Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

So I keep seeing projects that people are doing, and talking about ones I want to do (I have robots, monster trucks, exotic cars, toys, weapons, various inventions, and so much more to build) that I need a good workshop space for all my dreams to come through… As I mentioned before, I have plans for an earthship (we had a local eco-architect help us) that I'd like to realize, although with a few changes like a large buried (for aesthetic reasons) workshop.

I'm not sure yet where I'm looking for land, because right now I'm in a period of heavy development that requires semi-regular physical access to the server room… But at the same time, my new code should reduce the need for constant high-speed home access by moving much of my current admin stuff from my home/office machines to the actual server room. Anyway, add a forest and a lake, and this picture gives you a vague idea of what I'm talking about:

And I'd really like to be able to teach Nefarious the basics of machineshop work (maybe she can get her gunsmithing license), electronics, mechanics, and so on while she's still a kid and can more easily absorb that sort of information. I think my brain pretty much stopped improving when I was fourteen or fifteen (not that experience isn't a factor, but I think for initial learning, the younger the better). I'd love to have a space to build an airplane with her for example.

I was talking to my father a while back and he disagreed with my self-diagnosis of hypomania… He suggests that my brother (who's a professional athlete among other accomplishments), I, he, my sister, and most of that end of the family are simple adrelalin junkies. I don't know about that, but according to Jon every time I pull out of the driveway he hears me laying rubber both when I start and when I drop into second (and by that time I'm doing almost a hundred and out of ear shot). So maybe.

Anyway, I've been tossing around ideas today about what to do with my 996… I think I'm going to stick with the “satanmobile” theme (matt black on black with red highlights, logo replacement with pentagrams, black and red interior, and so on.

Speaking of adrenalin, I've got a fight to watch… Another UFC bout is on tonight, and it's a good one.

But yeah, to summarize the story of my life: too many dreams.

Better than too few!

…and it's really little, and really fun.

I was out picking up a little gear for the phone interview later tonight (which I now should prep for). I have the phone interface but I wanted a more convenient recorder so I picked up a cheap iRiver which is supposed to record to MP3 files natively, which should make my work in editing fairly easy.

 

Sorry (for my sake, not yours) about posting so incredibly late in the day. A piercing update has just been posted, and I've got a member's update with 1.5k images queued up for tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for helping out and sending in so many pictures!

I'm not sure yet what I'm doing this weekend; I was thinking about going to the Hot Rod Hootenanny. I thought that I'd done serious damage to the Porsche setting up BMEfest. I was backing it into the space to unload some stuff, and bottomed out on the entrace bump to a terrible crunching/grinding sound. I pulled out again, and didn't see anything broken but the next day the “check engine” light came on… Thankfully a battery disconnect to reset everything seems to have made it go away (so it was a temporary malfunction, which happens every once in a while), although it does smell of Trogdor* a little. I hope it's just some plastic on the exhaust or something.

Let's see… They made me take the ads off Under Mars but the ones on the kitcar site (even though I haven't updated much — but check out this crazy car) are doing alright so Google sent me another cheque for $220 and they owe me about that again in the current period! Does this mean I'm at least a semi-professional blogger now?

Anyway, I think plans have changed a little bit (pushed back a week or two), but Nefarious and I went and got our passports today. They'll be ready on Monday morning. I was worried that I'd have to give up my old one because it has five years of travel memories, but they let you keep them if they're expired. Other than that, and it sounds bad probably, but I just love having my car back on the road, even though it's a little rough around the edges still.

It's so bad and indulgant to even take a picture in the parking garage. There was a Ferrari parked across from me and this was much nicer I think. And yes, I'm very, very, immature to have thought this license plate, which is almost certainly the guy's name, was quite funny.

Well, I'm going to do a little more work on various projects and go to bed. It's far too late already, but I plan on getting up in the morning, cooking breakfast, and having a nap while Nefarious watches a movie. Sorry if that's bad parenting but holy hell am I tired out.

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* of burnination that is.