therealtexasguy

Oh, and I'm such a pig. I ate half a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts for dinner last night...

good dinner...lol

oh that ass whippin you've talking about? Yeah, your about to get it mister!

I just dont think that if you really think this thing would work with your "girl" that you should be keeping your options open. Now you're keeping your options open because you said you caould think of a million reasons why the relationship wont work...then why are you dong it? Why would you want something to work that you may know wont? I just think that if you're going to try and make it work with her then you need to whole heartidly go about as opposed to keeping anyoptions open. If you're gonna try it you should do so with no interference and let it end on its own, not with any other factor clouding your judgement. If you are going to keep your options open then you should do so on all sides, i.e. with her knowledge of the situation and how you view the relationship to be, including telling her about any other "option"

too bad you live so far away, I love given a good ass whoopin!



yum...

Is it just me, or is Datura hot, hot, hot!?

Wonder if her name is a reference to my old friend and archnemesis the Indiant Thorn Apple (see: extremely volatile and evil psychedilics)?? With a look like that, it seems somehow very fitting.

What to do? I'm too stupid to cut one loose and go for it with the other. See, cause that would be the smart thing, to cut my loses and play my hand out to the bitter end.

Play out your hand?! Cut one loose?! Well, with an outlook like that it is ever so surprising that you may have relationship issues. Wow...

How can you even call this girl "my girl" when you're basically just trying to better deal her?! I would sooooo kick your ass!

Anyway, I know for sure you'll have some smart ass retort...Some "matter of fact" comment...

BTW...where's a real picture????

My thoughts on the Sanctuary: it's an alright club...i don't go there to really hang out...i just go when local bands i like are playing there. I'll probably go again this Saturday cause my friend wants me to go check out The New BLend with him....i go for the bands...so you mos def won't see me trying to "goth" dance on the floor hahahahahaha

Happy eat-till-you-clog-something day!

Oh, and NetZero sucks as bad as ever. Be forewarned!

HAPPY TURKEY IMPALMENT DAY!

!. Excuses excuses...(about the pic)

@. I liked the other pic too although it doesnt show the new do...

#. That VD is called "YOURE GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL YOU FREAK" or YGSHYF for short...

Oh and uh...in case anyone's interested...

Driving to Tulsa, OK. Whippey.
A ton of my college friends are there- I'm super siked.

And you?

Lol, you should see what the other guy looked like! Oh, well, the sandbar it got caught on, I mean...yeah...that was stupid...sorry...won't subject you to my humor anymore...

That sucks serious ass, man! What a bummer.

Golly, you have had so much to say within these past couple of days... I can't keep up with my comments.

Go buy another pack. Me some too. Camels in a box...please.

O-K!

Next time I declare if officially "fucking freezing" outside, I need to remember that crawling around underneath my truck in a pair of shorts and nothing else is a veeeeery bad idea.

I did, however, find out something good and something bad (but still kind of good).

The Good: I can jury rig it so my truck is driveable, sort of. These new fangled engines with all their sensors are seriously a curse (see below). I can cut the exhaust pipe short so it doesn't drag, but I'll need to do a few things like remove the spare tire (the excess heat it's going to generate in the rear of my truck will melt the tire). And I forgot to check where the gas tank is located (I'm thinking close enough to the front of the truck to not be a problem).

The Bad: I need a whole new exhaust system from the engine back, and this is going to be a little more then I hoped to spend, but a little less at the same time. The exhaust on this truck is kind of weird. See, the engine doesn't really have conventional "headers" (headers collect the exhaust directly from the engine cylinders and direct it into the exhaust system). I've never seen headers like this (well, I should say header, not plural) on anything but tiny import engines, and this is a sizeable V6. Still, the header is fine. Everything south of it is not.

The Bad Part 2: Because this is a new fangled engine with all kinds of electronics and sensors and whatnot, cutting the pipe short isn't going to be a big deal. The damage that already has been done is. Driving it like this could do some serious damage. I am unfamiliar with Dodge engine computers, so I don't know the specifics, but usually it takes so many miles of driving a car/truck with an improperly tuned computer before the bad shit happens. What's going to happen is the main computer inside the truck is going to read a problem at the exhaust exit (I'm assuming the damage is at the muffler, which is at the very back) and try to compensate by changing the air/fuel ratio and some other stuff. This will force the engine to run with an improper mix, which is never good. Being as it's a slightly smaller engine (for this size truck) and a very new engine (very low miles), it's not properly broken in yet and this improper mix could screw shit up permanently. Now, if this happens, it would normally be covered under warranty, except I was the one who fucked up and drove it around with it not working right. So it would void the warranty.

