The Mule Stable

Electric Daisy Carnival Part 3

2011-07-07T10:33:00.000-07:00

This is it the final night, the grand finally, if anything was going to go down tonight was the night. And Insomniac did just that and pulled out all the stops, fire works, pyro, Dj's, and the bass. They didn't save it they blew the shit up, literally. I was back on the Circuit Grounds for the night and........
Well I'm gonna shut up and just get to the coverage.
As again the crowd pictures are time lined threw the night
and I'll just say something at the end.

Moguai - pure awesomeness mixing with two Ipads. So sick

Fiora showed up and sang her single Oxygen

Tritonal - Trance on steroids. Dudes had so much energy

John O'Callaghan

Ferry Corsten

ATB

Nigel Ficke

Markus Schulz

Dash Berlin

Showtek- The best set of EDC. Hands down!

Well that would be it. thats my coverage of EDC
All in all I can't beleive how awesome it was. So happy that I wasn't in the desert this year and I could be apart of it. I still need to be on the other side of the fence one time. who knows maybe next year or later this year. Showteck was the perfect ending for this event they murdered those kids mind in the dust and everything. I mean the decks were completely covered with dust.. All three risers. All in all I can't find a single negative about the whole expereice and even if you don't like house music. The experience itself is completely worth the look. Just the things that you see is worth it. But if you love house music.
Wow!
The Dj's bring there A game. Their exclusives, their favoriates, their classic bangers. I mean the line ups alone that get put out there for the price that you pay is completely worth it.

And lastly most all let me thank Auggie and JessFunk of Sound Factory Systems again.
Had an amazing time and I owe to you guys.

Electric Daisy Carnival Part 2

2011-07-06T09:45:00.000-07:00

Well here you go this is batch two of the pictures AKA night two..
What a smashing out of control night. I didn't really get to whip out the camera as much as I wanted to because the stage was just so damn full with people all the time that I had to keep on checking the equipment. Call me paranoid but when shit ain't yours you don't want anyone next to it.
I missed pictures of Feed Me. who honestly was a big let down in my eyes with his set. Played very very lengthy breaks and just lost the crowd. It was almost like he was overwhelmed by the whole thing and just lost focus behind the tables. Don't get me wrong he is a great producer, I can't deny his hard style of scythed out bass of half dub half elctro feel. But I dono when it comes to djing a set he was just missing some sort of element to it.
Another person that I just didn't have the means to get my camera to was Skrllex. I know I'm spelling that wrong back the fuck off because I honestly don't care. Sure the boy can bang on his key board and make some dubstep shit. Personally after hearing it live. Not for me! But the stage was so packed and the crowd ws so nuts I wish I could but really at that point I was hawking the equipment like no joke. People were just rushing the stage trying to become a face in the movie.. Oh yes they probably forgot to mention that EDC is doing a movie in theaters August 4th. Anyways. I remember there was a kid in the front row who hopped that shit and got thrown out.. Though I thought Next thing I know the kid is next to me. WTF

Anyways enough of me rambling on about the night
I finally cleaned the pair of shoes I worse that night and I'm upset that I missed taking a picture with JackBeats and MSTRKRFT. Dammit

Alright I'll shut up..
Here's the pic's and again crowd is time lapsed

Zedd

Porter Robinson

Bart B More

Half of the LA Riots

JackBeats! They tore the roof off the place so happy to finally see them live!

MSTRKRFT doing there thing like always. They totally deserved a better time slot!

Electric Daisy Carnival Part 1

2011-07-03T21:31:00.000-07:00

Well finally I'm writing about this.
While it has been a week since this event pop off as a huge sucess here in Vegas. There is still tons of content hitting the internet from pictures to video. To just people thoughts and articles good and bad alike. EDC exploded and took over Las Vegas last week and I can't thank Auggie and JessFunk of Sound Factory Systems for letting me tag along and work for them that weekend. It was great to see all the guys again, only thing that would have made it better was if we were sessionin ourselves. Haha.
But here you go. Some night one treats. Out of the 450+ photos that I took I threw a shit ton out. Either the lights got ahold of them and were to bright or dark. Or I didn't focus up right as most of the time I was shooting in a manual focus state. Other times I just didn't want to take pictures or there were to many people on stage. Or I was off in the corner just dancing to my own groove..

But on to the pictures and me shuttin up....

One of the many setups put together!

Circuit Grounds before the storm

Wippenberg

Half of Crystal Method!

Christopher Lawrence

Nigel Ficke ( I died laughing everytime this dude hit the stage. And man was his supporting class hot!)

Roger Sanchez

Cosmic Gate

Calvin Harris

Steve Aoki

Steve Aoki & Diplo plankin like a Boss!

Autoerotique

The crowd shots are basically a time lapse of the night as you can see the crowd really growing and diminishing there at the end. Some of the shots though really can't even translate the mass amounts of people there at certain points. And yes that is the sun coming up there at the end. What a night one, with all those huge names gracing the stage and personally hearing some again and some for the first time, just an amazing eargasm. Even though I had been up for some umting fuckin hours as I went to my real job during that day as well. It was some good rest that I got in the middle day on that Saturday. Tomorrow I should have night 2's ready. Not as many but more of a story to tell on that one.

Oh yeah and the top photo.. Self explanatory, that would be the gang.
EDC 2011 LV Dj Tech's.
Show did not go down with us puttin in work behind the scenes.

Weekend Trip to Nor Cal

2011-05-27T12:51:00.000-07:00

Well honestly I can say that this will probably either be a four or three part series depending on how much that I break everything up. That and I believe that some of these things just are important enough that they deserve there own lime light. With so many emotions and going threw my mind at the moment I’m just going to put down as much as I can in this power hour I would consider this flight back to Vegas.

First off I really need to get better at carrying around my camera when I go on these things and just snapping pictures. But I guess I really don’t do it because I want them to be all professional and shit. But honestly it doesn’t even matter because no one really reads this. Like an open journal and shit. Funny thing is I took a look at my hit counter and I think March was my biggest hit month, which was like 15. LOL. Anyways lets get into this Weekend

Well it started on Thursday evening actually. Flew down into Long Beach and was greeted by my little little brother Kevin. We then headed back towards the house but needed to make a stop at Mens Wharehouse first to pick up his tux for prom.
(pic of Prom Night)

Other then that I called it an early night as to finally hoping to sleep, which I’m doing horrible at doing as of late. Also to get ready to drive up to Nor Cal on Friday with the mother unit as well. But we weren’t leaving till about noonish so that gave me the morning to run some errands that I needed to do in the local area. Well lets just be honest here, when you don’t have a car. You don’t get around I finally got my little brother up at like 11:30ish and then we headed down to G-spot to take a look at the coche. Here I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

But we did do a couple things we finalized the color as well as all the work left to be done. So I’m super happy about all of that and I can’t wait. Two weeks and then she should be out. So well see, then time to hide her till I get new wheels as well.

And then it was off to Nor Cal with ma.

We hit some traffic along the way and it wouldn't have been a trip with my mom anywere without some Geocaching a little along the way. We finally got in around 9:30, and got some dinner with Nick and Missy before calling it night. Seeing how everyone knew Saturday was going to be a big day for sure.
Well it was the big day for the family and espeically Nick seeing how he as graduationg from Sac State. But of corse like any good fashion everyone was running late with getting the cake and blah blah blah. Funny thing is that Nick and i were just chillin at his house playing video games.. Until mom called and started screaming that we hadn't left yet. But we waited for Ben to arive and then we took off with him and Rachel. I would say more about the ceremony and what not but there was this family behind me with an anoying ass child. I wanted to say something but you know them there cultural difference or boundaries, so I said nothing but.. I did snap a couple pictures.

After that we went to go eat as a giant bunch. Haven't had a family dinner or whatever you want to call it like that in a very long time. Thank god we got there when we did, because we basically took the place over. I mean we started with our indoor voices but after a while we just got louder and louder. It was good to finally hear some other stories about my father as well at that table. But really it was a celebration for my brother and celebrate we did. Because after dinner the youngsers of the group took off and went to the club. First off thanks Rachel for being the DD, but damn I had a blast, and need to do that that more often with my brother.

Sunday was more a relaxed day as we went to SF and walked around for a bit.
Good day ate some crab and bread. Geocahed a little and saw the strangest shit ever in a park. Had to be this weird play on evolution in the park. I mean I'm actually speechless about how to explain it. I mean they were on stilts and just all over the place, I mean the music was like someone just banging on the keyboard and other random instruments.
Overall it was a really good weekend highlighted by a great accomplishment by my brother.

About time I press enter

Juan Lemus. a years thought

2011-05-23T20:32:00.000-07:00

Before going any further I would like you to just a take 10 seconds and think about a year. What a year means. 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours..
Now think about how fast it takes to stop it…
One year ago I lost a part of my extended family. Someone, that don’t get me wrong, we didn’t hang out all that much. But we did bullshit and talk online everyday at least. I turned to for advice and inspiration in a portion of my life that I hold close to my heart because what it means to me.
Juan you will be missed but we celebrate your life by us growing upon our paths till the day we rejoin to drive again.

Rev Run Wisom
“Promise me u'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, & stronger than you seem, & smarter than you think.

Congratulations Nick!

2011-05-21T20:24:00.000-07:00

Lets talk about he most important issue to me and that would be my little big brothers graduation from Sacramento State University with a Bachelor in Business Marketing. Of course I’m upset that he beat me but I couldn’t be ay more proud of the guy. He has to be the biggest person that I miss in my life living in Las Vegas as he now finishes up living in that Nor Cal area…. Maybe. But you never know were your going to go from here. I mean you closed one chapter f you life and now you opened up a whole new exciting book in your life. You get to finally go out there and throw your ideas at the world and see what you can create. You have always been very gifted with placement of words and ideas. Especially the way that something should look and should be put in its place.

I would have remembered a couple of quotes from your graduation but there was a fucking Quickie Mart behind me and I couldn’t hear shit past there fucking chatter and annoying ass kid. I do know for a fact though that I haven’t seen moms eye glow with emotion like that in a very long time and I’m so happy that you gave her back this gift. While you won’t look at it like that she couldn’t stop saying how proud of you she was. And I think that is a shared feeling across the board in this family.

Lastly Nick I’m going to end this I held you the day you were born. Of course with a little supervision because you were already a big person and I was only three. And I have had the privilege of being with you for most of your life. But over these last three years as you got be get out of So Cal and off on your own. You have grown. Not necessary any taller then the six foot four that you already are. But as a person, your maturity and your creativity with ideas has only become more enlightening and entertaining. I’m very upset with myself for not visiting you more and making a true effect to come up there and hang out with you. I love you and always will. I’m so proud of you.
Love you and Congrats!

Some Old, Some New, But Living Changes Daily

2011-04-24T03:30:00.000-07:00

Finally

Well Finally I'm going to sit down and do this again..
Get back into the swing of things and get in touch with how I'm doing as a person and maybe some one will learn something along the way. So lets break some things down since the last time that I wrote something about nothing. AKA the last time that I went back to Cali.. So I'll try and beak it down as what has happened in the last month.

- I bought a Cherokee
- My car is still in the shop
- Work is still workin and I've been working
- I'm playing soccer again
- I got a couple of new shoes
- Lastly I think would be that fact that I got back to writing in my best place. What I call the porcelain throne.

But really I just haven't taken the time to sit down and reflect as to what is goin on in my life and were I am. Funny how I started working on this the day the Jesus was resurrected.. What a great day to make a come back. So I guess I'll break down the quick notes of everything I just listed on top.

The Cherokee, well as you all know I went down on my "daily" ride in January and have been relying on the sol to take on both duties for a while now. Longer then I wanted, I was in the market for a truck. But that just kept falling threw, either I didn't like what I saw or it was just not the piece for me. Anyways I was perusing the net like I always do and came upon a '92 Cherokee. Well its easier to just this..
Say Hello Ruby

This would Ruby the GhettoBlaster.
Haha. And I know your all going in your minds. I wonder what he is going to do with this?
Well yes those of you that are wondering if she will stay stock. NOPE!
It's going to take time of course, and she comes second to the sol. But she will have things done to her overtime.

Speaking of the sol.
Engine is out and bay is being shaved. For those that don't understand, its one of them there things better understood with pictures. Those will not be released until the 15 of May. Then there will be flood of them. Well hopefully it turns enough heads to be a flood of them.

But I guess lastly really I haven't sat down, read a bit, listened to my sermons (Beauty and the Beast Podcast), and just taken a look as to what the fuck am I doing. And while I don't owe it to anyone to write anything or do anything, I feel bad when i don't put together a piece or say my morning "Hello's" to the Sol owners and FB kiddo's. Lets just say it was a month of ups and downs very neutral when I break it all down. I should have done in some categories like always. Taking that extra step to wish people good fortune on there days of birth and other special moments. But really I'm kickin myself because I know I can do more but I'm just being a total lazy ass and just not pulling the trigger with things that I want and need to do.
But enough of my fuckin pitty party.
I'm looking forward to this month to come and I hope that I have alot to share. Good things are coming up in my family, and I should be taking my first vacation in what 2 years.. God damn! So all I can really say is that I hope change is around the corner

Of corse i can't leave you with some weekly shit though

Video's:
Epic Meal Time
Baby Say Fish?
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's 'Star Wars'

Music:
I'm still stuck on Dr. Dre's - I need a Dr.
Secondly Lupe Fiasco's - The Show Must Go On
and like always
iClub Mashed and EDM. If you still havn't checked them out. Seriously you need to

Reading
Joey Diaz's blog

Oh yeah the Shoes as I said..
No I did not buy them all in the last month I had some pairs on the way, but I realized I hadn't posted pictures of them I got them.. So I decided to finally share..

And if you ever wondered if I ever wore them..

Till next time

Maiden Voyage home..

2011-03-30T09:01:00.001-07:00

Well I think its time that I finally say something on a two week hiatus from saying a word and expressing a view or feeling.
Honestly the last couple of weeks there was no way in the right mind to say anything. My mind was running in circles about everything and just worrying about things that didn't even deal with me. It felt like I was a bipolar mess. One moment smiling and laughing to the next just filled with absolute hate and fear. Not a good feeling and honestly I would hate to be that way full time. But some things have happened, good and bad, that I just need to put down for my own timeline. So lets get into it...

This weekend I finally got a chance to go home since Christmas and honestly I really needed it. First off sorry to the people that I didn't see or get a chance while it was planned to come home that weekend, there was unexpected change to how long I was going to be able to stay. But those that I did get to see it just proves how much I miss home and the family unit of people that I have thankfully created over the years of life. One thing I'm proud of now as I get older is my mothers and mine's relationship and the corners that it is turning and just that its getting stronger as I mature and grow up. And theres nothing like going for an odd ball walk to find some geocaches on a random hill. But honestly that's when we have our best talks. So that's always a good time.

The main reason I went down there was it was time for the sol to have a make over. Yes I know that she was painted only a couple of years ago, but within that time she has been stolen twice and is on her second engine. While I'm so happy that she is running right and running good, I really want her to look her best and for once be mad at myself for putting a dent or scratch in her. Not some rapist thief. So these two photos are the last two I'm going to be releasing for a good while, well more like May 16th when Eibach rolls around, if she is done ofcorse.

Sean(Miata) you'll be happy that lip is finally going to make it on the car. What was it almost 3 or 4 years ago I bought that off of you.

