August 4, 2006 - Oh So Much to Tell
Hehe,
I did promise no more 3-4 week lapses, right? I cannot use the excuse that nothing has happened to me this time so I guess I will try and wedge everything into this post.
Okay, here's the newest scoop on the General Lee. We got the transmission pan replaced by the same guy that used own the 68 Charger and hauled the 69 to get the transmission replaced this spring. He had it for just under a week, but it no longer leaks a single drop.
On 7/16/06 (the day after picking the car up from the guy who replaced the pan), Jim and I did a car show in a town called Turner (about 30-45 minutes away). We got third in our class (60's Modified) and the guy who owns another General Lee out by Augusta won 2nd place. Mike, the other Lee owner, also entered his 55 Bel Aire drag car which won the class.
There were... issues... with the voting at that show, and they stopped handing out trophies after 5 or 6 classes. The event organizers, the Kora Shriners, held a banquet 7/27/06 and now Mike's Bel Aire was given 2nd place and now neither General Lee are listed as winners. The people who 'won' we can only imagine bitched (I saw one of them doing it when we were declared winners) and told the Shriners if the voting didn't go in their favor they would not go back. What sucks is that the cars that are now called the 'winners' were all in modified classes with cars that were NOT at all modified. Next year, Kora Shriners can go fuck themselves.
Tess has put in her two week notice. Her last day is August 17 and she goes to this college in September. I wish her the best. A few weeks ago I heard her talking with a friend saying that she and her boyfriend (the coastguard guy?) are still together and will remain so until she leaves. I guess she offered him an out and he refused. At least she has someone. She still needs to grow up a bit more.
The place I work for has decided that they want to stream-line business into segregated areas and the non-threshold position I currently hold is moving down to Mass. Oh, they are not firing me, at least, not directly. What they will instead do is phase me back into a threshold job, where I have a history of failing. I will try, but I cannot help but also look for another job in the meantime.
My brother Jim has re-connected with an old friend of his in a big way. This guy, Travis, is a Dukes of Hazzard guru and he and Jim started talking on the phone a LOT over the past few weeks. Travis is the guy that arranged a trip that Jim and I went to in Los Angeles back in March 2004 to see Dukes filming locations and meet the people who worked on/built the original General Lee's. It was great fun and that is directly responsible for the current Lee clone we have now.
Travis and Jim have been working on a project to identify General Lee's in the Dukes original filming location of Georgia and that kind of culminates this coming week when Jim is going to fly out to Indiana and drive out to Georgia with Travis a couple of other people for a few days. I will finally have the house to myself for a few days, and I cannot wait.
That blond from Wal-Mart is gone. No idea where, but she must have quit as I have gone in there at different intervals during the days and she has never been around. I know that she was trained to use some medical equipment (she never said what), and she may have gone back to doing that. I cannot imagine that Wal-Mart would have fired her, hopefully she left do something better. She seemed quite intelligent when we spoke, and, although I would have loved seeing her still, I am glad she left that place. Too many people in this area have been dragged down and do go-nowhere jobs. She deserved more.
NOW, for the REAL news. That girl Jennifer at work (first mentioned her in April when Dee left) broke up with her boyfriend. There had been rumors for a few weeks, but Wensday (7/26) she confirmed it too me in a conversation. Now, I have very intense rules about what you can and cannot do with a person when they are in a relationship with someone else, HOWEVER, she is no longer in that relationship, so those old protocols are null and void.
About an hour after that conversation, we went out on break and had another talk. I confessed that I harbored a desire to ask her out, but could not due to the fact she was in a relationship. She seemed surprised, but told me that while we CAN go out as friends, she is not looking for a boyfriend.
I have heard that line before, and while I was willing to let us become friends I vowed not to ask her out again. We made arrangements to meet up this past weekend, but that fell through when she never showed up, never called, and didn't answer when I tried calling her. Needless to say, I was unimpressed Monday when she came up to me and apologized for not showing up, but never made any more plans.
Will advised that I not do a damn thing and let Jennifer come up to me. I didn't like that idea, but agreed. She never did and I must admit that I basically washed my hands of the whole matter when another co-worked named Sue asked me what was going on between Jenn and I. Sue is a nice woman in her 50's, raunchy sense of humor, and a perverse sense that I need to get laid and quick. I told Sue about what was going on and Sue, behind my back, approached Jenn and reported back to me what Jenn had told her (gave me Jenn's actual letter).
Jenn, from what I have learned, has severed issues with anxiety and while she wanted to spend time with me, but was far to stressed out to do so. She mentioned in the letter that she still isn't looking for a boyfriend, but that she wants to be friends with me, but really wanted me to make the move. Sue, for all intents and purposes, smacked me on the back and said 'write her, NOW'. I did and we spent about 45 minutes talking in Jenn's car Wensday (8/2).
I blithered like an idiot, but basically I told her that while I want more than to be a friend, if friendship was all she could offer, I would never push for anything more. I also said that if she ever found someone else that she COULD be more than friends with, I would not be-grudge her that. I told her that as far as I was concerned, her needs came first.
While I meant every word I spoke to her, I still plan on waging a silent campaign to win more than what we now have. I guess her last relationship was very dis-functional and it was also the first time she ever had that sort of bond with a person and now needs time to become independent and 'find' herself. That is laudable.
As with Tess and the others mentioned in this blog... it still feels halfhearted. I still feel like Jenn is a placeholder and that the real person for me is out there. Maybe she's in a different state, or a different country, maybe even down the street with a person I haven't met yet (or have but have yet to reconnect with).
For now Jenn and I will try to be friends. If more develops, great. If not? Well... my soul mate is out there somewhere. I've gotten the feeling like I'm getting closer to her. I used to have these reoccurring dreams (still do now and then) where I find my soul mate and it's somebody I've gone to school with, but didn't date back then. I remember vividly walking through the halls back then and feeling like... like my other half was around there somewhere. Tess and I were classmates for a year, but I always sort of knew that it wasn't her.
Someday... I will find her.
I'll try to update again sooner rather than later.
I did promise no more 3-4 week lapses, right? I cannot use the excuse that nothing has happened to me this time so I guess I will try and wedge everything into this post.
Okay, here's the newest scoop on the General Lee. We got the transmission pan replaced by the same guy that used own the 68 Charger and hauled the 69 to get the transmission replaced this spring. He had it for just under a week, but it no longer leaks a single drop.
On 7/16/06 (the day after picking the car up from the guy who replaced the pan), Jim and I did a car show in a town called Turner (about 30-45 minutes away). We got third in our class (60's Modified) and the guy who owns another General Lee out by Augusta won 2nd place. Mike, the other Lee owner, also entered his 55 Bel Aire drag car which won the class.
There were... issues... with the voting at that show, and they stopped handing out trophies after 5 or 6 classes. The event organizers, the Kora Shriners, held a banquet 7/27/06 and now Mike's Bel Aire was given 2nd place and now neither General Lee are listed as winners. The people who 'won' we can only imagine bitched (I saw one of them doing it when we were declared winners) and told the Shriners if the voting didn't go in their favor they would not go back. What sucks is that the cars that are now called the 'winners' were all in modified classes with cars that were NOT at all modified. Next year, Kora Shriners can go fuck themselves.
Tess has put in her two week notice. Her last day is August 17 and she goes to this college in September. I wish her the best. A few weeks ago I heard her talking with a friend saying that she and her boyfriend (the coastguard guy?) are still together and will remain so until she leaves. I guess she offered him an out and he refused. At least she has someone. She still needs to grow up a bit more.
The place I work for has decided that they want to stream-line business into segregated areas and the non-threshold position I currently hold is moving down to Mass. Oh, they are not firing me, at least, not directly. What they will instead do is phase me back into a threshold job, where I have a history of failing. I will try, but I cannot help but also look for another job in the meantime.
