CHP in training

Tonight started out all too typical. Got out of work, hung out with the homies and called it a night. It was pouring on my way home. i passed 4 accidents on my way home and 1 car was just on the side of the road facing the opposite direction with nobody attending it. Here’s where it becomes interesting.

I’m 1 exit away from my exit, and traffic is light, it’s already about 2AM…but it’s pouring and i had hit many water spots on the freeway taht caused slight hydroplane, so i know for a fact the freeway’s drain system can’t keep up with the amount of downpour of rain. So i’m slowin down to catch my exit, when this white mustang passes me…and i think nothing of it except “hmph, they’re goin a bit fast”…next thing i knew even before i could finish my thought all i see is it’s headlights facing me as it spins out of control and the rear slams into and rides up on the center divider repeatedly until coming to a stop.

By this time i”ve already passed the car and i’m pulled over trying to dial 911. Of course it’d busy…so i hang up, speed off the exit, and get back on the freeway the other direction, hop off once again and get back on the freeway 1 exit back. I cross all lanes into the carpool lane where NOBODY has yet stopped to help them. So i flip on my hazards and pull up in front of them and try to position myself so every car coming can see me and avoid me, and the mustang. As soon as i pull up this girl comes out of the driver side hysterical in a state of panic as i try to calm her down. i’m holding her telling her that we need to get out of her, and to get in my car…when she says crying “theres still somebody in the car!!!”

So i pick my jaw up off the floor and look in through the driver side..and sure enough there’s another girl in the passenger that looked to be unconscious from the collision. I was scared at that moment and thought of the worst…but it turns out that she’s passed out from being drunk from her 21st birthday party that she’d just left.

So i crawl through the driver side and try to get her to wake up..but she is hardly responding and is speaking jibberish. I put my arms under her limp body and dragged her out of the driver side as quickly as i could, and put her in my car, along with the driver who’s still crying and panicking. (i don’t blame her)

All of this in the pouring rain and with traffic barely dodging us in in the carpool lane. So i pulled off the next exit as i got through to 911.(i could hardly speak straight with the adrenaline rush still pumping…i didn’t sound as calm and collected as i could have, lol) the operator said chp would arrive shortly, but didn’t for another 30 minutes, so i dialed 911 again as if it’s a casual number to dial. I understand they’re short staffed, but as soon as the first squad car showed up shortly thereafter, 2,3,4 and a 5th showed up. where were these guys earlier? who knows, but when the operator called me back, apparently there was a misunderstanding within the officers where they thought that I was a friend who had already taken them home…which obviously wasn’t the case.

Most of my closest friends know i’ve been pursuing a career, after i graduate school, as a CHP officer for quite sometime now…to go to the academy and train to be one. Now i know for sure. This is my calling. Tonight was too intense to brush off as nothing.

Mini Me

This has got to be the most accurate, greatest actual depiction of my car. I believe it’s from forza. I’ve seen many people try to replicate the mulsanne cars, but nothing to this extent. Hats off to you, to whomever created this.

“to be the right shape and size for”

Fit and Si, Bros.

Tomorrow will be exactly 2 months with this car and the odometer reads at appx 5400 miles. bonkers!

(click for hi res wallpaper)

Just Drift CHP Toy Drive Event

Drift For a Good Cause. Thanks to Larry and Drew for great pics.

Blackjack

After owning my blackjack for nearly 2 years, and texting so much that the keys are just clear to where the backlight shows through, i dropped it today and now the screen is blank. it still works, i just can’t see shit. thank you heather, for the quick rescue with a backup phone. sigh, i loved this thing. now it’s time to move onto another phone.

The other day, i pulled up next to a lexus…and i had to do a double take. it wasn’t a golden retirever, this lady had a motherfuckin’ PONY in the back of her lexus. WTF??? i had to quickly snap a pic to show the world, with proof.

because nobody would have believed me.

The other day, a few of us went and watched the new movie “The Blind Side” with Sandra Bullock, a true story of Michael Oher, a homeless black boy brought into care of a wealthy white home. A truely emotional film, where it shows the ups and downs, and their struggles with class and race and what/how led up to his now-famous NFL carrier. It was a great movie, definitely up there with friday night lights and remember the titans, although all had different takes on “football” within it’s movies. As also shown in “Crash”, Bullock, in possibly one of her best performances once again proves to us that she’s quite fit for Drama, over her more comical roles. Truth, courage, and love is the key. this movie is a must-see.

Not to mention, Sandra Bullock still looks AMAZING. I first fell in love with her quirky cuteness in SPEED, but gosh she’s so gorgeous for her age. and a freakin amazing body.

While waiting for the movie to start, i saw the preview for “Brothers”. I don’t get around to having much time to commit to watching movies, but that will be the next movie i watch. that one looks good.

just Drift this weekend, CHP toy drive!!!

thanks cody for this video, HILARIOUS!!! BRRROOOO!!!!!

it’s freakin cold lately, BROS.

let’s hit the slopes, bros.

Below Average

between saturday and sunday his past week, i worked a total of 20 hours.