The orange marks in this are the things leaving or being filled. Honestly in person it looked like something out of Nip/Tuck, the precision and the attention to detail that this is going to represent.
And yes even after this is done I do plan on taking this out to the track!

Lastly I'm going to say this. Never in a millions year did I think that this

Would be a place that my little brother Kevin would want to go eat at. The little kid that was nothing but burgers and fries is actually starting to gain testbeds and enjoy them

Oh and were else you gonna get this besides LA... In the club.. haha

Hopefully everyone has a good rest of the week and what not..
I need to get back on that horse more and write more.. but yeah final thought

Lessons Learned

2011-03-04T07:34:00.000-08:00

Finally back to white!

Well I know I'm a day late on even starting this but there was no way I was going to finish or being this thing intoxicated and after being up for ever volunteering at NASCAR and then watching the race

But lets break this week down and give some thoughts about it.

This week really felt like a weight had been lifted off of me the fear of the unknown was finally answered in the ways of work. While it's always a negative to get in trouble but at least now ii can learn and grow from my wrongs. And i mean hat has to be half of the battle learning from your mistakes. I would think that if you didn't take the time to think about what you have done and how your going to improve and move forward, your not growing and your not even caring about what you did or especially were you going to go from that. But it is one thing to tlak and think about it and finally act. So I guess well see how this goes and what actions I can create as I move on.

Other then that I really didn't take any time to refelect this week. Which is kinda upsetting if you think about it. I'm sure that there was something that reached me but I didn't bother to take the time to understand it. I finish Beneath the Neon and have been slacking on finishing up that post as well. Funny imediatly after finishing it I went out and picked up another book by Mathew O'Brein, My Week at the Blue Angel.

Hopefully I can keep on finding books that I enjoy to read and actually learn some things from the written verbiage. Other then that nothing really happend during the work week. I mean you get to the point were it slowly becomes the same thing day after day. sure your doing different things within the job and the days aren't completly the same but the mothions that you go threw are close to it. I really need to take a wek off and go home just to break it up and get some othe things rolling as well. And I know I have been promising people that it will be soon. So I'm hoping to hold myself to that and make sure that I make it down there this month. I looked at my leave and man I really don't take time off of work.
But the weekend.
Lets just say it was noice to finally see people, especially people who are harder then shit to get ahold of, get out of my room, and actually do something. I think the only thing that could have made it better was Tony Stewart actually winning and not coming in second. But I need to try and have more weekends like them, especially Friday night!

Just to show off were I sat on Sunday.

Till next week! This is my last week I'm giving myself to be injured.
Some weekly items that I used to get threw

Read - A wonderful Craigslist add... Dog Food?

Music - I finally got back into Pandora.com and listening to my stations. But something for the masses is get ready.. Lupe Fiasco's ablum is dropping on the 8th. I have heard a couple of the track and there on repeat when I'm not on pandora

Netflix this week has mostly been focused around Robin Hood. I threw the link up last week to it's IMDB.com profile so I would hunt back there for that one. But I continued the theme actually further this week:
The old classic.. Robin Hood Men in Tights

Youtube again didn't seem to fail this week, while some of these things were on the news, and I don't know why, but here we go
Cat's with Thumbs!
I mean what would this week without a Charlie Sheen refrence Winning!
This is when you know something is wrong with you Dubsteppers! DogStep?
and lastly something that shows drinking can be productive
Flight of the Bumblebee on 101 Bottles!

Well see what this week turns up, and how I even get around.
One Love.

Beneath the Neon

2011-03-04T06:22:00.000-08:00

First off it's even interesting that I'm writing something about a book. Anyone who knows me knows I really don't read all that much unless there are pictures or it's about something that I already know as a shape or look. So in completing this hopefully there is some growth that comes with it.
Anyways

Beneath the Neon.
I bought this book originally trying to find the one tunnel in this town that I had heard about were all the graffiti artist go. Boy was I in for another trip by the time that I was even done with chapter one. I was completely drawn in by the what even layed right next to the Vegas welcome sign. Only living Las Vegas for the little time I vaguely even know about the storm drain entrances by the ones that I see when I drive on the freeway and streets. Never would I have thought that one there were storm drains that ran directly under the strip, and that so many people took refuge down there. Not just for a night or two, but were talking years and years. But this book wasn't about a awareness, like look there is a population down here, there was an understanding a want to know why, a story. The people depicted and spoken to to do this book were of such a wide variety with different stories to go right along with each person the author interviewed. From Vets to just your average junky they all had a fascinating tale to tell.

For those of you that are quick reader this book with fly by. I mean most of the writing is conversational pieces and short descriptions about camps, walls, and general surroundings. But these conversations are make the story. I mean who would ever come to think that a Las Vegas Chef (yes a Chef) lived down under the strip. Of course, it was never disclosed were he worked but just think of that one. A trucker who's wife threw him out of the truck and just took off. A husband and wife who lost everything and just ended up on the street. Run away teenagers... I think the most interesting interview came when he visited Phllip, a man would lived in his deemed Valley View drain, and ran into Tyrone and his mother, Gwen. Yes that is right his mother came to visit him from Atlanta. I'm not going to disclose how she found him and what not, but the unconditional love that this mother showed for her son. Of course the shamefulness of the the son having his mother come and visit him and having to have her stay in a hotel and not his place of residence, seeing how he doesn't have a physical address or a front door. More of a gypsy type camp that has nothing but the bare amenities. All in all just a well written piece, and to think it falls under a travel guide. I wanna see you go down there..

Lastly a poem found on a wall

"There never was a child
In your head
Never born, Never dead
Maybe when I'm done
I'll mourn
Now I'll come with fire and scorn
With lust for life
Under hood and horn
Black-Flamed
Lament and forlorn
Breathe in life
I gasp river reed
Logos manifest
I am, I said
There was never a child
In your head
Self-Born, Self-Dead
Believe what you read
One-Third will all be bled."

Adjusting within the Slump

2011-02-27T21:34:00.000-08:00

Well another week has gone by and as I lay here ready to to go bed and begin a new week I have a slightly more positive look on things at the moment.
This last week was rough on the mind and that is for sure. My mind has really been taking a toll over these weeks that I have been on the disabled list. Not seeing or even speaking to friends and family is the biggest factor amongst this. I mean sure staying in some nights and watching TV and Netflix is alright and good for the soul. Especially with someone like me who loves to have there personal space and time ( Funny thing is every time that I talk about personal space I remember what Street told me in the desert. How I love my personal space so much but how could I go to a club and do nothing but love to be surrounded by people literally on top of me. I never had a good awnser, but it's just a weird switch or something that gets flipped). But at this point in my healing I must say it's not healthy how much I'm avoiding people. I don't take my best friends calls, I'm not answering peoples texts that I know care about me. It's like I'm doing everything possible to make myself feel alone in my room. While this week really didn't have a traumatic day were I just wanted to run and hide. I think the repetition of being back at work is starting to set in and noticing still how much free time and being frustrated with were I am at the moment. It really just gets to me.
I'm tired of living were I work. I mean shit I walk to work. Yeah great I save money, but fuck I would rather waste that fuckin money on gas and have a story in the morning or evening some days I see something different. Isn't that the point of life is seeing new things. The only thing I see different at the moment is the ThunderChickens is taking off in a different formation. It just sucks that you deploy and come back and your back were you were. No growth in some areas. But enough of that rant, I could go for days on that one.
and enough of these downward thoughts.

Were just gonna skip to Saturday.
Sean came to town. And man did I need to see a friendly face. Oh and if your wondering and can't put two and two together Sean is on the right. And if your using your deductive reasoning. Yes that is his car on the right.
Anyways.
Great night, got some pictures of our dirty as fuck beauty's
Went to a baggin punk bar. Oh yeah, visitors be warned you will be trying the ass juice when you come to town.
Decent punk bands playing, Mosh pits (Now that is a sight)
But that best part was it was something to break me out of my slump of really feeling alone out here.
Thank you Sean, see yah in a couple months

Weekly insight

For a weekly read right now
If you in the car community and don't know about this ouch! But for the rest of yah's.
There was car gathering in Northern Cali this past weekend. What started off as a Honda meet has branched off into the premiere Nor Cal meet of the year bringing people out from across the nation. Anyways as for the read I'm putting Joey (writer, photographer, and other things) on blast on this one. His blog THE CHRONICLES and his coverage..

Oh and I know I promised the write up for Beneath the Neon and that will be coming this week as I'm down to the last little piece of the book! So expect that around Wednesday, Thursday....

My suggestion this week for Netflix
Robin Hood - Another BBC thing that I stumbled upon. Not the greatest but I always loved that story and they did a pretty good job with it. Currently in Season 2 of 3 available on Netflix. IMBD link
and my #1
Exit Through the Gift Shop - If you like graffiti art, or art period you need to check this out. Totally worth the watch. Weird and beautiful at the same time. A documentary about Banksy well in sorts... Ends up more about the narrator and his quest. Must watch for sure IMBD link

And my Youtube
If you haven't subscribed to Epic Meal Time yet well you just missing out on great weekly content..
Other then that it was a real weak week for my finds on youtube. So I'm just gonna leave you with one.. That I love and is driving me to get another one.
4TheRiders
What just because you think I fall once that I'm not gonna get back up and back on..

Finally I'm gonna leave you with some shots of Seans and myselfs car.
Photos done by a new friend Marcos Ricon (schooled me on my own camera)

I know there weren't any shoes in this weeks addition and even I'm sad about that one..
But there should be a pair next week.
Anyways
Hopefully I'll have some more controlled thoughts about what to write about. I need to start thinking of a subject for the week.
Hope yall have a good week!

Back to Work I go!

2011-02-21T08:15:00.000-08:00

Well finally it felt like my life was moving again.
While it was a week of truly ups and downs. The motion of actually living was amongst me again. Just getting up and doing something for 8 hours A.K.A. work was just something to break up the nothingness in my day. While I still can't run and move how I want to be able to move. Just moving in itself, the small things that we take for grant it. Not going to lie though this week has had it's ups and down from Mondays massacre with the higher up in the squadron till just a relaxing weekend doin not a damn thing but watching Jersey shore and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
But while I don't want to focus on the bad parts like Monday or work. Lets just say that the next couple of months I'm going to be walking on egg shells in that area of my life. Just staying out of trouble, that would be the biggest focus I guess. But it would also be nice to just build back up my reputation as a good worker and person. But enough focusing on that one.....

Tuesday was sick .
Not work. After work. And no not Valentines Day part (Man I havn't had a Valentine in forever, but thats another subject)
Dunk Exchange
at the Hard Rock Cafe on the strip.

First time being in that building and I must say. Very noice I'm gonna have to look into more things that happen there. Three stories: a shop, a restaurant, and a bar with concert stage
I think the Lords of the Underground said it the best..
"Could it be the skunk weed that...Now hold it let me choose, couldn't be the booze ...No it's the shoes (the shoes?) It's gotta be the shoes!"

Oh and Murs put it down!
Nothing like looking at super pricey shoes while sippin on a beer and listening to Murs. I will go to that again but I know to stack myself with more cash for that night. Didn't really take that many pictures, I was really taken back the whole thing.. Oh Yeah, and Also.. I went alone like always! Fakin Lovely!

Sadly that was the only excitement I really had all week. After that I mean I really did do nothing much but watch the things previously stated. Work got better as the days went on. Oh and on Wednesday I found out that I fractured my right foot amongst all this fuckin mess. And your all probably wondering how the fuck I didn't notice something like that. But seriously when you have that much attention on the other leg I didn't feel or realize that pain
Anyways on to weekly things...

This week I really didn't explore as much because I didn't get that bored in the evening

A good read came from Joey Diaz as he finally switched over to a blogger format instead of using that thing we all used to love myspace. I know I have talked about hte podcast with him before. But it was a good 5 min read.
FUCKING PICTURE ALBUMS!!

I still am working on Beneath the Neon. Should be done this week.. And then I have something else to pick up after..

Of corse my netflix for the week were: Jersey Shore and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
I really need to get cable or something.
I didn't get my ass to a TV yesterday for the sporting events that I should have watched. but I'm happy that Tony Stewart at least finished the Daytona 500 this year. While not in the top 10, he fuckin finished. And then of corse there was the All Star game. The Lake Show and Mamba put it down helping the West win that one

Kinda says it all..

Oh yeah sprinkled amongst the blog were three pictures of the shoes I picked up at the Nike factory outlet the other day.

Oh and yes ma.. I have two other pairs in the mail!
Haha

Saying More...

2011-02-13T20:00:00.001-08:00

Alright lets try this again.
I wrote something and I just hatted were it was going sounded like a pitty party something all drawn up in my head.
The last two weeks I've spent thinking. Thinking about the future and were I'm going right now in this military 4 year ship, will I continue, will I leave. The past were I have come and I how I ended up having to take this two weeks off of work. Just millions of ideas per day, the millions of thoughts. Not to sound like I'm all down, which I'm not completely down, but I wouldn't say I'm up though. Clearly this year has gotten off to some kind of start. I don't really fancy all of it but I guess, shit really I don't fancy alot of it at all. There have been a couple small amount of things sprinkled in the mix to make it okay. Definitely not the best start I ever had, definitely in a long time

Anyways...
Current status as I sit here with a hole in my leg about 1CM in size, with tracks that go up and down my leg. Can't run, not that amazing with a clutch, and long periods of time on my feet hurt. Lovely. You sit in your room all day just watching Netflix and playing on the internet. Not trying to glamorize that shit at all but man seriously after you are used to getting up everyday to go to work that shit starts to get on you that your doing nothing. What really gets to me is that I'm not moving, that I really am in a room just letting the days pass me by right now. Not seizing shit! But since right now I can't run and I dono when I'm gonna be able to do that again I don't know were I stand on the LA Marathon. I won't say that I'm out yet. Just because I honestly don't want to admit it to myself quiet yet that it's a big possibility that I'm not gonna be healthy by then. Just annoying especially being an athlete of sorts my whole life.

I would be lieing if I didn't say that my mind was a wreck right now.
I mean I haven't made a post about my car and I have had my new steering wheel in for a week now.. Here is a preview.

Funny I pretty much waited for this wheel for a month and I still have yet to take pictures. Especially when this completes my interior. Well I mean I still need to add a little something and thinking of changing shift knobs to fit in better but I'll probably start a poll or something for them type of things. And I'll save that for a IheartMYSOL edition
And yes I will be rocking that plate at Eibach!

Funny part was I was all hyped after my walk today to write this and now that I'm sitting down to finally do it. One I'm blanking about everything that I thought about and two I'm just dreading tomorrow to death..
I guess I'm just gonna end this with some highlights that I think people should look at, read, or listen. That got me this week.

1. Podcasts is Beauty and Da Beast Podcast.
Always makes me think and laugh at the same time. It's like comedic therapy honestly. Everyone enjoys to laugh but when you can laugh and then take a message away from the stroies they tell. Well that just a whole bunch a win.

2. Netflix.
Must watches for the week for me would be Skins the real British edition, The 1983 cult classic Bad Boys staring Sean Penn, and lastly I'm just going to join the crowd with Jersey Shore Season 1

3. Reading. Yes that is actually right..
I'm reading a book right now. Beneath the Neon by Matthew O'Brien (his personal blog
About his exploration of the underground culture living in the sub 500miles of underground storm drain system we have here in Las Vegas. I'm kind of suprising myself with how I'm moving threw this book. I guess I'll do a write up when I'm finished and hopefully I find what I'm looking for in this book.
It is also what inspired the shots that I have peppered into this blog this week.

