Engineers and programmers are the often-anonymous architects of society, and what you do now could make a huge difference to the lives of millions, even billions, of people in decades to come.
-Charlie Stross Shaping the Future
Saturday, April 17, 2004
today was a good day.
finally got good sleep last night. although i woke up at 7, i was able to fall asleep again and wake up at the right time of 12:00 noon. changed marie's oil and let her know that her accessory belts should be changed because they're starting to weather at the ends.
bought eliza new spark plugs from stillen. found out that an upgraded ECU will cost me $1359. f- that crap. came home and tested out the new plugs. found out that eliza's 0-60 is 5.63 (untuned). wasn't satisfied with the crappy mileage and high end performance so did some diagnostic tests on eliza. i was able to narrow down the problem to the EGR (which would explain eliza's poor gas mileage of 11 mpg... that's worse than a ferrarri!).
so i looked down at the EGR solenoid (which is hidden beneath many many parts in eliza's cramped engine bay. i trace all the vacuum lines and find the source of all my problems! one of the vacuum lines snapped and is not controlling the EGR at all! so that will hopefully double eliza's mileage to 22 mpg.
had happy hour at hooters today. ate a grip of buffalo wings, chicken quesadilla, and some fries. our waitresses were pretty hot... hotter than before. problem with the bill (as always with these shiesty guys) so i toss in an extra $5 amounting my grand total to $15. still problems so yeah... it was happy hour with $.35 wings. i ate 10+. you do the math.
pechanga... craps is again the best invention ever. i walk in with $40. in the first 10 minutes, a 7 and an 11 are rolled. bam! i'm up $20. 1 hour later and bam! i'm down to my last $2. an hour later, i pitch in with james for money on 8. bam! i get $12 bucks from that bet. put down $10 on the pass line and start playing. on a roll people! in the end. i have $90. from $2 to $90! holy shit is that insane?! so i'm up $50 total for the night. in the end some guy actually cards us. wtf! we were headed out anyways. fuck him. good times.
