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Well 2008 has been a shit year for me, but as usual I some how deal with it and keep moving on. Anyways one good thing is I am getting sponsored by Jonnie Fraz of http://stealth-custom-fab.com to attend an event at the Thunder Hill raceway coming up this month on the 20th and 21st. Basically it’s a full track drift practice on the 20th and a competition on the 21st, I am scheduled to be in both! I can’t wait it has been so long since I last drifted and without this event I would’ve had no track track event’s under my belt for this year. The flyer and links for the event are below.

I have a few update’s for those of you who do not read my forums on a regular basis.

My S13 is nearing completion, the main things that will be left are a roll cage and paint, however the car is pretty much how I would like it to be minus a few things. But for now I am happy with the way it is.

Kelly’s S14 is coming along slowly but at least it’s moving foward. The way the economy is right now and my current financial state are the reason’s for the slow progress on her car. I bought a set of KTS coilover’s for my S14 and put them on Kelly’s S14 for the time being until I can get mine done.

My 1996 Civic was sold recently, mainly because I am no longer a courier I don’t need it any more. So I sold it to fund my S14 project. I feel kinda funny since I have been a Honda guy for a long time and for the first time in like 10 years I don’t have some sort of Hybrid swapped Civic. But things always change and it was time to move on.

My S14 progress has been really great the past few weeks, of course this has to do with the fact that the money I am using to buld it came from selling my Civic. This car should look great once it’s all done and I will finally have a Burgundy/candy apple red car! Pretty much all that is left to do is to rebuild the motor, get a Kouki S14 hood, paint it and put it all back together. Hopefully I can have it done in a couple months.

That’s it for now, I hope everyone had a great holiday.

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Ok so my original blogging software stopped working right, so I had to kill it and install a fresh brand new version. Becacuse of that all the previous entries were almost lost but I managed to get them back. Anyways because of this all the previous posts to this will have 2 dates, one will be the day I added them to the new blog and the other is the date I originally wrote that post.

Also Kelly and I just got back from our 4 year anniversary trip to San Diego. Man it was fun but my feet at sore! Things are going ok even tho 2008 has been trying to kick my ass, but I have it all under control. On an up note my S13 is near completion, however I was given another project for free so lol yea one almost done and another one just starting. O well building them is half the fun.

The other thing is Kelly got an S14 so she will be sliding that soon! I can’t wait 😀

Anyway that’s it for now.

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The past, present and future…

It’s funny the way life turns and twists… how you can be happy one moment and sad the next. Someone from my past has contacted me and even though I thought it would be awesome to hear from them again I knew there would probablly be a price to pay. 10 years ago I was an asshole to the people who mattered most and it took what this person did to me to make me realize I didn’t want to be this way. For that I say thank you for helping me be who i am today and also I am sorry for what I did to you. I had hoped that one day we would be able to communicate with each other without prejudice and bad thoughts for one another. But maybe that is too much to expect for what I have done in the past. Regardless, I am who I am today and I am happy with it. The people I care for know who I am and are also happy with who I have become. In my eyes that is all that matters that I can make the one’s who care for me happy.

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Tired of all the drama…

Ok so I have had it with my so called family! Fucking no good assholes that don’t remember who helped them and where they came from. All they can do is fight and make drama from nothing. Since I moved out of my parents place a few years back it has been so much better not having to listen to all the shit they talk about each other, not to mention that I no longer have to deal with the headache of hearing how this person said this, that person did this, that and the other. Now that my dad and mom are seperated things have gotten a lot worse, it’s funny how quickly my HALF brother Joey forgot who helped him all those years when he first moved back from Alabama. I stress the word HALF because about 9 years ago he and the rest of my HALF siblings decided I wasn’t a whole enough brother to be considered their blood. This mother fucker thinks he is buster bad ass by threatening my dad about some of his and my belongings still left at what is now my mother’s house. Let’s get this straight my dad and mom are legally seperated now and the agrerement was signed at the begining of Decemeber 2007… in the agreement it also stated that he would be out by the 1st of 2008. This agreement was originally made in august but because my mom loves to argue and fight over the stupidest shit she didn’t sign the agreement until December, leaving my dad with less than a month to look for a house, find it, finance it and then buy it. Not to mention move all of his stuff out by the 1st. Does this strike anyone as not enough time to do all this?!?! Well it isn’t enough time, but we managed to get it almost all done. Not only that but the agreement stated that he would be out by the 1st, it said nothing about his belongings. On December 27th 2007 which happened to be my dads birthday the new house closed and he moved in the very next day. At this point about 95% of his belongings were still there… I ask you this how long does it take to move out? Most people would take the better part of a month to move an entire house, not to mention that he still has to go to work and move all of his stuff into the new house. Well my wonderful half brother Joey called my dad on the 2nd and made a threatening remark about having all of his stuff out “or else”… yea ok whatever. Can you cut us some slack here, he just got a house on the on the 27th and you expect everything to be gone in a span of 4 days? My dad told him it will take a few weeks but we will work on it as much as possible until it’s out. Joey then said well you have 2 weekends to get everything out. So that leaves us 4 full days to move everything, this is because my dad and I both work during the week and it gets dark at 5pm, therefore we only have the days on the weekend to get his stuff out. I wonder if Joey remembers how my dad helped him through the years, with the Caprice which my mother took back from Joey after he and my dad did a ton of work to it, how about the white Chevy truck that he almost killed my dad while trying to remove and cut the springs on so he could get it lowered or the old green Mercedes Benz that he left at my dads place for years. HMMMM is there more… yes there is, how about the 1974 Corvette my dad gave him that Joey gave back because he didnt have the time to work on it? Countless other things the he has done through the years for him, all for nothing, for him to sit here and tell my dad that he better get his stuff out or “he will take care of it”. I am so tired of this shit, and I am so tired of this family. I am glad my dad is out and can now some what live his life in peace, once this is all said and done my father and I are done with all of them. I cannot wait for that day.

