GNRS 2011...

I have been sitting on these for a while now...since January 29th...Lagging.

Great freaking day! Joe and I cruised up to Pomona for the Grand National Roadster show. This show creeps up in the beginning of the year every year...and I always miss it...Not this year, folks.

We met up with Ron, Alan and Rick. They had brought down two of Alan's cars from the Central Valley...The debut of his Chrysler Imperial "The Crown Imperial" and his Barris Custom 1966 Buick Wildcat "Mystique". I can't say enough about the hospitality of these guys...totally awesome! Thanks again, guys!

We were allowed to enter the show before the general public as we flew in under Alan's exhibitor badges. Cruising around first thing in the morning with hundreds of AMAZING vehicles with hardly anyone around...AWESOME!

For lunch Alan hooked us up with tickets to join him at the GNRS Hall of Fame luncheon...Tons of the top car customizers throughout the years and their families all in one room and some how I was allowed to be in the middle of it...Super cool experience! So many big names it was cool...George Barris, Sam and Chip Foose, Bill Hines, Blackie Gejeian, Gene Winfield...to name a few. Jimmie Vaughan was nominated into the GNRS Hall of Fame and after his acceptance speech he busted out his guitar and belted out one of his songs...really freaking cool...great experience!

After that we we took in the rest of the show and then hit the road. Great day...Great show...I highly recommend it!

Thanks again to Ron, Alan and Rick for the hospitality! You guys are awesome!

Happy St. Patrick's Day...

May your Irish eyes be squinty...And your corned beef a plenty!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Our second corned beef of the day is in the crock pot as I type...can't wait! I smell corned beef tacos in my very near future. Mmmmmmmmmmm...

St. Patrick's Day Parade..

It's that time of year again!

Bug Update...Number Sixteen...

One headlight down...one to go.

As of late I have gained a few new hobbies, a few new financial obligations and a few more dumb grown-up responsibilities which have halted the finalizing or at least roadworthy-ing up of the bug. I am so ready just to be able to cruise this damn car.

The new wiring harness showed up last week...as did the new headlight buckets.

I am proud to say...Operation: Finish This Dumb Car...Is in half swing...almost 3/4 swing. I'll keep you posted when it is in full swing.

Finish up the hood seal
Install the new hood release cable
Install new dash and dash components
Front passenger turn signal
Re-Wire with the new wiring harness
Slap the pedals back in
@ this point it'll be roadworthy-ish

New seat covers and padding
Finish the carpet in front half of the car
Bambus package tray
New steering wheel
New tires
New wheels or a powder coat to the oldies
New rear passenger trim - I dented the last one with an ice chest
@ this point it'll be roadworthy-ish and looking complete

Narrowed front beam
New brakes...Discs maybe
Bags...Maybe
Engine rebuild/freshen up
Transmission rebuild/freshen up
@ this point...totally roadworthy...totally finished

Still quite a bit of work ahead...but not too much.

Oh yea...and the trailer...

Wine Tasting...

For St. Valentine's Day Megan purchased us a little wine tasting rendezvous up to Temecula. She had also swindled Joe and Summer into joining us...and we cashed it in this past weekend.

There were a few hiccups with the tour:

Instead of a tour bus that seated 40 they showed up with a shotty party bus w/stripper pole that probably legally sat 24 or so people. The tour coordinator made up for that one by driving people up and back in his own car and picking up the tab for tastings at the last two wineries...Solid move on his part.

The trip home we ALMOST made it all of the way back to our destination...luckily for us our bus driver(Mr. Personality, himself! This was sarcasm) pushed our smoking bus hard enough to get us off of the freeway and within a few blocks of our cars. Aaaaand by smoking bus I don't mean a bus you smoke in...or like a super sweet bus that is smoking hot...I mean like a bus that is on fire...Smoking bus. It could have been much worse...we could have been stuck on the side of the freeway. Like another wine group I know of. But all in all I'd say it worked out pretty well.

It was a pretty solid day...we hit up 4 wineries...All of them new to me...Briar Rose, Callaway, Churon and Stuart Cellars. It was raining off and on but we seemed to make it around without getting too wet and just wetting our whistles.

Thank you Meggy!

Nooooooooooooooooooats...

Someone spilled their oats in the parking lot @ work. I immediately imagined the person spilling them and yelling, "Nooooooooooooooooooats!" Damn you Reddit. Maybe I will post this...probably not...It might just be funny to me. Who knows?

If you haven't heard of Reddit...Do NOT look it up...It will consume you. Don't get me wrong...It is HILARIOUS and occasionally can be helpful and or informative. But mostly just a huge time consumer. An extremely hilarious huge time consumer. Hilarious! Did I mention that it is hilarious?

Guess Who's Four...

I will give you a hint...

He is orange and full of trouble...and it's not Martin.

It's Murphy...4 years old today!

Happy Birthday, Murphs!