6/22/09

We didn’t make it to the shop this weekend. Well, that’s not entirely true, John made it to the shop but I didn’t. I sent him an e-mail Friday evening asking him to call when he was headed to the shop Saturday morning. I woke up around 0900 h and checked my phone. The message still hadn’t gone through. I called but got his voice mail. I decided to go ahead and dress for the shop and head that way. As I was about to leave, he called me and I suggested we go to the gun show in Denton instead. “I'll be at your house in fifteen minutes,” he said. We rolled north. We walked the gun show and I looked for that Marlin Camp Carbine in .45 ACP that I'd seen at the last gun show. I didn’t find it or I would have bought it. We bailed and drove through the UNT campus for old time’s sake. My old times that is, he was just a bored passenger. We rolled south to Shady Oaks Barbecue and had lunch. He hopped in his car at my house and went on his way. I took a nap. Sunday morning I decided I wanted to go for a hoon in Shichi. Yeah, those carburetors do not like that cam. The car is running like crap and it is pissing me off. Oh, and the horn acted up again too. I think I'm just going to rewire that circuit to another button on the dash, probably where that useless choke cable is now. Then again, I might want a choke with the Mikunis. Hmm, it is a conundrum. We’ll see. Ok, I say it is running like crap, it isn't running how I'd like it to be running. It runs great when accelerating through the first four gears, once you get past 3,000 RPM in the higher ones. I can use fifth, but only to maintain about 75 miles per hour. It will not accelerate once a certain throttle input is past. It is quite annoying, to say the least. I don’t know what I want to do. I'm still thinking about slapping a $30,000.00 price tag on it at the swap meet next weekend. I'd take anything over $24,000.00, but less than that I don’t know. Yeah, I know it isn't worth anywhere near that, in fact it is probably only worth about half, but I don’t “want” to sell it, I'm “willing” to sell it. Of course it is pissing me off so it could shift its location on the “willing-wanting” continuum if it isn't careful. No, I probably won’t take it to the swap meet. I'll probably spend Thursday evening at the shop loading the V8 stuff, and anything else we think might sell, into the back of Fifi. I need to decide if I'm going to the meet Friday. I guess I could call Marty and/or George to see what they have planned for Friday. It would cost me another $200.00 to get Jeff to cover for me. No, I'll probably just go Saturday and Sunday. Of course there’s nothing saying I couldn’t cut out of work early to go see how things are going Friday. I wonder if John remembers that I have a spot at the swap meet next weekend. I just sent an e-mail; let’s see what he has to say. Ok, this could take a while. I'll move on. Ok, Shichi just popped up on the screen saver, I don’t think I can sell it. Of course if I did sell it, and subsequently got myself out of debt, I could buy the one Steve-John is bringing over from South Africa. Then again, I am going to try and finger out a way to buy that one whether or not I still have Shichi. We’ll see. Ok, I'm tired of talking to y'all. I'm not going to wait any longer for John to reply. I'll let y'all know what he had to say tomorrow.