wooo~ so it's custom. nice.

yah, those turnbuckles are pretty pricey but adds a nice touch.

placed my order to outmotoring for some shirts and wiper refills.
do the rear only come in the whole assembly arm? wasn't
expensive so ordered that but was hoping i couldve just gotten refills. oh well.

 

ML- any picts from the dawg meet?

 

been feeling kinda under the weather lately. it must be the swine flu per Japanese standards.

omg you got a runny nose?! you have the swine flu!!!

omg you got a zit on your nose?! you have swine flu!!!

omg you dont like eating raw sea urchins?! you have the swine!!!

 

OMG... you dust off your MINI every day ? You don't have OCDetailer's disease, you have Swine Flu !!

 

OMG!!!

 

went motoring my G on sun morning. caldusted and spot SpeedShined afterwards.

not much else went on as far as car stuff on sunday.

going to check if my MCS's foam air filter is dry tonight.

 

dang, JAL managed to suck a baggage container in their 747 engine at LAX.

sorry for the passengers but man that has got to be embarrassing.
i think they were concentrating too much on swine flu and not paying attention to where they were 'driving.'

 

so, thanks to Narita's paranoia my wife and kids have decided to
postpone their trip to japan. they were suppose to fly tomorrow.
one reason why im so f-king pissed at Japan right now. my wife was
looking forward to this trip for the last year. my kids have some sniffles
and for sure the paranoid officials will stop them from entering Japan...
forcing them into a quarentine hotel for 10 frikken days.
that's a $400 schedule change fee too.

im sad for them, im sad for my parents that were looking forward to
seeing my kids, sad for my nieces and nephew they cant see their
cousins. and sad that i can't have some quiet time.

 

http://chicagominiclub.com/2009/04/05/superdawg-0508/

 

Damn, ken... bummer !!

Not surprised though... Japan, as a whole, is always overly-cautious when it comes to airborne illnesses. My son has a summer cold now... guess I should quarantine him for 10 days, too.

Could you not re-schedule for a month from now or sometime when you could be confident the sniffles would be gone ?

 

ahh, cool. thanks for the link. looks like a lot of cars showed up. meet anyone you know from NAM?



yah, the problem is from all the readings and hearsay,
japan is using birdflu protocols (60% death rate) for
swineflu... while we in Chicagoland (known to Japan as
ground zero DEATH ZONE in the US due to 4-5
japanese students getting a light dosage of swine )

officials are super sensitive. you show a mild sign of
even a common cold, they will stop you, tie you up and
hang you up-side-down for 10 days with no water and
meals to see if you snort.



the problem with re-schedules is that, as you know since
you are a parent, kids get sick all the time. there's no
such thing as a planned no-sick week. and she's
flying on milage myself and her dad accumulated so
not so easy to rebook on the days most convenient.

until Japan gets off its ignorance box, i think it will be
pretty pita to go into Japan by air. so i told her to go by
boat. (very long nice quiet vacation
for dad)

 

Just don't do this, and things should be fine



Mark

 

^^ hahaha that's too cute.

i had some tonkatsu last night. i must have swine in my blood. delicious too.

 

hey, ML, scratch me off the June meet. i will not be attending. Way is too slow to respond to any of my questions so forget it. i dont deal with slow vendors.

man, im having second thoughts of not doing the Randy tune last summer.

 

went to walmart to pickup 2 jugs of M1 one for the front engine and one for the other front engine.

hey my outmotoring stuff arrived. these new tshirts are cool.

 

Nice shirt! I need to find a design I like!

Yeah I met some people I knew from NAM. And saw some people I knew from the Milwaukee club too. It was fun! And the dawgs were awesome

 

thanks, ML. yah, the color of the shirt itself is cool too and high quality.

good to hear you met some of the folks from NAM.
honestly i dont know too many people these days...
i went to a few meets when i first got the car which
was like 6yrs ago. i think i still have the most
modded car award thingie CMM gave me. was a nice
gesture.

 

Just have to pack up Gimli, then in a couple of hours we're heading for the hills, Black Hills that is

Mark

 

hey have fun over the hill. blahahaha!


i got my new wiper inserts installed and the rear wiper arm installed as well. so, im goood for another 6yrs.

was hoping to oil the foam intake filter this am and
mount it back on the car, but it's raining outside. and
too stinky with new mulch. i didnt feel
like rolling next to cow crapola while doing the FitS's
oil change.

 

good news is that it stormed hard last night (so i heard
from the wife ) and the mulch dust and smell has
settled down a little bit. i was in my music room with
my headphones on so couldn't hear a thing.

i was noted by our village newsletter that there are
several communities doing garage sales this weekend
and our area is also invited. which means i
wont be able to work on my cars cause i dont want some
werdo from across town coming up into my garage by
accident. jk

so, im thinking about doing a sidewalk sale for my old
junk i have stored away. maybe someone will take
the stock MCS catback? i'll just tell em'
'yes, it's universal design. fits any car even your....'

 

*take* when do you want me to come pick it up?

 

yah, let me know motoron. that thing's been sitting
in the basement for the longest time.

so i oiled the intake filter yesterday and installed it back.
hope i can get the oil changed either Mon/Tues of
next week since i got this 4 day weekend coming up.
have to do 3 cars...

 

so let me get this straight... Griot's is now going back to paffarin treated dusters? i know they have their MF dusters in their garage sale to be discontinued...

here's their new one...

 

Those guys at Griot's... you never know what they're going to do next.

On the other hand, Must Be Spring, Busy Around Here.

Put down 4 cubic yards of mulch today. What a dirty, sweaty job. But boy, do the planting beds every look nice now.

A ton of stone to put down on my front yard bed but that'll have to wait a week or so. The back is barking at me.

Besides, going to a ML baseball game tomorrow and Sunday is a MINI run and lunch with one of the local clubs. Busy, busy, busy !!

 

CR&PW&JB- dang, that's a lot of mulch. you forgot dirty, sweaty, AND STINKY job.

our landscapers did ours earlier this week and man it stunk real bad. as mentioned in the earlier post it rained so the stink and dust is somewhat undercontrol now.

hey, sounds like you got a fun & busy weekend coming up!