Matt the Geek

Hello everyone! I figured that there should be at least 1 post in January, so what better day than the last day of January to do it. Sooooo bear with me while I wing this.
Ok, so let's take some questions from the audience, first question please.
Hi, why haven't you been writing?
*sigh* Maybe taking questions was a bad idea.

Christmas was good, got to spend loads of time with the family. New Years, I didn't do any typical NYE stuff. I was on iRacing doing some practice races trying to get some car setups dialed in.

This past Friday my cars starter decided to die. Which may have turned out to be the best thing to happen to this car. I should explain that. It turns out the starter had a 2yr warranty from Car Quest, which was good for my wallet. Was able to, with my boss, borrow Big Ben's Tire's garage for a few hours too, which helped greatly. We threw the new starter on, and since literally the day before I had melted the Negative lead on my battery cable, we decided to try to fix why the car hated starting on cold mornings. We figured out and rewired the cold-start injector, and now the car starts nicely, almost like a real car. Now, at least so far, I don't have to wonder if my car will start now, or if it will take 45 minutes or so of cranking to accomplish this. Which is what caused the melting of the Negative lead, all that cranking, almost every day.
And finally, to make things easier for me, we installed the hood pins I've had for, oh, a few months now. Which means to open my hood I no longer need to: open the trunk, get out the jack, jack up the drivers side of the car so I can, get under the front end with a straight blade screwdriver to manually pop the hood releases. Now I can just pull 2 pins on top and open the hood. Can't tell you how happy that makes me.
Now here's the strange part, my car seems to actually have power now. It had never felt particularly peppy, but I chalked that up to it being a) 24 years old now, b) has over 300,000 miles on it, and c) only had 115 Horsepower brand new anyway.
I'm not sure which part of our tinkering would have affected that change, but I'm not complaining.

Oh, and I have found my new favorite sub at Subway: Chicken, Bacon, Ranch Flatbread. mmmm.

Ok, that's enough rambling from this old fool for the night.

Why hello there blog, it's been a while.
Yeah, I keep meaning to write something in this here space on the internets, but never really have anything worth saying most of the time. That is still the case now, but figured I should put something up before the year is over.
So, it's 3 days 'til Christmas. I think time has to be a variable thing. Most of the year seems to go by slowly, but once Thanksgiving comes, Christmas is the day after, and New Years is the day after that. Or so it feels to me.
And, being Christmastime (yes, that's a real word :P ), it is also winter (Why yes, I am Captain Obvious, how did you know?). I get somewhat conflicted about winter, I like the snow, and how pretty it can make the landscape look, but also don't really like the extreme cold that can come with. As in, cold enough that if I'm outside for a short period of time, my mustache freezes, usually this means single digit temps. Too cold.

One last thing for tonight, during this holiday, let us remember the real reason for the season:

Luke 2:11 (NASB)
For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

<3

The title of this note is referencing that today is "To Write Love On Her Arms day." Check it out. TWLOHA
I don't know if I'll be able to fully participate, due to work and having to keep it at least somewhat professional, we'll have to see though.
On another note, it's also Friday the 13th. I pray it doesn't live up to it's reputation and that I've used up my bad luck already. Although, to be completely honest, the recent bad luck wasn't as bad as it could be.
A few weeks ago, I had the left ball joint on my car come out of it's socket. However, it didn't break, and the axle didn't get ruined. The shop "fixed" it the first time rebuilt the axle and properly secured the ball joint.
And then on Halloween evening I hit a deer with the same car. But I got slowed down enough to only break the left headlight and turn signal and dent the hood some. Could have been much worse. So I guess I've had bad luck with good luck thrown in. God's been watching over me, for sure.

I was going to write more, but it's closing on 2:30AM, and my brain has gone fuzzy. Perhaps It wont be another month before I write again...

Don't read anything into the title of this post, it's just the song that's playing right now, as my brain couldn't come up with a title.
So, the wireless connection that I had been using at home has gone missing. As such, I am back at work after hours to play on the internets. I'm told that AT&T might be able to find where I live now, so I'll call them Monday to see about running an internet cable my way.
In other news, I made 90% of my hair disappear. It had been getting longer, as I was trying to grow it out a bit. But my hair is unruly and uncooperative, so it just looked messy all the time, no matter what I did with it. I thought about getting a proper hair cut, but I looked in the mirror after work and had had enough. So I fired up the adjustable blade Conair clippers and went to town. Longest setting (1/4"?) on top, shortest setting (really frickin short) for the sides and back. If I don't like it, it'll grow back out.
Also in other news, when did I move to Seattle? The weather in my part of Michigan has been rainy long enough to make me wonder.
I'm kind of bummed I didn't go to the Stryper concert when they were in Mt. Pleasant, but I didn't trust my car for the 3+ hour drive to the other side of the state, and then back. Which is the same reason I wont be going to Chillifest on Belle Isle next weekend (sad face, I was looking forward to that), or probably to the LAN on the 31st. The car could very well make it to all those, but I'm not chancing at least 1 dying wheel bearing on that.
Speaking of car stuff, it seems I might want to get my snow tires mounted to the other set of rims real soon...

Alright, enough rambling from me.

So...that updating more often thing? Yeah, not doing so good with that. Do I have a good reason for not updating? Not especially.
Let's see, car's still working, work's still working, compy's are all still working, and sleep still not working all too well. So, par for the course really.
Oh! It's getting cooler out, well, has been for a few weeks, and I *love* it. Fall is generally my time of year.
Also in the not-quite-breaking news theme, my High School 15 year class reunion was last Saturday. I had a pretty good day, we spent the early part of the day at a park in Grand Rapids, and the night at the Crazy Horse Saloon. Now, I don't drink or really do anything bar related, but friends and a live band meant it was fun anyway. Kind of caught up with some of the people I hadn't seen in a while, but that dang shyness that I thought I had kicked was creeping back in at times, so...
I had fun anyway.

I'm toying with the idea of making one of these posts a video post, but I'm not certain that I want to inflict that kind of trauma on all of cyberspace. We'll see.

Also, I have to give a huge "Thank You" to Pandora radio for introducing me to Disciple, these guys ROCK!

Alright, I think that's all for the night. If it isn't, I'll put more up.