The English Riviera Track By Track

It's Aprill 11! Today marks the release of Metronomy's album release for The English Riviera! I heard The Look for the first time and instantly fell in love with this band. INSTANTLY! fell. in ♥. with this band. So now i'm waiting for their Vinyl, T-Shirt to come in from their website. A little excited about that purchase. Until Then, I have downloaded their Mp3 Album from their site! comes with WAV in 1411kbps goodness. ugh beautiful. Can't wait to listen to it with my K701's on the amp. 

Listening to the album as we speak! It's very laid back. The whole album is enjoyable. And I mean the whole Album. Still my favorite track is The Look lol. I'm glad I get to listen to it in absolute pristine quality. It feels perfect if listening with friends, perfect road trip music, perfect timing, for this 81º Weather. I Highly suggest getting this album. Right meow. Support the Artist! It's groovey.

buy their stuff or see their video: Metronomy.co.uk
download the look here: Click Me! or Right Click and Save As

Went to get new tires for my car today, Thought I'd get a decent deal for it if I went on base at work. So I started heading my way over there. Was about to pass the building of where I work when I see the green lig-
SKADOOSH 
I get rear ended by some dude with people packed in his car. I laughed.. at the luck of my poor baby. A popped tire 2 days ago and then I get rear ended.... on top of all that.. I was on the way of repairing the tires LOL. Someone is out for me. 

[Short Story]
I got the the guys cell phone number... but.. I forgot the rest of his information HAHAHA. in the end he was a good guy and complied with all the proper procedures making life easy for me. LUCKILY. Good first time to be in a accident so I know better now what to do for next time. 

[OPTIONAL! Long Story]
Turned into the parking lot and the car fallowed me. Parked and went outside to check out the damage. Nothing too crazy.. a crack on the bumper and some scratches. The guy got out of the car and started apologizing thoroughly. I almost felt bad. He was in uniform and I looked at his rank and he was just a Airmen (E-2). Poor guy, he must've just checked into the Airforce, Just got the car, probably scared shitless lol, I wonder what rank he thought I was since I was in civilian clothes lol. The typical new guys are always really formal which was nice. His hands were shaking and I was telling him to calm down. I told him I'd need his phone number so we exchanged them. He said he was in a hurry that's why he wasn't paying attention to my car when he hit. He also said he'd fix it, I asked him if he was gonna call his insurance people and said he was, so I told him i'd probably do the same for mine as well 
     Got into the tire shop and they said they'd start on it right away. In the mean while, I was talking to people about what happenned and I just realized something.... I didn't take a picture of the collision.. Nor did I get his license plate.. or his name.. or his insurance policy number HAHAHA. That's when I started getting a little worried. I believed the kid was going to be honest about the situation so I was not worried... too much. Waited till I got out of base to call the guy up wondering what he did so far, and yes, thank god. He called the insurance company and said they'd call me soon about the info. Pish Pash. All good to go.

THINGS I LEARNED THIS TIME:
When you get into a accident. Make sure you do the following:
•exchange insurance policy information (policy number, company), 
•get his/her full name
•get his/her license plate
•get his/her license number 
•exchange phone numbers
•call the police and definitely get a police report number  

All I did was get his name and number XD. What a learning experience this week has been. 

I did talk to my dad about the situation and asked me if the damage was even that big of a deal. It wasn't really, He told me to be good and maybe keep it hush hush from the Insurance Companies. Do the guy a favor... It's too bad, by the time I called to see if he wanted to do it, he already made the claim. I would've kept the money for camera gear anyway.. LOL it's better that way. Poor Car.. Definitely gonna have to give it some love this weekend.

Poor babyy

I knew it was gonna happen soon but I didn't think it was going to be this soon. So far I've had my car for 1.5 Years now. With the same Tires, i've ran it damn near 40,000 miles now. lol. I wasn't surprised that this happened but I wish it didn't cause I wanted to get more camera gear lol. I guess it was gods way of saying... stop forgetting your priorities and take care of one thing you use the most! (other than your cameras)

Here is a quick time lapse of what happenned during the Tire Change:

1330 READY TO WORK BIATCH
1600 Told to go home, they didn't need me .__.
1615 Tire Pressure Low Light Comes On, -looks for air pump-
1618 Gas station, free air sweet. -looks at tires,... -fadge.. ones flat... that explains it.

