6.29.2004
 
ladies and gentlemen, I have a plan...
So here's the plan: I get an old Mopar, dosen't matter what it is as long as it has a 440. Then I rebuild the engine real mild-like. Next I put in an order at the supercharger store and get a centrifugal blower. [supercharger that fits under the stock hood] Put a blower-spec cam in it, build it for low compression [8.5:1], and I can get 500hp on regular unleaded gas! Regular! That's a good thing. That means lots-go-fast-action, with minimal wallet-smallening. Now, to start the Dave needs an old Mopar with a 440 fund...


posted by dave @ 1:24 PM


6.27.2004
 
just a footnote...
Footnote from the author:

Bekah's sick. Pray for her. Tomorrow's her birthday and she's sick. That sucks. Pray for her.



posted by dave @ 9:30 PM


6.25.2004
 
A man who has nothing to live for has everything to fight for.
What exactly do you have to live for?



What spurs such a hard question? Oh. I just watched a movie where the guy's wife died, then he had nothing to live for. Ok. What about us people who don't have wives? [or significant others] What now? What makes our lives worth living? What should be making our lives worth living? This shouldn't be a hard question.



I live for cars. And movies. I just saw A Man Apart with Vin Diesel. It was good. I recommend it to anybody who likes movies and can take a little extremely graphic violence.



[that title is from that movie. it does not reflect the opinions of the staff here at 17martians.]


posted by dave @ 1:22 AM


6.22.2004
 
moo.
You know that feeling you get when like you're really really tired and you feel like you're floating and you can hear and see everything, but it all feels kinda distant? Yeah. I've been like that for a week now, and I don't even know why. It's weird.

Thanks to allay'all for your responses to my last post. I like reading other peoples opinions on stupid things I say. It's kinda cool. Uh...I forget why I'm posting. There was some reason. Owell, no big deal. Um...I really got nuthin to say anymore tho.

Cars are cool. My friend Joe bought a 1988 Ford Mustang GT yesterday. [I think...at least if the deal went through] I can't wait to get a fast car. This kid in a V6 Camaro wanted to race today, I just laughed at him and let him waste his gas punching it...hah, V6.

Oh yeah, I remembered somethin. My family's goin on vacation starting tomorrow, and coming back 2.5 weeks later. Why is this important, you ask? Because they're not taking me! I'm still not sure why, but it's fine by me. I get to hang out with my aunt for a few weeks. She's pretty cool, even if she does drive a Rendezvous with leopard everything. Should be fun.

I can't wait for highpoint! [as sad as it will be]


posted by dave @ 9:56 PM


6.15.2004
 
[untitled]
Summer is kinda boring already. We made a potato gun. That was very entertaining. [just ask Bekah] Then we went to Auto Zone and got an air horn and honked it at people. Then I sat at joes house doing nothing for a few hours. Not so bad...but if this is what my entire summer is gonna consist of, it's gonna get real old real fast. I applied for a job today. Auto Zone. The Naperville Car Quest isn't hiring at the moment, but the Bolingbrook one's on my list. I spose I could try Pep Boys, but they specialize in ricer crap. Oh, and theres NAPA. They have those cool company trucks that have big hats on top. Maybe I could drive oneathems.

I do kinda miss the Rock already. I'm not even gone yet. We haven't had it in awhile, [or at least I haven't been in awhile] and we won't have it again tomorrow. Bother. Anywho, you have better ways to spend your summer than reading my crap. Go play outside.


posted by dave @ 8:06 PM


6.10.2004
 
me gradating? that unpossible.
Or so you'd think. But yep, my diploma was real. It looks cool. I got to be the first one to walk across the stage. I didn't screw up. 'Twas quality. And now, I don't hafta see those people I didn't like for another 10 years! Woohoo! I can still see the people I want tho, cause I still have a directory. Heh. It has teachers addresses and fone numbers too. That's always good. Anyway, I'm tired. megosleepnow.


