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Ok so I was (as usual) bored today at work and i came across a video on uselessjunk.com of a clip from "the view" which is a dumb show to begin with, BUT.....Rosie O Donnell got into a little bit of a debate with the idiot blonde on the show about gun control and it just made me angry so i need to vent.

WHY DOES ANYBODY NEED A GUN??

Ok, first case, people who hunt....Their argument is they buy guns to hunt. Ok well i can and can't understand that. First its not really hunting if you sneak up on a deer and blow its head off giving it no chance to defend itself. Then its just killing. They should just call it killing. Hunting is what lions and tigers do (oh my). You want to prove yourself as a master hunter, then grab yourself a 7" knife and some camoflage and put yourself in a field of deer. If you come out with a killed dear, then yes, you are an excellent hunter and you can display your trophy proudly because you had the courage and strength to HUNT an animal and kill it. If you just sneak up on it and shoot it in the neck then you're a big stinky pussy who would never survive in a hand to hand combt if your life depended on it. I know i couldnt, but i accept that i couldnt, and i have no desire to kill anything. Second, OK, say that i'm totally ok with hunting with a gun, any type of gun, and its for sport and you just want to spend your afternoon with your son out hunting animals. So why do you need to have your own shot gun, or your own arsenal to take down this animal? Why is it that you cant be a reasonable human being and not have a desire to own as many instruments of death as possible? Why dont we have nationally set up hunting grounds, complete with a "pro shop" if you will. Where in order to hunt with a gun, you must rent a licensed gun from a licensed hunting company which must be returned at the completion of your session. All guns be categorized, and meticulously inventoried to make sure that none go "missing" and if they do, they all have a tracking device implanted in the base or somethign so they can be found before someone can remove it. Plain and simple, takes the guns out of the hands of people and puts them into a controlled environment where upon all information on the gun, its current user, its owner, and its whereabouts at all times is catalogged.

Ok TWO. Protection. Once again, the feeling that you need a gun to protect yourself from other people is both a result of other people owning guns, and your need to shoot first think second. Say the scenario is a woman with a gun hidden under her bed just incase a man comes in to rob her or rape her or whatever. Ok, how about instead of carrying a gun, carry mase, or carry a stun gun, something that wont blow the head off of somebody the minute you sleep, or get nervous and pull the trigger. Mace or a stun gun is just as effective. Have you ever seen a person be able to rape someone or steal something after being maced? they can barely breathe for christ sakes. Now you have this person subdued with plenty of time to get yourself out of harms way. Do you really need to have a loaded weapon at your disposal to immediately end somebodies life at your own will? Regardless of what they've done? Ok, they are robbing you, does that warrant taking a life? And what happens if that person catches you by surprise and is able to take that gun from you? Now somebody, who you've never met, have no name, no wherabouts, and is obviously a criminal, has a loaded firearm. That person might go out and commit another robbery a week later, except this time they are armed, and they blow the head off that person's child for startling the theif. Great fucking job idiot. And if your thoughts are, i own a gun because someone else might own a gun and come try to get me. Ok, if guns are outlawed totally then yeah they might have a gun, but a large portion of those who DO have guns will not have them anymore, because of situations like the robbery before, or a regular person that goes into Walmart and passes the waiting period and clears the background check, purchases a firearm, and then goes out and goes on a crazy killing spree. If its outlawed, that person will never have a chance to own that gun.

I read a statistic somewhere, and i wish i could find it now, that 42% of the guns confiscated in this country due to crimes, or whatever, when tracked through the serial number, were originally purchased legally, legitimately, by a person with no criminal record. So that means that 42percent of the guns that have been responsible for crimes or even deaths in this country, were the result of a theft or a robbery of a person who felt the need to purchase a gun for protection, sport, or collecting. 42 out of 100 people killed by a gun were killed by a gun that was purchased by a person who never knew the victim, never had any intention of harm, yet their paranoid fears or strange fascination with an instrument of death caused a person to lose their life.

