Oh, yeah! It’s only Saturday night and already this long weekend totally rocks! Spent all day with the Nissan gang having a BBQ and then down at Pacific Speedway hanging at Importmix night. Met some great people, saw some incredible cars, learned a ton about my car and have soooo many ideas for it that my head hurts. Good thing i’m completely broke or i’d be shopping for parts online right now… I have pics that are up here. It was a great time, and i can’t wait to race at the next one. I didn’t tonite, partly cause i wanted to see what it was about first and partly cause i’m still paranoid about my new front end. Plus, how exciting would my stock run have been, anyway? But by next season, i should be ready to at least make a good showing for the Nissan reputation. Speaking of that, this totally sweet white Nissan Skyline completely toasted that pretty red Toyota Supra in the photo gallery. I don’t have a good pic of the Skyline (bummer) but suffice to say that it looked great and was faster than a heavily-modded twin-turbo Supra. Bwah ha ha ha! Nissan rules!

I’ve been all over the place this week for work – out on the Kitsap peninsula, mostly, which involves taking (and missing) ferries and driving a lot. There’s this big server install project that is keeping me pretty busy. Hmm. How cool that i can say that about my job! So, since someone (ok. it was Ann.) complained, i put the post-trauma pix of the Max back up, in the photos section. Eventually it’s gonna get it’s own site, under the “features” tab, but in the meantime i lumped it into the photos.

In other, non-local news, Danielle got a job! She’ll be working at a coffee stand in Safeway in Bozeman, which is great because she really enjoyed doing that while in Seattle. They’re excited about her Seattle work experience (so something good did come of that job, even if it wasn’t money), and seem very flexible about her vacation schedule and working around her classes. So now that she has an apartment and a job, she’s ready for classes to start next week. Congrats, Danielle!

Ok, i just posted the completely overhauled site. If you have any feedback, feel free to let me know. I like it much better. Hopefully, it’s easier to navigate, with less clicks to get places and less of the parts no one looks at. My apologies for those on slow connections if it takes forever to load, but once you get there, it looks nice!

It’s sunday morning and i’m up before 8am, thanks to my overly-conscientious internal alarm clock. Doh! So much for catching up on sleep this weekend. You’d think since my body’s so tired, that same body wouldn’t wake itself up early on weekends when it could be sleeping in. Stupid biology, or whatever. I’m ok with being tired, tho, cause it’s worth it. Skyla and i went out dancing at the Back Door Ultralounge last night, had a blast. The DJ had a latin feel, a mix between acid mambo and very heavy salsa. Good intense beat, layered with trumpets and conga drums, and a full room with a thousand varieties of red light fixtures. We danced until we dropped, then caught some fast food in the wee hours before heading home to crash. It was one of those nights that reminds me why i moved here – i love this city! And thanks, Skyla, i look forward to the next time!

What’s up, all? Not much news to share, just hadn’t been here in a while and thought i should check in… It’s thursday already, and hopefully tonite at midnight or so i’ll get my first real paycheck from John L Scott. Sure could use it. I also applied for part time work at the Bellevue Club this week (thanx, Annie!), hopefully that will pan out. It sure would be nice to make more than i spend every month. :) The trolls at discover card still hate me, but at least the nice people at American Express still think i’m ok. I always liked them better, anyway.

Work is a little slower this week, but i’ve also just been really tired the last few days, and am having trouble coming to work with enough energy to run around all day. Which is why i’m sitting here typing to you guys – it takes less brain power than building this server i’m supposed to be building…

Making plans to drive back to Bozeman for homecoming weekend to visit everyone, still need to ask for the time off work but that shouldn’t be a problem. If the weather sucks, though, i may reconsider or change the plans somehow. There’s no way i’m driving my freshly-painted, just-fixed Maxima through the gravel-strewn highways of idaho and montana. If there’s even been a flake of snow and the highway department has so much as thought about sanding the highways, my car’s not going anywhere near there! I did some work on it this weekend (finally finished the brake job i started 6 months ago) and rotated the tires (which already have over 15k on them – augh!). While i was in there, i painted the brake calipers blue – they look pretty sweet. Doesn’t make them work any better, but it makes them look like they might. A big thanx to Joe, for letting me use his garage, especially since i got spray paint all over everything… :D