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Sunday, 26 August 2007

Projects:

Bottle cap display - Status:Finished - Cost:$12-$15
Description: Pretty black craft foam backed with corkboard
Comments: I'd been meaning to do this project for a while now, as the caps had just become a pile of chaos. I finally had the extra cash and wanted a quick project to do! (I hope to have pictures up sometime soon)

Computer desk/work table - Status:Unfinished - Cost:$120 and rising
Description: complete rebuild of my current Work table in my room. Adding tiers and using better materials then I originally did. Also planning on painting and staining it.
Comments: Theoretically this project should have been finished by now except that somewhere along the line I managed to lose the original plans I had drawn up, and it kind of snowballed after that. I have been picking up pieces here and there. I am also almost finished building the frame for the bottom (woodwork can be fun, its even better with a decent saw!)

PVR computer - Status:Collecting parts! - Cost:way more then a Tivo
Description: liquid-cooled computer running MythTV with 4 tuners, several SATA drives and custom case.
Comments: I had been planning this project for some time, but never had a starting point. That was until I bought my case from a friends of mine, its an old-school full-tower case with loads of space and lots of cool features! I suspect this project will end up taking a year at least with all the custom work involved as well as collecting parts.

Jeep Cherokee - Status:Collecting parts and dust! - Cost:$5000 plus
Description: Turn a Jeep cherokee into a show-truck on crack!
Comments: This is definitely a long term project, as there are way to many things that need to be done and I am having a hard time finding a cheap Right hand drive cherokee to drop the motor into.

Monday, 06 November 2006

My Life:
Ok well it should be obvious to most people by now that I'm not in jail/prison, but I still haven't posted in forever. I make no appologies for this its just taken me a while to try to get feelings straightened out and figure out life. So here goes. I have dropped alot of projects and decided to focus my efforts on one main big one. I have bought a new car and decided on what to do with the jeep. I will be tricking it out (go on laugh you wouldn't be the first) for next years summer fest (car show in coopersville). There will be alot of changes done on it most of which I will be doing myself but my biggest problem is that I don't have the artistic talent that I once did (well I probably do but most of it was emotion and I don't feel alot of those emotions anymore) So I will be holding a contest next summer for some art work for it. If you are interested in information on it or anything about it please post saying so. I am serious about this. I'm already planning on dropping about $5000 in parts and what not on it and am deciding on a set amount for the contest winner (this will not be disclosed untill I have set a date for the start and end of the contest). Please dont ask about the amount yet. I am working on a dedicated website for the entire project and don't have any clue as to when it will be up (soon I hope). I will also be looking for an amature photographer who is looking to get some practice in on something that will be seen both on the web and in shows (car shows) please let me know if you are interested in that. Now that that is out and what not, lets get onto other aspects of life. I am no longer doing Quality Control at work, I guess making a $15,000 mistake gets you demoted. This is life though. well sorry for that short post but I need to clean things so talk to you later.

Tuesday, 25 April 2006

My Life:
We all know I should have posted last week Monday right? Well apparently they don't let you use computers while you are sitting in a holding cell waiting for the judge to hear your case and decide upon bail/bond and when your pre-trial is. Its a stupid rule I know, but anyway's. They decided to let me out on a $3000 Personal Reconnaissance bond (PR bond), which basically means if I don't show up at the court house in Holland at 10:15.AM. on Tuesday the 25th then they throw me in jail for a lot longer and I owe the court system $3000 (which I don't have and I don't need to miss anymore work). My hope is that the case will get thrown out for some stupid technical reason. If you are reading this before I have to go to court, Please oh please Pray for me! Well I need to go to bed right now so I will post later on how it went.

Tuesday, 11 April 2006

My Life:
Ok so as we can all see I haven't posted (well those of us who still read my xanga, thank you to those folks!) in quite a while. There is a reason for this, for the past few weeks I been pretty down, I got blown off then basically dumped, I saw this coming but ..... Well I did manage to learn a couple of things from this. they are as follows:
1. I get pretty emotionally involved when it comes to relationships and there isn't anything I can do about it.
2. I now know what Ben meant when He said "She broke up with me and I threw up.", Except I didn't throw up (even though I wanted to)
3. Never tell the guys at work about your love life, no not any of it!
4. I don't get jealous, but I do get upset when people aren't up front and honest with me as I have been with them (beating around the bush isn't any better)
5. Nice guys really do finish last which means I'm pretty much fucked!
Even though I'm still pretty down about it, I am starting to eat now, and hopefully she wasn't just being nice when she said we should just be friends. I hope to be back and doing full blown posts pretty soon. For now that's all I can think of, take care and I wish you all much more luck then I have had in your relationships.

P.S.: If anyone is up for hanging out or anything please let me know as I need some peoples to spend time with. TTFN

Monday, 03 April 2006

my life:
ok its been 2 weeks since my last post , i've had a couple of drinks so we are going to do the quick and dirty of this and I will theoretically clean this up later. ok 2 weeks ago i was sick teh whole weeek with what turned out to be an upper respratory viral infection but none the less i'm nicer then the guys at work and so i didn;t go ina nd spred it areound. last weekn sucked because i got no checka nd oh we got auditeded and i screwed that up pretty bad. on top of all that I think this really cool girl i was dating is avoiding me, i've been telling myself that she hasnt and has just been busy but everyone else has said otherwise. well i think i need to go pass out for now sorry about how bad this is but I swear it will get cleaned up.