Japan is a model we should follow. They have one of the strictest gun policies of any of the developed countries in the world, and they have one of the lowest gun related death rate of anywhere in the world. In Japan, nobody, with the exception of groups (not even single people) such as the Japanese olympic rifle team, is permitted to own any firearm of any kind. Shotguns are to be sold only to those interested in hunting or skeet shooting. And even then they must pass prelicense screening that far outshines anything we have here in the US. Hell you need less training to get a drivers license here in the US than you do to get a firearm license in Japan. You must submit to a mental and drug health screening, and any authority, with any feelings that you shouldnt have a gun, have the utmost authority to deny your license right there on the spot. And once you do have the license, the weapon is to be kept in a locked storage box, separate from munitions, and a detailed diagram showing the location of the firearm inside the house must be given to police and authorities for catalogging. Also, no handguns are permitted under any circumstances. EVER. Now tell me, why is this not good enough for us?

We have more deaths in the US by accidental Firearm discharge than every other country in the world combined, and we far outshine that number by a factor of like 10. Every day a child accidentally blows his head off because a paranoid gun crazy parent didnt take the proper precautions to keep that gun out of the child's hands. Hell some crazy redneck parents even expose the firearms to children at young ages. Sure we cant police the parents, we cant be watching every parent to do the right thing and be responsible. Thats the parents fault, not the gun. Yeah ok, but if the gun wasnt there it wouldnt matter would it?

Plain and simple. Stop being so fucking PC and trying to make everyone happy and outlaw every type of firearm in this fucking country. The only people that should legally carry weapons is police, and those who run hunting or skeet shooting ranges. And even then there should be rigourous, and technologically advanced tracking systems for every piece of firearm produced starting right now. We can do it with cars, we can track our children through their cell phones, why cant we do it with the number one cause of homocidal death in the US? Stop being a fucking ignorant NRA redneck saying its in our constitution blah blah blah, i need to protect me and my family blah blah blah. Why dont you just fucking be an adult human being and protect your family by keeping them away from the things that can kill them. You wouldnt put a baby bottle filled with milk and a baby bottle filled with drano next to each other in a baby's crib and say "only drink this one, the other one is for protection, just incase the pipe gets clogged, so just keep it here just incase". The ammendment regarding the right to bear arms was written when we didnt have hand guns, we didnt have semi automaking pistols, we didnt have ak47s. We had pistols and rifles that took up to a minute to load to fire off one shot, never really had a problem with accidental discharge because there was no quick loading, and the country was more worried about civil war than someone breaking into your house at 4am to steal your tv.

STOP BEING MORONS, LEAVE YOUR SELFISH PRIDE, INSECURITIES, AND COLLECTING HABITS AT THE DOOR. OUTLAW FIREARMS, HELP TO START TO STOP THE PROBLEM OF GUN CONTROL IN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, OBVIOUSLY WE GAVE YOU A SHOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BALANCE IT, AND YOU BLEW IT, LITERALLY.

Yo homies,

So i moved out of Sayville and i'm now living in brookly, Bay 43rd street Brooklyn NY 11214 to be exact for all you stalkers out there. I'm a non italian living in bensonhurst, but its cool. Our apartment is quite large, which is a nice change from A) my old apartment in Windsor Terrace and B) living in the parents house. We have a huge living room/Dining room which we have yet to fill with anything. Phil moves in sunday and he has the bulk of the stuff for the apartment so i've been living on pizza and chinese food this week. We did however order a 46" Samsung DLP Projection TV which should arrive within the next 4 hours today :) I'm pumped. I love big tv's and i love free cable and internet for said TV since i work for cablevision hehe.

