new parts arriving like the tide coming in!

i bet, if i tried, i could sell a couple of refrigerators to some eskimos.  really.

of course, i'd ply them w/booze.  then i'd get the hell out of town.  during my flight, i'd probably trip and fall, allowing them to catch up to me.

never get caught by enraged eskimos.  no fun.

on a slightly more bucolic note, the money pit project continues to swallow money, but at a much, much more reasonable rate.

one of my talents (other than fails-man-ship, ha!) is scrounging.  i have a slew of google alerts and scan a few select forums semi-regularly for porsche parts.

today, i scored big.  the first thing i picked up from a fellow forum member were a pair of brake ducts.  $50.  cool.

then, it turned in to a battle of salesmanship.  the gentleman and i were chatting and he offhandedly mentions a certain refurbished intercooler sitting in his trunk that i should probably just take a look at.

yanno.  just one little look.  $80, man.  hardcore refurb.

my internal purchase defenses immediately went in to code "omg".  i tried to not look too excited, but i bet he noticed my attempt at suaveness.

"sure, i'll take a look.    ok, how much?"

so, in about 10 seconds i became the new owner of a $70 intercooler.  yep, i couldn't resist, but my scrounge-dar went off the scale.

...and i thought picking up a full set of koni yellow shocks w/less than 16k miles for $450 (retail $900+) was great!  those arrive monday, and it's gonna be a metric fsckton of awesome to open that box up.

yep, people parting the sea for me.  now i guess i should start putting all this stuff in the car.  or, maybe build a fort from all of the parts i've acquired.  no girls allowed, unless they have air tools.

(i actually have a plan to fix the car.  december is most likely the month that endeavor starts...)

long time, no posty

hello, all faithful 4 followers!  i'm sure you've been wondering where my inane ramblings have gone, but needless to say it's been a heckuva busy couple of months.  in no particular order:

1) burning man.  it was great.  dusty, too.  i even took some pics.
2) porsche work.  i painted some stuff that didn't need it, wrapped tape around a wiring harness, and am scrounging the hell out of the porsche forums for stuff.  hopefully in 2-3 months, it might run!
3) work work.  wow, work is work sometimes.  my "new" position is 6 months old now, and i'm feeling like my swimmies are partially deflated in the big kid's part of the pool.  :)
4) flea infestation.  instead of getting karma points for rescuing a loving, poor and starving stray kitten, the ladyfriend and i got fleas.  two doctors were convinced we had contagious skin conditions, courtesy of the kitty, but it ended up being a false alarm.  that was a week and a half gone to quarantine, however, and in two weeks i must have done 20+ loads of laundry to kill any of those dirty little flea bastards.  this did cause me to miss what would have been a kick-ass dj gig, however.  :(
5) computer lovin'.  i finally installed my new RAID array, 10k rpm system drive, and upgraded my gaming box to windows 7.  i took the opportunity to clean up my cabling, too.
6) skydiving!  yep, for tiffany's birthday i had her thrown out of a plane.

this week is no exception:  i'm spinning records at blowfish sushi in SF on wednesday, and then flying to NC to see my mom (and eat oysters at the southport oyster festival).  i might be co-driving a robot at combots the weekend of the 23rd, and then it's partying my ass off for halloween.  i've got work somewhere in there, too.  and maybe some video games.  :)