Bugs Palace!

May 5/2005 (AKA 5-5-5) 

FINALLY. 11 years of driving, and I finally passed my damned G2 exit test. I won’t get into the details, but I will say I had some pretty shitty luck in my previous attempts. You’d think that 11 years of driving with about 60K kms a year for the past 5-6 years. Regrettably I’m not one for tests. At least I finally got the damned thing.

Not to much else to update. I had the resonator removed from my exhaust system. GTI has a tiny bit more growl to it. Nothing much, but it will keep my happy until I can swing the 1000$ for a turbo back exhaust system. Then I will get lots more growl AND 8-15 extra horse power. Horse power is a lot like money. You can never have enough

April 30/2005

GTI is finally back in the driveway again. The car looks awesome. Couple little problematic spots, but the shop said they would fix them up so no worries there. All in all they did an awesome job. Spoiler is on as well, and really sets the back off nicely. Now I just need to drop it, 18s, and a body kit 🙂 (hopefully news on that sooner then later).

Dropped some money on the Beetle today. 285$ worth of lighting stuff. All new headlights, turn signals and tail lights. This shit adds up quickly. It’s gonna be sweet when she’s all together. I got some work ahead of me tomorrow. I told Kevin id get the 4 fenders on. That’s a lot of bolts. I also want to clean the garage up. Cool thing is, the car will be all lit up within a week or so, the lighting should be all in and hooked up and the car will look somewhat complete, albeit no paint.

Works been busy. Spent the last 2 weeks switching a school over to Windows2003 server and Xp/2000 Clients. Went pretty good. A bit slow, but good. Had fun with the staff. It’s defiantly one of the better schools to be in that I maintain.

Update: Lastly, I found a cool program on the internet which allows you to tweak Gti’s and Jetta’s to the max. I did a couple quick ones for my car and Shannons Car.

Mine Starting (wheels aren’t exact, but close)

Mine Realistically (wheels are semi- affordable)

Mine Dream (Wheels a weee bit out of my price range)

Shannons Starting

Shannons Dream

April 23/2005

Dropped the GTI off on Monday. I was supposed to have the car back yesterday (Friday), but they aren’t done. Apparently they had a hard time getting me a door. I guess 3 weeks notice wasn’t enough to get the door in. That, and they didn’t bother ordering it until after they had my car in their possession. Oh well. I have a snazy little Pontiac Sunflower, errr. Sunfire as a rental. 4 doors, automagic tranny and a 4 cylinder engine without turbo.  I wonder how much more it would cost to have the brick taken out from under the pedal. My old beetle would kill this thing in a race. And it doesn’t have an engine in it! Hopefully by next week I will be back in the driver seat of my baby.

Good news on the tax front. Got a report back on my income tax. The accountant has/is closing my business for me, and by writing off the remainder of my computers and hardware, I no longer have to pay. I don’t get much of a return (40$ or so), but that’s a hell of a lot better the 500$ I was gonna have to pay. That and the money Shannon is getting back makes tax time not horrible this year. Too bad there isn’t enough to get me a suspension. Oh well. Maybe I will blow the 40$ on booze and strippers. Well.. Booze at least.

Just an update on the web server. Hopefully in the next few weeks, I will be taking some time to rebuild my server. Since loosing my uptime, and my recent lack of hard drive space, I need to rebuild and repartition. I’ve got plenty of space, its just poorly allocated. So when I rebuild I will correct it.

Recently I have became hooked on a new Tv show. Desperate Housewives. I don’t watch much tv anymore, but I caught an episode last week on TV and since then, I have downloaded all 19 episodes and watched them. During my marathon to get caught up on the show, I think I also got Shannon slightly addicted. At least its not a reality TV show. Its funny and worth the watch.

More news when I think of it.