Navajo Surgery

Alright, so…

its a great day to be alive…still

As most of you know, I drive a 1994 Mazda Navajo LX ( i know, it really is an LX i’m not even kidding.)
well, if you have ever driven in my car, you would know that it’s always an adventure, because the car would shake whenever i applied the breaks right? Not anymore!!! Today i put the Navajo into surgery, I lifted it up on a jack and took off the front left wheel, and after that, it gets tricky. If any one of you out there has a 4×4, you would know that it either has automatic or manual locking hubs, well the Navajo comes with Automatic ones, which judging by my little Haynes manual thing, are a lot more difficult to take off, and when replacing a bad rotor (break disc), you have to do these 5 things. more simply put of course

1. Take off wheel, using a Tire Iron.
2. Take off Caliper- using a C-clamp, compress the disc pad against the disc just enough for the caliper to move freely, then take a screw and a hammer, and knock out the two pins holding the caliper on, slide off caliper, and put off to the side, making sure not to let it dangle by it’s hose.

3. Take off Automatic Hub- most difficult part, simplified- take off cover, take off spring tension thingy, then take off a clip, then slide off a bunch of little things, and then take out the magnetic key that is keeping you from spinning off the autmatic lock nut, and then go to kragen and buy a $20.00 2 3/8 hex nut socket, something that you will only use once in your lifetime. grr…. then take off the nut,

4. replace rotor. self explanatory, slide off old, slide on new.

5 reassembly and test drive.

i feel so accomplished, that only took me an hour and a half haha.

RAVE

Alright,

guys, its a GREAT day to be alive!

last night, Nugget Markets Inc. had their second annual R.A.V.E.  I must say, last years was a lot better, i mean, this year i had an alright time, i got to see a lot of people i hadn’t seen in a while, but overall everything was just worse then last year. There were no money prizes handed out this year, which i’m alright with because i didn’t win anything last year anyways, but the food was in no way as good as last year, the bands that they got to play were very good, but they were bands that played music that you couldn’t dance to. they decided instead of opening the MU right at the beginning to bowl and whatnot, they waited until 23:30 to do it, which was rediculous because there was just a mob of people waiting to get in. My last complaint, in our company R.A.V.E. stands for Respect And Value Everyone, and i must say, i did not experience that last night, i got completely ragged on ALL night for what i was wearing, constantly being torn down, and by my own Store Director, and other people who have been through EmpowerU, so i don’t know, i guess it all just felt hypocritical. BUT i did have an alright time, Denny’s tasted good afterwards, i had a short stack of pancakes that was gone in 60 seconds. Oh, and i did horrible at bowling. the MU sucks! alright, later guys.

I’m Focused

Alright,

so I would like to start off this post, and hopefully all that follow with,

It’s a GREAT day to be alive!

i decided to get one of these wordpress dealios’ because i have been reading both of the Bryan’s and well, i guess they inspired me to start writing all of my ideas down really. I recently went through a Leadership Awakening “Class” i guess you could call it, and it really opened my eyes on a couple of things.

1. My lack of Focus is probably one of the main things that i need to work on to better myself, my relationship with others, and most importantly my relationship with christ. It will be so much easier now that i have this thing, because i can come back here at any time, and re-read everything and get inspired all over again, i guess this could be my anchor, the one thing that will tie me to my thoughts, and never let go, i will always have these thoughts to look back on.

2. The way i talk to others i have found, is really brutal. i constantly, ok well not constantly, but i am steadily tearing people down, and thats not the person i want to be. Up until now i thought i was a good person, but now i realize that i only thought that to make myself feel better. Now that my eyes have been opened to this fact, I will Strive to be a better person, and hopefully will be a good example for christians today, 66 percent of the people in the united states say they are “christian” and i think about that and say, dang, i mean, if you think of 66 percent of the people that you know on a personal level, some of those people out there are really setting out a bad examply for non-christians and i want to be someone that those non-christians can look at and say, hey he’s not one of those “turn or burn” christians, he’s a pretty cool dude, and look, he’s not smoking, drinking, or cursing at all. look how happy he is, and how he treats others. i will be that guy.

 alright, i will end this with my personal Mission statement.

My Mission statement
My Mission is to love, for what is life without love
it is nothing, it is death
I am Focused on my Vision, for without Vision
You cannot see what lies ahead
and are therefore unprepared for life
My Mission is to achieve Excellence in all that i do
while keeping a Humble, God Oriented mindset