12/11/12

Ok, Hyundpple is pissing me right the hell off… again.  Juan may remember how I had to buy a damned i-gotta-be-just-like-everyone-else-Phone because that is what Hyundai recommends for their Blue-tool system.  Juan may also remember how much I fucking HATED the damned thing.  He may further remember how it died and that I went back to a Dingleberry when we removed the radio and Blue-tool controls from the steering wheel of Fiona.  Well, around Thanksgiving I decided that since I already had all that music in i-Tunes, and it should work in Fiona with the damned cable I bought for it, I should bite the bullet and buy an i-Pod.  This I did.  It works fine, but GODDAMN IT!  IF I WANTED THE MOTHERFUCKING RADIO ON WHEN I TURNED ON THE MOTHERFUCKING CAR, I WOULD LEAVE THE MOTHERFUCKER TURNED THE FUCK ON WHEN I SHUT OFF THE GODDAMNED SON OF A BITCH‼‼‼‼‼‼‼  Oh, but the pisser is, it doesn’t do it every goddamned time.  Sometimes I'll start the car with the i-Pod hooked up and it sits there turned off, just the way I left it.  Then the next motherfucking time the goddamned thing comes on as soon as I fire up the motherfucking car.  And I know for a fact that I shut the fucking radio off when I shut off the car… because I always shut the fucking radio off when I shut off the fucking car.  ALL-FUCKING-WAYS!  So I sent John an e-mail last night saying that if the damned i-Pod turns on Fiona's fucking radio again, I'm selling the some-bitch on e-Bay.  I went on to ask if it would behoove me to remove all of the stuff I had put on it were I to make that decision and if so, how would I go about doing that.  He said it would not.  I then realized that my wording was a tad ambiguous.  I clarified that I meant selling the i-Pod, not Fiona.  Of course losing $25,000.00 worth of debt would be awesome… but at the cost of having mom kick my ass?  I'm not so sure.  Also “of course,” were I to sell Fiona and start driving Fifi every day, it would immediately crap out and cost me a shit-ton of money to get fixed.  No, I'm not selling Fiona… probably.  And in other news, a few years ago I had a 1200 named Gigi because I bought it from Gregg Gary.  An acquaintance of John's came to the shop and bought it as well as Herman.  He took delivery of Gigi and was going to come back for Herman in a month… that was at least four years ago.  Well, he called last night to see if I still had Herman.  I told him I did.  He asked if the old deal was still good.  I asked what we had come up with.  He said he’d already paid me for it but that if I thought he owed more since it had been so long…  I said, mentally, “Fuck it,” and told him he could come get it.  We’ve pretty much gotten all the value we’re ever going to get from that car and I really don’t need it on my plate.  The only, and I do mean ONLY thing that car has going for it is a title.  If we never retrieve the Louisiana Purchase, or drag home another 1200 without a title, we don’t need that car’s VIN and title.  Besides, have I mentioned that I don’t need it on my plate anymore?  Letting another project leave would be one of the smartest things I could do.  I think that might also put another nail in George's turbo coffin.  Hmm, that sentence doesn’t even make sense to me and I just wrote it.  I mean it is another excuse to ditch the trillion-dollar turbo A-series in George in favor of… well, KA or VG.  Hmm, I suppose the expensive bits could be used to build an A-14 turbo for the Spit’.  Hmm.  Now there’s an idea.  In fact, the more I think about it, that car does make more sense as a home for a 110-115 horsepower draw-through turbo setup.  I'm asking John right now just how much “too wide” was a 1200 axle for the Spit’.  I'm thinking, since we’d want to put in a big-assed axle behind the VG or KA in George, we could use the 4.11:1 with welded differential in the Spit’ behind the turbo motor.  I'm beginning to think this is a workable idea.  Now I just need to decide which car do I want to be “faster,” George or the Chickenhawk?  What makes the most “sense” is: wide-body, VG-33, and Ford 8.8” axle together in one car and fender flares, KA-24, and S-110 (200SX) axle in the other.  Since the Chickenhawk already has fender flares and the S-110 axle, it should get the KA-24 and George should get the other bits… the problem with that plan is, it makes George faster than the Chickenhawk.  I suppose that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.  Not to mention this plan will change four more times before any wrenches ever get turned on either car.  So I guess I otter just shut the hell up about it and move on, but since I'm past a page break, I'm just going to shut the hell up and NOT move on.  So there.

Addendum: When I got to work this morning I switched the radio from i-Pod to XM, turned the radio off, and then I turned the car off.  This afternoon, as soon as I started the car the motherfucker said, “Loading i-Pod Folders” and started playing the fucking i-Pod.  If I wanted the motherfucking radio on when I started the motherfucking car, I would have left the motherfucking radio on when I shut off the motherfucking car.  Fuck this i-Pod bullshit.  The motherfucker has to GO.