Twins separated at birth.

My convertible has a twin here in Salt Lake City.  Not an identical twin, since they are not the same automotive gender (make).  Mine’s a Ford, it’s twin a Chevy.  But anyway, Mr. Gearhead got these pictures (of the Chevy) down at the Nissan dealership and sent them to me.

First time in a long time I’ve coveted a Chevrolet.  But how cool would it be to have matching 1970 convertibles, from two different companies?  Of course, it’s a pipe dream, since I don’t have $20 to my name, let alone $20,000. (Unless anyone out there has $20K they want to donate to my obsession?)

Ahhhh, I like dreamin’, ‘cause dreamin’ can make you mine…..

Braille

I don’t know if he is legally blind, or if it is inevitable in his future, but I have a student that has a special order huge math book, and knows Braille.

Today he showed me how to write my name (as he knows me) in Braille.

I may just have to make it my standard blog signature.

Parents of the Year.

Ok, some of these are funny and even though we all know that about half the pictures on the internet are faked, that still means that half of these are authentic.

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From now on, you shall call me Greg.

Yeah, so these things are a little hokey and not very realistic, but some of them can be fun.  At least for me, and I don’t mind that I came up as Greg Sanders (Gil Grissom would have been better though).  The guy who blasts hard rock in the lab while he’s checking out DNA, knows Las Vegas casino (read MOB) history backwards & forwards, and in one episode was dancing around the hall in a famous, dead showgirl’s headdress (after he got the DNA off it, of course).

Which CSI Character Are You?

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So, which CSI character are you?  If you care, take the quiz and let me know.  If you don’t give a rat’s ass, then that’s ok too, but don’t let me know. :)

I know I never told any student they were worthless…

Got this in an email a while back.  I have no idea who it came from, except that his name was John. 

Subject: Remember me Rossi?
From: john@……………….
Date: 5/21/2010 1:33 PM
To: slim@srossi.net

Well I think I proved you wrong... I actually did something with my life rather then being a high school teacher or something lamer just kidding, but seriously. I make $4,000,000.00 a year or more in profits. Drive a BMW M6 with twin Turbos, modified dynotuned computer, a body kit and carbon fiber body. I live in a Luxury Loft In Los Angeles (NoHO 14). I have a house in the Philippines. I own a Multimedia Distribution company, co-owner of 100 medical marijuana clinics in Southern California each clinic makes about $120,000.00 (split 8 ways) a year. I also own a cultivation farm in Humboldt county, I own commercial property I lease out. I run raves. Wow who would of imagined a liberal who went to school with a bunch of non-liberals in Utah to make so much money. I have a Russian Girl friend too her name is Alyssa (lyubit sosat). Maybe democrats are better at running business then republicans can imagine. 20 years old no degree and don't plan on getting one. LOL.

The first thing that came to mind was BFD.  Good for you, if any of it is true, I’m glad that you made it big.  Then it occurred to me that this student didn’t know me too well.  Liberal vs. non-liberal, Democrat vs. Republican, with the implication that liberal Democrat kicked butt on the doubting non-liberal Republicans.

Um, glad you’re doing well, but it doesn’t prove me wrong and those political slurs don’t effect me at all.  (If you really want me to feel bad, send me a tenth of that $4 million so I can pay off my mortgage.  Then I’ll feel real bad.)

Oh, and if you wanted me to remember you, might have been nice to have given me a name. 

TR•3 to the rescue.

I’ve been using TR• 3 to shine up my cars since I was in high school.  I never thought I’d be suing it on my headlights.  One of the drawbacks of newer cars is that they have model-specific plastic headlights.  Used to be if one of your headlights got broken, cracked or scratched you would go to the nearest car parts store, cough up $6 and get a new one.  Until sometime in the 80’s there were 2 choices: round 2 headlight systems and round 4 headlight systems.  Whichever system, no matter what car you drove the lights were the exact same.  Exact.  The 80’s doubled our choices.  Round 2 and round 4 light systems, or now rectangular 2 or rectangular 4 light systems.  You needed to know three things maximum to get a new headlight: round or rectangular, 2 or 4 lights and, only if you had 4 lights, high beam or low beam.

Now, they’re a lot more expensive.  Mainly because new headlights (not the bulbs, that plastic outer cover that gets broken or scratched) are car specific.  Model specific and to some extent, year specific.  So for Subaru headlights, you pretty much have to go to Subaru and order them from the factory.  I think mine are only good for the Subaru Impreza, and only good for 2 model years.

Which comes to my point.  You don’t just go out and get a new one when it gets cracked or scratched, or more commonly, kind of gets milky and blurry. (Click on picture to get a good look).  So, I’ve been driving around for 3 years (car’s only 6 years old) with milky headlights and feeling like I can’t afford to fix the problem.

Dat, da da!  The Gearheads and TR• 3 to the rescue.  I found out that you can actually just wax them and they can come back looking good as new.  You can even buy special headlight wax at your local car parts store, but the Gearheads suggested trying TR• 3, and today I did.  Click on the picture and see how well it worked.

The other thing I did today was clean my house.  I hate a messy house, even though it often is.  Today it was bad.  All this week I literally came home from work (Wed & Fri it was 2 jobs) and went to bed.  Despite being annoyed by the mess, cleaning was the last thing from my mind.  Today cleaning had to happen, and here are some more before & after pictures to show you that I didn’t sleep through the entire day: