OMG Busy

Wow, lets see where to start….

I bought a new car!
Well, not new, but an new used car. Got it about 2 weeks ago. A 2005 Toyota Matrix XRS, 6 speed manual, metallic black paint, sunroof, 60 something thousand miles. Not a bad little car – hauls lots of stuff since the rear seats fold down and the front passenger seat folds all the way down too! Its my first front wheel drive car, no torque, but revs to 8,300 RPM. Suspension isn’t all that bad either.

Sold the 95 240sx…it was my our last running RWD fun car. Got $3k for it which I was happy about. I miss it though. Haven’t been riding since we’ve been busy going in to Houston and other stuff on the weekends. Still working on selling the leftover car parts from my race car project.

A few weeks ago while picking up Avatar at Fry’s we ended up going home with a new Onkyo home theater system. Oops. I can say that we were looking into getting one for a while and this one was at the right price. Sound awesome!

My spring semester at UT finished last week. Now I only have one more summer semester left and I’m DONE! for now I’m working Mon-Fri 10am-7pm until I go back to school. I hate my job…but at least I have one. Saturday we spent it out at the outlaw field where Ian flew his 50cc electric for the first time. Ran into some trouble, but nothing too serious.

New camera

I like to get my point and shoot cameras on clearance, and the new one is no exception. For me it makes them more ‘disposable’ and I am not afraid to take them where I would not take other cameras. My old Canon camera is on its last leg, the lens has to be helped open, its been dropped countless times, and eats AA batteries like they’re going out of style!

While at work the other day I found a nice Olympus X-915 camera. Also while at Fry’s the I picked up a cute little carrying case. Looking forward to having a rechargeable camera again!

The new Olympus and it's case

Sam’s is a bad place for me

On our last visit to Sam’s for our bulk needs we, like every time before, went to drool over the LCD TVs they had on display. A little old man came up and asked if we needed any help, we said that we were just looking, and he replied that we should check out the discount/open box section. There was a nice Magnavox there for, what he said was $600, but after some searching he found the actual price at $314. Helluva deal for an open box LCD TV. Turns out the 42″ Magnavox LCD TV goes for $800-$900 normally. Sweet!

Went around the store collecting groceries after we found out about the TV

Noice!

Trade much?

In trying to thin down our fleet of unused vehicles, planes, and other stuff we’ve been selling and or trading. Went in to Houston this last Friday to trade Kandi, the 1983 FB RX7 for a ‘supposedly’ Honda 1999 XR 450 dirt bike.

Getting it ready for the towbar

Once we got there we found out it was a XR 650, yeah, big bike. The previous owner had also stripped the spark plug threads so it needed the head pulled.

barely fit

When I got the bike I put it up on craigslist just for the hell of it since it turned out to be a larger bike than we were expecting. Yesterday I spent the whole day removing the head to start fixing the bikes issues. Last night I got a call from an interested guy who wanted to trade a modded quad for a dual sport bike like the 650. He came over with the quad today to look at the bike and after some negotiations we rode the quad into our garage and loaded up the 650 into his truck.

The quad I picked up is a 2001 Honda 400EX with 11.1 Weisco piston, 2nd over, stage two hot cam, ported head, new heavy duty clutch plates and springs, cam chain, new valves, rocker arms, 3 angle valve job, new brakes, seat cover, white brothers pipe, high output light bulbs. My mainly stock YFZ 450 still could kick its ass, but its a Honda and hopefully it will be reliable and fun. Looking forward to riding it and then having a riding buddy once I finish my YFZ.

Animation

Wanted to post up my final project animation for a 2d flash animation class I took this semester. Turned out pretty neat and was selected to play at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin on December 13th. Too bad I’ll be in Houston.