4. Youtube.
A. Epic Meal Time - Taco Night
B.Family Fued - Name something that gets passed around - and you can just keep going on that channel.
C.The British Snookie
D. Lastly is a fellow sol owner TatooRow throwing his channel out there. Good work, get on him to keep his New Year's resolution to VideoBlog more!

On that note I really don't know what to say. I'm looking forward to this next week, not to Monday and getting in trouble or Valentines day, but who knows I may have something better to write about because I'll get out and do something.

Latest pick up

It's gotta be the shoes!
If anyone has or knows about anyone selling 09 Neff X Pony Signature series shoes get at me. 10.5 - 12

Say Something

2011-01-19T20:15:00.000-08:00

Well I haven't said much in this year of thoughts and I think I have been keeping alot to myself in the fact that I really haven't spoken to anyone even my close friends just about the little things that are going threw my mind as of late. I guess first off I'm gonna start with the really sad one to me.
Losing my bike. For those of you that don't know, because I really didn't put it out there that much because I am ashamed of losing her so fast and what not. Is that I went down about a week ago now. It was a sweeping corner and when you look at it all in all I entered way to fast didn't have enough room to correct, even with a good lean, the road condition had changed from the last time I took it and well. I'm alright still banged up with scrapes and bruises but she is gone. She feel off the over pass hit two trees, a rock, and then came to her final resting place in rocks and other debris. I've learned a lot threw the fact of dealing with insurance and the amount of insurance you really should have compared to what the state tells you to own. I'm mean I'm not gonna lie I'm upset I enjoyed the hell out of her. I also learned alot. Really every experienced rider say leave hard riding for the track, because you never know what changes on the street. And that I just need to save up for another one and insure it the correct way. I mean there are more things that I learned about this incident but really those that ride respect it.
This is the first time that I really lost something this big in this form.. I mean my mom fought so hard every time my car was stolen to get back. It's hard to really let go of something like this for the first time. I mean signing over the title to the junk yard because she was that gone.. I mean she fell at least 200ft, if not 250ft down off this overpass. Mix emotions were deffinitly flying around my head and heart. But it was the right thing to do in the end. I told myself to part her out or save her, but it was just to gone. Just a tough situation all in all..
I will be back just give me time.. The itch really got to me. Now I remember why I loved riding dirt bikes so much. You just feel everything around you. It will of corse be another Honda. And most definitly be a 600RR again. Who knows maybe this time will be white. I'm not willing to take out a loan just yet. So it's going to be a bit before another one enters my life. I will say this, thank god I was wearing my helmet, gloves, and jacket.. Yeah my good jacket. It sucks that it's all rashed up, but hell it protected the shit out of me!
Till then I'll leave you with a lasting image of her...

On an other note..
I just got so caught up in the thing above.. I did a photoshoot with my car the other day and I just never really released any of the pics because of it. It was the first time that I took off the hood for a shoot and I liked the way it came out.. I would have like to get more above shots but the angeles of the sun and shadows just didn't allow me to do so.. I also really need to get another lens, and a hood to reduce glare, also learn more about how to use my camera. I really enjoy taking pictures pretty peaceful and allows you to think about stuff. But yeah I have more it's not like I edit them so I'll just go threw the bunch and choose out a couple here in the next couple of days and post them.. Really need to take a class on photoshop. The funny thing about this spot was that I was questioned by two patrols that came by, blah blah blah. In short they were wondering if I was vandalizing anything. They also wondered were my hood was. But yeah enjoy..

Feel free to steal and edit it. Would love to see what people create

Another thing and I know my mom's gonna laugh but I'm really tryin to step my shoe and clothes game up this year. Tired of wearing the same things over and over again. Puttin myself on a budget of corse, because I do need to save for things that I want. But I'm young so why not have a mighty collection of these things. Haha. So if you have stuff you just don't want either throw it my way.. I'll put it to good use. Haha.
Oh and yes Ma. The top pic is my new pair from the other day. I need a new pair of blacks to replace the ones I destroyed in the wreck.. Just to many scratches and what not on them to wear out.

But yeah it's been a crazy ass hell first part of the month.. First part of the year Jesus Christ. Seriously it's still only January..
Anyways just thought I would share a couple things that get me threw my week. Helps me think and just makes me laugh..

Helps me think
Beauty and Da Beast
Two great comedians pairing up to share there life stories and other bits of random funnieness.. Really love Joey "Coco" Diaz. I have had the pleasure of seeing him multiple times at the Sunset Room. Dirty minded, but man that some good stuff.
Go get the Podcast there on Itunes. Worth at least one session of listening..

Helps me Run..
Iclub: EDM and Iclub: Mashed
Dj Ri's Facebook
There direct links for both podcasts. Both are different wouldn' think that everyone would love both.
EDM is HOUSE, nothing but it, more of European feel.
Were as Mashed is more of a club/upbeat mixtape feel of American clubs. Some really good mix's on there from Dj's across the nation.

Speaking of running I know I havn't been this week. Well the reason is above.. I hope to be back at it next week.. This week not puttin a single mile down is really pissing me off. And dropped my ass in the standings of my challenges enough that I havn't looked in a couple days.
If your a Nike+ runner go ahead and add me. Username is Muella

Lastly were gonna go to a Youtube group that alot of people love or hate because of there concoctions of food.
Epic Meal Time
I have showed some of these videos to co-workers and friends. Yeah just go ahead and take a look. Cooking for all you manly people out there...

Lastly.. Mom I'm done with shoes this month.. I promise..
Haha

Everyone take care.
Next week I'll be in FL for a week of training. No interenet but I'll try and do something with my phone. But none the less I'll have something to say after the week.
Next time Netflix!
So with that..

Peace, Love, Beats.....

iheartMYSOL 10years!

2011-01-13T07:33:00.000-08:00

It was a Saturday probably about 8 in the morning and there was already a plan.
My father had already made the call and set up a viewing of the car. We had to go NOW! There were another 6 people who were interested in looking into this car on the same day. A drive all the way out to the 215 and some were within the city out there. I remember pulling up in the passenger seat of the Cobra, dad behind the wheel was always a nice drive. We pulled up and I was in love from the first moment. The vibrant yellow, giant wing and just the overall looked, you have to remember this is before Fast and Furious came out. Shit was the rage at the time! I new I was gonna be rollin in the hottest thing on the block. My father passed over the keys for the Cobra as collateral, for the keys of the sol and we took her for a drive. Oh man if you could have seen his smile. I remember we hopped on the freeway and punched it. Man oh man was it weak now that I look back at it and were I'm at now. But at the time, I was smiling ear to ear. We got off and did a deep inspection while we had her to our self and talked about if I liked it and what not. All my father could say to me was "Be quiet when we get back, I'm gonna try and talk him down." I'm sorry I couldn't hide it. I just wanted the keys and to call her mine. From there it was some talking and then signing, I didn't know what was going on I just kept staring at the keys. Till finally my father dropped them into my hand. That was 10 years ago this day.
After her first wash.

I really don't have many pictures from those first days.
Shoot back in high school I thought I was the shit. I remember when we had our team in High School. Yayo, Edgar, Mario, and I know I'm missin a few.
TeamSolCal events. Back in the day, being known as WeaZzeL on forums. Here is a link with other links in it to the old days of the sol and transformation back to white.
CLICK HERE
Then gettin in the with the DSOC guys. Eibach '08 and '10
Stolen Twice. Rebuilt twice.
I mean there are so many memories I could sit here all day and come up with them. I could also sit here and talk about all the things I have done and how much money I have dropped into this love.

Best thing is to really go threw the links and if anything just look threw the pictures.. There's pages of sol talk. LOL. But the pictures really speak for themselves.

From IheartMYSOL
to now
5SPDLOL

I honestly can't believe it.

But there are some people I feel I have to thank.
My Father - I would have been in a CRX if it wasn't for this man. Inspiration, Love, and Miss him. Mom - Holy shit the amount of things you have done for me. Standing next to me for numerous reason with this vechile. Steff - The best birthday ever. I highly doubt anyone will ever top that. I highly doubt anyone will show the love or understand as much as you did. Thank you so much. Nick and Kevin - so many great times with you guys in the passenger seat, and the shit talking. TeamSolCal & DSOC - brothers and sisters. Honestly you guys and gals have become my extended family I have somewhere to go to every day talk and vent. Shops some have come and go - Autolink with Kitty (Gone), Asa with RevAuto(Gone), Everyone at Pitcrew, Frainkie at Gspot (I'll be seein you in a couple months), and HonDocotrs (VEGAS)

I guess it's just stay tuned at this point. This year is going to be amazing for her I feel it.
Oh and to all my passengers. Sorry. I must have put you threw alot. I have never had a car that was a stock height. The car has been laying low to the ground for over 10 years. It's always had an exhaust to, so I guess you could call that strike two. And for the last couple of years the passenger has never really sat right in the car, well until the other week. So I guess I'm thanking all my passengers threw out the years. For putting up with my love and experiencing it with me. Thank You
To my future passengers. Well it's still lowered, it's louder then ever, but you can buckle yourself in and the seat is 100% in there.

More pictures of this day.. But I wanna get this up!
I'll share some more memories as time goes. Like why a man who drives a Cobra would steal his sons Sol. Then race and beat Porches, and BMW's, and Benz's on the 110 in the morning, on his way to work, and then at dinner tell his son about it. Haha. While the D16 was still in the car..

Love, Peace, Beats.

CBR600RR Love! Part1

2011-01-06T21:52:00.001-08:00

Its a new year and here we go!
Gonna really try and make this thing move alot more this year!

So lets get it going.
Man I'm happy that this is the first one of the year, and the FIRST one of this series.
Well I don't have a name for my bike but again anything I will do will be documented here and there more then one reason behind that. One I love documenting it for personal reason's, shows me how dirty I got my hands and how well I know my machines. I guess you can call it my personal timeline. But there is the part of sharing which you could call two. Also three insurance or worse.. Documentation rules when it comes to the sad part of these things, and that would be three.

So I got my new tail light in.. I guess your noticing that right away by the difference in pic's
So lets just jump into them
Begining Stance

Why I love doin work on my toys at work.. So clean and easy to keep clean.. Haha

Middle
Had to do some shaving and deconstruction of her...

End result

Hey it works.. haha

I can't wait to take it out.. Was a pretty simple install took me a couple of hours I think but all in all really good product. Havin a little issue with the wiring at the moment looks like it had been tampered with by previous owner.. But nothing a little more time with her can't solve.
Stay tuned for more.. It's only gonna get warmer..

On another note gonna try and give weekly thoughts this year as well. Just time to sit back and reflect on life and other things!
I'll include more when I sit down and do that post to be release on Sunday's

2010-12-31T13:38:00.000-08:00

Well as another year grows closer and closer to the end and another one about to begin we as humans take time to look back , share , and begin to expect for the future. People send out Christmas cards and others just write there thoughts down. Shoot some just talk about it with other s and go about there merry way. Well in this case this is my holiday card. The new way. The blog way. The facebook wy.

So first off let me wish you all a season greeting especially ones for this new year. I know a lot happened to myself ofver the past year and am personally looking forward to my new adventrues seeing were I have been. So with that lets begin my recap.

Man what a year…

Enough miles to circle the globe is what comes to mind first. Being all the way to the desert and back. But I guess I could just make this a highlight real seeing how my blog over the year has covered the majority of the year. But on to my top 4 highlights

I think my number one highlight was Eibach. Meeting James, Chris, Jen, and Cody for the first time. About time. Amazing that we speak to each other on almost a daily basis and finally meeting each other face to face with our passions right there by our side. Just wonderful time with wonderful people. I mean I couldn’t have asked for a better weekend, well maybe the Kitty Kar to run a little better, but then were would the story be. Looking forward to seeing yall again for sure..

Highlight two for me would be going to the desert. Talk about a mixture of emotions of up and down with a daily struggle of staying positive. I’ll tell you what, even if you don’t support the war reach out to a soldiger, airman, marine, and sailor. Seriously just saying hi how was your day goes so far for them. There really just people doing there job. But personally I’m thankful for the people that I met over there andI’m so happy that the rest of my crew made it home safe the day before Christmas. That was great news for me on my Christmas day. Overall I thnk it was a good 5 months of growth for me. Sure I wasn’t in school but I learned a lot about myself in them. Physically and mentally actually. Working in 120 degree weather is something else, but after doing it makes the rest of the days so much easier.

Sorry no beauty shots yet.. Stay tuned stuff in the mail...

Highlight number three for me had to be bying my bike. The first ever purchase I made that big and taking the full responsibility for myself. Sure I paid for it all in cash and don’t have a payment but to save up and to put that money down and say you did it. It to me shows groth within me. And who doesn’t take satishfaction in buying something that they have been wanting since they were 18. Plus it allows me to focus on the sol and take her were I want her to go.

Lastly I’m gonna say highlight four. It’s the time I spent with my family and friends this year. I mean sure there were a lot but I think the distance that I have between us I has brought all of us closer. To my high school friends that have thankfully been stronger then me, and are going up so fast. Avalon nights. Birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgivin. I mean I can’t highlight all them times..

Now the to the future.. I’m gonna keep this short.
2011 – year of gettin’ IT!
It has to be your dreams. I’m only gonna put down three
1. Going back to school.
2. LA marthon. I’m putting out there like this.. I’m gonna do it
3. Rebirth of the sol.. Again more details later!

With as much joy there was also sad. My we remember the loved ones we lost and cherish the time we got with them.

Peace, Love, and Beats!

Happy Birthday to ME! 26

2010-10-02T11:27:00.000-07:00

So another year down and another year older. Funny how times change and the way that you view the world, as well. I never thought that one I would be were I am in my life, or were I am currently, sitting on a porcelain throne in Iraq.
I would have to say that my 25 had to be one of my biggest years as far as growth though. Finally really stepping out of my mother’s shadow and starting the creation of something on my own. Bills actually came apparent to me and they actually cost you money and you have to budget accordingly. Thank god that I have a little of my father in me for the fact that I haven’t to this day missed a payment on anything that I said I would pay for, when it comes to creditors mom. Another big thing is I paid off my mom as well, getting all my debits straightened away with her. So I can finally build a relationship were I know that she isn’t looking at me every other minute thinking “I’m never going to see that fuckin money.”
Project IheartMYSOL, which on another note is coming up on our 10-year anniversary is up and running again, well not at this moment because that is another story. But the second rebuild s now a completely moving chassis and is registered in a new state with a new plate, that I won’t put on till I’m back in America as well. But I couldn’t be any happier that I saw the engine swap threw and I really did a lot of it myself. I’m not going to lie when I really jumped off the deep end with some of the ideas that I did. Especially with the lack of background that I had with it all. But some how in a parking lot on an Air Force base with a common jack and tools. I got that shit pretty close to done. But yes I did have to send it to a shop to get the wiring all straightened out and there was a problem with the brakes and the battery, blah blah blah. But yeah!
Other then that I must say that things have been good. New people, new city, and a bunch of new experience and places to go. I really think that this year is going to be the biggest and the best though.. Let me say thank you to everyone and there experiences they had with me during the last year. One of the best for damn sure!
So let I be 26!
And let the new good times roll

Oh and I don’t think I could ever top last years birthday events.. I still remember it, well as much as people told me.
Thank you again. Much love and lets party when I get home!

iheartMYSOL quick update 6

2010-09-19T10:51:00.000-07:00

Well I havn't done much to the sol..
Well I havn't done shit actually seeing how I'm over in Iraq and she is at home. Stuck in her unit battery dead and god knows what else is now fucked up again. Some person had to go and back into the storage unit about a month of me being here. At least i know when I get back I now have some things to do and put on. she is going to be going the all motor root because the want to get into time attack and autocross. I figure its the best thing for that chassis and I love to go into corners with her anyways. I remember the days of chasing exotics down the 110 and the back roads of La Canada. As well as my wonderful drives to Jackie Robinson field along the windy road with the last corner reaching about 65 and just letting the car sit in it.. Then blasting out to a 100+
But anyways. Time for the update.
I picked up this Sparco quick release if you couldn't tell. No saying if I'm going to be keeping the NRG short hub or not see how it feels and looks. I'm happy with it rare piece. Beautiful piece.
Seeing how my birthday is coming up I'm going to be getting her more presents and what not have a couple things with my eye on time to talk to the buyer and get money in the right place..
and on with the pictures!