My band is fucking awesome. Its amazing how just adding 1 new member, with different musical tastes, can completely alter the sound of a band. Not that it was bad before or anything, it was quite good actually. Before i came into the band it was a bass player, singer, drummer, and acoustic guitar. No electric guitar or anything, which gave the band a very dave matthews esque sound, although a tiny bit darker. I despise dave matthews, and i am more into the Metal, Hard Rock, Progressive thing. Think Van Halen, Dream Theater, Metallica, and 311 thrown into one and thats my style of playing. So bringing that into the band the sound took on a more rock driven powerful sound. I'm super excited to record a new demo, and start playing more shows. The first show went ok, sound issues, a couple mistakes, but it was really just a practice show anyway. Then we played fri september 22nd at Da Funky Phish in bayshore and it was killer. We sounded perfect, no missed notes, sound was good. The only bad thing was i was still all sick from the week and my beer fell off my guitar amp mid song. Thanks to everyone who came out, saw a bunch of people that night i havent seen in a while. www.lastsecondchances.com ///// www.myspace.com/lastsecondchances

Other than that things are ok. Gotta work on my car more this winter cuz she needs a turbo rebuild since its blowing oil past the seals and giving my car a healthy puff of blue smoke in the morning when i first start it up and making it smell like ass while driving, and i'm gonna need to replace my clutch since its starting to slip once i hit boost. I figure i'll just garage my car for 2 or 3 weeks during the cold of the winter and tear it apart.

New south park was last night, it was hillarious. Simple, yet funny. That show is officially my most favoritest show ever. Every little thing makes me laugh. Like your face

Zeppelin Rulessssss

Incase you don't know already, I've joined a band. www.lastsecondchances.com.

I was invited to jam out with them a few weeks ago and the lead singer/guitarist liked it so now i'm playing shows. My first show with the band is the 15th at the Blue Parrot in Massapequa. The next show which should be pretty sweet is the 22nd at Da Funky Phish in bayshore.

If i had to describe the music, i'd say its Darker Acoustic Rock, thats before i'm in the band. Now its Darker acoustic rock mixed with straight ahead rock guitar. Interesting but good

Come check us out :)

Go to Ruby Tuesdays - Order the triple Prime Burger, it is fanfucking orgasmtastic. Sooo good.

Also i bought Mortal Kombat 1,2, and 3 for PSP and i forgot how awesome those games are...

check out www.Lastsecondchances.com

Good band, which i am recently a member of. Listen for new music eventually with me on 2nd guitar. And check us out mid september for my first show with them. Probably at Dafunky Phish in bayshore, bitches....

Its been too hot this week. I'm practically melting on my way to work.

Chill tonight, Brooklyn/Newpaltz tomorrow to help reanna move stuff from her storage unit, don't know yet sunday.

*****this is an old post from like 2 years ago, but i decided i'd bump it up to the top again because talking to someone recently reminded me of this post********




Ok, in my vain attempts to fall asleep i decided to watch a little TV. TV never let me down. Its always there for me. Until now.... I watched the show ElimiDATE and good god! Heres a few rants i am going to make....

1) I have seen and experienced my fair share of different types of girls. I've gotten to know lots of different types of girls both for good and for bad. But after seeing this show i have opened my eyes to a new type of girl that i only thought existed in folk lore. We shall call them turbo whore. Let me define for you.... Turbo whore is a girl that will do anything to basically get the attention of a guy who has worked out so much that he no longer has a personality, just a Protein induced hard-on. These girls will show any amount of skin they can, even skin that i didnt even know existed, just to make this guy try to get in their pants. Sometimes turbo whore will let him, sometimes she wont, but she will ALWAYS act like she will. Turbo whore is usually characterized by a heavy annoying accent (long island, brooklyn, etc), little to no clothing, wayyy too much eye makeup, and the uncanny ability to turn dancing in a club into a vomit inducing gag fest. Which brings me to my next point.

