November 14, 2005 - The Promised Follow-up
Not much new has been going on here since my last post a few days ago.
Something that I did neglect to mention in the last write up is that Jim and I have purchased yet another another old muscle car. This one is a 1970 Dodge Coronet, burn Orange paint (almost like a blood red metallic) with a black vinyl top and black interior. The engine isn't a big block (a far more desirable engine), but we will be putting a 360 in it, which while not originally offered is superior to the non-original 318 currently in it. We got it off that Terry guy and let me tell you it was a struggle.
Terry has had it for a few years and has always threatened to fix it up and get her on the road, but this past summer he got the 318 running and found that it had a major skip in it and also found that it needed a full floor pan set; Jim theorizes that Terry gave up on it. Well, the night the General blew it's tranny, Terry had basically offered to sell us the car while in the midst of a drunken haze, and the next day recanted and tried to get us to buy a friends Coronet. When Jim had mentioned off hand that he had amassed the majority of the asking price, Terry caved. I won't post the buy-out price, but I will say that it is FAR below what it could be sold for. I'll post some pics when I get good ones in, but suffice to say she should be on the road next spring and a very sturdy daily driver.
On the work front, this Wednesday (11/16) is Mel's last day and this Saturday she is flying out to South Carolina. I am relieved. Don't get me wrong, I dislike that I will never have the ability to mend fences with her, but on the other hand this is as it is supposed to be.
Dee has been very terse with me lately, and for a few moments on Friday I had almost feared she had tracked this blog down and deduced that Dee and she were one and the same, but I am increasingly ruling that out as I do think she would have made mention of it some how.
Tess was not at work today, but when a friend came into work he had a bunch of roses which he put on Tess' desk. When I asked this friend he said that Tess' ex-boyfriend (who does not work with us) had cornered him in the parking lot and gave them to give to Tess. This ex (lets call him... Jason) of hers isn't alright in certain, yet fundamental ways. He has a bit of a history with violence and while I could not imagine him ever striking Tess, he is the kind of person I can see going after Tess' next boyfriend. When Tess and Jason were dating, she would tell me of fights he would get into out of jealousy and such. In fact, he had some major legal issues which required incarceration for a brief few months. I don't know what finally happened to break them up, but Tess used to say how much Jason's actions pissed her off and she did end it with him at one point, but they always got back together again... until now.
Well, I think that's all for now. I will try to post again either this week or weekend at the latest.
Something that I did neglect to mention in the last write up is that Jim and I have purchased yet another another old muscle car. This one is a 1970 Dodge Coronet, burn Orange paint (almost like a blood red metallic) with a black vinyl top and black interior. The engine isn't a big block (a far more desirable engine), but we will be putting a 360 in it, which while not originally offered is superior to the non-original 318 currently in it. We got it off that Terry guy and let me tell you it was a struggle.
Terry has had it for a few years and has always threatened to fix it up and get her on the road, but this past summer he got the 318 running and found that it had a major skip in it and also found that it needed a full floor pan set; Jim theorizes that Terry gave up on it. Well, the night the General blew it's tranny, Terry had basically offered to sell us the car while in the midst of a drunken haze, and the next day recanted and tried to get us to buy a friends Coronet. When Jim had mentioned off hand that he had amassed the majority of the asking price, Terry caved. I won't post the buy-out price, but I will say that it is FAR below what it could be sold for. I'll post some pics when I get good ones in, but suffice to say she should be on the road next spring and a very sturdy daily driver.
On the work front, this Wednesday (11/16) is Mel's last day and this Saturday she is flying out to South Carolina. I am relieved. Don't get me wrong, I dislike that I will never have the ability to mend fences with her, but on the other hand this is as it is supposed to be.
Dee has been very terse with me lately, and for a few moments on Friday I had almost feared she had tracked this blog down and deduced that Dee and she were one and the same, but I am increasingly ruling that out as I do think she would have made mention of it some how.
Tess was not at work today, but when a friend came into work he had a bunch of roses which he put on Tess' desk. When I asked this friend he said that Tess' ex-boyfriend (who does not work with us) had cornered him in the parking lot and gave them to give to Tess. This ex (lets call him... Jason) of hers isn't alright in certain, yet fundamental ways. He has a bit of a history with violence and while I could not imagine him ever striking Tess, he is the kind of person I can see going after Tess' next boyfriend. When Tess and Jason were dating, she would tell me of fights he would get into out of jealousy and such. In fact, he had some major legal issues which required incarceration for a brief few months. I don't know what finally happened to break them up, but Tess used to say how much Jason's actions pissed her off and she did end it with him at one point, but they always got back together again... until now.
Well, I think that's all for now. I will try to post again either this week or weekend at the latest.
posted by Matthew Shine at 11:48 PM
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