Deployment 1st month

2010-07-18T22:01:00.000-07:00

Well I'm gonna try and do my best to explain this place without breaking military rules or putting someone in danger by giving other things away.
With that said as the first thing, let me know try to explain my first month of deployment, to me..

If the heat wasn't shock enough the culture will get you as well. The moment that you get to the deserst after stepping off the last comfy plane you just notice a totoally different atmosphere compared to a home station. You can really see it in people's eyes that there is a different tone, a different pace, a different feeling. That feeling is you pushing your wall every day, the idea of being tierd seems to be a lingering feeling in the back of your head that you fight every day. But you keep going because this is your job, this is your core task, and something even as simple as me fixing plumbing. To the way that people get there water and just flush there toilets makes an impact. To think of the Armed Forces to America would be looking at a well greased and oiled machine. I throw the greased in there because its that old and you have to tinker with it to work right. You have to be gentle with it to move in the direction or get the hours of operation out of that you need to finish the job. Just remind you because this machine really does have a face, actually many of faces from many of branches and walks of life.
This base in its self...
Just imagine a a small island in the middle of the desert though. Completely ran by generators. The black smoke bellowing out top of the field. All around you see nothing but a mix of T-walls and concrete buildings with blast roofs over them. The ARMY walking around at the ready of moments notice. The Air Force manning the buldings and taking care of the grounds. The sprinkle of a Navy or Marine here and there. Third Country Nationals and Local nationals all over, also doing there roles while being watch by Force Protection. Wether it be manning a post, or fixing a toliet right along with us. The presence of the Iraqi people and surrounding nations is huge on this base, and is only getting bigger. This base is going to close as Obama does say, I will not be here for that day. But I'm part of the process of making this happen. I am part of one of the last teams that is handing this base over to Iraqi military. Probably the last group of plumbers from the military that will be handling these systems, after this it should be gone to contract. With a small group of Civil Engineers to just maintain and make sure the contract is still seen threw. This is Joint Base Ballad.
I invisioned to see nothing but dirt when I got here. But where we are as I peer threw the chain link and C-wire to see nothing but farmland. I mean were surrounded by mostly farmland. Later in the day you see kids playing in the irrigation river, doing there best to stay cool in this extreme heat. The days feel like that one scene from the Chronicles of Riddick, when there on that one planet that catches fire and the guy walks outside to his death. How that when you have a window open in the day, you feel as if the air alone is going to burn your face off. But don't get me wrong this is the desert and there are dust storms.
Overall though this place is interesting to say the least.
So lets see what I can make in the next 5 months to come and what I can learn.

But enough of my idealism.
What have I done so far. As my mom would ask what shit holes have I been in.. Well sorry mother I haven't got in any wet one actually yet. And the one I got in I didn't get a picture of. I was in a communications box but it was on the flight line and there is no flash photography there unless permitted. But I'll get some before I leave.
I have done many of small jobs in indoor plumbing. Lets just say that this is what I see all the time. Well not this bad but this is indoor. A lot of European shit all over the place none of it is the same. So your always just fiddling with shit to make it work..

Outdoor is a little different story.
Replaced two tanks now, a pump, and built a whole system for the Iraqi Chow Hall..

Thats pretty much it for this first month of excitement. Haha.
5 more and I'll have the stories to tell when I get home.

Oh yeah and one small joke.
Army learning colors.
It was outside there finance office. Now that is a reassurance

and Random

World Cup 2010

2010-07-12T11:20:00.000-07:00

Well I must say that it was a splendid World Cup.. For once I had a chance to watch many of the games at a decent time, not having to stay up till the middle of the night to see just a piece of one of the two half's.
As for the U.S. we are clearly still no were there. Great effort but the team is just not there yet. Horrible offense it was a surprise to me as to why we got so far. If anything are midfield could be giving all that credit. They were the ones scoring goals to get us back in the game and get us ahead. Not to sound like I'm bitching but they just didn't live up to the hype of there play at all. Very sloppy to me and they did the typical American thing of just sending the ball long and having someone run upon it.
Now to my favorite team. Germany! What a great World Cup. Absolutely wonderful movement of the ball. Can't wait to see with what they come with in the next Cup. I mean there only going to go up. With such a young team and such smooth ball movement. The more they get to play together the better. Just wonderful to watch. Just exactly what my dad always said beautiful soccer looked like. Funny how he learn the game so well so quick for me.. haha.
But in the end Spain won. They played wonderful. They did such a great job of getting teams out of there game plan and out of there tempos. Such wonderful disruption. There ball movement was wonderful as well. They really moved a a team. I see why people say that the final was such an "ugly game" but its what I would want to see. Both teams struggling to hold and create a pace. Sure Spain held the ball for the majority of the time. But both team had wonderful build ups, shots on goals, and big saves. I personally love the final. Dramatic as all could be coming down to the final minutes there in the second overtime period. Not going to PK's. and yes the better team all the way threw the cup won but not without one hell of a fight by a strong defensive team.
Congratulations Spain.
Germany will be there next time around.

Memorial Day Weekend

2010-06-05T17:09:00.000-07:00

Well I’m only starting this now because I’m stuck on the side of the round damn near super hours after I broke down waiting for my little brother to graciously show up and save my motha fuckin ass.
Lets say the trip just had that feeling I forgot my BBerry charger and my toothbrush just to name a couple of things that I forgot to bring with me. I guess you can say I was such a hurry to leave the Vegas area that I wasn’t careful. I checked the oil level before I got on and top off the tank. And then I checked the oil level again at Primm.. Did fine didn’t hear anything till Yermo then well here I am. And here are the pictures since I was killin time.. Was trying to get one how Chris (Sarge) always get with that silotte feeling guess it can’t really happen when you have a white car. Or I’m just not there yet with camera skills. Plus it wasn’t the best sunset but you deal with that you got.
Enjoy
This was what it looked like after I moved my car a couple feet for these pictures..

I mean what else you gonna do out in the middle of no were for 4 hours
So I got it home thanks to my little brother who drove all the way out there and then we towed the bitch all the way back to our house in Pasadena.

Friday
Took the car to Pit Crew
Went to the cemetary after that put flowers on the family graves. Saw my fathers grave again. So weird to think that it has almost been 10 years. After that mother took me and we went and picked up the new pieces to my car so I could get the trunk and garnish off so I could preserve the signatures on them forever. ( I forgot to have Lane and Sean sign it )
Flowers

Saturday.
The car was done.. Went and got her and thank god.
It was the car wash and wanted to pay my respects and show up for the sols.

The rest of the day just spent drivin around and waiting for the night.
If you follow my twitter you alerady know what happend and saw and heard all the stupid shit I did.
But I had a damn good time at Avalon.

Sunday.
Lane and Sean came out from AZ for Juans viewing.
Pretty calm day in that sense. Went to the viewing that was the crushing moment hard as hell to see that guy laying there and knowing that he is only 1 year older then my little brother. That process is still very hard for me even after all the times that I have done it in my short life. Went and had a good dinner with those guys and we just went back to the pad and drank and had a good time.

Monday
Sean and Lanes tour de LA. I'm just gonna let the pictures talk. Questions just ask

Then we went to Vience Beach.. LOL

Tuesday.
Was Juans funeral.
I have never seen so much love in my life. HIs mother is so strong. My heart goes out to them every day. I know the feeling of waiting for your loved one to come walking

With three sol and 5 members we were like fuck it were gonna go to Northwood Pizza.
OMGayed what a drive. LOL
It was worth it though good time.
From there everyone went there own ways
Came home racked out for a couple of hours, packed
Then Alicia and I headed back to Vegas

R.I.P. Juan Lemus

2010-05-23T13:45:00.000-07:00

Well finally I think I can write about this
After a shit ton a liquor and half a day I think I suppressed my feeling enough to get this off and go to sleep.

Juanito,
Were to begin.
I met you before I walked into Pit Crew. I read about you before your sol got stolen for the first time. I'm pretty sure I started talking to you soon after that. We were both going threw stolen rebuild at the time and comparing stories. My sol in all the 9 years I have owned her was never and I quote "never" on your level.. Your love your expertise, your knowledge, you drive to DRIVE!
Remeber that one time before I went in the Air Force and Alica came down from Vegas and you and Johnny came over after we went to the club. We were all so shit faced.. But man was that some funny shit. How you ended up with Alicia's ID and credit card.
Juanito I envy you!
I looked up to you as a person, owner, and car guru.. You knew your shit and helped everyone out. A perfect example of what a true enthusiast was.. It didn't matter if you had the most rictastic car out there. If they loved it you were there. And that was a true example of your heart. You never cared you never passed judgment you just put it out here for everyone to see. That is why so many people love you.
And truly my brother I love you.
For everything you are.
To think that instead of the driving force behind us on the road pushing us to be that much faster threw that corner. Your now are angle guiding us threw the day is baffling. But you are that angle now. You are that guiding force to so many people. People you don't even know. You were that big my friend.
It has only been a week since we last hung out. Hours since talked.
I have cried but it's not the last of my tears. When I see your sol roll again and your not behind the wheel with that smile of bliss that, and that, will be the time when I personally shed the biggest tear.
I may own the plate that says IloveMYSOL but brother you were there with me. You loved it. When she was clean it was like your smile full of love, and out there for the world to see.
I end this with pictures and quotes from the man himself
I will hold you in my heart and remember you every time I turn key.
I love you, your loving family, and all those that love you!
You are my friend, a close and dear one!
Juan,
I love you mang!

There are so many more.. I chose these three because 1) that was his sol before it got stolen #2.. I remeber he made a shirt of that shit to. 2) His sol the last time I saw him and it at Eibach '10. 3) Well if you had to have personal shot that would be it. Or #4.
I miss you mang!
Del Sol's are only gay if you make them gay!

Eibach '10

2010-05-18T17:11:00.000-07:00

First off if your reading this and you want a bunch of pictures of the cars that were there. You might as well just meander back to nwp4life.com
Because I didn't take any.

But my Eibach experience on the other hand started while I was still at work Friday night. I think that is when I truly got excited for the event to finally be here, to the tone of a Greek man telling me fuck work and get the fuck over here. He wasn't alone in these commands. Let just say I was thrilled to be out of work at like 2. To bad it took me over an hour to put my side mirrors back together, probably would have gone faster if I didn't receive a text message every couple minutes telling me to hurry, James is intimidating, and lane is just mean.
So long story short I make it down to the Monte Carlo and I'm walking up in uniform and first thing I hear "Nice uniform Dick." At that moment I knew it was going to be a great weekend. So went in the Monte Carlo and started drinking. At this point I could tell I was behind but meh. Times were perfect right Lane..

My thoughts exactly.
But what I really need a picture of is Lanes grouping of receipts. Shits about the size of a baseball. Probably totaling close to 175
Shots of SoCo and Yager happened and then.....

And what everyone is talking about..
your seriously gonna watch it twice.

Well come to about 7 in the morning Lane's dry heaving over a trash can. Chris, James, Alicia, and I are still at the bar. Motherly instincts kicked in for Jen. Alicia was fuckin WASTED! Literally no lie sitting at the bar and then BAM! Face to bar just missed the arm support in all. I think that's when everyone decided time to turn in for a hour.
Went our separate ways at that point.

Day before Eibach

I went back to Cali trying to catch up to all the LV people but in the end didn't so meh. Went home. Pretty slow day just checkin up on friends just drivin around.
Saturday Night was a little different pace.
Sean came over around like 8 or 9 something around that time.. I hadn't eaten and was like fuck it let go to Yardhouse. Good food had a couple of drinks and then got ahold of Cody who was out in Riverside. So Sean and I were like fuck it. Headed down to there. Went threw the worst, I mean the fuckin worst parking lot ever. I mean the pavement was nice but the bumps fucked the shit out of me.. Literally. Finally though we made it to the hotel and made it to the room. Honestly it was like dank city with crumbs on the ground (if you smelled his trunk on Sunday that was nothing compared to this room.) There were fuckin wrappers every were.
Medicinal caramel must be the shit.
Decided I wanted to party to so Sean and I picked up a 20 rack. Got back and then just started throwin them back

Went to take a piss and found this out

Some good laughs right there. Sean went to sit down and the whole floor shook type thing. Everyone died of laughter. Cody threw a check's mix square at his girl, it landed like a 1cm away from her eye. Some how got on the conversation of Domo decided to take a look at it. This also happened

2 o'clock rolled around and everyone was pretty tired so we left Cody's room, Sean and I went to grab stuff out of our car and noticed a window open with just a screen seperating us from a bed. Sean with out a beat got that beast out and jumped threw the window. Yes Sean jumped threw the window. Opend the door and in I went. Of corse I was going to take a bed over someones floor.

Eibach Day.

Breakfast

Thanks Sean.
I mean thats some balls right there. I guess the person asked him how his stay was as well. I'll I can do is still laugh. Finally Jen and Chris rolled in. They looked like shit, sorry had to say it, but it was understandable being up all night and driving that last bit. They took a shower and then we headed out. Did I mention that Dragon Ball is a horrible movie. A white Goku seriously WTF! Finally found a place to wash there cars. Chris got dirty with the Mexican's while Lane, Cody, and I warreded off the bums. Until Cody and I dipped leaving Lane to have a 10 minute conversation with one. Oh I should have took a picture. Dude lip was all fucked up. Dirty dirty dirty. Oh and Sean and Jen. I dono
Finally made it to Eibach and the rest was magical

I mean seriously magical. Like ponies and shit. I mean there is just to much funny shit that happend right there. I can't wait for Chris's pictures of the vampire girl, man she was white. I saw one of the great tits but buterface out there.
But all good things must come to an end. Great laughs and all.
Thanks to Juans family for the BBQ and hospitallity after.
Thanks to all the sol owners for such a great time. We must do this again. MUST!
Now we all must go to Greece and do this on James terms. haha.

I seriously love the trunk and garnish. I will hold onto that forever hopefully I can get more sol owners to hit it up as time goes on.. Now just to buy another one so I can mount that on my wall..

Vegas Invasion 10

2010-05-09T10:24:00.000-07:00

First let me say.. Sorry this took so long to get together and load up..