The Pseudo Bad Part 1: I said I have to replace the whole exhaust system south of the engine. This is only partially true. The piping from the header to the muffler looks in good shape, so the catalytic converter can probably be saved. But allllllllllll of the harnessing and mounting hardware needs to be redone, and maybe a few small pieces replaced (it's easy work if you have the tools, but it's where they fuck you with labor costs). Now, I'd been wanting to change all of this anyways, but NOT THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING!

This literally could not have happened at a worse time.

So the question I ask myself is: do I take the risk and go anyways? The answer is a resounding NO. But then I have to factor in some other things; my Grandpa, who just lost his wife, all alone on Thanksgiving night; the fact that last Thanksgiving I offended a lot of the only family I give a shit about by digging Thanksgiving dinner to go to my buddy's Thanksgiving dinner; and some other less important stuff.

Still, I can't drive myself. Worst case scenario - I have to call my Uncle to pick me up on Turkey Day and drive me out the brunch, and then have someone drop me off back in the city (a big inconvenience for all involved, but at least I get to be around Grandpa for a few hours). And it's embarassing, but I am no stranger to this - especially with these people. Still, it sucks to be embarassed with the only family you got left.

The good side? Now I can go have dinner on Turkey Day with my good friends, and new tenants, at their place. Assuming they are willing to pick me up and drop me off. Cool people, though, very cool people. This guy and I have this weird kinetic energy together. We just randomly tell each other stuff we have told no one else (I'd known him a week and suddenly I knew he was going to propose to his girl before anyone else, for example, and he knows about my kid and all that).

Surpirisingly, I'm not violently angry or anything. Just upset, disappointed, and angry only at myself for driving my truck like such a fucknut. Which will sequay into my next rant;

Why the fuck do they build trucks like shit now? Seriously? Fifteen years ago, trucks were built for one thing; work. That's it. Even ten years ago the "fancy" trucks were still tough as nails. But these one's today are more minivan in their construction then true truck.

A good example? My new Dodge is a good deal taller off the ground then my old Chevy, however, my Chevy wouldn't be broken if I'd been driving it last night because the people at Chevy designing it thought something like "You know, we should keep this exhaust pipe as close to the chassis as possible. I mean, this is a fucking TRUCK and people are going to be driving around worksites and off road."

The people at Dodge were thinking something like "Why do we need good clearance on the exhaust pipe? No one goes off-road anymore, except in four-wheel drive trucks, and this isn't a four-wheel drive truck. Besides, it looks cooler this way."



This pussification of American automobiles has to stop. The smaller engines, the adoption of Japanese technology, et cetera! What's wrong with caberutors?

Want to know a secret? OK, then, I'll tell you.

If we went back to building engines like they used to be built, you know, without computers and whatnot, and used primitive fuel injection (i.e. throttle body injection), we could scrap half this useless shit, save tons of money on repairs, and be getting as good of gas mileage. What they're doing is getting more and more power out of smaller engines, so they're at the point where a smaller engine of today can make as much power and gas mileage (sometimes more) as a engine twice the size thirty years ago.

Since the engines are smaller, it's assumed that they're cheaper to make. But this is so not true. Anyone ever replaced a coil on a new car? A manifold?

The biggest problem is the American autmotive companies have far too much variety in the selection of types of engines you can get in their cars.

I remember one year Chevy offered three different engines for THE SAME TRUCK!? What the fuck? They could have selected the engine of the medium size, as it were, and just tweaked it up a little for extra power, and down a little for less power (and more fuel economy). This would save money because then they would have to produce replacement parts FOR ONE ENGINE.

Chevy used to do this. I haven't kept up, but last time I was paying attention I know they weren't still doing it.

Anyone remember IROC-Z Camaros from the 80s? You had two V8 engine choices to make when you bought it; the Camaro RS with a 305 cubic inch V8 and a five-speed manual transmission, or an IROC-Z (sometimes called a Z28, depending on year) with a 350 cubic inch V8 and an automatic four speed transmission.

Now I won't delve into the different types of fuel injection and what not offered with what model on what year, but, quite literally, the 305 cubic inch V8 and the 350 cubic inch V8 were the same damn engine. The difference was the size of the crankshaft. A 305 and a 350 with the same fuel injection system could swap almost every single part with each other; take the heads off this one, bolt it to that one, take the pistons out of this one, bolt it to that one (these pistons were also the same ones found in the 4.3L 262 cubic inch V6, but I'll leave that one be), switch the camshafts, the valves (worked on the V6 too), anything and everything.

Hmmm....well...that's certainly a lot of technojargon for SG. Pretty sure only HappyGrl will enjoy this one.

Either way, it's an important point to make for conformity in engine/transmission manufacture. The more types of engine X on the road, the cheaper the parts and the cheaper the repairs. The more diversity of engine/tranny types, the more expensive everything is.