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OMG NOOOOOOO!!! ZOROOOOOO!!!

Congrats! I hope everything goes smooth for ya.

I haven't been keeping up on Slayers, who does decent fansubs now? It looks like eclipse dropped it because it was licensed by funi?

Holy Shit! Multiple Kumas, an ultimate defense captain and the Kizaru showed up! and now Rayleigh!!! And he is the logia of light. Omg, hes probably unstoppable! But Rayleigh was able to kick him! Does the word Dark in "Dark King" mean he has a DF ability that works good against light!? Or is he using that spirit energy!?

Ah, so that fight is over that quick... but they still had enough time to have a leisurely conversation while 12 other hollow guys could have easily jumped in and took him out from behind. And look at that, the next fight is against someone who has super heavy feathers and hes fighting a shinagami who's main sword ability is making things heavy. lame. Just like gokudx7 said.

Yes! Sasuke got mad owned!

This movie was pretty good. Just like Ark of Truth tied up the Ori plot line, Continuum tied up the remaining Ba'al plot line. This movie is a good end to the SG1 series as it finishes up pretty much all the remaining issues the series left open when it came to a (in my opinion) abrupt conclusion. The acting was great and I think this was a better movie than Ark of Truth.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13138.html Hot damn!!! Yes! I hope to god they get a good cast this time and some better writers for the new series. The Atlantis crew is a joke except for Rodney and Selinka (sp?). But the story lines for the individual episodes have been horrible for the longest time too. (See my other topics for my stargate rants).

Click the link for the video.

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/08/esl_the_newest.php Click the link for the picture of the bulb. From what I was reading, it sounds like these bulbs will be about the same price as the CFL bulbs. And these don't have mercury vapor in them and they are dimmable. I'm definitely going to buy one of these for my flood light outside. It'll probably last years upon years before I'd have to replace it again.

No!!! Erza!!! If my favorite character is dead, I'm going to be so damn pissed! Maybe she was able to dissipate the atherion energy and survived!? what if she inadvertently resurrected that ultimate evil mage? What if she disintegrated!? NOOOO!

You beat me to posting this, I just told lady about it last night after reading it on ANN. I don't see how in the hell they could make a sequel out of this considering the way the movie ended. But if they do a remake, they'd have to redo the entire series. Which would be awesome. The manga had differences in it starting around chapter 10-13 if I remember right. And the manga is still current and up to 86 chapters now. *must catch up on current FMA manga*

The very next day after posting about the right side being almost done, I put the other headlight and turn signal on the left side. Since then I've put in quite a few more days and alot of hours into the car and now its pretty much done. All I had left was to bleed the brake lines. I bled the driver's side, then when I went to bleed the passenger side, the bleeder nut snapped off. x_x So I replaced the caliper and when I went to bleed the line, the hood latch release busted. Anyway, even without bleeding the line the braking felt alot better so I figured it would be best if I replaced the other side too. So I replaced the left side and messed with the hood a bit more. No luck. Today tho, I got lucky. After fashioning a coat hanger into a crude pulling rod and inserting it at the driver's side headlight to blindly attach it to the hood release... It didn't work and I got extremely fucking pissed. After 30 minutes I said fuck it and attacked the problem from under the car. The air deflector under the hood was already broken off to begin with from a snow issue about 2 years ago, so I had access to the top portion of that piece of plastic without having to first remove that large deflector piece. Anyway, three bolts later I found out I could bend that piece of plastic towards the radiator and access the hood latch release spring thru a small access hole with a screwdriver. A couple seconds later and one quick, light push with a screwdriver, my hood pops up. Turns out the cable did not break and the hood latch was still working. I lubricated the hell out of it so it would stop being a bitch to operate and the cable somehow got dislodged from two retaining clips on the inside of the engine compartment and another two clips from under the dash. After zip tieing those couple spots and pushing the hood release cable back into position I was able to tighten it all up and it works again. The real bullshit was that the cable still worked. I was just afraid of breaking it when I pulled on the cable with a pair of pliers in the drivers seat. I could have saved myself quite a bit of time if I'd have just yanked the damn thing. Of course one of the little metal wires is broken on the cable so it'll probably fail on me again someday and completely snap now... but at least now I know how to pop that f*cking hood without a cable. As of now, I have 5 bolts left to put back on the car, bleed the brake lines and go for a test drive. The car is already insured and re-registered but I still have to get it inspected. Once I finish up the little things I'll take some new pics.

