old jacket, old memories

found a pack of ARA cigs in my old motorcycle jacket I found over at my mom's house. Cambodian cigs at $2 a pack were the biggest perk of fabbin back in the day. Still waiting to see how I did on my placement test, starting to get restless.

Livin it

Been pretty happy lately now that my car's running and whatnot. Took a placement test to see if I qualify to get into welding school. Waiting to hear back hopefully by the end of the week. I now have switched my stance on cut springs. I always thought it wasn't really that bad, cut your springs and lower/stiffen up the ride for a win win situation. However driving on them for extended periods of time blows donkey balls. All my struts are blown and i can't hit the smallest bump now without bouncing down the road for miles. I can't wait to get some money rolling in so i can start sinking it in to my car and get it set up over the winter. I'm excited for a season of snow-drifting but I'm also hoping my heim joints don't get to fucocked from salt and shit. We'll see what the winter brings and hopefully by next summer I can have my car set up the way I want.

Progressive FTW

Went to get insurance today and got quotes of $2000+ from everywherre I went for basic. basic, BASIC insurance. I came home saddened and thinking I would never drive again. Turned on the TV, and i saw a commercial for progressive. Went online and less than 10 minutes later I have a insurance policy for only $100 down, $70 a month and $800 total for the year. Super happy. Also decided to change the background pic today, I used a shitty point and click that my girl had because my damn iphone 4's virtual shutter froze. I'll get the hang of it hopefully and then I can have something that takes even better pics than my iphone

Parts are here!

Parts came in today, time to get cracking. Got some money so I can try to get insurance. Hoping to have the car back up and running and legal by the end of next week

Lots of lols

Spotted a clean hatch on the local forums for $1800 and had to make this out of shear amazement

Little things

Kevin's the man. Ordered parts yesterday to get my car back up and running. Hit a deer today in a POS saturn I was borrowing. Janky ass plastic fender practically exploded. Stopped giving a fuck, gotta get on with my life and get positive.

Seein the sunshine

Checked out my cam timing today, looks like it's dead on balls so that means I didn't my timing chain didn't jump a tooth and all is well in timing land. However the cause of my issues are bad injectors. Gonna try to see if I can get away with replacing the o-rings and trying to clean em out with carb cleaner or something. Gotta get my car squared away then I gotta focus on getting re-insured. Then get learned and get a job fabbin. Then get money and build this beast like I've wanted to for years.

But wait there's more....

To add more shittiness to my already shitty situation, my insurance was cancelled today due to an error in the company's phone payment system. They're being pricks and won't admit it was their fault and pretty told me to go fuck myself. So no insurance, no car, no job, no money and I'm just about at the end of my rope. Fackin fack fackity doo. Here's to hoping life gets better.

Car woes

My car has been good to me for the last month or so since the rebuild. But today it decided it wanted to quit and decided to jump a tooth on the timing chain. Or at least that's what it looks like. Life blows, no car, no job, no money. Gotta look at the bright side, gotta find something good to focus on. In times like this I think moving out wasn't the best of ideas. Can't sit and bitch about it though, gotta tear apart my motor again and fix that shit.

Rusticles

Found this out behind the garage today, this is what I want my hood to look like. I love the look of a good patina, the different textures and colors are amazing. The project has kind of taken a hiatus unfortunately since I've been cut-off on my unemployment and have to wait weeks for Rhode Island to get off it's ass and approve my new claim. Living poor sucks but I'm making it work. Gonna go to welding school and get certified in every welding technique known to man. Then I'll see where life takes me...