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If I were to be fined for not updating I think I would have a pretty hefty bill, JP alone has sent me like 4-5 nasty IMs demanding where my updates are well, here you go buddy.

Quakecon was a lot of fun, it was great to spend time with Erik and do the usual Quakecon things. The trip there had its oddities like the evil bump that caused Mike’s explorer to get angry at us and leak power steering fluid all over the place and have the battery go dead as well. Turns out the battery was the incorrect size anyway and after replacing it with a new one from wal-mart (and acquiring a shiny new wal-mart cart to carry our stuff into quakecon) we were on our way again. Dallas is great to visit but I don’t think I would want to live there, they don’t seem to have a large number of improvements over say what Tulsa or Oklahoma City have to offer but they have tons of traffic and everything is really far apart, lots of driving… etc.

Last weekend Matt and I had the pleasure of moving Max into his new apartment in Norman. Now we had planned on a great trip just moving furniture and the like, well Max had something different in mind. He decided to squeeze in the idea that he was going to drive his beetle down there and then stay there since school started that Monday therefore making Matt and myself ride in “The Beast” and be punished by it’s lack of air conditioning. Ok, no big deal right? Heat advisory… no AC… we can survive! Afterall going 75 down the turnpike we should get some decent air circulation. Unfortunately the vehicle had some other issues. First of all about 20-30 miles before hitting the McDonalds at the halfway point towards OKC the vans temperature began to redline, Matt attempted to correct this by throwing the vehicle out of overdrive and turning on the heater ><>< . Now since there was some hot water flowing through the heater core it did help lower the temperature but on the downside our feet were now nice and roasty. Oooh boy! We decide to pull over at the McDonalds to investigate and verify that there is plenty of coolant in the van, and there was -- poor thing just couldn't keep up. Matt goes to turn the key and the van will now not start, ugh ugh. Turns out that they had the carburetor recently replaced because the vehicle was dying frequently. Yeah well you could totally say that whatever they did they didn't adjust it correctly because when we finally got it started that thing was blowing out all sorts of smoke, yuck. Now whenever we came to a stop the van would not remain running so Matt had the pleasure of throwing the vehicle into N and attempting to left foot brake + right foot gas to keep the damn thing alive, hilarity ensued as we drove through the OU campus where there are stoplights every 2.5 feet due to all the crosswalks.

To put the icing on the cake we had the distinct pleasure of inhaling gasoline fumes most of the trip there and the entire trip back, headaches are not fun.

Ok so after all that moving was easy. We ate at Fazoli’s and were on our way back to Tulsa to rejoice at the aspect of riding in my truck again.

The Beast

Video Hilarity — Lots of Rain

The head csm recently transferred to a different store, crazy times. I applied to move up at work and its possible that I may get to, more money and perhaps better hours too, will just have to wait and see. Other than that it’s been the usual thing at work — crazy people sometimes but I enjoy my job.

Ok so uhmn other than that…. sup?

Yeah I know… next time I won’t wait so long to update. If I forgot to mention something someone please hit me, other than that I hope everyone had a great first week of school, Erik is moving soon yay!!!!

Have a good weekend guys!

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