Candle, Both Ends, You Know The Drill
This sucks… there are a bunch of games out now (Orange Box, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, World in Conflict, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lion, Odin Sphere (though that one’s not that recent), etc.) or that are coming out in the near future (Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, Hellgate: London, the Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band, etc.) that I really want to play. This is, of course, in addition to unfinished games I already have, and older games I want to acquire and play. But even if I could afford all of these, I really shouldn’t… and even if I did, I don’t really have time to play them much. I’m already sleepy as hell from stretching myself too thin every day. 5-6 hours of sleep isn’t catastrophically low, but it leaves me lethargic for the entire day, pretty much every day. But if I sleep more, then I wouldn’t have time after Wyotech to cook, clean, hang out with Alice (sexually), watch Star Trek: The Next Generation and Heroes, play a bit of video games, and generally have a life.
Speaking of Wyotech, though, our second day of shop time today went pretty nicely. I added a GM 5.7L V8 (not an LS1… LT1? My partners thought it came out of a truck) and a 13B rotary to the list of engines I’ve cracked open and reassembled, although the 13B struggled mightily against the “reassembled” half of that process. I thought those things were supposed to be simple!
The status of my own vehicles, of course, continues to fluctuate. Faye has been having issues… a fluctuating idle that I thought was intake-related. This morning, however, she completely died upon attempted startup, with all lights and gauges vanishing into the darkness. She started up after a couple more tries, again with the wobbly idle, so now I think it’s a loose electrical connection somewhere. Because THAT won’t be hard to track down. In good news, however, Mister Awesome Man Dirty Dan has apparently successfully fixed April… if this is truly the case, then I can start riding the shit out of her all over the place. Yay!