So Vegas Invasion 10 has come and gone. It was wonderful to see people that I hadn't seen in what now 2 years when my carf was running and in a working matter. But of corse I was upset that my car couldn't be there. I was happy that there was another K there. While it wasn't crazy how mine is just to see one run in real life gave me hope. So much to say but I don't want to bore everyone with bland writing and all other things.
So on with the pictures I took in my randomness of order.
I guess you can say I had my favorites and stuck to them.

Sean ( JDMReveRend)

Sorry I dono your name but I love the leapord print.
Well done all the way threw. Floor mats and everything.

Shane (Rice Police)

Kevin (kabooki)

John (Loki)

Bama?
Didn't catch your name either.
Oh and sorry for closing your hood for a moment at the show.

Alicia (delsolchik)

DJ (Trippsol)

John? (Tofu*Monster)

Sorry dono your name or screen name at all

Group Shots
Rolling Shots
Other Shots

A few more to come in part 2
Been getting a upload error.. Probably have it done tomorrow seeing how this was the bulk of them.
Enjoy.
Want different sizes just hit me up

IheartMYSOL quick update 5

2010-04-06T00:31:00.001-07:00

Picked up some new shoes for the little girl. At a decent price these shall do well for the time being till I get some real money and can take care of the rest of the car.. but they will work for the shows comin up and just an all around look with the car.
As for her status she is still in the shop. I'm hoping it's either this weekend or next. I really need it to be soon. Seriously...
I have plans for two Cali runs in the next two months.. Blog post and other news to go with it..

IheartMYSOL quick update 4

2010-03-16T21:14:00.000-07:00

Well today was a sad, exciting, good, bad.. I dono a very mixed emotions day..
As you can tell by the picture, she finally went into a shop to have her turned over and also looked over on a professional level.
I'll give it up to myself real quick and say I went far and did alot for a first time swapper by myself going from B to K. Learned alot along the way still have alot to learn as I grow older. But in the end I just want to drive her..

ETA? probably your first and only question.

The shop (AKA Hondoctors) doesn't want to speculate yet..
I mean to look at the wiring harness make sure that is all correct
clutch and brake line bleeds and make sure there correct and safety inspection for Nevada
Fuel line inspection make sure there correct and bleed in
Priming the engine and the radiator
and drill the holes for the right side mount..
I think thats it..
After that I'm takin them the exhaust to be put on.

I'm saying probably two weeks. Just because there own flow of cars and probable frustration with her. I'll know more when they probably get to take a good look at her.. I won't really go back to the shop till Alicia and I, or I find some random person, to take me there.. Saturday maybe?

On a serious note I have a sol bug right now on buying things for the car..
My spark plug cover came in today.. Good pick up for 20. Only one little flaw.
My mani cover should be in route. The tracking number isn't comin up though so I need to re write the guy..
And then I ordered this today..

iheartMYSOL Part 4

2010-03-11T15:41:00.001-08:00

Well it has been over a month since I updated or said anything on this blog thing.
Even though you have not seen or heard a lot has gone down actually.
Custom brake lines done. Currently trying to patch up some of th leaks I only really spotted two but one looked like it was the valve itself which is scary in its self because that would have to be replaced
Feul is done costom lines were run as well. I still want to finish the loop but need to order one more part. Probably should do that today
The custom clutch line came in and put on. Only bitch is that I'm having a hard time getting it to bleed
My radiator from K-tuned came in and that is in there plus it is wired up as well.
Other small parts like intake (K-tuned) and throttle cable came in and have been added to the engine bay. Bolts from TheRev also came in which help me complete the front and rear with the correct harwear rather then being hella ghetto.

Now that your all caught up on what has happendnd and what is kinda going down. Here is what is supposed to happen real soon
I have made an appointment for the next week for the car to go into a local shop. April 30 begins the weeked of Vegas Invation, yearly del sol meet in Las Vegas), then May 16th
I already again have things in the mail for parts and I still need to order some more my stubberness and wanting certain parts still gets in my way but hey she is my baby girl.
But before I kill you with the longest blog post I have ever done. Here are the preview pictures.

IheartMYSOL quick update 3

2010-01-16T08:45:00.000-08:00

Not much has happend was waiting for this payday to come since it is after the damn Holiday Season..
But since the pay check there will be moves and things..
Spent my Holiday cash last night on parts.. Well actually I have like 200 left from that seeing how my payment for the engine came in.. Blasted threw that cash.. Good thing it never touched my bank account.. So I will have an update on that once I get them parts in.. Once there man were close
Waiting on Sean to part out his 93 for some bolts and nick nacks.. Still more to be added if you read this.. haha.. thank you again.
Saw another sol friend Ben and he hooked it up with a fender, the fender I lost in the wind.. Still need the liner and if anyone has RF mudguard.. yeah I need that as well.. haha. But here are a couple of pic's. Sorry mom has the Cannon so I used the blackberry to do this..

Everyone will know when the parts come in..

Year in Review

2010-01-01T22:23:00.000-08:00

So as it comes down to this being the last year of the decade and what not, last day of the year. To think back at the this year alone is enough to make you go crazy. This year has been probably one of the most interesting in my life. Going off to basic in January, and then to tech school in March to learn about Liquid Fuels Maintenance. All of this was contained in that big ass state in Texas. Bringin my total time spent there to like 6 months. How weather and settings change in Texas. The people are a weird cleptic group on nice, but they "believe that they are there own nation." All in all Texas is its own beast that I WILL NOT miss all that much. I got to come home for a week in the middle of August to see my grandpa before he past. While I do believe his soul had already left it was good to see him and make my mom laugh during the tough time. It was also good to be able to help her threw the letting process as myself and my brothers endured with our father. I believe the perspective that we had helped her a lot. I missed the funeral, but I know he isn't mad at me for that one. I felt good when I saw him a man who really lived his life, did so many things, and experience more in this world then most people ever get. With the allsimers or the parkisans I happy to know the ending pain was gone. I now reside in Las Vegas, on Nellis AFB, talk about a draw when it comes to bases. Close to home home but far enough away to create and build myself. A city that never sleeps with amazing night life and bars. The temptations of a goddess. But I wouldn't change for the world. Well maybe Travis AFB. The car is still not running but is now finally being worked on as parts come in. Soon enough and she will be running. Other then that life is becoming a routine of work mixed with xbox and minor playtime. Hopefully I can expand my knowledge of the Vegas

Nellis Open House

2009-11-16T17:28:00.002-08:00

So we had an open house on base.. Not like I'm gonna be screaming come see were I live.. My room was thrashed.
This weekend was great.
MSTRKRFT on Friday night.. Waa blew my mind.
Sat was a take it easy get COD WF2
Sun went to the Air Show got my Xbox live up..

Anyways this is about the Air Show more then anything..
Mommy and people wanted pic's
Fliker only allows 100MB per month.. Maxing that bitch out right now
These were my favorite. Didn't really take pictures of things I see every day like the Thunderbirds.. Plus there were other things I just didn't get good pics of..
So hope you enjoy

PHOTOS HERE

My favorite planes there

IheartMYSOL quick update 2

2009-11-16T17:28:00.001-08:00

Well some packages came today in the mail..
Low and behold the parts that I had ordered from Honda last month. Well worth the wait because of the money that I saved.. Plus its not like I'm in a emergency type rush with this ..

These are the main pieces just laid out here.. S2000 Clutch Master, K20 Clutch Slave, and everyone needs Key's right.. Haha.

But that was just the first of my surprise of pacages when I got to the Post Office. There were two more.
One with my Video Games in it. Thank you Nick and Missy. So much fun now. Nick you need to get one of them games so I can play with you.. Oh and for you who are on Xbox live get at me. C0NtaMIN8ed
Anyways.. I the third package. WAS....

Then I get a phone call saying that the other is in.. WTF! Oh well I'll go back on Wednesday and pick up the other.
They won't be in for a while they need to be cleaned. But I think they will go well.. Haha.. Stay tuned.

iheartMYSOL Part 3

2009-11-09T17:13:00.000-08:00

Well lets just jump into this one.. It's Monday and I didnall of this on Saturday. Yeah enough said about that part.
So as you know I brought her to Vegas she hs been under the car cover ever since.. Don't really want anyone seeing not that I'm ashmed of my little girl but your not supposed to have no running cars in the parking lot and as you can see she doesn't even have her bumper on. Yeah go figure..
So what I set out to do was clean up the inside of the car..

you looking at a picture I took after taking the dash out of the cabin. So yeah I pretty much had everything there and in the trunk just a jumbled mess.. So I decided since that I had everything all out I might as well kill some of the rust so I got some sand paper and rostoleum and went to town..
Yes that is an AF wall.. Oooopppss

So about half way threw the day I finally made it to about this point.. Getting ready to mess with the wires for the driver side..

Alot was done between the two shot the wiring mess on the driver side was a bitch to get up and tucked away seeing how I really didn't cut the wires that I'm not gion to use off the harness. That and I cleaned everything that was in the car already and everything that got put back into place. Just thought I should add that little piece.
And then finally to get it all back and together..

bye bye Window stickers.. I'm FREE

Look more shit.. At least it's down to a box in the passenger side..

Yah there is still a mess..

And the trunk has some shit in it as well

But at the end of the day its still at the same result tucked away and not running. Have to wait till the next pay check to make another move. This time its line time finally.. got me some rope so that I can do some ruff measurements of how much I have to buy and from there we shall see

IheartMYSOL Part 2

2009-10-28T06:44:00.000-07:00

So as you can tell from the picture I finally went back to Cali and picked up the little girl. Big thank you to my little brother Kevin for helping me out with the transportation to bring her to Vegas.
Only down side is that I lost the right fender some were along the way. Not really mad at the fact that I lost the fender. More mad at the fact I lost a mud guard. You know how hard it is to find them things. Be prepared for updates. Would like to get her up and running by the 14th of Nov. Don't think it will happen but would love to go to Juilian run with the Team Sol Cal guys.

Fuel, Electrical, and Power..
and putting together and she is read to Stomp!

Exercise, exercise, exercise.

2009-10-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

So let's just begin this with the idea that no one 100 percent enjoyed this exercise and there were bits and pieces that were good and bad that created the experience. The teaching while there was a lot of power point slides thrown into two and a half days mixed with hands on was interesting to say the least. The idea that this was solidified in someone mind to stay and that they will use all that knowledge that was thrown at us is an overstatement to say the least.
I guess you could say that everyone was looking forward to Thursday in way or another. One because it marked the real end of the week since all we did on friday was clean up the mess. Two because it was the real hands on experience time. But let's get down to the exercise now

My first issue has or had was the initial security protocol and how to clear the building surrounding the area. Until the time I stole the senior radio command seat that gave me my radio name I was oblivious of who is was. I done really how we did but the gagle fuck of only 3 that cleared each side had to be wrong when they originally said 9 on each
2. Communication and there was a lot of that besides the big voice system not working properly to not everyone who needed a radio getting a radio. Okay so you know your under radioed why was not there a way described out how to relay messages. You know you don't have the right amount of radios.
3. MOPP 4 for those that don't really know that is when any service is in there full chemical gear. Hot but makes you safe. My big issue was how long it took for the command post to one figure out were the chemical attack took place by sending out there teams. To 2 the teams themselves not being haste in there actions. Which left me in that stuff for almost 2 hours. But that was also because I didn't have a radio and we didn't get a message until someone ran into my area after an incident and he looked at me like why. Ugh.
4. Finally was just the lack of organisational skills from the top to the bottom. But yes if the top is not organised how do you expect the bottom of the chain to be. This is probably why I have so much to say. I found out that they were going to cancel the exercise but yet proceeded on. So management was not ready for this to happen. The Lieutenant was notified till friday afternoon. Shop leads Monday. And they had to come up with and idea for a base in 2 days. Yeah smooth.

All in all I learned thing and solidified more in my mind. Would I do things the same. Hell yeah I would stay quiet imagine if I said some of this shit to people. I mean I know its the net but who reads this stuff any ways. Haha

Best part shooting off blanks in the air. And rocking the M16 on burst.

2009-10-13T22:07:00.000-07:00

I have watched alot of TV in my life. I have watched alot of things about drugs in my life. I have spoken, done, hung around, and you name it in my life. This show actually touched me. The combination of the two things of seeing DjAM out of what everyone is used to seeing him as. And seeing the real person that he was on a daily basis. Also seeing this young woman's struggle against drugs. I don't think I have seen a piece of TV this strong in a long time.
Give it a watch..
Gone To Far
Then if you didn't tear up at all during the episode..
Try watching the interview with Amy after..
If you don't then well...

Sweep Sweep Sweep

2009-10-10T18:31:00.001-07:00

Dodgers took the Division Series in dramatic fashion. Getting stronger each game along the way. This also comes with a scare because this is what they did to the Cubs last year but after taking on this oppenent which was the odds favorite even here in Vegas books. I feel that the Dodgers have made there marks and changed some of the bookies ideas. The long shot sweeps. Now time to relax take some BP and get ready for the CS..

A year after the Cardinals fucked us up in the Playoff's payback has been delivered.

Old 2008 Eibach footage..

2009-10-10T14:58:00.000-07:00

Somoene posted this old footage..
you can spot me in about the 1:20 mark of it just a drive by but you know it's my sol..
Haha.. thoughs were the good days.

Eibach 2008 Coverage..

She should be comin back soon.. soon
I tell you

8 years. We still remember

2009-10-04T20:48:00.000-07:00

I had an idea of writing something eleberate but ever time I would get going I deleted it. So I'm going to take the simple route.

I can't believe 8 years have gone since my father passed away. Things have changed people have grown. But his memory thrives on threw those that he loved and the ones who loved him.
Love you Dad

2009 NL West Champions

2009-10-04T18:19:00.000-07:00

Well finally it happens. I know that I'm late with this blog update been out all weekend in Vegas with some friends. But the boys in Blue won the west on Saturday night with a 5 to 0 win over the Rockies. Even I at one point was getting mad at the Dodgers because it took them 6 games to clinch this. Well I can't wait for next week when we play the Cardinals its going to be a shop thing seeing how I'm the Dodger fan and the civilian that works in the shop is a Cardinals fan. Tired of hearing about Pujlos. The Dodgers better put them down.
Offence is the key to the success
Because right now there pitching is on!!

Bring on the Cardinals

My Birfday

2009-10-01T15:20:00.000-07:00

Quater of the way some were....

Well as another year goes by. I finally can sit and realize that my trial and error period is over with my life. I really can't believe that I am alive to be 25 or that I was born 25 years ago today. I feel like I have and done a lot for my age. Haven't really been to that many of places but have been to a good share. I have felt pain that some will never feel in till later in there lives and am on the same track with others. I'm this trail and error I have learned a lot while fluncking at things right along with it. I haven't worked all that much at a job but have committed to many of different things. Mainly sports and the dream I held onto so long.
I still remember the last baseball game that my dad watched me pitch. Put up a truly stellar performance with him sitting in a wheel chair watching over. It felt great to go over and still get my inning by inning tips on how to handle the next set of batters. Of course my offence absolutely destroying the other pitcher helped a lot to.
Funny to think back on all them memories that I have the people I have met and the roll models I have wanted to be like. 25 years is a long time. Now I can write this message on my cell phone send it to my email and post later on my laptop that now gets internet any were in Las Vegas. I didn't have that shit as a kid. I remember playing Reader Rabbit with Nick on the old Dell. The mining game was the best. I dono but when you finally do look back and think about everything that done. I think it more important to look and see what you have become what type of footprint you are actually leaving behind on this earth and why I think so far I have left a good couple small ones her and there. I guess I have to wait another 25 years to finally see which ones are truly stamped in and which ones just faded away.
Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes. I'm happy that even when I'm separated from my family and dearest friends they all take the time to reach out and let me know I do count to them.
Thank you all. I love you all.

