So this past week I made the mistake of again browsing the DSM forums when I should have been doing other things and no to my surprise I found another very entertaining thread in the hangout forums. This thread was labeled "You know you're a dsmer when..." and it was fantastic! It was basically just post things every dsmer does on a daily basis or tries at least once. This one guy about three posts down put a list up of 380 things! Of course me being the ultimate dsmer I read all 380 posts. I guess the good part of all of this was is that I fit into most of these 380 things.
Another thing I also found it is that people driving Eclipses and Talons in Sheboygan don't seem to be real dsmers because one thing dsmers have in common is that every other dsm on the road catches their attention and they stare at it. Most people driving dsms in Sheboygan don't even glance at my car where as I'm giving them thumbs up and all what not. It's a kind of rejected feeling. Either way though at least I know that I'm a truer dsmer then they are.
The other thing I found out is that I'm not as crazy as I originally thought I was for calling a junkyard and upgrade yard. Not to mention thinking that my Talon sounds like a turbodiesel dumptruck!! Also I have thought of trying to bolt my other turbo to the push mower just to see if it would work, and I run around the house going, "vroooooooom, pshhhhhh!!!" I now believe that I can truly consider my self a dsmer!
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Enjoying the Weather
So here I am sitting outside in my car barely catching an internet signal while typing my blog for this week, and to top it off I got my free Ipod on shuffle which is currently playing Again by Flyleaf. I'm not really a big fan of Flyleaf so I hit the skip button and up comes...Land Down Under by the Men at Work, now were talking, this is some awesome 80's music that I learned to like by playing none other than Saints Row 2. Saints Row 2 is a great game, If you haven't played it then you don't know what your missing. Now lets go over my day up until this point.
Just earlier today I had to work which I figured would be fun because part of my job requires me to be outside, not a problem with today's weather. Well, I got to work and pulled a Stifler from American Pie greeting on my usual suspect Damion, and like always he laughed and thought it was rather comical. Then I found out the same person I had just talked to made me pick up all his slack on carts. This wasn't terrible because the weather was still as nice as ever, but then I had to do carts all over again after another co-worker Taylor screwed me over too.
Well this was an end to a pretty bad day at work, and to put a cherry on the top I'm still sore from swapping wheels on two of my friend's Ford Escorts, both of which look like crap. Either way I figured I could still make my day better by going for a cruise to check out the local tuners. I saw some pretty sweet cars on my cruise including a tan Honda Accord that sounded decent. With that I went to Advance Auto to look at gauges for my new a-pillar gauge pod. I found out that my Faze boost gauge I picked up at the junkyard is worth 50 bucks!! I think I might go back over there now and order a couple Autometer gauges for like 60 something and put them in tomorrow since I'll probably be bored as crap. Enjoy this weather while you can before the storm :)
Just earlier today I had to work which I figured would be fun because part of my job requires me to be outside, not a problem with today's weather. Well, I got to work and pulled a Stifler from American Pie greeting on my usual suspect Damion, and like always he laughed and thought it was rather comical. Then I found out the same person I had just talked to made me pick up all his slack on carts. This wasn't terrible because the weather was still as nice as ever, but then I had to do carts all over again after another co-worker Taylor screwed me over too.
Well this was an end to a pretty bad day at work, and to put a cherry on the top I'm still sore from swapping wheels on two of my friend's Ford Escorts, both of which look like crap. Either way I figured I could still make my day better by going for a cruise to check out the local tuners. I saw some pretty sweet cars on my cruise including a tan Honda Accord that sounded decent. With that I went to Advance Auto to look at gauges for my new a-pillar gauge pod. I found out that my Faze boost gauge I picked up at the junkyard is worth 50 bucks!! I think I might go back over there now and order a couple Autometer gauges for like 60 something and put them in tomorrow since I'll probably be bored as crap. Enjoy this weather while you can before the storm :)
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Car buying
So the other day at work my friend Justin asked me to go with him over to Northgate Auto in Sheboygan after we were done so he could make make his car payment. I said, "why?" and he responded, "there's an 03' Eclipse you gotta see!" I was sold, how could I the "DSMer" possibly say no to checking out an Eclipse, even if it was just a 3rd gen.
After running around for a while in Justin's fat ass Dodge Intrepid we finally got to Northgate and that's when I saw it, not the Eclipse, but a 95 Eagle Talon Tsi! About the only thing I could see wrong with the car was a really badly bent wheel up front, and 200k miles. Good news was I have another set of wheels here at home that I could put on the car if needed. I know most people are saying, "what!? 200k miles!!" I say, the car's stock 100% and as long as it was maintained properly then there should not be any problems with it. The car had a preserve the wildlife sticker on the front window so I'm figuring the owner was probably a total flamer that knew nothing about DSM's. Another plus side was that the car had no visible rust! Soon after looking at it I went in to get a price and came out disappointed because the car hasn't been safety inspected yet.
Later that day I went and took pics of the Talon to show my parents and of course my Mom goes an shoots it down right away. Even though it looks good she keeps saying I don't need another car. Regardless I'm going in there tomorrow to check out the car anyways because I want to see how much they will take for it. I think that with some big car knowledge talking I could get them for about 1500 or less. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens, but all I know is that definitely need another DSM!
After running around for a while in Justin's fat ass Dodge Intrepid we finally got to Northgate and that's when I saw it, not the Eclipse, but a 95 Eagle Talon Tsi! About the only thing I could see wrong with the car was a really badly bent wheel up front, and 200k miles. Good news was I have another set of wheels here at home that I could put on the car if needed. I know most people are saying, "what!? 200k miles!!" I say, the car's stock 100% and as long as it was maintained properly then there should not be any problems with it. The car had a preserve the wildlife sticker on the front window so I'm figuring the owner was probably a total flamer that knew nothing about DSM's. Another plus side was that the car had no visible rust! Soon after looking at it I went in to get a price and came out disappointed because the car hasn't been safety inspected yet.
Later that day I went and took pics of the Talon to show my parents and of course my Mom goes an shoots it down right away. Even though it looks good she keeps saying I don't need another car. Regardless I'm going in there tomorrow to check out the car anyways because I want to see how much they will take for it. I think that with some big car knowledge talking I could get them for about 1500 or less. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens, but all I know is that definitely need another DSM!
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