2) I am so sick and tired of hearing girls cry their eyes out because their guy dicked them over. Now before you tear my head off let me explain. I am completely sympathetic to girls who got dicked over by a normal guy who was just an asshole. Us men are an interesting species. We do a lot of things without weighing the consequences, and from time to time, we just completely act on impulses and screw everything up, even if we love you girls more than anything on the planet and we would never do anything to hurt you, we sometimes fuck up. Its in our nature. Thats not to say it always happens, more so it is just a learning process for us guys. We have a few really meaningful relationships that we fuck up because we are stupid, but we learn from our mistakes until we eventually get it right because we have learned what not to do. I myself have gone through this process and learned how to not fuck up, so next time it will be that much better.
However, I AM sick and tired of hearing girls cry over guys that i categorize as "high school football jock". Now i dont think i'm hot shit, not at all, but i do however have an uncontrollable ability to observe, analyze, and discect people and situations. SO i feel like i have a good hold on who i am, and who other people are. High school Football jock is exactly that. The guy you knew in high school that was more concerned with getting an amazing body, dressing nice, and creating an image that is solely there to impress other people. And for some reason, above average looking girls tend to flock to these boys. Girls, you have to learn, the type of guy you want, is not always the type of guy you see. And girls, if you are looking for a boy that will be a great boyfriend and someone you can take home to mom, 9 times out of 10, a college bar, or a club is not the place to look. College bars are places guys go because we know drunk girls who are a potential one nighter are there. We dont go there to drink with our friends and go home. Some guys do, yes. I admit that, but a lot of guys definitly go to a college bar with the intent of bringing a girl home. As for clubs, thats even worse. Guys dont like to dance. As Dane Cook put it, no guy has ever said to his friends "tonight lets just go to the club and dance, i want to express myself through dance, fuck girls, we dont need girls tongiht, lets just dance". NO, it will never happen, EVER.
Guys go to clubs because girls go to clubs. Even more so than bars. Some guys, like myself can go to a bar just to socialize and get drunk, more so in small college towns like new paltz because we dont have Real bars like other huge colleges do, i've seen them, they are nothing lke new paltz. But no self respecting guy goes to a club to socialize or drink. They do that at a bar. Clubs are basically the bordellos of the 21st century. Usually clubs have drink specials (for the ladies) such as ladies drink free from 8 to 10, or some rediculous alcohol cluster fuck like that. This is basically a marketing ploy created by Men for men, not for the ladies. The point is to get the girls so liquored up by 10 o clock that when the guys finally get to the club the girls are ready to dance and act like the true sluts they are. They start dancing to their favorites songs in small tightly knit circles of their Girl friends just tempting a horny "high school football jock" boy who spent 5 hours making sure his wife beater perfectly exposes his man tits to come over and start rubbing his shrunken steroid sized piece against her. Usually these girls will play along. They do the dance, push him away a little, get him on that leash, then continue to dance more until they are two steps shy of DVDA on the dance floor. If you need to know what DVDA means, rent the movie Orgazmo. The night usually concludes with high school football jock taking turbo whore home where they bang like wild ponies until the sun comes up, which usually was 2 hours ago.
Now turbo whore says to herself, this guy is so hot, and he seems nice. Let me see if he wants to hang out more. So they say their goodbyes and HSFJ says to himself "this girl is fucking smoking, shes an amazing lay, and i want to do her again, how can i do that with putting the least amount of effort in? i dont want to dance again, i know, lets ask her out on a date". Heres the snowball effect. Guy asks girl out, girl says to herself "oo he must like me, it must not have been a one night stand, hes asking me out on a date". So TW and HSFJ go out on a date, bang again, go out on another date, bang again, until this disgusting pattern ends up in HSFJ asking her out because he wants to keep this trend going. However what TW does not know is that HSFJ doesnt really want to be exclusive, hes just setting up the ass until the next batch of cookies comes along, at which point he usually tries to hide it, badly i might add. Eventually original Girlfriend Turbo Whore catches HSFJ cheating with TW number two and she cries her little mascara'd eyes out all night to her other Turbo whore friends about how this guy dicked her over, and she really liked him and didnt think he was such an asshole. BULLFRIGGENHORSECOCKSHIT.
remember how this started? you banged the guy you met at a club because he danced with you for a few hours while you were completely shit faced. You didnt meet him at a party where you were just dicking around with your friends, you didnt meet him while doing laundry, you never took the time to get to know each other first, no, you just went straight to the bed. I dont want to hear it anymore. Girls like that just need to learn that if they want a nice guy, meet a guy somewhere where alcohol is not involved, or at least somewhere without dance music. Get to know the guy first. Talk to the guy, find out his favorite movie. Watch that movie with him. Kiss and fool around a little. Hang out more and more, then you can take the guy to town and make him call your name. Thats ok, because by that time you have weeded the assholes out. Everytime a girl friend of mine asks me for advice when they first meet a guy i always tell them the same thing, and like a textbook, it never fails. If a guy is just in it for ass, he wont be patient enough for it if you make him wait, because lets face it, theres plenty of TW's out there that will do it for the cost of a few drinks and a couple of hours of dancing.

So my main point of this whole rant was that there are many types of girls and guys out there, and most of the time its a crap shoot and its tough to tell the winners from the losers, the keepers from the ones you throw back, but you can always save yourself the trouble of a broken heart by avoiding the things i mentioned above. Both guys, and girls are pretty easy to figure out, you just have to have the patience to observe the little things, not what is clearly in front of your face. Now like i said, good guys will dick you over from time to time, its our way of learning, but the ones who do it on a consistant basis are easy to notice. I myself have learned from mistakes, and right now have found someone that i dont even care about hooking up with, i have gotten to know her, and plan to even more, and i love everything about it. I have been an asshole, and i have had a few times where i have hooked up with a girl without any intent of starting a relationship, but like i said, it has taught me things, and made me appreciate what i have now even more. So i'm going to conclude on this. Guys, if you want to just hook up with a girl, then make that clear before you hook up. Sure she may slap you in the face, or get all pissed, and walk out, and you may have wasted your money on her drinks and your time on dancing, but its common courtesy to this girl. If you really like this girl and want to see where things go, then take things slow. Hang out, watch movies, go out on dates, kiss, fool around, but give yourself something to look foward to, cuz it will be that much better when you actually care about her. Girls, If you just wanna bang a guy, then by all means, go out, find a guy, dance with him, take him home, and let him know this, cuz as impossible as it seems, some guys will take you home but actually like you and be kinda upset that you used them, so do us the courtesy and we'll do the same for you. If you like the guy, dont feel pressured to do everything all at once. Because as it goes for guys, theres so much more to be found from the little things like cuddling and movies and dates, than just the physical shit.

So heres my final List of things to stay away from for you girls that are always crying over these guys that dick you over

1) dont bring a guy home from a bar or a club, especially a club, if you possibly want to hang out with him more than just sex.
2) Stay away from guys with bigger tits than yours, this usually means he was working out for the sole purpose of impressing you so he doesnt have to do as much work to get you in the sack. If i could get laid weighing 900 pounds and eating mcdonalds everyday, i sure as hell would look like jabba the hut by now.
3) If at the end of the night you know the guys favorite movie, the type of music he listens to, his political views, or he has brought up ideas of where you two can go for a date, then he's interested in you and you have a keeper.
4) Girls, if you want to be treated with respect, and want a guy thats going to be interested in who you are, and not wondering what you are like in bed, or whether you shave down there or not, then dont go out dressed like a slut. I would much rather meet a girl somewhere who is wearing a sweatshirt and jeans, than a girl who is wearing pointy shoes and pants that look like they needed a shoehorn to get into. Guys have a natural tendency to think about sex when its presented to us. We cant help it, so if you want a guy to think about sex when he first meets you, then yeah show off some skin, but if you want a guy to talk to you and be generally interested in you, then just dress in whatever is comfortable, because the real good guys will talk to you in that, you are playing russian roulette with the slut uniform.

Ok i'm done, i'm sorry if this makes no sense, its 3am, i have a test in the morning, and i cant sleep. If you hate me for writing this, then i dont care. If you agree with me, feel free to comment!

SO i had my sex change today and i have the best tits i've ever seen....


