near 1am colorado time

It is called humility-this came after I worked diligently to take out the stereo in my uncles porsche actually my porsche his stereo and attemp key word to attach mine.  After tracing every wire connection 3 times I turn the car on and nothing.  Oh year dumbass don't forget to hook up the ground wire...  ground wire hooked up and we have power however we can't get radio/ nor cd player to work/ nor usb connection to work properly, but atleast i know it has power.  After tinkering with it for about 20 more minutes I get the radio to work, but still no cd nor usb, and the strangest of things happened during all of this...

Freddy got a cassette player installed in this car 3 months ago or the one I took out when they connected it they added some updated speakers to the front and kept the rear stock but didn't hook the rears up because freddy just needed the front.  When i hooked everything up the passenger side front works, the two back speakers work, driver side i get nothing not even a annoying whisp of static.  but i guess 3/4 ain't too shabby.  So tomorrow morning i will be going to circut city where i am sure atleast 1 or 2 personell will freak out when they see a stereo improperly installed calling me a idiot behind my back and try and make a 82 porsche sound like the symphony i know it can- but alas i will have tunes once again~

to go along with humility I have another word i learn Righteous props to the dude that made this word because today they fit my vocabulary perfectly.  Let me break down car guy speak to all you non car guy/girls out there, I got a porsche from my uncle freddy basically on the premise his wife told him he had to get rid of it, for 2 reasons the first they don't have room for it anymore because his son is deployed and his truck is at there place staying where the porsche used to stay.  2nd she can't reach the pedals so there is no enjoyment for her when she attempts to drive it.  So in steps me a dude who doesn't need a porsche but why say no to FREE 99!  Anyways the only thing better then getting a free car is getting a free car that has a really good suprise attached to it.

The car in stock form back in 82' made approx. 154hp/155tq at the crank-not bad for a 2.0 4cyl turbo- hell those numbers are even better then some cars today.  However this car isnt stock not even remotely close.  After talking with the mechanic who sold it to Freddy I learned the real truth andit was a good one.  A naval cat back about 6 years brought the car by the shop and asked for the works while he was deployed, when he returned he never paid for the work and just signed the car over to the mechanic, while he was gone however the installation turned his meager porsche into a Car born from the Gods in sheeps clothing.  A stage 2 Cam installed a New engine/new tranny/stage 2 clutch/new axles in rear/new tires/new suspension/the turbo was even taken into consideration and worked on (exact numbers aren't known but instead of stock 7psi it makes closer to 13psi now.  The spark plugs wires and seals were all touched upon.  Of course alot of good all that did because after the build the car sat in storage for 2 years prior to Freddy buying it.  He put 12k on the new engine in 3 years and now the car is finally broken in and after being manifested and worked through all these things, the power output is somewhere in the neighborhood of 240hp/250tq get about 190-200hp to the rear wheels- that is 46 more hp then the car made in stock form at the crank.  They never put a ne intake or exhaust on it because it wasn't on the list to fix, but according to the mechanic those 2 parts could litterally make this car even nastier then I can even imagine.  But that isn't even the best part the original car got 17mpgcity/22mpg highway- this car sits around 15-18mpg city/ and 25-27mpg hwy.  Reason for the increase the car hits boost later and at highway speed instead of being in the boost like you were when the car was stock it now is in the lag tunnel perfect for cruising speed.  And to top it all off the dang thing has a tank bigger then my wife's baja 17.1 gallons US- utterly insane for a porsche but I am not complaining.

Priest 

btw this is kind of near the color of the porsche

1411/211pm

So about a month ago my company finds out that we are going to be getting a slew of privates in, and with this new slew many things will ultimately have to change, for the first time in my nco careeer I will actually be able to be just that and NCO.  The way most companies operated in the past was simple being that there were few soldiers you followed the leaders an eventually progressed through the ranks.  There at one time were only a handful of team leaders and even less of them were e6's most would make e5 and then work really hard to pick up their 6, but that time has since past.  Now we have a large and I mean large grouping of soldiers under the rank of e5, there are the three sgt's of eod , then we have a one plt nco, our ops nco, and our first sgt.  Our maintenance and supply are both nco's but when it comes to eod it is slim pickens.  The good news is however that the soldiers we got in are probably some of the best behaved soldiers I have ever seen they understand how to address soldiers and nco's and none of them is ever out of line.  It makes my job so much easier, when I don't have to worry that my guys are fucking something up, and when I can work to get them into some really good schools because they are busting their asses and doing a good job.

Be at the range next week and have a command appointed visit, other then that I will be on duty the rest of next week, good times will be had by all.

geoff