StatutoryApe
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Dude, Its looking good but it seems to me that you have a long way to go. It is OK to be proud of what you have done so far but dont get so defensive.
defensive? that was a straight offensive answer to a simple question.
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Looking now...fifteen folders down, umpteen more to go.
The old stuff I find though...heh
lol. caRTI
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what are those vertical tubes for anyway?
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weren't you planning this trip on XOC too? how come i don't see any X's?
and nice pix!
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welcome, bro!
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Full time school schedule
Work
Party lifestyle
Girlfriend
Laziness
Any 1 is easy. Pick any 2 and you'll probably make it with some sleep deprivation. Pick 3 or more and you're in for some serious hard work, or failure....
I paid my own way through so I was usually working at least 20-30 hrs per wk. So I rarely took more than 6-9 hard core engineering units. Toss in a couple gen. ed. classes and that was all I would take. 12-15 was the norm. Sometimes 18.
This allowed me to take Friday nights off to party, and a few hours off during the week to mountain bike (usually 2 rides per week). That was it. The rest was work or study. It was seriously hard, but well, well worth it. A few years of sacrifice for a lifetime of jobs you actually ENJOY is such a trivial investment....
Don't get me wrong, losing the high school girlfriend/fiance was very painful (she wanted more time than I could spare), but in the long run, was a good thing. I flew "solo" for several years (hey, it was the 80's so Friday night pick ups were easy) and then met the perfect woman.
Ahh, the beer. A few of us got together and made our own. One buddy had the equipment. We were all broke. By eating nothing but Ramen and vegetables for a few days and doing a lot of bartering, we could scrounge together enough raw ingredients to make a batch of beer every couple weeks. Mostly ales, porters, stouts. Those beers aren't as "sensitive" as lagers or pilseners which could go wrong with just a day's neglect, resulting in two weeks with no libations. MUCH cheaper than drinking even Lucky Lager or Schmidt or Carlings... Yes, I tutored physics in exchange for barley!
i'm paying for my school as well so i have about the same hours at work. community colleges rock! I also take only 6-9 hardcore units and at least 3 units in a "
class" as i call it. weekends are party time for me as well since i'm only takin ~12 units. and idk too much about beers, but makin your own sounds sweet! lol.
I had all 5
Went for Electronics Engineering, went to DeVry and honestly I didn't drop out from being over streched, I dropped out because I they lied. This was when the original Pentiums had been on the market for 6months......there was only 1 Pentium in the entire building, and it was a professors personal build. We were working on 8088 machines doing C+ and I thought, what a rip! Their biggest pitch was that they train with the latest equipment, BS. Took me 3 semesters to see the reality.
you shoulda got your money back
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then it's time to SAS!
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welcome! what kinda fronty do you have?
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dammit, both you guys sound just like me! or i'm a mix of what both of you guys said. lol. i'm not sure what my book smarts/street smarts split is (close to 50/50), but i think it's leaning towards the street smarts side, which may not be the best for engineering, but i'm sure i can do what i put my mind to. i'm just lazy is all
as far as schooling goes, i already took calc 1 and 2 and an intro to physx class in high school. so when i took calc 2 again in college (i wanted to redo calc 2 but not calc 1 cuz both calcs in high school were a joke. way too easy) i failed it cuz i didn't try at all cuz i figured it'd be a breeze. and in my physx class last semester (called "principles of physx: mechanics) i was fine for the first half of the class, which was just your basic mechanical stuff that i had learned in high school. then we started learning about rotational stuff and i didn't really study at home so i dropped the class cuz i wasn't really ready to go on after not really learning rotational stuff. i'm now on academic probation as well. i can't be on it for this upcoming semester otherwise i can't go to school! lol. so i'm retaking both those classes this upcoming semester, which starts a week from today. i just need to push through and actually try.
i heard that most ME's go into management. which would be fine with me cuz i'm good at giving orders and knowing how to get stuff done. when my friends come to help work on my pathies, i put those slaves to WORK! i'll have the general plan in my head and i'll start telling ppl what to do. i tell them "figure out how to do it. if you can't, find me and i'll show you" in the meantime i'll be workin on something else that requires my special knowledge of whatever.
uncc, you're crazy! that's a ton of school and work to be handling at the same time. i only work about 20 hours a week or so, so work shouldn't interfere with my schooling.
and mws, tell us about this beer
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i don't have that steering setup, but i take my pathy into firestone. i got the lifetime alignment deal there for only like 140 (the price of about 2 regular alignments) they didn't do it right the first time, so i made them do it again
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i'm actually a mechanical engineering major. only my second year of college tho and i haven't done much ME stuff. mostly general ed so far. i'd like to say that i have the instincts without tooting my own horn. i'm always trying to do stuff the easiest/least amount of effort way while still doing it right.
i have to admit that a-frame idea was my dad's. i just built them
but if my dad hadn't thought of it first, i would've later. lol. -
oh and also i have a torn CV boot!
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so i got the black body on the red one's frame yesterday and bolted it in today. it fit quite nicely. not much hassle getting it into place. here's the pix.
gettin it off the black one's frame (that guy's my dad)
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160135.jpg
got wood? don't mind my dumb hat. it was sunny/hot out
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160136.jpg
i tried to get both bodies and both frames in this shot. kinda hard to see the red one's frame (behind the black one)
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160137.jpg
red frame slid in easily
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160139.jpg
wtf! idk how this happened. maybe because the suspension was topped out all the time w/o the body. and i was washing my frame w/ a pressure washer. lol.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160141.jpg
black body on red frame (not quite bolted in at that point, but it is now)
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welcome! that's a damn nice lookin truck. lotsa customization.
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omg, they put the steering wheel on the wrong side! they can't get anything right!
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gahhh, i was just about to say that! i clicked on the button to view the thread, but got distracted by my friend on messenger!
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yeah, there's a good chance that i'm not going. i gots lotsa expenses coming up, mainly tuition for my upcoming semester and boox too. there's also tons of concerts that i wanna go to. goin down south'll cost me an assload in gas.
next time, eh? Nissan west coast meet fo sho!
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so after my friend got done d!cking around, he told me that we couldn't use his dad's forklift. no big deal. it's not like he owed me anything. so my dad and i made these a-frames and used come alongs and ratcheting tie-downs to lift the body. after we lifted the body, my friends and i slid the frame out from under the body. check it.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/a.jpg
bigass body lift!
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/d.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/b.jpg
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nice!
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(Donner Party survivor)
gahh, i was gonna say that!
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Doh...
ROFLMAO!
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k, just kidding the bodies didn't come off yesterday. i had eight people, but we couldn't lift it high enough. so we're gonna get my friend's dad's forklift. lol. we'll see how this goes
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here's me lol
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i'd prefer saturday cuz i have church on sunday. but i can go either day.
BZ Please...
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well, everyone could drive a 0dr like he has! :tonguefinger: