Saskatoon!

So I'm all moved to Saskatoon...Uhaul bent me over and you-know-what for a truck and trailer. The car was too low, so we had to take the bumper off so I could get it on. The drive to S'toon was great. Just me, the truck, and hours of metal and screamo, punk and hardcore keeping me at 120-130 the whole way. I stopped twice for fuel, and made it in six flat. Not a great time, considering I've made it in 4 and a half hours before, but not bad for a truck towing a car.

No pics, but I might borrow a cam to get some shots for y'all!

Slacker!

Welp, I'm pretty much the slacker king of this blog. I haven't post up in almost two months. I figure once I get to Toontown I'll get a camera and there'll be more stuff to post up. News:

-Aubrey and Colin (Colin and Aubrey) bought a duplex out in Carstairs
-Transformers ruled. If you haven't seen it, you are the suxors.
-Got a raise to Head Cashier. Next up, MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE!!!

Ummm, yeah. That's aboot it. All my stuff is in storage and I miss my bed tragically.

News!

Well, since I've become a total Facebook-aholic, I have been somewhat distracted from my due diligence to my blog. So here is an update for you Mom (since you're probably one of the few who actually reads this - tongue in cheek). It's official, Darren and Aaron Goddard and I will be living together this coming year in the apartment on 9th. I am indeed moving to Toontown, and I'm pretty stoked about it.

When my parents were here last weekend, my father and I spent some quality time chilling in the garage prepping my summer rims for paint. It was lots of fun, and I am really looking forward to working on other things with him in the coming years (let's do that 'vert up right). It was really great to throw ideas for the old '69 off of each other. I am looking forward to saving the cash up to get my car resprayed and cleaned up. I'm thinking of either an Audi Brilliant Red or going to my favourite Europe only colour in the VAG range - Oak Green. It's a Mk2 and Corrado colour and it is just stellar....so I'll have to mull that one over for a while. I already know what my dad will say though!

Washed and waxed the car - it looked great for about 12 hours, at which point it rained and then immediately heated up. This meant that pollen was released upon my poor, wet, unsuspecting Beast, leaving her forlorn and once again covered in pollen. You just can't win.

That's all for now!

I don't have photoshop, so you'll have to use your imagination. the rims on the jetta-
on my car tomorrow! Or soon....whichever one comes first!

Night Drives

Somewhere between 1&2 am.
Night time. The best time to drive.
The Air flows cool and crisp through your open window.
All lights seem green, the road is yours.

Nightdriving.
It's soothing, it's effortless.
It's for the joy of driving.
No rush.
No need to be anywhere at a certain time.

Just feeling the road, the car, and nature itself.

Give yourself time.
Indulge.
Let every moment linger.

The music floats along,
Mirroring the rhythm of the engine.
Never thumping, never overpowering.
Just softly underlining every passing tree, house, and hedge.
And transforming your simple journey into a beautiful memory.

Slowly tiredness sets in.
You turn,
Arriving before the sun,
Leaving your Volkswagen
Until another night,
A night perfect for driving.

-from the Night Drives website, but I edited a few things to make it flow a little better and to echo my feelings a bit better...

Yippee Ki-Yay!

Just finished doing a bit of maintenance on the GTI - for the past few months I had been unable to see what the temperature of my car was. I didn't really worry about this during the winter or spring, as neither were particularly warm. But now we're entering summer, time of overheating cars. As I don't want to replace my engine immediately, I kind of wanted to know how hot and bothered my engine is getting! So I delved into my engine bay with a vague idea of where my CTS was... a couple of misses later, I scored a direct hit! And discovered the problem in the process. You see, the CTS is a single nail head sender, meaning it has a clip that sends the info to my temp guage. But due to my car being over 20 years old, the wire connected to that clip had slowly degraded until it finally gave up the ghost and broke right at the clip! So I went down to my good friends at Napa and picked up some new single head female couplers, stripped down some of the old wire and clipped it back up! Took the Beast for a little spin and lo, and behold my guage works! Rock and Roll! Now to find my allen wrenches so I can take out my Idle Stabiliser Valve (ISV) and give it a good clean with the quick-evaporating electrical cleaner I picked up last night. Hopefully that will remedy the erratic idle I've had in stop and go traffic since it was in the shop last time!

Stealership!

So on Thursday I went to the VW dealership here to pick up an oil filter for my impending oil change this weekend - no biggie. While I was there, I thought I may as well pick up the Coolant Temp Sender (heretoforth referred to as the CTS) that I also need to know how hot my car is running! So I ask for that as well. He hands it to me - $67! Okay, whatever. I leave and get to thinking that I thought they were like 10 bucks elsewhere... So today I went online to see if I could find a better price. And I did. I found the CTS for $3.95 Canadian! I could buy five of them and still come out on top! This goes to show that you can't trust your friendly neighbourhood dealership because some things are dirt cheap, while others are just bending you over the block! That is an insane profit margin!