And i win in world domination, and bigger boobs, take that captain smarty pants...

At work...

Things that make me happy today..
1) I had fun last night, always a good time with jan, eddie, and brian.
2) Tropical storm Beryl is off the coast, i know what some people would say..."oh no destruction", but nope, i say "awesome, great surf, and some weather to watch"
3) Unexpectedly last night i was asked to possibly join a pre-existing band, to add another layer to their sound. I'm jamming with them Sunday, running through a couple of their songs, and if they like what they hear, i'm playing with them at some show in early august. Soooo nice to be back in the game.
4) I love having a turbo on my car, no matter how many little issues i have right now, its still fun.
5) Its almost friday

Things that do not make me happy today....
1) i'm at work, but hey whatta you gonna do, gotta pay the bills
2) I'm really getting "fat". Not fat like i'm overweight, i just gotta get rid of my gut, but i like food too much and running not enough. Hmm gotta figure that one out
3) I'm still living at home.....but my main gripe is my lack of a place to relax away from the rest of the house other than my room, buttttt my parents decided finally to drop some cash and have the basement waterproofed (it has had water flooding problems forever since we're so close to a stream). So once thats done i'm taking a weekend or two and building walls, putting in carpeting, wiring up the room, and putting in a couch and shit. Putting my second computer down there, tv, surround sound, and im thinkin of picking up a cheap home theater projector and making the room into a killer home theater. So that'll at least give me a place to have people over at night.
4) I wish i were surfing, i'm watching the lincoln blvd surfcam right now and its clean 4-5ft, lame...

Thats it, dunzo

I'm feeling happy again today. Horray. Maybe cuz its friday. Maybe its cuz certain people make me happy. Maybe its cuz i actually slept well last night. Maybe its all of those things.

Bring on the weekend....

Really weird, angry, pissed off, hopeless in life mood the last 48 hours of my life. Dont know why, but i do know that it keeps getting worse. This morning put me in an even worse mood, and now i feel like stabbing someone with a frozen fish.....

I need a beer

Does it make me gay because i just watched "A Cinderalla Story" with Hillary Duff and i liked it a little?

Last day of work here at WGN. I'm doing nothing all day. in fact right now its almost 10:30 and all i've done is eat a breakfast burrito, check out the surf report for tomorrow, have a cup of coffee, and play around on myspace. Andddddd i'm about to leave for 20 minutes or so to go to T-mobile cuz my cell phone is a hose beast and decided to stop working yesterday. Cheryl said the same thing happened to hers though and they just gave her a loaner for a few days while they replaced it. No biggie.

The 3rd and 4th were fun. Monday we went to the Count's house at night, got loaded, lit off fireworks. Its so much fun lighting off fireworks with Harris. We haven't had fireworks in a long time and having them this year brought me back to the ages between 10 and 18 when every summer me, him, and sometimes moore, would congregate on Lowell Road and just blow shit up. Needless to say i almost got hit about 30 times with fireworks Monday night and i also burnt a hole in my shirt. Good clean fun. July 4th i used the morning as recovery from the night before, and then we were gonna go out to CherHELL's house to watch fireworks but it started to thunder and lightning so i just headed out to west hampton to hang out. Werd

I think its time i head to tmobile......

PS - Montauk Tonight, Awesome Surf Tomorrow.....Be Jealous

I dislike when things I caused come back and punch me in the face. Sigh, i guess i gotta respect the wishes of others, can't be selfish all the time. Except with cake....mmm do i love cake....

This weekend will be fun, awkward, hopefully sunny, and hopefully slow so i can enjoy every bit of it.

Who wants to do something? I have Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sun off. So far this is all i have planned

Sat - Cousin's HS grad party for a bit, then West Hampton for Becky's College grad party. Most likely for the night

Sun - Unscheduled

Mon - Perhaps beach, maybe beach houses, perhaps a party at night, still up in the air though

Tues - Unscheduled

Weds - Last day of work at WGN, mug night at night

Thurs - Maybe a work on my car day, probably more like lazy day though

Fri - Unscheduled, probably massive consumption of alcohol at night

Sat - Possiply NP for the day to say hi to some people and pick up a turbo rebuild kit.