My brother Jim has re-connected with an old friend of his in a big way. This guy, Travis, is a Dukes of Hazzard guru and he and Jim started talking on the phone a LOT over the past few weeks. Travis is the guy that arranged a trip that Jim and I went to in Los Angeles back in March 2004 to see Dukes filming locations and meet the people who worked on/built the original General Lee's. It was great fun and that is directly responsible for the current Lee clone we have now.
Travis and Jim have been working on a project to identify General Lee's in the Dukes original filming location of Georgia and that kind of culminates this coming week when Jim is going to fly out to Indiana and drive out to Georgia with Travis a couple of other people for a few days. I will finally have the house to myself for a few days, and I cannot wait.
That blond from Wal-Mart is gone. No idea where, but she must have quit as I have gone in there at different intervals during the days and she has never been around. I know that she was trained to use some medical equipment (she never said what), and she may have gone back to doing that. I cannot imagine that Wal-Mart would have fired her, hopefully she left do something better. She seemed quite intelligent when we spoke, and, although I would have loved seeing her still, I am glad she left that place. Too many people in this area have been dragged down and do go-nowhere jobs. She deserved more.
NOW, for the REAL news. That girl Jennifer at work (first mentioned her in April when Dee left) broke up with her boyfriend. There had been rumors for a few weeks, but Wensday (7/26) she confirmed it too me in a conversation. Now, I have very intense rules about what you can and cannot do with a person when they are in a relationship with someone else, HOWEVER, she is no longer in that relationship, so those old protocols are null and void.
About an hour after that conversation, we went out on break and had another talk. I confessed that I harbored a desire to ask her out, but could not due to the fact she was in a relationship. She seemed surprised, but told me that while we CAN go out as friends, she is not looking for a boyfriend.
I have heard that line before, and while I was willing to let us become friends I vowed not to ask her out again. We made arrangements to meet up this past weekend, but that fell through when she never showed up, never called, and didn't answer when I tried calling her. Needless to say, I was unimpressed Monday when she came up to me and apologized for not showing up, but never made any more plans.
Will advised that I not do a damn thing and let Jennifer come up to me. I didn't like that idea, but agreed. She never did and I must admit that I basically washed my hands of the whole matter when another co-worked named Sue asked me what was going on between Jenn and I. Sue is a nice woman in her 50's, raunchy sense of humor, and a perverse sense that I need to get laid and quick. I told Sue about what was going on and Sue, behind my back, approached Jenn and reported back to me what Jenn had told her (gave me Jenn's actual letter).
Jenn, from what I have learned, has severed issues with anxiety and while she wanted to spend time with me, but was far to stressed out to do so. She mentioned in the letter that she still isn't looking for a boyfriend, but that she wants to be friends with me, but really wanted me to make the move. Sue, for all intents and purposes, smacked me on the back and said 'write her, NOW'. I did and we spent about 45 minutes talking in Jenn's car Wensday (8/2).
I blithered like an idiot, but basically I told her that while I want more than to be a friend, if friendship was all she could offer, I would never push for anything more. I also said that if she ever found someone else that she COULD be more than friends with, I would not be-grudge her that. I told her that as far as I was concerned, her needs came first.
While I meant every word I spoke to her, I still plan on waging a silent campaign to win more than what we now have. I guess her last relationship was very dis-functional and it was also the first time she ever had that sort of bond with a person and now needs time to become independent and 'find' herself. That is laudable.
As with Tess and the others mentioned in this blog... it still feels halfhearted. I still feel like Jenn is a placeholder and that the real person for me is out there. Maybe she's in a different state, or a different country, maybe even down the street with a person I haven't met yet (or have but have yet to reconnect with).
For now Jenn and I will try to be friends. If more develops, great. If not? Well... my soul mate is out there somewhere. I've gotten the feeling like I'm getting closer to her. I used to have these reoccurring dreams (still do now and then) where I find my soul mate and it's somebody I've gone to school with, but didn't date back then. I remember vividly walking through the halls back then and feeling like... like my other half was around there somewhere. Tess and I were classmates for a year, but I always sort of knew that it wasn't her.
Someday... I will find her.
I'll try to update again sooner rather than later.
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