11/6/13

I knew I shouldn’t have sent the link to the Hello Kitty Tavor.  What should have been linked was a picture of the flat top Tavor… the Hello Kitty Tavor probably should have been the first picture.  [ Or given me a head's up with what pic goes where...  - SM ]   But I'm not going to look at this gift horse’s mouth too closely.  Spiderman has been posting these inane ramblings for me for so long now that there is no way I can ever complain.  So, moving on… oh how I want to make a reference to the trucker show from the seventies right about now.  But I won't.  crap, I had something to say when I started in here but my petty pitching about the Tavor pictures caused me to lose my train of thought.  Hang on a moment… I'll think of it...  Got it!  John sent me a link to a B-210 in New Braunfels which has me thinking about us doing a “Wheeler Dealer” car.  I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned the show “Wheeler Dealers” before but it is a British DIY show about buying, fixing, and selling old cars.  I lurve it.  I think John is a fan as well.  Anyhoo, I'm thinking that if we can pick up some classic Japanese tin, restovate it a little, and sell it on, the shop might actually pay for itself.  I doubt we’d make much profit, but it could be good for a larff in between doing up our projects.  Hell’s kittens, John is already doing it unintentionally… or perhaps it IS intentional.  Hmm, I hadn’t thought of the “Keep Tim outta my bizness” angle before.  Meh, waddayagonnado?  So, there’s that going on in m’head.  And that actually was NOT what I was going to talk about when I started this rant.  I just remembered what the original impetus for firing up the old processor of words was to be.  A picture flashed up on the screen saver just before I started.  It was one of the shots I took of Lil' Wiggly's rear axle as I was building the brakes for it.  I got to thinking about how I was on vacation and working alone on that.  We are approaching a full year since I took my last vacation!  It has been almost a year since we made any real progress on that car.  Sure, six months were wasted worrying about moving shop… but still.  I'm thinking that my next vacation (I put in for the week before and the week of Thanksgiving) will be spent at the shop working on Lil' Wiggly.  I still have to finish the wiring, “fix” the sagging motor mounts, and finger out the radiator situation… and whatever else there is to do of course.  Ok, I'm going to set myself another goal… unless I already set this goal earlier when I set the goals for the Spit, the Mini, and the Chickenhawk… I'm going to drive Lil' Wiggly on New Year’s Day, 2014.  You know, weather permitting of course.  I mean, if it is snowing or some shit I'm not going to drive a V8 B-210 for the first time.  Sure, if we’ve got it going in mid-December and have some confidence in the thing, I might putter around the block in it in the snow on the first just to say I did it… oh, never mind.  So, if John and I spend this Saturday, the ninth, fixing up the shop some more, adding lights and shit like that, the following Friday will be when my vacation, hopefully, starts and I can really get down to work.  The 15^th through the 27^th (plus the 29^th) gives me twelve days by myself and two with John before (and one after) Thanksgiving Thursday on the 28^th.  Then John and I will have the 30^th, 7^th, 14^th, and 28^th to wrap things up.  I didn’t include the 21^st onnacounta that’s John's birfday and I’m not sure if we’ll be doing the shop that day.  And all of those dates are tentative as well, of course.  Y’know, it is remotely conceivable that I could have Lil' Wiggly going by the December 7^th Old School Japanese Car Show if I really bust ass while I'm alone with the thing.  I think I could possibly convince John to swing by and check on me on his way home from work those days as well… to make sure I haven’t killed myself somehow.  I think we’re in with a chance here.  It is an ambitious goal, but I can always fall back on New Year’s Day if I fail.  So, on that note, I think I'm going to call it a rant for today and go fly a bombing mission over the Dresden Porcelain Works.  Toodle pip, and cheerio!