So my last visit to Colorado back around New Years ended on a sour note. Nothing like food poisoning to cheer up your mood and make you a fun guy to be around. So when Strill prodded me to show up at the Rocky Mountain Fur Convention, I figured, "Why the hell not ( Read more... )

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This weekend was pretty fun. Earlier this week I was invited to a small paintball match by one of the students from the robotics team I mentored. A few members were there, the rest were friends of theirs from high school. I got to teach them engineering. Now I got to teach them pain ( Read more... )

Just go ride back country for the better part of the day. *falls over*


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Placed 2nd in Modified 2wd. A rally prepped Ford Escort got first and a semi-prepped Nissan 240sx got third and fourth. Not bad for my first time out. :]

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Christ, I forgot how busy work can get. It never seems to fail. I can sit and bullshit all day and never receive a call. The second I actually do something that falls within the criteria of my job, the phone rings. :P

Things have been going well here. I've been holding out on renting a house hoping I may get a job offer elsewhere, but I think it's ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning and my nose wasn't running and I was full of energy. Awesome! :D Also received a call this morning that the factory is without power due to a thunder storm last night and likely won't open up until lunch. Also awesome ( Read more... )

The Starquest Nationals meet went off without a hitch last weekend. We had a few minor failures, but no cars were sent home on a trailer that weren't trailered in to begin with. Worst failure of the weekend was a Lexus ES300 that blew a fuel line. Some genius had cut the hard lines to replace a filter and used low pressure fuel hose to join ( Read more... )

The Conquest, it lives! Busted ass all weekend and managed to drive it this afternoon. It was a little odd at first because the car was taking forever to build boost and was just slower than shit. "The intercooler couldn't have caused this..." I thought to myself. And as I thought more and more, I began to wonder if I had removed all the paper ( Read more... )