When I first got the blazer I had a huge number of issues with it, that thankfully, I was able to get fixed at the dealership for free within the first couple months of buying it. Of course there have been a variety of issues since then that I've had to take care of like a ball joint, alignment, oil leak, front and rear shocks, back brakes, front brakes. At least I've been able to do the brake jobs myself, but just the other day my emergency/parking brakes seized up on my back rotors. F*ck me. Most of the problem was in the back left wheel, I couldn't even get the damn rotor off. The parking brake almost welded itself to it with a layer of rust and a broken clip. You never want to change a rotor without changing the brake pads at the same time, so even tho it didn't need new brake pads I had to put new ones on along with the rotors. Because I couldn't get the rotor off, I broke down and called the local Midas and they took care of it for me. Hundreds of dollars later, its all fixed and safe again. New rotors, pads and e-brakes. And of course the new shit all makes pretty much the same noises, but thats due to the massive amount of rust from the back plate which is located about 3 centimeters from the spinning rotor. I would rip the fucker off and say to hell with the noise, but its safer to leave it on so nothing kicks up from a tire and nicks the rotor. So unless the noise eventually goes away, I'll probably be stuck with a squeaky, rattling blazer from now on. *dies* x_x

Happy b-day to my special woman.

Do what HK said with the metal mesh patch. Usually a fist size hole is about the same size hole you'd get if a door got slammed into the wall a door knob smashed thru the drywall. Its such a common thing, the patches usually come in a couple sizes. So get one that will over lap the hole a bit so it'll stick good to the wall. I've used the plastic mesh before too (comes in a strip form like packing tape) and that stuff is only good for joints where a couple pieces of drywall line up together.

Sweet! Thanks for the headsup!

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/08/styrofoam_dome.php Check out the pictures, they actually look decent on the inside. If you got four of them connected, you could live in a pretty good sized dome home. I wonder if you could flip one of the domes upside down, bury it to ground level and connect the top dome to it... Then you could live in a duplex sphere. I'd get one and layer dirt up the sides and on top, grow grass all over it and live like a hobbit.

That was pretty funny.

Wow that arch must have been huge.

*is also confused* lmao. X'D Nope, I haven't that. *does have 1 new bottle of whiskey tho*

After my last attempt at straightening out that radiator support bar, I purchased a $10 nail puller that looks like a mini crow bar. It worked out great for fixing the rest of the crumpled metal because both ends were the perfect size to fit in the pre-existing drilled holes in the metal. So, using that and a rubber mallet I was able to whack most of the metal back into place. I also fixed up another spot to use my tow cable on and with chelle's help we were able to pop out a very crumpled part. So, now that the bar has been straightened out enough to put the headlight back on, I did just that. After 6 hours of work yesterday, I got the old wheel well off, drilled off the busted fender support bar, put on the right headlight, right turnsignal, new support bar and fender. I also replaced the headlight bulb and both turn signal bulbs. I would have taken pictures as the work progressed, but I didn't want to dirty up the camera and I didn't want to stop working while I was making so much progress. Heres the finished pics of the support bar and all the work I finished yesterday. In the end, the bar was still off by so many centimeters, and thats all that was needed to not have the headlight and fender aligned 100%. Oh well, I just want the car back on the road and running again.