posted by dave @ 11:25 PM


 
aaaah! chinchilla!
The deceased: blogging. When? Dunno. It just happened. Jenna's blog died, as we're all aware, cowprint died, and everybody else just doesn't write very often, and I never remember to read them. Sorry guys, blogging died. It's no longer dying. Of course, in sticking with my trend, I'm gonna keep doing it till way after it's been done being cool, then realize how much of a loser I am and how I should have conformed a long time ago. That system seems to work for me. Yeah, in case you're wondering about the timestamp on this blog, I just woke up. I actually fell asleep within a half hour of my last blog, then woke up like 10 minutes ago. That's cause of the lack of sleep in the last few days. Now you guys have two lame posts to read! Cool! And to think, blogging was so cool not so long ago...as recent as spring break! [I think] Well, so long to a good friend. You will be missed. [along with Priscilla, Jenna, and all the rest of you people leaving for college in far places that have slipped my mind] Goodbye.


posted by dave @ 4:11 AM


6.09.2004
 
Senior Service 2004
It wasn't so bad. Planted a tree in concrete, slept on a gym floor with no pillow or sleeping bag, the aforementioned gym's lights couldn't be turned all the way off, and it had roaches. But, we saved the Lawndale somethingorother 12,000$ in landscaping costs alone. We planted a bunch of trees, laid 11,000 square feet of sod, mulched a ton of stuff...then last night, we got one of our chaperones good. He was dead asleep when we hit him with like 10 water balloons. It was sweet. Well, because I got only 1.5-2 hours of sleep last night, I'm goin to sleep.


posted by dave @ 4:28 PM


6.06.2004
 
yarr.
This sucks. I don't want to go to a service project with all these people I hate. Spend 3 days with them? Sleep in the same gym with them? No thanks. Stupid school. Makes me spend time with people I hate. I don't want to deal with the pranks I know will be pulled. I need a friend. Preferably of the girl type, cause they like to talk and stuff. Not a girlfriend, cause that involves too much. Just a friend to hang out with all the time who isn't leaving for college. I don't know. Just somebody who won't ditch me to hang out with his gf. This sucks. Lots of people are leaving. We all say we're gonna go visit them, but really people, you think we're gonna? It would be quite fun, but somehow I don't think it's ever gonna happen. I don't feel like moving on, I worked hard to make these friends I have and too many of them are leaving. I don't feel like looking forward. I don't like the future I see without these people I've grown close to. My parents always tole me they aren't in touch with any of their high school friends, but I didn't want that to ever be me. College group at Harvest is gonna have so many holes in it. I don't even know if I wanna go invest my time in it, just to see people leave again so soon. I'm tired of people leaving! I just said bye to Jenna tonight, and that was sad! I want stability! Part of me wants to just pick up and leave without a word so I don't hafta see anybody else leaving. I'm tired of change. Yarr.


posted by dave @ 11:01 PM


6.02.2004
 
me bored.
I'm almost out of school. If I got all the questions that I filled out on my exam correct, I'll get a 38% on it. Thas not good. I needed a 20% to pass I think. Ohwell. I should still graduate. I actually tried too! I just can't factor things and that was 2 pages of it. Today's englilish exam was pretty easy, just 3 essay questions. Government was easy too, cause I watch a lot of Law & Order with my aunt.

I'm gonna get a car. It's gonna be sweet. Here's a mental picture:

Ok, it'd be a 4 door. A big one. It'd be the blackest black they could spray on it. On the outside, it'd look 99.83764 1/2 percent stock. The only giveaways would be the beefy back tires, which would be mostly hidden in the fenders, really only noticeable if you looked under the back. Other than that, it'd look stock. Under the hood'd be a different story. It'd be packin a 440 [that's 7.2L] with unstock headers and intake and carb and cam and heads and uh...ignition and yeah. Then it'd have really really quiet mufflers. And header cutouts that exited right behind the front tires for when it needs to be loud. And boy would it be loud. Think asphalt-melting, tar-bubbling, rattling-windows-2-blocks-away loud. Yeah. Only when I'd want it to be that way. Then I could show those ricers and Ford and Chevy guys a thing or two. [mostly pairs of 2's - dual exhausts, dual 15 inch wide tire tracks, dual rubber clouds, etc.]

Yeah. Pretty sweet, huh? It'd have fuzzy dice too. And a reallyfreakinnice stereo. Not the hear it from 2 blocks away kind. The amazing sounding inside the car kind. Yeah. The good kind.


mmm...Mopar...


posted by dave @ 9:51 PM


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