INITIATE SPARE TIRE REPLACEMENT PROCEDURE

1625 Bolts won't come off.. frustration
1630 Sets L Bar on nut and start kicking it counter clockwise to unscrew nuts. SUCCESS
1633 Attempts to remove wheel.. Does not bulge
1637 Wondering if I'm doing something wrong.. call a friend, he says jack higher
1639 Start tugging at tir-OMG THE CAR IS FALLING TOWARDS ME! LEANS AGAINST CAR STARTS UNSCREWING JACK TO GO LOWER 
1645 Still unscrewing jack to go lower, car feels like it's going to fall less lol
1650 CoWorker comes out of nowhere stops by and asks if I needed help, Gladly accepts his 15 years of aircraft mechanic experience lol
1655 Lowered the jack enough to put the car on neutral and roll it forward to take down the jack safely.

RE INITIATE SPARE TIRE REPLACEMENT PROCEDURE 

1657 Start trying to pry the tire off the car not working
1701 Gas station guy gives us hammer. Me thinks it will do
1705 FINALLY GOT THE TIRE OFF
1710 Got the spare on and is good to go home.

Luckily for me. I left work early today. Imagine getting a flat at 10PM at night in the middle of nowhere .__.
Luckily for me. My CoWorker came to help me out. Definitely made life a lot easier lol. 
Luckily for me. The gas station guy gave us that hammer lol.

Lucky me. ♥

I told my coworker that I owe him one for helping me out that time. He told me, no, I don't owe him anything. Just make sure I help out the next guy in trouble, cause this time, I know what to do. Not bad coworker, not bad. 

So now that I know what to do, here are some Side Notes incase you get a flat:

•Don't jack the tire off the ground too high.. it will fall on you. In fact, the gas guy said, "your car fell off the jack because you jacked it up too high"
 GOOD ADVICE... PHONE A FRIEND.
•If your tire doesn't come off easy... get something that will shake the shit out of it. like a hammer lol. It might have been corroded onto your wheel, making your jack highley likely to tip over because you were pulling so damn much lol.  

Random street photogs, A womans best friend

25 Days, and I couldn't handle it. lol.

So one day me and my friends were at a diner just hanging out, Then my one friends tells me how it's ridiculous how i have so many websites lol. Facebook, Xanga, Flickr, DeviantArt, and I'm even about consider Tumblr lol.  She told me I couldn't handle it if I gave it up for Lent. And Then I put some things on top of it. Like, no video games or tv. I really wanted to be more active with my life lol. I thought it shouldn't be so hard. I didn't wanna go into it alone so I said I wasn't going to do it unless my best friend did it with me. 

"Could I at least warn everyone that i'm going to be gone?"

"NO... no one is to know haha"

We couldn't do it lol. We kept on changing the rules during the month lol. One week in we lifted the video games rule. Since we don't do much of that anyway. 3 Days later we said we'd only watch 2.5 hours of tv a day.. then we just started to ignore that rule completely lol. The one thing I was able to not do the longest was do social networking. I could live without it, but honestly, it's just so convenient to communicate to the masses with a couple of taps on the keyboard and a sometimes a left click on the mouse.

I felt kind of bad though, because I was in Japan during March, I left 3 days before the Earthquake. I did mention I was back on facebook, but I just stopped going on shortly after. I was worried that people would have that I was still there and that I was possibly dead.

And with Xanga I haven't been on for ages, and then i'm not allowed to be back for another 40? CRUEL is what it was lol. for me at least. 

Not social networking though brought it back to me old school, phone calls, e-mails, and such. We can honestly survive without it... but.. why would we. it's there. it's a fast way to get the word out. While I was out giving up social networking, if I had pictures i wanted to show people I Had to e-mail it to them. I'm happy I can tell them to just take a look at my album on flickr again haha.

A LOT OF PICTURES TO POST SOON. AND NEWS TO BE HAD.