Macbitchies Blog

My New Wheels...

One day it shall be mine! Oh yes...one day...

The new Porsche Cayman S

Base price: $59,695
Engine: 3.4 L H-6, 295hp, 255 lb-ft
Drive: Rear-wheel
0-60 mph: 5.1 sec (est.)
0-100 mph: 12.0 sec (est.)
1/4-mile: 13.7 sec @ 105 mph (est.)
Top speed: 171 mph

Need Rubber?

Continuing with the theme of recent car mishaps, I got a flat tire on Monday night. I was driving down North road and I could hear a weird sound from the back of the car somewhere, and then the shaking started. The rear passenger side tire was flat as a pancake and hot as hell. Not good, I wasn't too sure how long I'd been driving on the rim, but judging from how hot the tire was, it must have been a couple long blocks at 60km/h.
I got 2 new tires for the back today, the originals were wearing out anyway. They join the new fronts I bought myself for xmas. Early Easter present?
I gotta start getting myself better...or maybe less expensive presents :P

Wet cleanup, Aisle 3

Well if there's one thing I've learned about body shops, they do a damn good job cleaning your car. Perhaps not worth 300 bones, but look, you can even see my reflection in my shinny new door!

They did a good job on the interior too. I did a google image search for 'carpet cleaner', but there weren't any interesting photos, so I tried 'carpet muncher' instead. Below are pics #1 and #3 returned:

That's right, Melissa Etheridge comes up number 3 on the carpet munching scale.

Dumb asses

Some ass-o-holic tried to break into my car the other day...

This way I can just leave my windows down and hop in Dukes of Hazzard style.
10-4 good buddy

Ultra Violet

Ultra Violet was pretty stinky, even though I didn't expect much. The fact that Milla Jovovich was crazy hot and I still wasn't into the movie means it's probably worse than I realize. Most of the problem was that she was able to kick WAY to much ass. Like, so much ass that it wasn't even a challenge! Oh, I'm surrounded by 50 guys...it's all good, none of them will have heads after my first 360 degree sword manoeuver. Movies are entertaining because the main character overcomes adversity...or they have crazy monkey sex. Neither of these main ingredients were involved. Thumbs down.

There's a bathroom on the right?

A couple days ago I was listening to the radio and the DJ said they were going to play "Sinking Like a Sunset" by Tom Cochrane. I thought, WTF, that song's gotta be called "Sing it Like the Song Says" cause that's what he says through the whole damn song!
Well, I've been wrong since 1991 cause he says sinking like a sunset. I couldn't believe I've been singing that damn song wrong all this time :P
Mad Mad World is a sweet album too, just incase anyone was wondering. You can hear clips here.

The whole thing reminded me of a buddy from high school who heard CCR - Bad Moon Rising (listen) and thought they were saying:

Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bathroom on the right.

instead of

Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise.

Guess you had to be there...

Sink

So I installed a bathroom sink for my dad a couple weeks ago. He had done one a couple months ago, so I already knew most of the process. Unfortunately the guy who built the house was a cheapo bastard and didn't install shutoff valves in any of the bathrooms. So, I had to shutoff the water to the whole house and install values for the hot and cold water to the new sink. You can see those bad boys on the end of the pipes in the first pic. It was pretty sweet actually...anything that involves blow torches and solder is sweet :)

Next I discovered 2 things:
1. Never throw out old parts until you're done installing the new ones! I forgot to take an important piece off the old sink, so I had to go buy a new one.
2. Cheap sinks suck! Buying a sink that comes with it's own facet is a dead giveaway. The facet nozzle was bent, and the sink edges weren't level. I had to modify the hole in the counter so the sink would sit in it properly.

Anyway, no leaks...I was impressed! I took my skillz over to the Petter's last weekend to help him with his new sink.
Next weekend...Petter's new bathroom light fixture...