Another Quick Sol Update

2009-09-19T08:38:00.001-07:00

Just another quick thing... More pieces waiting back in LA now for me to come home and put them together. This completes my 93 dash conversion, now if I could just get her and work on her..
Maybe my mom should bring it to me for my birthday.. haha.
Still more to come 6 months and counting till Vegas Invation and then Eibach. I need to make it this time.. I want my damn trophy.. Haha

Slackin.. But a big update.

2009-09-10T16:15:00.000-07:00

Fist off this is the crew from high school I mean not everyone but the ones that truly took me under the wing and took me into Lincoln. Never forget these guys. Do anything for them.

Well I haven't posted anything since i was saying I was going back to Cali what now almost 2 weeks ago.. Good news is that I now have Internet in my room and well now I can do these things right as please. Don't have to be sweating my balls off to send them. Comfort is the key..
Anyways.
Lets get an idea of what happened shall we.
The going back to Cali tied into the weekend before that. Shit was so long ago don't really care to go into the business or anything like that. Just say that I had a fuckin great time seeing toughs guys. Expensive weekend but definitely worth it though. Stayed at the Venation (bad ass hotel) and went to Body English and V Lounge during the nights. I think the best part though was the weekend after that in Cali the reason I went back..

My boy Uly tied the knot with his lady, Norma. Man I remember back in the day in high school when they got together. Funny times and great times. I'm happy that he finally did this they have been together forever and been probably threw what ever couple goes threw to make sure that it's right and well here they are.. Congrats to you both and I wish you guys the best threw the years as you guys grow together and your family goes....
The rest of the ones that I am willing to post are here.. No editing.
The Mule Stable Flickr

But that's that one..
Last week my friend tony came out and damn.. While he fuckin slept threw Friday night..
Being picked up by Syls then being drunk by 12 on Saturday was a good make up present. That and makin an ass of myself. Anyways.. Went to LAX that night, for those of you on Facebook you will notice there are some new pictures, thanks to Sylvia. But Sunday was were it was at at Tao.. Eric Morillo

Man that shit was fuckin awesome. I mean yes I was fuckin drunk.. But probably for a good hour or so I was completely alone on the dance floor, well I couldn't find my friends. Nor did I look. It felt like it was me and the music, just going nuts. I mean other things happened but lets just say I left there a sweaty hot mess. Like shirt drenched, hair done. If it was only a little louder but damn..
After that just a relaxing weekend. Recovery so to speak.
Weeks been to good as well. Just me, one Sgt. and Duffy in the shop this week. So I have had a chance to relax and just get my hands dirty. Enjoy that factor alot more then having my face stuck in a book. But meh!
Nestly comes out tomorrow. Hopefully he brings a table, coffin, mixer, with him.. Ohh I can't wait if that is true.
Till next time..

Man I need to spread these things out. Just didn't feel right leaving without a picture.
Show I'm absoluty hooked on right now..

and damn I must say Peggie Bundy looks mighty fine after all them years.

Update?

2009-09-01T21:48:00.000-07:00

Working on a couple updates right now been trying to get my thoughts together and wrap around these two posts.

One of Dj AM passing, basically finding the pictures that I have have of him and which ones I like. the ones I took of corse..
And this pass weekend my homies weeding. Took a bunch of pics many of which I have already got rid of damn I was drunk

But yeah back at work another week. Things seem to be calming down I'm finally feel like I'm getting into the groove just got to knock out these damn CDC's I swear they are taking up my life.. And I'm only on the first volume out of a shit ton. Just thought I would post something real quick to say that I'm not dead and that I am working.. Should have taken a picture today.. In a hole up to my next working on a damn water line.. All's good though it was for my dorm so basically I get to say that I had a hand in keeping my hot water runnin.
So yeah they should be up within the next couple of day day's, I would like to say

Tony is in town this weekend dono if Chris is going to fly out.
Need to get my licence other then that.. Things are finally gonna slow down. Hopefully.. Just feel like things are moving so fast here it's already been a month here. Damn

Oh the photo is a quick one I took on the Greyhound home to Cali..

RIP Dj Adam Goldstein AM

2009-08-31T20:53:00.000-07:00

So what this has now happened over a week ago and I'm finally making time to write something about it..
Sittin here listening to Fix Your Face Vol. 2
To me right there makes it so self explanatory of what kind of man this was and how bad the community is going to feel the impact of a damn good Dj gone to soon. You know what I have been blessed to sit and talk to many Dj's in the business alot young and only a hand full old. But to see one at the top go out like that hits closer then just watching another celebrity die. I mean you know how many Dj's are alkies some druggies. Personally I stuck to the alkie side of things but man, do you build a tolerance because you doing it close to every day.. I could only imagine the tolerance AM had.
Anyways to some real thoughts.
I had the pleasure of meeting him twice in my life. I can't really say that I saw him live more then that as well. As you see from the pictures below last Halloween at Hard Festival in Los Angeles. He personally got to bless my tables. Just the way that he controlled the crowd and just put them were he wanted. He was like a puppet master up there. Plus his music selection it was like he took a beat made by someone else and found a way to make it his own. I mean I have listened, watched many of youtube video of AM. There was just a presence that he had. You knew he was the eargasm that you were having. He is one of those Dj's that the younger generation will speak of as someone to be like. Basically the man who brought Mash-Up's to the lime light, and made everyone in the community go nuts when he signed that million dollar year contract with Cesar's Palace.
An inspiration to what you can do with two turntables, a mixer, and a mind. A pioneer with Serato really showing everyone what you can actually do with it. What you should be doing with it. Showing everyone the power of music. Marching to the beat of your own drum.
"New York, New York big city of dreams, life just ain't always what it seems."
RIP AM, Mr. Goldstein.
You had made it. You owned the city. Now we watch you in our dreams.

Goin back to Cali Cali

2009-08-26T22:21:00.000-07:00

Alright so I meant to post some shit today wrote it this morning and was ready to submit and shit and lost it..
I'm not going to rewrite it. FUCK THAT
Anyways. Headed out to LA this weekend.. get in on Friday at 10:45 offer for anyone to pick my ass up.. haha.
The main part of the visit is that it's my boys wedding so I'm gonna be out there with the cam..
Taking pictures of everything I can for a good update this weekend
Not that I didn't do anything last weekend but since they kinda tie in together I might as well just make it one so you can put names to faces..
Assholes..
It's my turrets I swear.
Oh and the pictures is by a sol owner.. I'll meet him one day.. East Coast fella.

Another Weekend Experience

2009-08-18T20:14:00.000-07:00

So what else is new instead of being able to post stuff night by night everything again is gonna end up in one giant one. The sad part is that I’m writing this when I was supposed to be on a import cruise. Ride slept in woke her up still gonna go to the BBQ but missed the cruise. Oh well still time with people and a scene that I love. Late or not just happy to be going.
Well another adventure on the bus happened yesterday now at this point and this morning “technically.” Some fuckin Wigger would not Shut The Fuck Up. Talking some shit to some black dude and shit. Man I was ready to throw him off the bus myself I was fuckin tierd at like 5 in the morning and all I wanted to do was get home and get my 2 hours of sleep shit. Haha. But that was the end of the night so lets rewind the whole fuckin story..

So good friend Sylvia was in town this weekend along with friends. Mention this because I knew she was with Crystal but Jody, my old supervisor from Costco. Fuckin small ass world weird as fuck. Because next week my homies who work are comin out here, so there will be another strip update. Tangent shit. Back on track. But Saturday day yes. I got out to Treasure Island around like 3. Then headed to the pool. Lounged and headed to Planet Hollywood to eat and get something for the night.
View from Syls room
Anyways after diliberation and what not they all finally decided on going to Studio 54. Speaking of which that’s one place I want to to go the real one in NY. Damn I must be the most damn picky person in the world but honestly I would NOT recommend to come to Vegas and go there. Not worth the money or anything. Sound was way under what you would expect. I mean if they were going for a old feel they could have done a lot better. Just wasn’t really impressed. The Dj really couldn’t hold you was constently changing up the feeling every time you got into a groove. Well at least me. Maybe it was because I was sober. But yeah.

Anyways after that took my bus rides back to my hole…
Took some pics along the strip of the strip whatever wasn’t feelin it I was tierd.

Sunday
Alicia was late.. Haha.
So we didn’t make the cruise didn’t take any pictures.. Decide I would try to be some what social and meet some people.. Not really much to say since all we did was sit around and talk to people and each other.
It was noice to be around Hondas again I forget the feeling of it. Just going for a ride I feel like a dog just want to stick my head out the window and enjoy the wind in your face type shit.
But all in all a good day.

Oh and for thoughs that don't know the girl sittin next to me is Alicia.. Yeah tired as fuck and by that time we both needed a nap

IheartMYSOL quick update.

2009-08-17T19:57:00.000-07:00

Just something to pass the time as I build my weekend updating editing my Vegas shots is and has been done for most of the day and evening but shits not really loading on the net well tonight.. I need to get that shit in my fuckin room.. So that will probably be up tomorrow or something like that.. Probably finish the writing tonight. Anyways

Small update just showing the new piece to the puzzle that I have going on here as you all know I did alot of red last time. Since I could find myself a pair of the JDM del sol seats with the red stripes I had to search for shit that I could find.. Now its time to move on them.. More updates to come hopfully soon she is out here with me..

Weekend to come!

2009-08-13T19:08:00.000-07:00

Well as this week draws to end an end and a weekend is coming up soon I thought I would just put som thoughts down on a paper (not really paper seeing how this is al digital and what not ) but you get the idea anyways. Probably the second boringest week that I have had in the service right there next to the inprocessing week that I had at Sheppard. At least this time when the First Shirts and Commanders came into talk they didn’t talk down at us they treated us as equals and shared there experiences with us. Other then that just your typical safty this safty that briefing. Don’t drink, keep your penis in your pants, and anything else that would be considered fun. Just don’t do it.
Anyways looking forward to the weekend and what is has to offer. Won some tickets to go see boxing tomorrow but I really don't want to go alone. That and there are the drags tonight as well.. Maybe I'll just end up walking around again.. But there is the cruise on sunday for sure
Hopfully depending on what I do there are some more pictures up and something to go along with my flickr or how ever the fuck you spell that shit. So I’ll post some if I get them all done. I really don’t want to be editing the colors and not posting till mid next week about a weekend but who knows hopfully the weekend is so busy that it happens that way anyways.
Oh well enough on nothing.
Thank god it’s Friday and pay day. New TV hopfully this weekend
Stay Tuned.

Bus Ride!

2009-08-09T20:45:00.000-07:00

Well another week down and a boring ass one coing up as I get to sit like I did the first week of basic and here the speal about dangerous it is to actually live have sex and gamble. Oh and did I mention drinking. Yeah right.

Anyway got bored las tnight and thought it would be fun tio learn how the mass public transit system worked here in Vegas. Lets just say this it's alot easier to understand then LA because everything is on a main drag so to speak and it has a small radius outisde that main drag. were LA is more of just a cluster fuck. At $4 for an all day pass not bad to take it to the main drag and see if I can't find some wierd shit.
But that will be next time.
This time I went around old Las Vegas, the dirty side Fremont. Shoot I wanted to see something better but I probaboy got out there to late to se the good hot mess. Seeing how I didn't even leave base till about 2 and didn't get out there till 3. Got a couple shot nothing that I'm super proud of but then again I'm new to this shooting (photo) taking thing, so I guess what I'm saying is hold on I may get better with the more that I shoot.
Somthing like that.

So on with pic's

Pretty much self explanitory.

In the Ghetto!

A spot that I thought would look good with a sol shoved in the middle of it.

Doesn't everybody take a picture of this?

Never seen this place dead before.

Tony I miss you.. Haha

Interesting spot.. Wish I had a tripod and a car. That and photoshop layered idea would be cool here.

Thought this was interesting it was like the whole first floor of the garage was full of just old machines. The secerity there didn't think it was that interesting as soon as they saw me pull up my cam they were more on there way to talk to me. Snapped a couple quick this was the best

Kinda like a lastly shot for me because this was every were probably because it was like 5am

but it was poverty to.

All and all went well looking forward to the next time.

What I DO?

2009-08-05T21:22:00.000-07:00

Everyone seems to ask me the same question of WTF do I even do with the Air Force. Every time I tell them I deal with fuel you all think I'm out at the gas station just pumpin gas.
Well really I'm more behind the sence then that. I mean I do work on the gas station didn't take a pic of that but was out there the other day one pump motor died. So hopfully I get a chance to fix that in the comin weeks. But today was on the flight line. Were the jets refuel we were lookin at the hose's and the valves. Well I was just reviewin and learning again. But here is just a small idea. More pics will come.
And to think this was takin with a cell phone.. Oh damn.

A New Home and an End to Tech School

2009-08-01T13:50:00.000-07:00

Well a lot has happened and very quick in that fact.
This is the last entry having to do with Tech School.. Silence.. And Scene.
I really didn't have Internet back at Sheppard and was walking around grabbing it at two spots so I really didn't update in my final dates because I didn't really care to walk so far just to update.. your lose, my lose. Anyway I got my orders last week and jail broke that bitch forever. Well I will have to go back for upgrade training some day but that's not for a bit. And I finally made it to my new duty station which is Nellis AFB in Vegas.
Could you as for a better end result in all of this mess and shit. Get in trouble for alcohol and then they send you to Sin City. I say I came out on top. haha. Well I have almost been here for a week and still trying to get used to everything and in process this base. Most of which will happen next week as I attend briefings all next week. So much fun.. Sure!
I'm really happy to be out of the training envoirment I finally feel like I have a life again. I'll explain why

My first weekend in Vegas
Friday. Alicia picked me up and took me shopping. I can't believe that I now live in the same city as this girl. Jues. We went to a local import shop were she dropped some cash. And I just stood, sat, and laughed it was like I was watching myself or something with all the wants and shit. Then she took me to Walmart to get shit I needed for my room. Thank god she went because instead of my ass making like a bunch of trips she managed to pretty get me out of there with that one. All I need now is a TV and Internet, and my Xbox. But got back on base and she helped me to my room. Stayed and left but yeah.
No checking in and shit. So much better
Sat and Sunday the Morales were in town. Saw Ms. Morales and Christy for the first time this year. Of corse Mr. Morales and Chris to haha. But yeah they took me out to Primm for the those two days for Christy's birthday. Happy Birthday by the way. Great to see your face when you dad got you with song and cake. Thank you Morales's for the fun time, alcohol, and gambling experience. Probably won't be gambling all that much here. To pricey for nothing back.. haha.
But yeah what a way to enter into Vegas and life.
No questions asked just showed up on Monday and handled my business as it should be.

There should be some good updates now that I'm in a city that doesn't sleep and shit. Once I get my car and some other shit here I'll be sure to be takin pictures and updating alot more.
Should be fun as hell living here.

