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It’s been quite some time since I last posted…

Here’s a quick sum­mary of what’s gone on in my life:

• The bas­tard Probe is still in the garage, sta­tus really unchanged since August.
• I got bored after doing an install in Colum­bus and wan­dered in to a used car dealer.  Some­how I drove home in a 2002 BMW 325i…
• Char­lie and Mary both quit at MV (this was over the course of a few months, not at the same time), which threw me in to a sit­u­a­tion I really did not want to be in.  I kinda pan­iced and nearly quit to do con­tract work.  For­tu­nately, when I went to dis­cuss my 2 weeks the boss offered me a sig­nif­i­cant raise, and after sleep­ing on it I decided stick­ing with what I knew and con­tin­u­ing to ride out the bad towards the good (which seems to be get­ting closer) was the bet­ter plan.
• My par­ents moved to Vir­ginia, mak­ing me the pri­mary “sup­port” for my brother when he’s in Toledo at school.

I might go in to detail on some of those later.  Any­ways, what I came to post follows:

I’ve been get­ting in to a few blogs recently, and this one I just dis­cov­ered today.  All I’ve read so far is inter­est­ing and well writ­ten, here’s a few favorites in no par­tic­u­lar order…

http://​www​.vio​len​tacres​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​3​1​9​/​j​u​s​t​-​s​a​y​-​n​o​-​t​o​-​b​a​s​t​a​r​d​-​c​h​i​l​d​ren

http://​www​.vio​len​tacres​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​5​9​/​t​w​o​-​p​h​r​a​s​e​s​-​t​h​a​t​-​d​e​s​t​r​o​y​e​d​-​a​m​e​r​i​c​a​n​-​c​u​l​t​ure

http://​www​.vio​len​tacres​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​4​8​/​f​o​u​r​-​r​o​o​k​i​e​-​m​i​s​t​a​k​e​s​-​p​e​o​p​l​e​-​m​a​k​e​-​t​h​a​t​-​k​e​e​p​-​t​h​e​m​-​p​oor

http://​www​.vio​len​tacres​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​2​5​0​/​t​h​e​-​p​e​n​t​e​c​o​s​t​a​l​-​c​h​u​r​c​h​-​a​n​d​-​t​h​e​-​h​o​l​y​-​g​h​o​s​t​-​w​a​n​t​-​y​o​u​-​t​o​-​w​e​a​r​-​p​i​g​-​p​a​n​t​ies

http://​www​.vio​len​tacres​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​2​7​9​/​a​-​p​e​d​o​p​h​i​l​e​-​l​u​r​k​i​n​g​-​b​e​h​i​n​d​-​e​v​e​r​y​-​d​a​r​k​-​c​o​r​ner

edited for linkification…stupid word­press, what else does it think i might want when I post a URL?

Yes­ter­day I got in a pretty bad crash with the T-Bird. I’ll let the pic­tures do the talking:

http://​cars​.sean​har​low​.info/​v​/​1​9​9​5​t​b​i​r​d​/​c​r​a​sh/

Also, I put the Crown Vic up for sale on eBay. Unfor­tu­nately with the T-Bird pos­si­bly totaled, I might have to pull the auc­tion and fix it up to be my daily dri­ver once more.

http://​cgi​.ebay​.com/​e​b​a​y​m​o​t​o​r​s​/​w​s​/​e​B​a​y​I​S​A​P​I​.​d​l​l​?​V​i​e​w​I​t​e​m​&​a​m​p​;​r​d​=​1​&​a​m​p​;​i​t​e​m​=​1​1​0​0​4​9​6​0​6​2​2​2​&​a​m​p​;​s​s​P​a​g​e​N​a​m​e​=​S​T​R​K​:​M​E​S​E​:​I​T​&​a​m​p​;​i​h​=​001

We’ll see.

I just updated this site with new pages telling about the things I love and a bit about myself as well. Links are at the top of the page.

I’m also try­ing out a new tem­plate which I really like.  I think I’ll keep it.

Holy crap does a sub­woofer ever make a dif­fer­ence. This one can be blamed on a nice chain of events.

1. Room­mate gets me lis­ten­ing to Sir­ius 20 “Octane”
2. DMX — “Party Up” comes on, I real­ize how piti­ful the bass in my car sounds
3. Roommate’s ex-GF comes to town, some­how gets him to buy new front speakers
4. While we’re installing said speak­ers, I decide to fig­ure out why my rear speak­ers don’t work
5. I rewire the speak­ers to run from the head unit instead of through the amp the pre­vi­ous owner left in the car, and now I have a spare amp to mess with.
6. I drive to Car Stereo One, who just hap­pen to be hav­ing a sale on sub­woofers, so I end up buy­ing a 12″ sub instead of the 8 or 10 inch mod­els I was look­ing at.
7. By 3 AM, we have the thing ghetto-wired and pow­er­ing on. We burn bass test discs and lap the block.
8. I have very lim­ited hear­ing now.

Unfor­tu­nately, I just have to sell my Crown Vic. It’s been a great car for the past 14 months, and as my first car I’ll always remem­ber it.

Here’s the info:

• 1993 Ford Crown Vic­to­ria P71 “Police Interceptor”
• VIN 2FACP71W7PX188764
• 4.6L (281ci) SOHC V8 (200 HP)
• AODE elec­tronic 4 speed auto­matic transmission
• Fac­tory true dual exhaust with “H” pipe
• 8.8″ rear axle w/ 2.73:1 gears

The car has year-old tires, has been main­tained at the rec­om­mended inter­vals, and runs fairly well. It has leather seats from a Grand Mar­quis and a CD play­ing head unit (not installed). This car will do triple digit speeds com­fort­ably if one is so inclined.

With the good, there’s always the bad. It’s drip­ping coolant from some unknown place, it burns oil, and there’s a hole in the exhaust. The paint isn’t great and there’s rust in the fend­ers. There are also some stains on the car­pet and a major crack in the dash cover.

Regard­less of this, if the coolant and oil lev­els are checked and topped off every week or two, it runs fine. I used it as my daily dri­ver right up until I got my Thun­der­bird and it never left me stranded or gave me any real trouble.

Pics can be found at http://​cars​.sean​har​low​.info