Almost had a fresh set of SSR Mesh!

Candy likes Falken Hanabis. This wheel belongs to her. All of her car parts are inside the house. All of mine are freezing outside in the cold like homeless field mice! Hahaha..

Anyways, we leave soon for FL. Long drive. (Yep, I said it.. we are driving) Candy has never been on a road trip, and really hasn't been anywhere outside of New England and New York City I think. This will be exciting. I don't mind the long drive. I'm so used to it anyways. It should be fun though. And another great thing about driving down is that we will have license to drive where we want to when we want to. We don't have to borrow or rent a car. Freedom to explore is a good thing.

By the way.. I looked up Dunkin Donuts in the town we will be in and miraculously there are at least 5. That makes me feel great. Normally when I go to visit other places out of New England I can almost never find one within reasonable distance of where I am staying. Needless to say, 5 may not be a lot of DD but I am extremely pumped.

I'm pretty excited to pick up my freshly machined block! Also, I am ordering my pistons when I'm back from Florida!! Woooh

Met up briefly with Kevin Phan, Shane, Toan and friends last night. They were helping out with Kevin's drop in. I walked away with a 75a fuse (Thanks Kevin!) and that made it all worth it. Cool cats.

Kevin Starling has asked me to be a groomsman in his wedding. I'm gonna steal the show. lol.. just kidding. I'm happy/surprised to even be considered as a candidate in the first place, and will be happy to stand up there and look good while he ties the not!

We went to Carraba's last night. If you have never been, I don't recommend it. Do not believe the hype. If you are interested in having black pepper be the overwhelming spice ingredient in ALL of your food, you actually may want to consider this place. Be prepared to wait a long time if you aren't smart enough to call ahead of time (People were angry that we had been there for minutes and were seated when they've been waiting for an hour +)

How to ruin photographs.

Put subject Patrick into the shot. haha.. just kiddin'.

Ahh, we love the funny face. This is an old shot from my mom's old house. In the basement.

So.. not really much to update on the car right now. It's 2:45 in the morning.

So instead of posting about my 2nd favorite subject.. I'd post about my first.

This picture is taken with Candy's Mac book. I really like it though. We have it printed and framed in our room. Sure, it's not great quality when it comes to resolution... but the quality people... fuhgeddaboutit.

now.. this one right here happens to still be one of my favorite pictures of us. I am truly a man of candid nature, even when we should be taking pictures.. this is from when we first started hanging out and I wore Sperry's all the time.

It doesn't get much better than this. We are dope.

Truly fun loving and very much in love.

It really is a lot of fun to be around us.

I really like this shot of Candy. It's a lot more recent.

It was hard to go through the catalogue of pictures on this computer

as there were about 15 thousand.

Makes it hard to pick some to choose.

I was going to make a time line.. oh well. I like this picture. It's great.

Remember when I was talking about ruining pictures.. C'monnn. And you know we have the best smiles out of anyone you know.

I love this little lady.

I got Martha Stewart givin' me stock tips:

Here is a mother fucking picture!

So... I am truly pumped about the March 21st meet and cruise. And I will continue to refer to it as "Boss Town". That shit will be off the chain.

There is no way to be done my build by then, so I will go via hatch in all it's stock power glory. Hopefully I will have at least replaced the exhaust by then. Also, a tight bomb job is in the works.

Work lately has been a total drag. What's new? Kevin is also leaving the company next week. The only positive aspect will be I will have to clear out my work email a shit ton less.. haha.

We leave for Florida in a couple of weeks. I'll be happy to just be on the road. If only I could source a god damn CB radio for the trip. I need to be on top of where the smokey locals are.

This is a pretty boring update. Sorry, Toan. I know you're the only one readin' this. haha

Brevity is the soul of wit:

This is destined to be a short update. I'm at work!

Car news: Got all new components to rebuild. OEM rods which will be cryo treated, OEM timing chain rebuild, water pump, oil pump + front cover, gasket kit.

Going to order forged internals soon. Machine work is already done for the block, honed, bored, decked, deglazed, hot tanked, yada yada. .020 over Yay!

I've got one block going to Leon...plus a head. I have a motor for the vert, and 5 speed for vert.

I have to get my headwork done for my BC valve train. teeheehehehe

This weekend consisted of me disassembling my bike, after walking out to the bike in the shed. Turns out I had horizontal drop outs all along. Went to Goodales bike shop. They suck. They are not helpful, and totally ignored me. well, sorry.. that is it. :-(