Just realized the date gets put on the blogs anyways, but would rather not think of a title...
So I went to Gamestop yesterday to trade in some games and pick up a used copy of Deus Ex Human Revolution for the PS3. They have this 50% trade in bonus towards used games so I figured with the new sale price being $26.99 for a used copy with the extra 50%, bonus plus an additional 10% off used games with the membershi,p I would be getting this game for close to nothing... Well I missed the last used copy by 20 minutes or so and I ended up picking it up new for $29.99 and with my trade in it cost me $17 in the end which not bad but not free. The best part about this purchase was one of the guys who works there has no forearms. I am not making fun of this dude, but he had to be the best customer service person I had ever met at a Gamestop and he did the rest of the job as good or better then the rest of the knuckleheads that work there. Props to this guy and hit bad ass attitude with his bad ass stubby arms!
Work is very slow this week and I am having trouble keeping busy. I have managed to find enough work to justify, at the most, six hour days for the rest of the week. This is going to hurt the wallet as I already had Monday off and I do not get paid time off which is the main downside of being a contracted worker. The bonus here is I will get to go home and play Deus Ex. Since I should not spend any more money anyways this is about the only fun thing I can do. I need to wait until work picks back up before I can really spend money on anything else with rent due in a few days and I will be spending a chunk of change on entry fee for our next LeMons race soon.
Recently I keep spending so much time thinking about things we can do to improve the Spitfire and forget we need to concentrate on the things we need to do to keep it running. I spent a lot of time reading on this guys site which is full of great information that I feel we can find useful.
http://auskellian.com/paul/links_files/performance_enhancements.htm
I got into another site where a guy was explaining a rebuild of the rear transverse leaf spring for $35, after which I was excited and interested in doing it. After I emailed it to my pops he reminded me that if we stiffen the rear spring it will take away some of the negative camber we added (or add back camber we took out, how ever you want to look at it). He was right of course and I remembered we just need to leave it alone as it handles pretty damn well, and if anything we can just cut ½ a coil of the front springs to make the car sit level. Really what we need to do is ignore it and focus on the motors. If we can keep the car running and have a good spare motor we will be much better off, lasting to the end of the race is more important then a slight improvement in handling or a few more horses under the hood.
Well short day today..
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