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My lung and Med7 in Roseville…

Ok well some of you know what has been going on with me and some of you do not. For those that don’t I have been in the hospital with a collapsed lung. LOL now for most everyone they will ask how did it happen, was it from a car accident or did I fall and hit my chest. The answer is no… I was sitting perfectly still not doing anything at all and my lung collapsed.

Now for the explanation, due to the fact that I am tall and I work as a courier is the reason it happened. When I get in and out of my car all the time my lung rubs against my chest cavity, now the fact that I am tall makes this happen more than it would in shorter people. Because the lung rubbed my chest cavity so much it developed a sort of blister in this area and when that blister popped my lung just collapsed.

Now for the story…

Friday 7/6/2007 around 11:40AM I was sitting in my car listening to music when the left part of my chest started to hurt. By 11:55AM the pain was very sharp and had spread from the mid section of my chest to my left shoulder and back. By this time I was contemplating going to the E.R. because it kind of felt like a mild heart attack, but I decided that it would cost too much money since I don’t have insurance and that more than likely wasn’t a heart attack. Basically I was hoping it would go away on its own. So I get out of my car around noon to go into my 1st stop and had to choke back tears cuz my chest was hurting so bad, I grabbed my stuff and got back into my car to do the rest of my run. At this point the pain was really bad so I took some extra strength Tylenol to help with the pain.  About an hour later the sharp pain had gone and all the remained was a dull chest pain and some minor shortness of breath. At this point I figured it was going away on its own I’ll just sleep it off.

Saturday 7/7/2007 I wake up… PAIN! My chest was hurting so bad when I woke up, I went to walk to the bathroom from my bed and couldn’t even make it half way to the bathroom before I had to stop because I couldn’t breathe. Now I’m worried, which for those of you that know me that isn’t easy to do. I can tolerate pain more than most people and I don’t go to the hospital unless something is really wrong. I decided that whatever  is wrong with me isn’t going away and I should go to the hospital. I decide to do a lil self diagnosis to better equip myself for going to the Hospital. I got on the net and looked up my symptoms. The result that came up was severe heartburn a.k.a. G.E.R.D. this had all of my symptoms except the shortness of breath. It had been mistaken for a mild heart attack by lots of people so I thought this has got to be what I have. Now I just need to make sure so I decided to go to Med7 to get checked out. Since I don’t have medical insurance this place will work great cuz they take walk in’s and they don’t shy away from non insured patients. Now for the Med7 experience. I see the Dr. there and explain my symptoms, they do an EKG, chest X-rays, listen to my chest with a stethoscope, give me an Asprin and check my blood sugar level. At this point I thought that these tests would have shown if there was something really wrong, and they would have if my Dr. would have looked at them right. But he says to me “I can’t see anything wrong with you, but it’s most likely sleep apnea”, I suggest that it may be severe heartburn and he says “yea it could be that too”. Now I say to myself since he thinks it could severe heartburn I can just get some Prilosec or other severe heartburn medicine I should be fine. He then says “your chest pain has not gone away with the asprin i gave you?” to which I say no. He still has not asked me about my shortness of breathe, next he says “well maybe you should go the E.R. and have them take a look to find out for sure what’s wrong with you, but no rush. They can do better tests there than I can do, but it’s probably heartburn or sleep apnea”… lol I think to myself isn’t that the reason why I came here, was to get an explanation of what’s wrong and the treatment for it?!?! So this little adventure cost’s me $328 for the Dr. tell me what I already knew that it was probably severe heartburn. I’m pretty pissed off now due to the fact I feel I wasted that money when I could have just gotten some heartburn medicine. So I just go home, I thought to myself since he didn’t find anything wrong with me, the E.R. will do the same tests they just did. So there is no reason to go to the E.R. especially when he said “maybe you should go but no rush” I’ll just get myself some Prilosec and be good.

Sunday through Tuesday  7/8 – 7/10/2007. These days were the worst for the pain, I bought some prilosec on saturday after I went to Med7. I start the treatment and on the box it states it can take 1-4 days for the prilosec to actually produce results. So I decide to just take it easy and rest in house. The fact that I could hardly walk around without running out of breathe also forced me to stay in. Sunday evening I decided to call in to sick to work since this problem wasn’t going away.

The call backs…

Monday 7/9/2007 I missed a call from Med7 mainly because I was really tired and I didn’t want to get up to get my phone. When I checked the voice mail a woman said to “call them back whenever I get a chance to”. Well I’m feeling like shit and I’m like I’ll call them some other day when I feel better, there’s no reason to call now otherwise they would have said call back asap.

Tuesday 7/10/2007 3pm, I take a long hot shower in hopes of helping relieve some of my chest pain. When I get out of the shower there is a voice mail and a missed call on my phone. I check the voice mail, it’s the staff manager at Med7 calling me to say that it’s urgent that I call them back regarding my treatment and diagnosis that I had on Saturday. So I call this woman back, here tone of voice was a bit concerned when she answered, she say’s ” have you gone to the E.R. or hospital since your visit to us?” to which I reply “no the Dr. said it was sleep apnia or heartburn”. Her tone of voice goes from concerned to panic. She say’s ” Oh… well our Dr. missed it but we send all of our x rays to radiology and radiology found it, your lung has collapsed. You need to go to the E.R. now because this won’t get better on it’s own!” At this point I’m like shit well I better go. Then she says “go to the E.R. tell them you have been to Med7 and that u have a Pneumothorax so that you don’t have to wait and you can go right in”.

Tuesday 7/10/2007 4pm I get to the Kaiser E.R. and within 30 seconds using  a stethoscope only the admittance nurse says to me “Oh! Yea you have no air going in on your left side, your lung is collapsed”.  Shit!!! That’s all I can think of at the moment. So began my treatment and hospital stay. I won’t go into the hospital visit or what was done to me while there or how much it cost right now or even mention the fact I was sent home to die with a collapsed lung. But I will say is this… I am better now… thank god for the AWESOME Nurses and Dr’s that I had while I was at Kaiser.

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Ok so finally got internet at my new place, as well as still in the process of moving things from my old place to the new. So we’re still not 100% settled in yet, but about 95% at the moment. Busy is still the word for the new place since there is always something for me to do or fix, but thats how it goes in life. Anyways, I guess my site is gaining popularity despite i have hardly any guest book hits and my forums are still only in the single digits for members. Even with that in December I did 40GB of bandwith and January I did 52GB of bandwidth, so people are coming, they just are not saying they have been here. At any rate I did some cleaning of the movie gallery section since most of the bandwidth was used there, this way i won’t get over charged for maxing out my bandwidth quota for the month as its only Feb 2nd and already 4GB has been used. Now the movies section will mainly be what my freinds and I have made. Maybe some other very worthy videos will be hosted here too, who knows. Ok gotta go, got more shit to do! lol ~Gone

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THE NEST HAS BEEN FLED!

Lol in the words of my fool ass nephew who moved out before i did, I have fled the nest! So yea thats the great way to ring in the new year as some of you may have guessed. My girl and I moved in to a cool lil house in Antelope, its a 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage with R/V access house. We love it! So far it fits us and we fit it, now the swaps/car work will be done with total peace instead of having a nagging mother looming over me the whole time. But to the down side of the whoel thing is that I will be without internet access until the earliest January 26 or the latest being the 28th. Anyways just wanted to write a short lil update, more later. ~Gone!

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“And now for a taste of things to come…”

LOL sorry had to quote an old movie line, but yea today started the first real preparations on the next big life change. So without saying too much I’ll let u know that in a few days that things will be very different!

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Well so today I got some great news, not going to say what but its good news! Altho this will mean that i’ll be 100% strapped for cash the next several months, but on the upside the biggest problem in my life will no longer be a problem i will have to deal with on a daily basis! Man I can’t wait! Anyways more updates to come as the days unfold but hopefully if all goes well this coming 15th of the month will be a great day indeed. Ok enough for now got more “scheme, scheme, plot, plot” to do. ~Gone.

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Ok I’m ready for the rain to stop now. It’s funny how i get my license back a couple saturdays ago and its been raining since the day i got my license back. Never fails the moment i can go out and drive it rains so i can’t go out and drive. Ehh, that’s just the way life goes I guess, anyways 2005 was fun… seemed to go by way too fast but at least a lot of positive’s have been accomplished this year! Hopefully more to come in 2006 and on that note i’m out, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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