wow, I neglect this poor blog dont I? Luckily midterm time, tax time, winter rally season, and spring break are all done. This months bills are paid (somehow) so tonight I get to just sit aorund and enjoy my one day of relaxation and relative solitude. Or may just settle with satisfaction.
The Arrowhead WRS is done after the Keewenaw Winter Rally, where Leann and myself finnished 2nd in class. Me and Dad tied in the final points standing for 3rd behind Tim Winker and Dave Fuss. The sad part is if we had topped Tim's position I would hav taken the series. Dang.
Went to the Minneapolis Auto Show last weekend. Fun but nothing too amazing. I scored a navigation DVD from BMW, a poster from Porsche, and model car from VW, and a pen from Hyundai. Leann took a liking to the Nissan Xterra, which I think would be a fine vehicle for her although I think a Frontier may end up being a better choice since she want to haul her quad around. She also wants a new quad so yeah...
I am right now writing a cover letter for an internship at SAE in Troy...cool although spending the summer over there may be a pain in the butt. Jess or Mel could probably put me up for a while and the van is already over there so I would have a vehicle. I wonder how far Troy is from Ann Arbor?
Leann got the job at MVTL in New Ulm which is just awesome. good money, now she just need to keep her nose to the grind for the next month and get her degree without totally botching her classes! I'm sure she'll do fine, even though I know the last thing she wants to do is keep going to class.
Thanks the big news for now. Caio!
-G :)
Friday, March 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Hallo everybody!
Just wanted to say that I am still here. Haven't died or fallen off the edge of the world yet. :)
Not much happening down south here. Money is super tight so pretty much all leisure activities outside of drinking have ceased. :) Sadly that includes rallys and automotive hoonage.
I am in the process of doing my taxes, FAFSA, and scholarship applications right now, which is a total bitch since it is also coming up to midterm time and I am running out of time. (or patience, or both)
On the upsides-
I just got ProE for free today, which is awesome.
I also found several Group-F rally videos where it appears that the main competitor vehicle is a BMW E36, so I have got my blood boiling again to go rally. (too bad for the money situation huh?)
Other than that life is still normal. My grey hairs keep multiplying. Leann had a job interview up the road in New Ulm and it is looking like they will be offering her the job which is great for her! Hopefully it wont send things askew between us. :)
Not much happening down south here. Money is super tight so pretty much all leisure activities outside of drinking have ceased. :) Sadly that includes rallys and automotive hoonage.
I am in the process of doing my taxes, FAFSA, and scholarship applications right now, which is a total bitch since it is also coming up to midterm time and I am running out of time. (or patience, or both)
On the upsides-
I just got ProE for free today, which is awesome.
I also found several Group-F rally videos where it appears that the main competitor vehicle is a BMW E36, so I have got my blood boiling again to go rally. (too bad for the money situation huh?)
Other than that life is still normal. My grey hairs keep multiplying. Leann had a job interview up the road in New Ulm and it is looking like they will be offering her the job which is great for her! Hopefully it wont send things askew between us. :)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Why my Silverado has little to do with petrolium consumption.
Seriously. My 15-20mpg on petrol is nothing compared to what that MONSTER must guzzle down. LOL So anybody who wants to poke at me just for driving an "ineffecint" truck should just shut the hell up. LOL :)
-g
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
what am i thankful for?
okay, thanksgiving was a while back...tough.
I've been thinking a lot about things lately. relationships, life, the usual gambit of lousy introspective thought. Tonight I am peturbed. I really don't have hardly anything to be thankful for. I have never had anything in my life that made me step back and say "wow, thank goodness I am alive"
I have my health, food in my stomach, a roof over my head. I have personal freedoms that are taken for granted. I have a job (shitty but I have one). There isn't war knocking on my doorstep, there isn't famine of rampant disease, there is nothing interesting or exciting, or dangerous. I sit behind a desk all day getting fat. Either I have grown extremely calloused, or there is simply nothing happenign around me. it makes me depressed, because the most stressful thing in my life is that I have a hard time making rent this month. Thats a lousy fucking existence.
And yet even when things were good (not very long ago at all) I still wasn't happy. I have a GF that I'm not happy with. I have a vehicle I can't be happy with. I have a roommate I can't be happy with. I have an apt that is okay but an apt. I have parents that are good now but treated me wrong in the past. About the only thing that is good and constant is my brother, and I never get to see him anymore.
more depression. lousy.
-g
I've been thinking a lot about things lately. relationships, life, the usual gambit of lousy introspective thought. Tonight I am peturbed. I really don't have hardly anything to be thankful for. I have never had anything in my life that made me step back and say "wow, thank goodness I am alive"
I have my health, food in my stomach, a roof over my head. I have personal freedoms that are taken for granted. I have a job (shitty but I have one). There isn't war knocking on my doorstep, there isn't famine of rampant disease, there is nothing interesting or exciting, or dangerous. I sit behind a desk all day getting fat. Either I have grown extremely calloused, or there is simply nothing happenign around me. it makes me depressed, because the most stressful thing in my life is that I have a hard time making rent this month. Thats a lousy fucking existence.
And yet even when things were good (not very long ago at all) I still wasn't happy. I have a GF that I'm not happy with. I have a vehicle I can't be happy with. I have a roommate I can't be happy with. I have an apt that is okay but an apt. I have parents that are good now but treated me wrong in the past. About the only thing that is good and constant is my brother, and I never get to see him anymore.
more depression. lousy.
-g
Friday, December 12, 2008
I need to get my shit together.
Okay, so after talking with Bjen Slocummaki (hahaha) at the WWR last weekend, I am again browsing various Desert Racing things. Tonight, at work, I have come across the TeamDust homepage while lokoing for T1 Silverado information.
TeamDust is a pair of brothers, from Canada I think, who bought a desert race LR Defender 110 (weird choice if you ask me) and ran the Baja 1000. And they finnished!
After reading the team Bio I see that they have no notable racing or competition exprerience. How fuckin crazy is that? and in a Defender!? A jeep cherokee shoudl be a breeze compared to running that beast.
Time to start raising money and building the truck. Like...yesterday.'
Their Baja 1000 Story
TeamDust is a pair of brothers, from Canada I think, who bought a desert race LR Defender 110 (weird choice if you ask me) and ran the Baja 1000. And they finnished!
After reading the team Bio I see that they have no notable racing or competition exprerience. How fuckin crazy is that? and in a Defender!? A jeep cherokee shoudl be a breeze compared to running that beast.
Time to start raising money and building the truck. Like...yesterday.'
Their Baja 1000 Story
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
A thought
I had an appifany this morning in History class.
I am an anti-politician, so I paid very little attention to the election other than the results. But I do find socio-demographics interesting.
Clearly Obama connected with a lot more youth than McCain. But I am curious how and why? The girl that sits next to me in History, Amanda, asked me this morning if I voted yesterday. She had voted for Obama and was "happy, and proud of our country" Which is a fine attitude to have, but I wonder where ti comes from? Amanda tends to sleep in class, never takes notes, and i'm guessing doesn't do that great on tests. So I draw the conclusion that she is not the most informed person since if She does not pay attention in a class why would she read about the candidates for the presidency? And of all the kids that I have classes with I think she is one of the more thoughtful and attentive of them all.
Does this mean that our country has elected a president out of ignorance? How many college students who voted for Obama (or McCain) did so blindly, withou regard for the issues, simply doing so because MTV and Hollywood told them to? Thats a scary thought to me.
-G
I am an anti-politician, so I paid very little attention to the election other than the results. But I do find socio-demographics interesting.
Clearly Obama connected with a lot more youth than McCain. But I am curious how and why? The girl that sits next to me in History, Amanda, asked me this morning if I voted yesterday. She had voted for Obama and was "happy, and proud of our country" Which is a fine attitude to have, but I wonder where ti comes from? Amanda tends to sleep in class, never takes notes, and i'm guessing doesn't do that great on tests. So I draw the conclusion that she is not the most informed person since if She does not pay attention in a class why would she read about the candidates for the presidency? And of all the kids that I have classes with I think she is one of the more thoughtful and attentive of them all.
Does this mean that our country has elected a president out of ignorance? How many college students who voted for Obama (or McCain) did so blindly, withou regard for the issues, simply doing so because MTV and Hollywood told them to? Thats a scary thought to me.
-G
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
How I voted today
Today was some big election deal. President or some such. So to show what side I supported; I "cast my vote" as such:
Today I bought a little cheap piece of plastic crap directly from China. The way I see it- no matter who gets elected tonight our bubbles of international economy or going to come crashing down fairly soon, so to celebrate my born capitalism, I bought something direct from China. My way of saying- fuck you Mr. President, I couldn't give a shit less about who you are as long as I can get cheap shit made by somebody else. I feel that that vocalizes most America's (that I know) philosophy about today.
Now I'm going to go back to work and await the arrival of my new gold plated cell phone, cause that's the way I roll.
Oh, and I also voted at Toppers by ordering a 1 large bacon pizza, 1 large pepperoni pizza, and 1 triple order of Toppersticks. so Ha!
-g :)
Today I bought a little cheap piece of plastic crap directly from China. The way I see it- no matter who gets elected tonight our bubbles of international economy or going to come crashing down fairly soon, so to celebrate my born capitalism, I bought something direct from China. My way of saying- fuck you Mr. President, I couldn't give a shit less about who you are as long as I can get cheap shit made by somebody else. I feel that that vocalizes most America's (that I know) philosophy about today.
Now I'm going to go back to work and await the arrival of my new gold plated cell phone, cause that's the way I roll.
Oh, and I also voted at Toppers by ordering a 1 large bacon pizza, 1 large pepperoni pizza, and 1 triple order of Toppersticks. so Ha!
-g :)
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