IheartMYSOL Part 1

2009-07-24T19:36:00.000-07:00

Well during the time at home I got a chance to work on my sol the biggest thing taking care of the suspension and tieing up some lose ends. It's not all done but it's the beginning to finally having a running sol again. As of this moment I will officially only be updating on my blog I'm done with all the commercial sites and furom updates I just think it causes drama and probably helps get my car stolen.. If you want past information there is one link that holds it all and has beena good time line since the begining.

http://teamsolcal.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=10726

sorry I don't know how to make the link click able and ever time I try it doesn't show up but copy and past your should be good..
Stay tunned. For more she will be on the move now. Once I get to my new base!

My Week Leave

2009-07-24T18:01:00.000-07:00

Well I said that I was going to do this later and now that I’m back at Sheppard I seem to have all the time in the world to break this thing down.. This leave that I got was for a bad reason in itself, but of course I used in a happy moment as well.
Lets start with the serious and later get to the fun.

The most serious issue was family and helping my mom usher her father to the other side. Its sad to say this but my mom is excellent in making at this and her attitude while it dips in these situations, no one has a stronger mom then I. The way she can stare death in the face and remain calm and bottle so many things up is impeccable. She may have not been there for the final breath but that’s the power that she has to make them feel okay when she leaves the room for a second that is there time to go and follow her out and up. Just the same with my dad followed her right outside and up and away. While my mother and I didn’t see eye about this visit and some other things I know that with a couple phone calls and flowers she will take me back.

Llyod Schwiekard
while I didn’t know him that amazing my mother spoke about him with amazing story. My fondest memory is when I got to spend a week on his project ostrich farm in Arizona. He was a man that did a lot. A taxi driver at 21, a Merchant Marine, Army Vet, insurance salesmen, ostrich rancher, just to name a few of them. My mom always says that I look like him and I would have to agree I hope I look like him when I’m that old. Not a wrinkle on his face. An adventures man cut down to a bed in the end. It was his time because after a week of rest a man like that needed a new adventure. To grandpa and the new adventure I know your on. Just have your stories ready when we meet again.

It was also great to see my little brother and my cousin Kelly ( I don’t even remember the last time that I saw her maybe like a teenager or something like that). Man I miss my little bro. So much fun, so alike but so different, while we fight and say stupid shit I would never want anyone else.

But lets get into the fun

Great spending time with Steff again. Thank you for taking me every were I pretty much needed to go. It felt like good old times and I can always count on you for that you made me feel like I was at home
Chris - look at you all growing up and shit. Getting your Dj shit all right and comin up on the game. Lookin good, not drinkin as much has paid off. Can’t wait for the twitter saying you have the new coche.
Tony – my secret gay lover.. Oooppss. Anyways pookie. Thank you for making me switch over to Tmobile and the great jokes, great times. Always kept a smile on my face. Galaxy FTW. Keep getting your shit together and good luck not being fat.
Grace – My little Asian millionaire. I’m so happy your doing decent and I say decent because your gonna do such big things this is only a stepping stone. My designer I’ll keep losing weight and getting stronger so you have a good model.
Blahnik what a cat haha..
Ben - It’s always good to see my little brother from another mother. Thank you for the Pedo Bear and lunch. Like always your ahead of the curve and doing good.
Compita – Keep going till you get that Shierf status. I'm happy you finally out on your own. Proud of you mang.
Yayo – lookin good speed racer. Haha hope Costco treats you well still and keep movin up in there.
Uly - wifer for lifer still. Some things never change but I'm happy that you finally put a ring on her hand. Glad to see your growin up

Last but not least

Alicia – I finally got a full day with you and finally got to know you and what your about. Getting lost out of nervousness not knowing what to see or what to do probably some of the most awkward moments of my life, but well spent. And now with a 2 year grantee only time will tell.

Night by night review.
Sat- Rumba Room double 2 for 1 on patron. What a ice breaker
Sun – Galaxy Bar time with Tony and Grace, then to Old Town Pasadena
Mon- Comedy probably the best show I ever have been to Joey Diaz and Jeff Garcia.
Tues – All Star Game with the Tiger homies. Then Havana House
Wed – Alicia that says it all
Thurs – La Cita how that place has changed but can’t beat records.
Fri – Villa Soriso Chirs still putting it down
Sat – Rumba Room again.

It was fun seeing everyone again and I'm upset that I didn't get to see everyone good news is that I'm a drive away and i can provide shelter for when you come out to visit me. If you haven't heard were I'm going to be stationed I will let you know once I get my orders and head out there just stay posted
Sorry that this took so long to create havn't had internet.

On the Move..

2009-07-11T06:36:00.000-07:00

"I love Cali in the Summer Time"

Anyways I may not be there yet but i thought I would share the fact that I finally going home. I mean it may be only for a week but still it's a much needed week.. The sad part is the only real reason I'm going back is to be with family and see my grandpa for probably the last time seeing how I'm not really in Cali any more.
Currently in the Dallas/ Fort Worth TX airport.. Fuck there are alot of army guys around.. There is at least like 1 per plane.. I mean besides the Air Force people that I was with.. i have seen none and shoot I don't even see any of them..

Ahh pulling this out in Phoenix decided just to make this travel one big post..
Something I learned is that if your in uniform sometimes you upgraded to first class. Oh well would rather be super comfy then in uni..
Dallas/Fort Worth Internet is T-Mobile
Austin is Biongio something like that
Phoenix is Free!!

I'm gettin giddy knowing that I'm going to be home soon.. Strange because I'm happy to be going home but yet right when I get ff my mom wants me to come to the hospital to see Granpa. Up and down type thing. But I would rather see him then not so I'm thankful that my mom got this done for me to come home. On the last flight I received a voice mail back at Sheppard the squadron is going on lock down. Now I'm just super happy that I'm not there.. Haha.
Burbank here I come.

2009-07-08T22:10:00.001-07:00

Finally I think after close to three years or so I finally bought myself some new clothes.. Nothin much really but its a start.. haha
Just thought I would show them off.

Vintage FTW!

Scare of a LifeTime

2009-07-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

Had a scare that still isn't over. I'm so sick of being stuck in this training environment, and honestly this wouldn't be such a scare if I wasn't here.
Last night my Grandfather, my last grandparent, suffered a massive stroke. What is still to come is unknown. He is currently stable but that's all I really know. It's hard realizing that my mom really is almost all alone. Shit I'm out of the house, Nick is gone to and her baby is away at camp. It was very scary not being able to get a hold of her like usual. But this time it really set in that we not going to be there to protect our mother and it's not as easy to go back home at a moments notice. I'm a person who usually doesn't get home sick but just hearing this news and finally hearing her voice I couldn't do anything but break down in tears.
People say that my sensitive side is my strongest attribute, but man do tears hurt.. Like razor blades slicing my eyes and then down my cheeks. But I guess that's price you pay when you do finally cry it true means pain, letting your heart finally release what has putting it threw pain.
The hardest part in life is crossing the finish line. What ever that finish line may be. The journey to it is always the fun part. Things, people, idea, places they all come and go. Stay around and ch allege us while others are met and beaten or got away. But when it comes to being that one to usher and hold that strip showing the end of the race must be the hardest thing ever, because your there for the end. It's like the ending of the joyous celebration. It's not about the pizza party after the season or the celebration dinner after the fact.. It's the moment between because in real life once you do cross that finish line __________________.

PedoBear Came...

2009-07-03T14:47:00.000-07:00

Oh hell yeah today may suck for were I'm at.. But I got a delivery back at home..
Come close kids I don't bite. Maybe my friend will though.

Ugh Week.. Happy 4th.. Sure

2009-07-01T18:59:00.000-07:00

Well what a week this has been and shit I'm only at the mid point. If anything this week really just hits an all time low in my mind. NO I didn't get in trouble. So at least I guess I have one thing to be happy about. But seriously when the fuck did my life become about praying not to be in trouble, I feel like I'm a 12 year old hiding there report card from there parents so they don't have there ass beat. Anyways what really is getting me down is that I signed, sadly, another 30 day admin hold on Tuesday. The reason why that is so depressing is that nothing happend the last time that I was on this shit. So what is to make me believe that anything will get done this time besides me sitting here for another 30 days.
I'm getting tired of all the new kids looking at me like I'm some kind of bad person because I'm here after I graduated tech school. I'm tired of being called that guy for a situation that everyone hears threw the grape vine then comes to me to ask if its true like I really had some balls while doing it and thought it would be cool to do. I mean there are times that I really feel like walking into whom ever office I need to step into and tell them FUCK THIS I'm out. Because I didn't come into this bitch to play games and be rung around like a little kid. Fuck that I came here as a last resort to jump start my life and get something "GOOD" going for me. Getting out of my situation so that I could go back to school, learn a skill at the same time, and get some unique life experience's. Not be treated like I'm a kid.
Anyone who really knows me knows I have a problem with people telling me what to do or even sugjesting what to do. I have to much pride to ask for help. Probably while I'm single and only have 5 ride or die friends in my life.
Enough of this rant. Just know I hate this week..
I'm going to hate this weekend because I can't do anything, because I'm not allowed to act my age.. Ah shit!

Talk about a Fuckin Week

2009-06-26T18:34:00.000-07:00

Talk about a FUCKIN WEEK.
Well my admin hold is officially over and well now it seems I just play another game of waiting to see what is going on with me but this time there is no count down. My roommate is gone now. Pretty weird being in a room by myself again havn't had that in over 6 months. Now I wish I really had some type of entertainment in the room Amazing how boring your room can be when you have nothing but 4 white walls surrounding you. Kinda saddin but at the same time. I would rather live alone anyways. Enjoy the cold and the dark to much. Never said anything but leaving the bathroom light on at night. Damn that was anoying.. Haha.
Oh and fuck friday especially man.. I got chewed out by like 5 MTL's (Military Training Leaders) felt like I was being chewed out by TI for a moment. Then I was like I have a fuckin Civil Engeneering badge on my chest you'll fuckin need my ass when you need something done. I mean these MTL's went so far to use basic mentality type things on me. Don't get me wrong I listened to and was like shit, I fuckin hate this but really all it did was anger me more about this place ans choice. There extensivness was even to say that there is a express lane out of 11 days. Which a part of this day almost made me think that I want to take it. I'm sick of not knowing anything and being treated like a little kid. I'm fuckin 24, I did my school as far as the AF is considered. Let me go back to school and get my degree already.
Some day's you just feel like you should have got a job a Tmobile and kept up with the DJing at least I would be livin pour and livin rather then livin this bullshit and still pour.

RIP Michael Jackson

2009-06-25T15:59:00.000-07:00

Today is a sad day for everyone who loves music. An end of a era, the end of a legend. Not many words can say what this man has meant to a generation, and how far his music has reached.
How many people he touched.
Truly a sad day..

RIP Michael Jackson.
The day the world cried.

Another Week Bites the Dust

2009-06-20T20:35:00.000-07:00

Had to include this picture kinda made me laugh.. people think us people from LA are savages or something because we riot..
I mean shit 2pac said it best.
"Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die
In L.A!"

So another week has gone by and nothing yet..
Good news is that the admin hold is up on Thursday. Thus saying I'm not expecting anything to happen till that date passes. So part of me is like fuck it you have been here this long what is another week of waiting for something to happen. Especially seeing that they have to make me sign another paper about something because they have no reason to keep me here past then. As if I'm going to sign something without a explanation after this shit.
Anyways I think that sums up the week.
I mean shit all I do is pretend to wash things.. I have about a nap a day and I watch TV in one of the day rooms.. That and walk around the base and go to the library to get online every once in a while.

Next thing on the list is what I have been reading and dieing to say.

What the fuck is up with the people who work at the cafeteria's. I mean shit all the black women look like motha fuckin peacocks with there random ass colored spotted hair. Like there bangs will be fuckin red or there ends are blond, purple, blue.. What the fuck. I will have to take pictures this up and coming week for the entertainment value for this thing. Also how the AF (Air Force) has all these standards and shit on to get into the base and everything and I swear they hire anyone to work at this place.. The pictures will come and blow your mind.. haha

Another thing is that I will be hatin alot more on this thing.. I need to take a picture of this riced out sol. Didn't get around to it today. But should have it soon.
Stay tuned this shits about to get real.

Laker's Win

2009-06-14T16:28:00.000-07:00

It's over done again and lets raise the motha fuckin banner.
The Lake Show wins the title and about time that were back up on top.
Kobe for MVP
Da boy done it again..

Congrats Steff.

2009-06-13T12:30:00.000-07:00

Today is a sad day for me because were I'm at and were I should be.
Today is a proud day for me because my best friend graduated from college.
Steff I have known you since we were just a bunch of little tikes at Towne & Country and have entered and left each other lives ever since then. And growing especially close after I turned 18. You honestly have been the one person who has been there since then. You have been there for every step that I took in college and shoot you had a better idea of what I would be good at more then me. You plan and plotted my path threw scraficing you own along the way to help me along. I'm so proud of you and finally completing this task. That shit alot of people really don't complete or ever even strive for. We have been threw many of classes we have dropped many of classes. Thank you for making my college experience, my life an ejoyable. I feel like a parent proud of there child at this moment and stuck in tears because I can't be there in person to hug and wish you well.
Steff I'm proud of you, proud to be your close friend, and wish you the best with everything.
Love you. Till the day that I die.

Penguins Win

2009-06-12T19:34:00.000-07:00

Fuck yeah Sid the Kid did it and wasn't even on the ice for the 3rd period.

Quote of the Day.

2009-06-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

your not going to hell. Your just joining the rest of us in alterted version of heaven.
-Me.

Phase 1 Again

2009-06-07T08:34:00.000-07:00

Lets just start this off by saying..
Another day has gone by more names have come and more names have gone. Other got there orders and others got in trouble. Personally I seem to be on every negative of every aspect of this ratio. Losing my key yet again and getting phased back yet again. And at the same time not getting my orders. It sucks when all you look forward to in the day is a little 5 minute segment when they hand out the orders that they picked up the day before.
I'm so sick of this place. I mean I'm personally seeing why people of my age group and rank commit suicide in the Air Force. No body take this as I'm going to do it. Because I have no plans of doing that at all! Shit all I need is 5 minutes with my little girl (my sol) and I'll be on cloud nine again. What I mean by this is when you this age personally I feel like I'm old enough even threw my faults and mishaps for people to speak to me like a grown up person and not talk down to me just because I'm what just another airman in training. I mean what does that show me besides shit let me be a dick when I get rank because what, I can? Now that just seems wrong because once you get rank the Air Force is supposed to feel more and more like yours because your aging in it and ushering in the younger generation.. So why the fuck once they get to Tech School are so many NCOs fuckin dick and assholes. Then they come and say the operational Air Force is nothing like this and people are more relaxed. Well shit I'm getting paid right? I'm working right? What makes this not part of the operational Air Force?
More then anything I just want a break from all the bullshit that is "TRAINING" situations I'm happy that I'm so close to the end but now that I am I'm more iritated because I'm waiting on one simple thing to be leaving.
Send me back to Cali

2009-06-04T18:49:00.000-07:00

I hate the Giants but I love this guy

Randy Johnson earns his 300th..
Congrats I remember watching this guy since I was kid. Second all time favorite baseball player.