Sun - Most likely relaxation

Mon - Start Job at News12 and social life ends again...

Who wants to fill those gaps? i need to use this week off to its fullest :)

I'm so glad my friends are home. We could all step away to opposite sides of the country (which we do) for years on end, but then minute we come back, its beers in hand, weird al on the stereo, and just laughter the whole time. Eddie and moore are home for the summer, hailey will be down this weekend, and jan comes out sometimes, which we're used to. All in all summer is finally getting fun....

I got a new job. I'm working for News 12 Long island in the city. Same kinda deal of what i'm doin now, but its a step up in pay, and the opportunity to rise up in the ranks and gain more experience is more prevalent there. Should be good. My last day here at WGN is Wed the 5th. I have off the 3rd and 4th, and then the thurs and fri off. I start News12 on the 10th. Should be good

You know how i know you're gay? Because you read my live journal....

This weekend has given me such a sense of accomplishment and pride in the fact that i now feel like i can do anything if i really want to. Sure i couldn't perform open heart surgery right off the bat, or tame a wild bear....yet, but i feel like with enough research and dedication on my part i could really do anything.

I spent the last 4 months researching turbocharging my car. To those who have no idea what that is i will give a quick explanation. A car works very simply by doing the following....1) you put your foot on the gas pedal, 2) doing that opens up a valve which sucks air inside of your engine 3) once they air is inside of your engine it goes into separate cylinders where it is squeezed and mixed with fuel 4) the mixture then is ignited by the spark plug which in turn causes a pushing motion from all the force which drives the parts of the car to make it move, 5) the burnt air then exits the engine through the exhaust and out the car. This is how a car makes power. Now the rule of thumb is the more air you can cram into an engine, as long as you put an equal amount of more fuel, you can make more power (until of course it gets to be too much and you start to break things). A regular car without a turbo or supercharger sucks in air by opening the throttle body (the valve thing) and whatever air enters the engine on its own means is what gets burned, so there is a limit to how much air the engine can enter on its own. Therefore this limits the total amount of power you can make on this type of car, which is referred to as (naturally aspirated). After that level is where Forced induction picks up, which is the general term for turbocharging. A turbo is like a giant hairdryer. If you look at your hair dryer theres really 3 main parts. Theres the part where the air goes in on the side, then inside there is a fan that spins the air, and then theres the nozzle which the faster air comes out. This is also how a turbo works. The turbo takes all of that burnt air coming out of the exhaust, and uses it to push a fan, this fan spins faster and faster as your engine rpms go higher and higher. This fan is in turn connected to another fan turning the opposite direction which "sucks" air in like a hairdryer, speeds it up, and shoots it out squeezing air into your engine. More air than the engine could possibly do on its own. The limit to how much you can put it relies solely on how well your engine is constructed. Pushing all of this air into the engine, coupled with putting extra fuel in, explodes with a ton more force creating a ton more power, turning a 110 horsepower engine into a 200 horsepower engine.

Now that i've explained that, i will say that there is 100 different ways that you can destroy your car by missing something, or not putting in enough fuel, or not paying attention to what you're doing. This is one of the main reasons that i for the longest time was afraid to turbo my car. But, after months of researching, and finding where my balls are, i decided what the fuck, i'll do it. So i collected all the parts and started the installation this weekend. It took me a total of 2 and a half days of taking parts off my car, changing parts, drilling holes in my engine, making new fittings, and bolting on new parts, until i had the entire turbo system on my car. That was the easy part, the hard part is making sure you did it right so when you finally go to start your car up again, it actually runs, and runs safely. Well on sunday i started my car up and i am fucking awesome. The car started right up, no major problems besides little oil leaks here and there which are expected. It builds boost perfectly, and so far its runnning like a champ.

