ready. I told him the head was still at the machine shop and that I'm hoping it will be done in time. He then said, “Well, I have to ask, what is Mr. Wiggly?” I laughed and said, “Mr. Wiggly is a 1976 Dodge Van.” He didn’t really want to know any more about it other than to ask, “It doesn’t have rust holes like my old Dodge does it?” “Of course!” I said. “Added lightness the natural way.” We laughed and went our separate ways. As I was walking away he said, “Well, no offense but I'd rather see the Lotus at the event.” “Me too,” I said. “Me too.” I just sent him a picture of Mr. Wiggly. We’ll see what he has to say now. So I was trying to think of things to say today and decided to go back and reread some old posts. Actually, I wanted to find the day where all I said was “Windows Vista sucks ass!” a bunch of times. I didn’t find it. I know I could find it pretty easily online, but I'm not online right now. Well, I might be when you are reading this, but I'm not now while I'm typing it. Anyhoo, I wonder if there is some kind of “global search” thingy which could find every file with those words in it on this computer. I'll bet there is. I'm not really interested enough to go looking for it though. Kooky. While reading the old posts, I saw a bit where I discussed paint schemes for George. The other day I found a set of Hello Kitty decals for the side of a car and forwarded them to John. I asked what his opinion would be and I think we’re back to a Chickenhawk motif with flat black sides and a pink top. Now, I need to decide if I want the Hello Kitty on the sides to be gloss black for a subtle effect or bright pink for a more “in your face” attitude. I just ordered a pair of Hello Kitty Stormtrooper decals, similar to the one on the rear glass of George but solid instead of outline and pink instead of white. Perhaps those will suffice. We’ll see. So, speaking of George, it looks like Shi-Chi’s head gasket has ground the turbo project to a halt yet again. Of course the fact that it is hovering around the 100° mark outside, and I have seen 118° in the shop, does put a damper on our enthusiasm for working on stuff. John says that he notices my “I need to cull my herd” statements tend to coincide with the weather being either too hot or too cold to work at the shop. I can see that. The future home of Dimlight Racing will have to have HVAC. There’s no way around that. Well, there’s always the fact that I could get rid of all this crap and take up a different hobby, but I don’t see that happening. Feh, I'm not having any fun talking to y'all today. I think I'm going to shut up for a bit. Perhaps I'll have more after lunch. We’ll see. Well, I'm back. Yeah, I got nothin’. I just had a look at the statistic counter thingy at the bottom of the screen. If I can come up with seventy five more words, I'll have twenty thousand words in the month of July. Fifty five more to go. Well, fifty at the end of that last sentence. Do I continue with this for another forty one words? I think I just might. It’s not like y'all have anything better to do, right? I know I sure as hell don’t. Ok, twenty thousand words at this period right here. Woo hoo! Ok, I'm done. I'll talk to y'all again tomorrow.