Not every Tunnel is that light

2009-06-04T16:09:00.000-07:00

During school this place wasn't bad but now that I'm done with school and the I'm at the tunnel and supposed to be gone from this place and I'm stuck here I feel like I'm standing at the end of this tunnedl and there is nothing but darkness around me in all aspects.
I feel like demons are teasing me by saying one thing thing then slashing my back with the real idea or thing that is goin on. Here I thought that I was in training and going to get credit for it. Well because I'm not the right skill level I'm just there as person to fill space, so to speak. People tell me that what I would have my orders in a week or so. WELL IT'S BEEN A FUCKIN WEEK. Shit they havn't even passed out any orders this whole week, because the MTL that does that was on leave this whole week. Yet another slash. Another thing is people treating me like I'm 18 and shit. I know that most people here are young but common anyone who looks me in the face to talk to me can tell that I'm older then the average person here. So don't treat me like that. I have always hated when people have told me what to do outside of parents and work type thing.
I remember in Fight Club WTF was his name when he first met Tyler Durden on the plane talking about single serving friends. I feel thats all I'm around right now and thats what the Air Force is built upon. People not really becoming more then that because people are always moving around. No wonder everyone gets married quick it's the oonly stable friendship that you could have for more then just 2 years..
Riht now as it stands I miss my old life.
My car, my friends, my family.
and have been finding my peace in my music.

2009-06-01T18:42:00.000-07:00

Well talk about relief for the first time in a long time. It had 5 months since the last time that I had a normal day as a “civilian,” considering things now, and man did it feel good to be part of just the mass again.
I probably have not laughed that hard like I did over this weekend since being back at home with my close friends and that’s for sure. Some of the funniest moment I had ever been apart of a mix of Country East with City West. Quote of the weekend
“Twitter that bitch!”
So over used and out played. But I laughed so hard every time the phrased was used. Because I did twitter some of the stuff we did and viewed. I mean if I had twittered everything I would have had a page of shit. Friday, staying in Wichita Falls we traveled the less traveled path by going to the bars that no Airman would be at. Starting at Montana were we saw the One Armed Pirate Lady, who had a sock over her stub, and was just nasty as hell. Then next door to Lucky noice looking but there was no one there. To Beer Thirty, one word WOW, do they really get into there karaoke. Lastly was Outskirts were we (Joe Wimmer, John Wimmer, and me) looking for the gay club Cloud 9 just trying to top the weird shit we had already scene that night. Well we didn’t top the one armed lady but we met these two chicks, dumb as fuck and slow, but they gave us good entertainment for the rest of the night at IHOP. After IHOP John and I went back to the base as Joe went to his axe murdering, drug pushing hotel. Fucking shit brown wall with red classic sign of horrible things to come.
Sure enough when we ran into Joe in the morning he had a story to tell about the hotel.

This is a picture of a piece from the shower. He went on to tell us about how he felt like he was going to die all night and his BWM was going to get robbed. Mainly his thing was how dirty he felt on the bed because the sheet alone had 5 cigarette burns in it, and the top cover looked like something out of a porno. Saturday couldn’t have started off any better. When we got to Joe’s apartment we were all ready to crash finally seeing how we all got like no sleep the night before. Fast forward time to the Ranger’s game. My personal highlight was seeing Andruw Jones go 0-5

Not the actual game shot but you get the idea. Same result as always.. K

Jo’s highlight was the people around him. To his right as he said the older butch lady group, one bitch had flames rings on both arms on her biceps one being red and the other blue. In front an Asian family looked like they were fresh off the boat. Also in front was this guy with the damn cheesiest smile we had ever seen in our lives shit was huge. John and Me to the left. And lastly behind were these fat older white ladies. Perfect seats. Then to Denny’s were we all laughed like we were high as hell. You should have seen the staff and walked in there and you would have been dieing as well. Some black dude with the front of his head shaved with a short Afro in the back. WTF. These Muslim looking white and Asian people came in weird. Lastly the fat ass that sat behind us that made Joe seriously laugh soda threw his nose onto his pancakes, absolutely perfect. After the game tour of downtown Dallas and damn there is some good looking nightlife will defiantly come back and check that shit out.
Sunday shoot. John slept all day.
Thank you Joe Wimmer for the hospitality and overall fun time. I will defiantly have to come back to Dallas. I don’t think I have ever seen that many blondes in once place, one city, one club for even that note. Jesus they come like a school of fuckin fish. Oh and Dallas soccer mom’s WOW.

Because of you I will Twitter more then ever. But not enough to get robbed I promise!
“Twittered that Biatch!”
www.twitter.com/Muella

Defered...

2009-05-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

Another lesson in life seems to be upon me once again.. Here I thought everything was taken care of with my incident but yet I'm slapped in the face like then 24 hours before departing home.
So much for Japan as a first base.
I'm not on a Admin hold and waiting for my diversion paperwork to go threw so that I can get new state side orders. MTL's and other people told me that I should be here for another week or two. I'm hoping the sooner the later so that I can move on from tech school. Seeing how that I'm now back on details and cleaning the squadrent on a daily bases. Its sad to see the new kids come in and here I am with my AFC badge on cleaning along side of them because I can't leave. When they say the quickest way out of here is to stay out of trouble they were right. Seeing how the other half of my class is at home with there families in NY.
My mind is racing now of all the new posibilities because I have already looked at all the downs and had a drink to go with the old thoughts of fun. So now it's all just wonder of were I'm going to be. Like trying to find Carmen San Diego.. haha.
Keep yall posted on were I end up.

Countdowns

2009-05-19T19:04:00.000-07:00

Comin down to a week left before my training session for the moment is over.. A stint of 14 days at home shall follow and then off to Japan. One thing about Tech School and Basic is the feeling of that movie Ground Hog's day were Bill Murray woke up everyday just to find himself on the same day that he went to sleep in.. He didn't notice it at first but at the end of the movie he began to notice that he was trapped in the same day. Seems to e the same for me as well. Except this time I have a true dte when I escape the rituals known as training and head off.
So much I wanna do and so little time to do it. People that I want to see and visit. So many things to say before I leave.
Now that I'm getting into this blogspot thing with the proper internet when I get home and my phone this should become a very colorful and insitful blog.
8 day's FTHMFW!

American Me.

2009-05-16T11:29:00.000-07:00

So finally after all these years I watched.
American Me.
My nickname threw high school, my name on the street. Finally understanding a reason for the name. Don’t get me wrong I knew that I was the one white guy in the sense of Hispanic culture. But after seeing J.D. and how he just fit in, how that color didn’t matter because he respected the street and respected and embraced the culture. To me and probably to J.D. it just feels right, like you belong your actually a part of the familia. No matter how long I’m gone for those street those people, those homies (Yayo, Compita, Uly, Goofy, so many more) always accept me with open arms. No other place I would rather be then in East Los.

Food For thought
It’s amazing how much you actually learn from a white wall. It’s like a blank canvas waiting to be painted on, a place were your mind could run wild. You can just look at it and create every thought that you fear, or want, dream, dare. But it’s amazing that sometimes when you stare at the blankness you can clear your thoughts since there is nothing to distract you from the rest of the world and then it just seems like answers to those questions your never really willing to spend time on finally jump out at you in full effect.

Quote of the Day.

2009-05-16T11:23:00.000-07:00

Quote of the day..
Airman Hernandez
I hate movies like this (watching Notorious) it’s like Passion of the Christ you know how it’s going to end

F&F4

2009-05-10T13:29:00.000-07:00

Good movie overall and Ofcorse being shot in LA made me think of home and the scene. Lets start off with that I think they did a very good job with story and points in LA that some people actually use this time. Like the golf course off the 101N and shit. One thing like they always get wrong is the glamorization of the scene. Women just throwing themselves at you for the how tight your car is.. BULLSHIT. Girls all mackin in the club and gettin down at the shows.. Sure I wish. Another thing is that NEON is out. Same with split hood crazy ass body kits. That was so F&F1. Common all they had to do was go to Eibach once and they would know what is like in the WEST.
But lets get to something that hit me when Mia was talking to Bryan about why he gave Dom the keys in the first one and asking about if he really is a good guy or if he really is a bad guy playing a a good guy. Made me really think about myself right now especially seeing how I'm part of a government agency a place that I never really saw myself. It also reminded me of how much fun my life was doing what I want and living the way I was sure I wasn't makin much but ti feel the enjoyment was so much more. But its early in this adventure and I have things to learn and places to go.
But my heart still lives and dies in LA.

Lastly the way they left the movie you know there is going to be a 5 I give it two years before they come up with something to go off. Hopefully by then she is ready for her appearance

I still havn't decided what side I'm on yet.

Thoughts...

2009-05-06T19:25:00.000-07:00

I have to get into a better habbit with this..
AF update. Grad date should be set in stone now. May 26th. With that comes excitement about finally being able to go home for a little bit, even though it has really only been what 4 and 1/2 months, and a lot of worry about getting everything done to live in a whole different country. Another thing that bugs me out is change, I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons the other day, and I remember him talking about change, watching him change, and his surroundings changing.
Speaking of old people my grandfather is moving into an asisted living. Sadding to me clearly my favorite grandparent of them all. Greatfully he is the last living and I don't see him goin down any time soon. I see alot of myself in him and I see my life unfolding like his sometimes. It scares me but at the same time I look at all the things that he has done and I'm happy. I dono what to think about my mothers stance on the issue. She sent out an email about it and she really focused the email more about how she feels like she is putting him into a kindergarden facility how they display there paintings and people sit there and have to be told not to do that or not to touch, look here, don't, stop.
I would think more she is just fearing of the alsimers, which also fears me as well even at this young age. (I remember when I got the card in basic, just to see his handwriting brought a tear. I look at it every night) Another thing of sadness was listening to this comedians story upon drinking and his DUI's. Don't get me wrong there was comedy but you know when they do that serious part in the middle or near the end. Well it was about alcohol and it made me think. He had these four rules for you to think about if you had a problem or not
1. Drinking during the work week.
2. Saying you'll just have one and go home and it turning into an all night thing
3. Blacking Out
4. Setting periods of time off and just hitting it hard again. Making you think that your in control..
It's funny when he started saying those rules and I thought of myself I really fell into all of them because I have done all of those thing so many times. Thats when I knew it was actually good that I was in a alcohol program to address some issues so that I can get back in control of it. Do I think I'm there yet. NO. But at least I'm identifying problem
Lastly.

Weekly Shitzu

2009-05-02T21:26:00.000-07:00

Another week down and soon to be out of this place...
Payday on Friday.. Thank god for that.. Even though I barely spend any money here.. But damn it feels good finally being able to save. Like actually putting money into a savings account regularly type shit..
Anyways.
Started the ADEPT program hopefully I can finish here and not have it drag with me to Japan or shit is gonna get complicated and shit with my personal life. Pretty dumb if you ask me the people there really don't take it serious I wouldn't either if I was there age. I mean shit it's takin me all the way to 24 to even think that I have a problem with drinking. But thats another rant probably for thursday after the second meeting and shit.
Vegas Invation for the Del Sol's is going on and I'm upset that I'm missing that I think the best thing that came of it so far is that I got Shanes number back thank you Alicia for that one and getting him to get in contact with me.. Everyone is just lucky I didn't get a chance to unleash the K yet.
Lastly I'm gonna end with an update on school.. I have never had a teacher tell me that we need to slow down the learning because we are ahead of schedule.. Which I don't mind watching movies and getting paid to do it. But you have to sides that I want to leave and get back home to Cali sooner then later but I want to take our time and finish on time so that I can see Steff's graduation and plan thing out to see other people and do other things..
P.S. No new pic's probably tomarrow morning sunrises..

2009-04-25T16:13:00.000-07:00

3 weeks and finally back up to Phase 2 and shit and at least I know I'll make it threw this weekend without a problem of getting in trouble..
Been spending alot more time in my room if anything I have become a social quiet person because of the damn incedent..
Dono how it's blessing yet and I really dono all my punishment yet either..
One thing it has givin me some time to walk around at night and take pictures...
So if anything I finding another out lit for me to do instead of just always drinking. and for sure it's alot cheaper then drinking all the time.
Here are some of my pic's
No photo shopping done thats the next step I need to start learning.

A True Lesson

2009-04-05T09:52:00.000-07:00

So seriously I have a problem…
I no longer control alcohol when I drink…
Seriously. After what I saw and became on friday I can say this. It wasn't long before I got here that I had this problem and really took till the other night for it truly to scare me finally. I not only did one of my typical black out ordeals were I dono what happened the biggest thing that finally scared me was the fact that I woke up in a Hospital with no recollection of anything that had happened to me or why I was there.
Not to mention that the next day I had to start facing the consequences of my actions. Turns out I disrespected a senior NCO and because of that they called security forces and I was arrested. For being drunk in public and not following a direct order.
Pretty scary to think that I wondered around for an hour on base with a beer in my hand not knowing anywhere that I went or were I was going. It truly goes to show that there is such a thing as the unconscious brain, because I made it back to the squadron somehow.
Pretty ashamed of my actions and have been staying in my room allot because of the way I feel that people look at me now.
I know that everyone fucks up someday or somehow, but I would rather have something on a smaller scale then this. Not something that is going to be put down on paper something that is going to follow me any were that I go as an Airman.
The worst now is now it's in the Commanders hands of what even happens to me and I'm supposed to carry on as if nothing is on my mind and holding me back..
$13 bottle really can turn into $2000 in fines and other junk.

Growin Pain's

2009-03-31T18:11:00.000-07:00

So here is what is going down.
Fist off I need to talk about the porcelain throne as I like to call it.
Most of you will just call it a toilet.
I think with the creation of laptops and wireless internet and all things to make life "Simpler" made it easier for people like to me to multitask in the weirdest places.
Honestly I think that most peoples great ideas come when there on their throne. Just imagine what is going to happen when finally the right person goes and uses his time wisely will taken care of other business.
Also why is there a thing saying how much time American's or people waste of their life on the toilet…
Now that would be a poll.

Anyway personally I would say I'm in a struggle point only because my own head puts me there.
You know I have come to accept that I'm going to Japan and I don't think that is what is making me struggle more the idea is that I found someone that I would love to take with me… As in yes I'll say it… I would honestly settle down with.
But well it's to early. Way to early to ask her to one get married and then move half way across the world to what is another day at this point… LOL
I dono if it's just because I'm finally calming down as a person since the Air Force is finally making me take the responsibility for myself, as in paying bills and just doing my own budget and tax's, the simple things of taking care of ones life. that I finally think that I'm ready to share that with someone and I actually I feel like I have something to offer rather then just taking everything and giving back just a piece.

Lastly... I would say another reason is I'm afraid I'm running the same way that my grandfather did.. Not to say taht he wasn't happy or anything but it's strange. Military, personal struggles in life, but he never settled down that long. I mean he did marry once but devorced and in the end has a women now but just to take care of him. And in the end I want a pair of rocking chairs and I want to just sit there and talk.

Restart, Rebirth, Moving On

2009-03-28T12:52:00.000-07:00

So it's been over a year and alot has changed in my life.

In what I have done and what I'm doing now.

What I am as a person and were I'm goin.

I'm going to start this up "finally"

I'm in a place were I actually feel more comfortable putting out there for everyone to read and listen then to just hold it in..

Update.

I'm apart of U.S. Air Force now.

A1C Mueller

I'm gonna be in Yokota Japan starting mid June.

Alot to do till then and alot to talk about.

Openin Up the Doors...

2008-02-27T00:18:00.001-08:00

Well lets just get the ball rolling shall me...
Or unhitch the first Mule from the post and take her for a stroll.

Anyways joined this place lookin for music. I noticed alot of dj's jumpin on blogspot with tuns of knowledge of records and other random tid bits of information. So i was like fuck it I might as well make one of my life and have some things to say for myself..

So now the Stable is open..