Once again, i will just reinstate that on sunday an immense feeling of pride and accomplishment came over me when it started up. I felt so proud that i did this all by myself. I went from knowing nothing 4 months ago, and never doing much to my car besides easy installations, to completely tearing half of the engine apart and doing it successfully. I guess people like me, who are extremely lazy, are still able to accomplish anything they really strive for.

I'm so fucking excited....
Around New Years time Jan surprised me by going behind my back and hiding from me the fact that he was turbocharging his 99 civic. He knew i'd be stoked to see that he actually did it and got it done, so he did it and didnt tell me until i pulled up in his driveway and he showed me. So i caught the bug. I had been thinking of turboing my car for a long time, but I didnt know enough about it and i was nervous that i would fuck something up. Seeing his car and feeling and hearing the turbo just pushed me over the edge though. I started researching it every day, learning things, finding parts, basically making me even less productive at work. I started buying parts one by one, i mapped it all out in terms of what need to be bought, and when i was hoping i could have all the parts by. Well its now May 24th and as of friday i have all the parts :). I already have the gauges and exhaust installed, this weekend the Upgraded fuel pump goes in, the FMU (fuel management unit) goes in, and my intercooler gets mounted up. And then.....June 9th my car goes in the garage for 3 days straight and the turbo goes on. I'll let you all know how it goes but i'm so stoked to soon be boosting.

Went to new paltz for graduation weekend on friday, fun as hell to see everyone. Reanna, Becky, KY, the Wop, Uncle Jizzy, all the good group. Went to Cuddys and Murphys friday night, and then Pigs saturday night. It was a good time. Had lots of good food and also accomplished the gargantuan task of packing the pack rat's room (reanna). She had sooo much shit. I've never seen a single person have more stuff than her. I think the amount of stuff in my entire apartment from last year was crammed in her room. In either case I used my master packing skillz and we got everything into the storage unit that she wouldn't need for the summer (which was pretty much everything but clothes).

The Graduation Ceremony was nice. Nicer than mine last year. The Valedictorian's speech was really good. Really nailed the college lifestyle unlike the Valedictorian from my graduation who rambled on about how she loves Maine where shes from and how she had no life in college. Also the Keynote speaker (who was the publisher from the NY Times i think) was a lot less rambly about how our government is fucked up. We had Aiden Quinn for our graduation and he used it as his stage to ramble on a 20 minute speech about bush, and politics, and other gay shit that half the time wasn't coherant. Don't get me wrong, i dislike a lot of the things the govt is doing and i think bush is a monkey with down syndrom, but that doesn't mean you have to whine about it at a college graduation. Annnnnnyway, the weather was a carbon copy of last year though. Overcast until about the last 15 minutes of the ceremony when it started to rain, at least they got it done though.

So i'm at work now avoiding doing things but thats ok. This weekend i just plan to work on my car and relax, maybe surf if Surfline ever nails down the forcast. Yesterday they said Sat is 3-4 foot windswell, then last night they said 1-2foot nothing, now its 1-2foot with waist high peaks. Who knows...

I would like to share with you a typical text message conversation between me and Mr Brian Moore....

In regards to the August 311 show at Jones Beach we have tickets to...

Me - It will be a gay show indeed. Gay is happy

Brian - Excellent

Brian - And I am so gay

Me - Gay as Brian Moore they say

Brian - I'm so gay that i'm AIDS

Me - You are so gay that the queer eye guys put they're penises in your butt

Brian - At the same time

Me - Sweetness

Me - You know what they say..once you go black. you decide taking it up the butt is still the best


The end

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Will you repost this so I can do it for you?

What the fuck is up with a thursday being busy at work?? That never happens, yet today was shitty and busy.

Oh well, almost over, then gym, then home to do nothin.

How was your day?

I just read an old journal entry from my old Livejournal from like 2003.....I was such a whiny bitch. Someone should have kicked my ass for being such a queer...

Remind me never to be such a whiny douche again