Sure, it dragged on and was a bit hectic, but sunday night, i was a happy camper. But monday morning, i woke up with one of the worst spiking muscle pains i’ve ever experienced in my foot. that day, i could walk with a limp, but the next day i basically collapsed on my own weight, and could not hold myself up. so i nursed it and took the day off work…and today  i went to the podiatrist, and i have tendonitis in my foot. Apparently, i’ve overworked one of my main tendons, and it’s become inflamed. bleh. just been icing it and watching tv all day.

when we moved, my dad threw away my crutches from when i had achilles tendonitis saying that “you’ll never use it again”.

today, he bought me a new pair of crutches.

even sadder news, despite previous posts, i’ve sold the cressida. seems like as soon as i sold it, everyone and everything around me makes me feel like i should have kept it. but i had to let it go. i had too many cars and cannot keep up with all of them.
i’ll miss you:(

the other day, i had a chance to drive darwin’s r33 gts-T skyline. boy, RHD is a whole other world…but it was quite the beast.
I ended up picking up a set of eibach’s pro kit for the fit. noticeable difference from stock springs, and the drop is perfect. thank you eibach for not lowering the rear to the point where it sags. waiting on a couple other goodies still.

so, tell me why my tundra with less than 50,000 miles is already leaking tranny fluid from the rear tranny seal? oh yea, it’s japanese branded that’s assembled and finished off in san antonio texas. fail.
just got it replaced. $17 bucks for the O-ring seal, 5 quarts of genuine toyota tranny fluid @ $15 each…plus labor. supppeeerrr fail.

Fit is Go!

Recently, i’ve moved back to the 626, but still holding 2 jobs out in the valley along with school.

wtf, right? I know, the commute isn’t as bad as it seems, but it’s still a hefty distance, especially when i work at the pizza shop delivering. The only problem was that i drive my Tundra everywhere…i was using roughly 50$ of gas every couple days. So, that means that half the hours i’m working would be solely going for gas money. That’s just not smart, and almost not worth it.

So i went out, and went shopping for a sub-compact car, which seems to be super popular lately. i went down the list..

Yaris…smart…cube…versa…civic…soul…geez i don’t want any of these…but wait..what about a FIT?!?!

Ridiculously hard to find if you’re picky about your options. I strictly wanted Taffy white in stick shift, Sport model, 07-08.

New ones are just as hard to come by, unless you find a dealership with mass allocated fits. i went to galpin, kolbe and keyes..nothing…til i went by the one in pasadena…14 new ones!!! so i picked one out..and it was the only one with NO dealer mark-up and none of those unwanted extras like alarm or HFP wheels or wheel locks. The only down fall was the it was black in color, where i had wanted white….and i guess i could live with the new redesigned model. (hey, it’s NEW!) Not to mention…the used fits are competitively priced higher than the NEW models so that prices are negotiable….in my instance, the white used 08 was a grand more than the new one i bought.

So on thursday 10/08 i went into the dealership ready to sign my life away and open another auto loan. it was worth it. Not to mention, my credit score was immaculate at 742 and i didn’t even need my pops to co-sign.

i hated my 07 civic. i love this car. it’s never ending fun. you’d have to really drive one for a day to understand.

And i can’t just leave a car untouched…i had it tinted the came day i got it. just last night, i blacked out the headlights. and i’ve got some lowering goodies coming reallll soon.

And whenever i’ve blacked out headlights, i’ve ALWAYS used a heat gun cuz i’m skeptical about baking plastics…but i did it this time. and its so much more pain free and easier than heat guns!!! But the down fall was that i had to completely strip the front end of the fit to get the headlights out…as opposed to when i did my tundra headlights, a couple screws and clips and the headlight came out by itself.

Results:

As a side note…Thanks to MARIIIOOOOO for fixing and tidying up my 240!!! it runs SOOOO great now!!!! I didn’t finish as high as i wanted for the socal drift comp, but i was very happy with the way my car ran. Here are some pics from that weekend..

my day off.

Today is one of the few days off i have from both jobs, and i definitely enjoyed sleeping in without any alarm clock to nudge me up.

But i’m not doing anything, and it kinda gets me lazy. the car still isn’t working, and we can’t figure out the problem yet. it’s ridiculous.

i’m movin outta this joint by the end of september. and i’m gonna miss it…all the parties and good times hangin out onthe porch, BBQ’in and workin on cars til the break of dawn…it seemed like an endless year. who knows where i’ll end up next.

My buddy, who travels alot because he gets seats on Swiss Air for ridiculously cheap because his dad is the head engineer for the planes at LAX or something, recently went to switzerland and australia. This past weekend, he let me taste some “swiss” ice cream called “Movenpick”. although haagen daz is pretty high class, it was no comparison. Movenpick was so light yet so creamy, and i tried a bit of each flavor. it was literally, a party in my mouth. Not to mention, he brought “lunch pack size” chocolates that Swiss Air offers with each of their on-board meals…and it’s probably the BEST chocolate i’ve ever had. and i’m not particularly a chocolate fanatic, at all. The texture is just ridiculous.

can you imagine waking up, and being on the front page of the local paper? Not just once, but time after time. It must be a priceless feeling. talk about “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

Wake me up…

…when September ends.

What a slow start to the new month.

I got the car back from getting cage thanks to pat ardon and john over at Foothill automotive, but come 2 nights before the event to shakedown the car, it has ignition issues!!! after nearly 15 hours of troubleshooting between my 2 jobs, i still can’t figure it out at 5AM at cody’s shop…so i drive back home with my head down and went to bed, and missed the event.

I’m determined to fix the problem and tackle it…once the weather cools down.

For now, here’s a pic of the cage installed. It’s an S&W 8 point. Me and chompz spent 7 hours prepping and painting the floorboard white, and the cage Mulsanne teal, to match.

A week ago, slim finally receieved his coilovers for his CB7, and he came over and installed his newly found lower-stance.

what a clean accord.

Check out this video from Chompz Productions. Summer 2009, great memories.

http://vimeo.com/6257648