oh hi!

i bet you forgot about my blog.

nope, i've just been really busy. in fact, i've worked every day since randy and danielle's wedding. all of my pictures have been put on facebook, so you can check them out there. hopefully we'll be getting the professional ones soon from randy and danielle. we're going to uccellos tuesday night to celebrate their return and share stories from the wedding and their honeymoon.

the wedding went very well. i didn't get unbelievably drunk. don't get me wrong, i had a few. but i wanted to remember everything. and i do. it was incredible. it was beautiful, and i couldn't be happier for my friends!

after the wedding, i still had rick's '09 CTS, so megan and i took it down to the gut in lansing. for those of you that don't know, the gut is south cedar street in lansing. and a bunch of car enthusiasts hang out in the parking lot of the Lansing Police south precinct.
the next day, lloyd called me up and said that he fucked up his car, i thought it meant that he wrecked it. it turns out it was just misfiring. i went over there and scanned the car, i was hoping it'd be a spark plug or a wire, but it was a fuel injector. after a few calls turns out a fellow MIGPC member in eaton rapids had an extra injector. we drove out there, picked it up, and installed it. as far as i know, the car hasn't blown up yet.... so lets hope it stays that way, because i'd never replaced a fuel injector before.

other than that, like i said. i've been working every single day. i've got a couple days off, so i'll probably wash and wax my car if it's gonna stay dry.

peace!

i'd kill to fall asleep

i wouldn't know what sleep felt like if i tried my best.

i'm really pumped for the weekend. it's going to be a long weekend. but it'll be well worth it.

friday - megan and i need to run to kohls to return a couple pairs of dress pants that didnt fit me as well as anticipated. after that, we'll drive back to lansing. i'll drop her off, then i need to go get my tux and make sure that it fits. Then i'm meeting my mom and she'll be buying this car http://www.1800newjeep.com/vehicle.asp?v=511008#1

trust me, they've come down a ton in price.

after that, there's a rehersal dinner. then a rehersal. then, with any luck. saturday there will be a wedding.

pictures to come, no blogs this weekend. have a good one.


John

hopefully this works...

phoney madness

getting a new phone sucks. don't get me wrong, my blackberry is the tits, but transferring 147 pictures from one phone to another takes for damn ever. i have to make new ringtones. trust me, i was due. "the pretender" was getting a little old.

i put insurance on the blackberry, i don't even want to fathom what it would cost to replace it.

if i'm feeling saucy, i'll post some random pictures from my old phone. they might be appropriate.

blessing in disguise?

i dropped my phone today. it sucked. i was pissed.

so i went ahead and bought a blackberry.

sweet!

and in more terrible news

the girl i mentioned in one of my previous blog posts died from her injuries. she was street racing a friend on her way home from work when she lost control and flipped her grand prix. died this evening, very sad.

also, i noticed on my way to church this morning, some graffiti on the stop sign outside my apartment complex. driving down the road past metro health, i see the side of their building was tagged with graffiti. honestly, why? seriously! who goes out late at night and says, who wants to deface some buildings?

i weep for the future.

i'm going to need a funny picture post to cheer me up.

GUH!

don't you just hate it when someone JUST joins facebook, and your news feed becomes the victim. seriously, you see every fucking application these people add, every single friend they add, and every single politician they support.

tiger woods kicked ass and took names today. i never thought i'd like watching golf, but got-damn! tiger woods makes it intense!

got a surprise for randy and danielle's wedding today. and of course, i couldn't keep my damn mouth shut and called randy immediately. if you're going, i guess you'll have to wait and see it!

watching game 5 of the NBA finals with dad now.

bummin

just got my invite to wolf's going away party.

man, you sure you gotta go?

hanging out with my dad tonight, happy father's day to everyone!!

got today started with a bang

woke up this morning, and there was a post on MIGPC clearly directed toward me. don't want to go into it, but somebody said that i did something, but i didn't. big mess, but it's been straightened up.

worked 10-6 today. my gross margin per hour dropped a little bit, but a $2500 sale took care of that nicely. nothing else major to report at work.

after work, i went tanning in preparation for randy and danielle's wedding. came home, and megan made dinner! sweet! after dinner i went over to dog dawgs for the weekend cruise-in. the rain kept a lot of people away, but i hung out with a few guys from MIGPC until the high schoolers came out with their rice rockets.

just saw that a state of emergency was declared in eaton county. maybe that means i won't have to take care of the rest of the mess in mom's yard.

dad's coming down tomorrow for fathers day! WAHOO!

negative attention

there's been two terrible accidents in Grand Rapids in the past couple months have have brought much undue negative attention to the Grand Prix community in Grand Rapids.

The first incident was a kid in our club named Max. Max was street racing against another vehicle on 52nd street in Kentwood, at 4pm, in a school zone. Max was going well over 100mph when he lost control of his GP and smashed into oncoming traffic. Max was relatively unhurt, while the other driver was in critical condition, and his life may never be the same. Charges were filed, warrants were issued, and Max is sitting in jail right now. Lord knows how long he'll be put away for. All we can do is pray for him, and pray for the other driver.

The most recent happened only a couple nights ago. A girl named Amanda from Newaygo with a bad habit of speeding and racing (as evidenced by her myspace page), was racing down Alpine Ave near 6 mile road. She lost control of her Grand Prix, flipped it, and was ejected. She was the only injury in the accident, but she is in critical condition at Butterworth in a medically induced coma. She was not a member of our club, but due to Max's accident, it casts a negative shadow on modified Grand Prixs in Grand Rapids.

racing at knoll gas MSP

last night, me, straayer, shooter and stalker all went to knoll gas motor sports park (martin, 131, whatever you call it). 10 bucks to race on a wednesday night, so it made total sense to go. i hadn't had a chance to run the top swap fully functional yet (had a wicked vac leak at MGM and was running only 4lbs of boost). track prep was great to start the night off, but they didn't take care of it and traction failed me as the night went on. I had a pretty consistent reaction time throughout the night, typically .5. i don't know what it is about martin, maybe it's a different tree than i'm used to, but at stanton i've hit a near perfect light (.001). Ran consistent 14.0 all night, but i goosed it off the line on my 3rd run of the night and got my personal best.

PB - 13.9@97MPH with a 2.0 60'.

the time is right in line with my mods and what my car is capable of, so i'm pretty maxed out with this setup. i'm unsure if i want to continue just because the car is a daily driver and i can't have it out of commission for a long time for mods or repairs.
pictures were taken by me with Josh Knight's Nikon D50

Welcome!

I've decided to start blogging. this isn't a first for me. I did livejournal for a while, but that became kind of silly and i eventually gave it up. This is the page that I created with the intent of sharing things with my friends and family. Random things, funny things, personal things. All kinds of good stuff! I'll try to update it on a daily basis, even if it's just a funny picture or bit of information. Enjoy!