April 05, 2004Doing things I never thought I could doSo since I haven't written on here in a while, I'll try to make this as interesting as possible. So work has been really busy, but should be calming down a bit now. We just finished up a lease and packed the computers up for the truck on Friday. It'll be nice to have those old dual 800 G4s out the door. That's right, folks. The oldest desktop Macs our people use are G5s and iMacs. Not too shabby. Other work has been absolutely crazy. Remember a month or so ago when I listed off all of the sites that I would be working on? Most of those I just recently completed in the past two weeks. And as grueling as it was, the steady stream of extra cash has been really awesome. House calls have picked up, too. A big audio recording studio here in town, Rainmaker Studios, got my name and I've been doing some work down in Shockoe Bottom for them in the evenings, too. But it's not just them down there. There's 4 or 5 companies housed in that building that use Macs and now know who to call when they need help. Needless to say, word of mouth has been very kind to me lately. The wedding plans are starting to kick into a higher gear, and we sent out our "Save the Date" cards late last week. It was really a blast designing them ourselves (using Adobe InDesign), but pretty time consuming. Speaking of switching gears...One thing that has been a problem for a while up here in my computer room has been heat. Everything up here gives off a ton of heat: the computers, the monitors, the lights, and even me! When we purchased the house, we had the option of having Ryan pre-wire this room for a ceiling fan. But, to cut costs, we decided against it. I figured that if I really wanted to install one, I could probably have someone do it later. Well, I decided recently that "later" was now. With my recent success of do-it-yourself projects (lifting the truck, installing a patio, etc.) I figured I could pull this off. Before I started, the room was only wired with a single wall switch that controlled an outlet that I have a lamp plugged into. I figured I could tap power from that switch, install a ceiling fan box in the ceiling, and badda-bing! Ceiling fan! I went to Lowe's last weekend and purchased all the goodies I would need to complete the project and finally made the time to do it this weekend. The amazing part is that it went perfectly (well, almost). I hopped up in the attic and cut out the ceiling of my computer room for the fixture box, secured the box, ran power cable from the switch box to the fixture box, ripped out the old single-switch box and installed a dual-gang box, hooked up the wiring in the new box, and attached the fan to the ceiling. Here's a photo of the fan in action and my finger after slicing it open because I was too lazy to go get the wire strippers:
What's really cool about the fan project is that it's something that I didn't know that I could do. This room was not at all wired or designed for a fan, but I got the right tools, read some books, and then pulled it off with only a cut finger. It definitely reassures my belief that anybody can do anything, if they put their mind to it. In the next few days I hope to finally (a year later!) redesign my truck page with info and photos of my Double Cab and put a new face on our Wedding site. Posted by Jeff at April 5, 2004 12:16 AMComments
Hey Jeff, just wanted to let you know I saw a Tacoma yesterday with one of your CustomTacos.com stickers on the window out here in Tucson. It definitely made my day. Have a good one. Posted by: Brian R. at April 5, 2004 06:16 AMNice work! ...and very creative way to strip a wire, by the way. ;) Posted by: B at April 5, 2004 03:00 PMhttp://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4287247057 Posted by: The fan at April 5, 2004 05:55 PMWow, Jeff! You have realy gotten to be a handyman. Do you suppose all those pieces of furniture you and I put together over the years contributed to your "schmartz"? I'm proud of you! (Just don't tell people you can install ceiling fans now. You have enough jobs to do without adding one more !) Posted by: Mom P. at April 6, 2004 12:45 PMPosted: Jun 6 2004, 12:29 AM Texas Super Racing Series @ Corpus Christi Motor Speedway 6/5/04 In qualifying it was Brad Hudak in his DC Eagle Paint & Body/SouthEast Custom Graphics & Lettering/PolyDyn Tx7/Norman Racing Products/QA1 Shocks/Beadreaux Brothers Cajun Buffet, Laundromat & Dog Wash/Dillon Chassis setting fast time with a 14.611. It was Hudak's second fast time of the year. Hudak would then roll a 2 for the invert putting Lloyd Alexander on the pole. As the green flag waved for the 75 lap feature, Alexander jumped out into the lead, with current points leader, Mike Yale grabbing second, and Hudak third. Just as Alexander and Yale began topull ahead of Hudak, Jamie Fuller and Damon Bean, the yellow for a spin by David White on lap 5. On the restart, Alexander pulled out by five car lengths over Yale, who had a good gap back to Hudak. On lap 14, Yale chance at back to back win at CCMS, and three wins this year, came to an end when he suffered motor troubles and slowed. As he tried to exit the track, Ronald Deleon spun trying to avoid the slowed car of Yale. As green waved, Hudak took a brief look inside Alexander, but Alexander moved out again. Lap 19 saw Ian Webster get seventh from the newcomer, Blake Harris, in his first ever TSRS race. By lap 20 the field split up into two groups and on lap 25 the leaders ran up on traffic. Alexander was able to negotiate traffic the best and came out with a five car length advantage. Fullers chance for a top five finsh ended on lap 27 when he broke while running third and pulled to the infield. Alexander held his five car edge, while Hudak was nearly a full straightaway over Bean. As the race reached halfway it was Alexander, Hudak, Bean, Chris Schild and Pollard in the top five spots. Just after halfway, Deleon spun in front of the leaders who squeezed by without mishap, but did collect Brian Schild who had nowhere to go. Alexander had just started to ease away again when Ian Webster backed into the turn 1 wall to bring out yellow on lap 40. In the final half of the race, Pollard, who had been able to save his tires, was moving forward, while others were beginning to fade. Pollard was able to get around C. Schild on lap 43 to grab fourth and quickly ran down Bean. Pollard ducked inside Bean on lap 49 to snag third. As Pollard reeled in Hudak, Alexander was inching away. But caution came out on lap 58 for another spin by Deleon,to bunch the field. As the race resumed, Alexander, Hudak and Pollard took off from Bean and C. Schild. Lap 60 saw Pollard get along side Hudak and snag the second spot. It wasn't long until Pollard was looking inside Alexander, who appeared to be slowing. Hudak followed Pollard by a now significantly slowing Alexander, with a slowly leaking right front tire. The final caution flew on lap 66 when Beau Bukowski spun his already damaged car. On green, Pollard and Hudak got away from Bean. Pollard increased his margin over Hudak to six car lengths withn just five to go. In the final laps Pollard in his DC Eagle Paint & Body/PolyDyn/Sterling ASI/Keeland Automotive Machine/ DB Motorsports Chassis/ Pontiac Gran Prix, pulled away leaving Hudak and Bean to fight for second. At the checkers it was Pollard, who started ninth, taking the hard earned victory. " I don't know how we did it," stated Pollard, "We were ready to load up and go home(after breaking the transmission in the practice). We left the spare transmission at the shop and borrowed one from Damon(Bean). Since I was running in mid pack early I was able to save my tires and we were faster at the end" 1 17 Jeff Pollard 80 Allen Alexander--DNS--Broke motor in practice -------------------- Hello my uncle is the owner and worker of kam racing. i was makeing a web site and need correct information.i am having a hard time find correct info. i looked on google and found kam under this website but can not find the info . so i will be very thankful if you tell me if kam has bult and or repared your engine(s). the web site i am makeing is not yet done. my uncle has made another but i do not know the web site this very moment. so could you go to the web page i given you and write in the guest book. thank you very much. www.kamracing.piczo.com Posted by: hannah k at July 4, 2005 11:09 PMPost a comment
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