All posts by Blake Swopes

Blake Swopes is a disabled former Linux Systems Administrator from Southern California. Due to chronic pain, he can no longer spend much time on a keyboard, so this site has become largely archival.

A conversation I had today…

Me: Was jerry just here?
Andrew: Yeah, he was asking you about something.
Me: Oh, good…
Me: Did I… answer him?
Andrew: Yeah, you had a conversation with him.
Me: Huh. Neat.

(It had been about 30 seconds since jerry was there talking to me. I honestly didn’t remember if I’d talked to him or not… exhaustion, ftl)

April 4, 2006

James and I are moved in… enough for the night. We’ve got beds to sleep on, a comfy chair, two barstools, some plates, glasses, pans… and that’s about it. TV, wireless for the laptops. Enough.

I’m fuggin exhausted. I’m sure my dad must be too, he helped me haul a lot more than I wanted him to.

In a couple days, we’ll have to get bookshelves and the couch… Not looking forward to that at all.

Baptism, California style.

The car has been baptised. In the last 48 hours, it has seen sun, rain, snow, gravel, mud, been covered in ice, and hauled a pizza in the trunk. It has been to the starbucks. It has been through potrero, hidden valley, santa susanna pass, grimes, the 150 and part of the 33.

I LOVE IT!

Its just too damn fast, and it eats gas like crazy (which I notice more because it has a 14gal tank instead of the 20gal on the 3000gt). I may look into replacing the spoiler with one off a Lancer RalliArt, and adding a turbo timer.

James and I both looked at the carbon fibre trim on the dash and wouldn’t have been surprised if it was real.

100 miles and I can stop worrying about keeping it under 5k/rpm.

Its Jessica Beal day!

Don’t forget to pay homage to the hottie to end all hotties…

I do admit, I’m a little freaked out by the fact she was born in 82, though… like… I graduated high school before she started jr high.

But she’s legal now, and that’s all that matters…

Oh, and she’s hot.