...it started! Everything was purring fine, for about 45 seconds. Then I started getting whisps of smoke and a faint rubber smell rolling from under the timing belt housing. The enigine was stopped and started three times with this same result ( Read more... )

... i'm just broke and don't wanna pay a mechanic!

So here we are with the head removed...

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Let me start by saying my ass has been saved thus far by an extremly helpful on-line resource:

http://www.miata.net/hakuna/port1.html

If you own a Miata, this site is a wealth of information!
I have a 91' Miata with 217K miles on it, and so far its been a supurb little car.  But about a  week ago it start sounding like a VW bug and lacked a lot of ( Read more... )

I love planes, but making four trips across the U.S. within a month gets really old.  Though I will say the one First Class seat I lucked into made one hell of a diffrence.  ( I would have spent $80 easy back in coach on all the booze and food I sucked down.)

Tennessee: 
Flew into Johnson City, everyone stares like you have a hole in your head ( ( Read more... )

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Well, on purpose actually. Looking at my dive log I was appaled that it's been 5 months since I last went diving!  Thats pretty poor since i've been trying to average at least one trip (two dives) a month.  So I decided to fix that yesterday with a trip to Monterey. I could have cared less what the conditions were, I just wanted to get wet again. ( Read more... )

THE MAN IN THE GLASS
BY
DALE WIMBROW

When you get what you want in your struggle
for self
And the world makes you king for a day,

Just go to a mirror and look at yourself
And see what THAT man has to say.

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass;

The fellow whose verdicts counts most in your
life
Is the one staring back from ( Read more... )

This holiday season has been nuts with time off. Between the usual Federal days off, combined with the local days being given, it feels like i've only worked two or three days a week since Thanksgiving. Not to mention how slow the place is with everyone else gone for the holidays. And now with Pres. Ford passing away, I get yet another day off. I ( Read more... )

I have never been much into music. Im one of those people who listens more to the sound and feel of the music, rather than the actual words. For a while there were a lot of artists and songs that I loved but I could never tell you the name of the song or band (which sort of corrected itself over time ( Read more... )