Instructions to make: 3 different flavors of Grilled Chicken with Grilled Corn on the cob and a baked potato. Serving size: 3 people. Ingredients: - Package of boneless chicken breast, with two breasts - 3 ears of corn - 3 large potatoes - Italian seasoning - Basil seasoning - BBQ seasoning - Italian dressing Instructions: 1) Rinse off your chicken breast and cut the two breasts so you have four separate pieces. 2) Rub italian and basil seasoning on both sides of two of the pieces of chicken. (I had a request for two italian/basil ones.) 3) Put a piece of chicken in a bowl and pour a bunch of italian dressing on it to marinate it. Make sure you move the chicken around in it a little to ensure its coated good. You can then put this in the fridge for a 1/2 hour or more, but it really only needs to sit about 5 to 10 minutes in it. 4) Rub BBQ seasoning on both sides of your last piece of chicken. This seasoning from KC Masterpiece is actually pretty good on chicken as well as hamburgers. 5) Set your grill on a low flame on both burners and place your chicken on the top rack. And feel free to pour the italian dressing thats still in the bowl over that italian dressing chicken breast. 6) Let them cook for about 20 minutes and then flip them. 7) About 10-20 minutes later the chicken should be around 170 degrees inside. Use your thermametor to make sure the temperature is right. If you get it much higher than 175 or 180 the chicken will start drying out. 8) Take your corn and cut off both ends of the ear and peel away a couple layers of the husk. Then soak the corn in water for 10 minutes, making sure to move them around in the water every once in a while. 9) Have your grill on a low heat and place your corn on the bottom rack. Flip them every five minutes and let them cook for about 15-20 minutes. Because the husks were soaked, the moisture prevents the husks from catching on fire and burning, and it also provides the humidity to cook the corn. 10) Now that the corn is done, you can take it off the grill and then peel away the husk and rub butter all over it and maybe give it a dash of salt. Very tasty. You could also, remove the husk and place the corn back on the grill for another 2-5 minutes to add a little smoky flavor. 11) I forgot to start cooking baked potatoes on the grill at the beginning of all this, so I cooked 3 potatoes in the microwave. (ah, baked potato button, how I love thee, even tho each potato needs to be cooked twice.) Don't forget, you can cook the corn on the cob on the grill after your first 20 minutes of cooking the chicken so they'll be done at the same time. You could also rinse off your potatoes, wrap them in aluminum foil with some butter and cook them on the top rack of your grill alongside your chicken. Or just cook them in the microwave like I had too. And unfortunately, I do not have a picture of the completed meal. I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture. The italian dressing chicken was the most moist, because it was a liquid marinade. The other chicken was a little more dry because the dry rubs absorbed some of the moisture out. Because of that, they could a little faster and they got up to about 182 degrees. Oh well, a little Chicken & Ribs sauce for dipping took care of any noticeable dryness. mmmmmm...

Read my recipe for Sushi for my sushi instructions, except substitute spring rolls aka rice paper sheets for the nori. With spring rolls you can enjoy sushi without having any fishy or seaweed taste. To use the spring roll sheets, get a pie plate and fill it with warm water, take one sheet of rice paper and soak it in the pie plate until its completely soft. Usually this takes about 15 to 30 seconds. Then place the rice paper on your rolling mat, make sure you use plastic wrap on your mat to keep the rice paper from sticking to it or ruining it. Then make your sushi just as you would according to my Sushi recipe. Heres some pics: Spring roll package purchased at local Wegmans: Sushi with spring rolls. I thought my spring rolls were too thin, so I used to sheets at once, but that wasn't necessary, the paper was strong enough with just a single sheet: Heres some pics with grilled chicken in them. Yummy. Also, if you want to add extra flare to your spring roll sushi, put a couple drops of food coloring into the water you'll soak your rice paper in. As the rice paper softens up, it'll absorb some of the color too. I think next time I make sushi, I'm going to change up the amount of rice vinegar I use in it. The vinegar just overpowers too much. And yeah, use just a single spring roll sheet. The rice paper itself is quite starchy and two sheets means too much rice paper flavor in your mouth and that overpowers the overall sushi taste too.

Wow, that is sad.