New Flats Skiff

Well Queen Whitney got her red boat afterall. We picked sage green initially 'cause I said NO WAY to a red boat, all the time knowing that I was going to go behind Whit's back and change the color to red in order to suprise her. How good am I? She had no idea and was so excited to see the red rocket delivered last night. She's like a bull and I am the matador!

So, it's time to hit the water and catch some stupid freshwater fish in our new flats boat. I wonder what it will be like to pole this thing around the flats searching for tailing permit.

Added: Front Lip Underskirt

Cars and ships and the likes are usually referred to in the feminine personea (like, ain't she a bauty? or, calling your rig "Betsy" - like Dug Harrison's old Bronco). So, naturally the STi needed some prettying up in the form of a skirt. A front lip underskirt!

I think it rounds out the front very nicely. Every STi should have one stock, like some foreign market LTD's already do. Hell the holes are already in the bumper like they had planned on doing it but didn't. This is the polyurethane version, not the $500 CF version.

Now I have to watch out even more since the front end is effectively lowered by 2 inches. And I puled into a parking lot and scraped the front end underneath the bumper (non-visible) last week before even having this thing on.

Sunny This Morning

So Sunday and yesterday were nice and sunny. It was 65 degrees and today I look out the window at 3:30 and it is snowing. Gotta love Spring in The C.O.!!

X50 Test Drive

So I decided to take a test drive of Dad's X50 yesterday to see a real comparison of a $100K car versus a $30K car (the STi). Now that I have over 1,000 miles and plenty of pedal mashing I figured I could do a fair comparison side-by-side, so to speak. And, I gotta say that I like driving the STi much more. I did like the ball-busting growl of the 450 horse Porsche boxer rear-mounted engine though. But, the shifter felt like I was fingerbanging a jellyfish. It was super greasy and it is nothing like the short throw on the Subaru. On the STi you feel like you are literally shoving it into gear and the Porsche is like, well, when you go to pick up a carton of milk thinking it is full and it is really empty. Didn't like it.

The brakes though were very good (as they should be with teh $10K upgrade to ceramic garbage-can-lid-sized rotors and pads. You also sit much lower in the Porsche but I felt like the handling wasn't as crisp or responsive as the STi. These factors were purely handling and butt dyno related. The Porsche is uber nice inside but all that shit is pointless when you are hyperblasting. And what? No boost gauge on the X50? WTF?


Executive Summary:
Get the STi and spend the money you save on a small island in the Caribbean.

OK Muhammed, Meet Your Virgins

Dug Luvs His Whip

iPaq 6945 Sold!

I won it in a business card raffle with a late entry on a borrowed business card that I just wrote "KP" on and I drew myself! Got $500 for it in 24 hours on eBay. Thanks dude!

Hella Horns and Pinstriping

Got the Hella Supertones installed last night. Replaced one factory horn with these. Was going to do a switch to go between stock and Hellas but figured, if I am going to honk, might a well mean it. WGAF? So, they are hookedup to the relay and tripped by the factory horn's power cable. Totally sealed install bolted by brackets to the center beam in front of AC radiator.


Then I pinstriped the center piece with some 1/4" 3M reflective metallic tape. First try wasn't perfect but second try was. Looks teh sick in real life.






And in the daylight.

Good Use Of An Unused Medium

from Saatchi & Saatchi.

I don't like people reading over my shoulder!

Saw this on the net today: Bagel sandwich + empty CD-R package = S.I.L.F.

STi Mileage Coount

Didn't even notice it until I had passed the 1K mark on way home from lunch. Oh well close enuf. Speaking of enuf, remember the brand ENUF? More on that later.