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Today is the day I finally order my
Focus ST. My
13 year old Cougar has been showing it's age for some time, but I refused to buy a naturally aspirated car and the current forced induction vehicles on the market did nothing for me. Enter the Focus ST rumors almost a year ago to which I clung desperately. While a huge fan of the new Focus when it launched last year, I knew I'd need more than the 160hp the standard engine produced, and I wasn't keen on another
aftermarket option, so the ST became my new fanboy obsession. After spotty reports of vehicle testing, tuning, and engineering sign off I'm finally on the precipice of greatness.
UPDATE: It's official, I'm all ordered up and
in the queue My love of benchmarking, which has given me so much nerd ego boosting over the years, was at an impasse with my
Windows Phones. While web-based benchmarks assure me my browser is sub-par, I was at an impasse for deeper hardware comparisons. Today,
AnTuTu benchmark (yes, also hilarious) launched on Windows Phone, and it allows me to compare with fandroids (albeit not EXACTLY as they mention WP7 doesn't support all the same procedures for testing). Regardless, I can now get crushed by all kinds of dual-core wielding phones that should easily
outdo my numbers. The built-in "different algorithim than you" excuse has me covered if I lose.
UPDATE: Excuse has already been used, Marco
kicked my ass.
Driving home from work today, I decided it was time to start documenting the burned out buildings I enjoy on my motorcycle commute. The motorcycle is uniquely suited to this task since I could pull up onto a sidwalk, take my shot, and get away before the homeless zombies had a chance to react to my presence. As usual during my odd projects, first John then Tom passed me while I was taking the shots, with Tom pulling off the road and waiting to make sure I wasn't in any trouble (because what kind of nut takes photos of burned out buildings). Despite giving the impression I'm mentally divergent, I think the end result is a good perusal.
With the AIM team
being laid off, and the fact that I only actively talk with 3 people on the service it's time to switch to Google Talk. It already tries to muscle it's way into my Gmail, G+ and Google search so I might as well just bend over and take it willingly instead of search for another alternative.
As my anticipation for the
Focus ST grows, so does my daily news search for anything related to it. Today I was rewarded with
this possible order sheet for my dream vehicle and immediately contacted my dealer to see if they also had it. Of course they had no idea what I was talking about and probably contacted security, but I sent them my choices based on the leaked form anyway.
With my recent
health screen fail I've started considering diet drinks despite my hatred of them. Pepsi has almost perfect timing with their "half-diet half regular" Pepsi NEXT. While I'd prefer a Mountain Dew NEXT the non-ass flavor of this one isn't bad. You still get the ass after taste, but for almost half the calories I'm trialing it. This may be my gateway drug to the Pepsi MAX zero calorie which will ultimately be the cause of my liver cancer in 2017.
Lila decided to help me with my weekly eBay shipping and even offered to auction herself off for extra money. I thanked her and explained the gesture was commendable but unfortunately illegal. Knowing how obsessed I am with making extra money she was initially sad, but I reminded her that by not being sold she could continue to live with me and surprisingly that made her happy again.
This weekend was our first away from Lila since she was born. I don't think Lisa was actually ready, but it beats going insane from cabin fever. First up was Great Wolf Lodge where Lisa took every opportunity available to tell me how much better Kalahari was without explaining why we didn't just go there instead. Next was wine tasting, which despite my efforts at getting drunk I just could not understand the point of. Luckily Lisa learned as long as she didn't buy any wine I had no complaints and completed her tasting rounds. Our final stop was to visit my sister which involves copious amounts of alcohol in various bars and entertainment venues. On returning home, we discovered
Lila was still very much alive and non the worse for wear. Vacation success.
Today was my health screening at work, and while it feels a bit intrusive I can't help but agree us fatties should pay more since we're higher risk. That said, I failed every single metric save Glucose, which means my excessive Mountain Dew must be working. Since I'm already technically dead, I can only assume I have superpowers keeping me alive and vow to change nothing about my eating habits.
| Metric | Level | Dead |
| Cholest: | 246 | > 240 |
| HDL: | 23 | < 40 |
| LDL: | 171 | > 160 |
| Trigyl: | 258 | > 200 |
| TC/HDL: | 10.7 | > 5.0 |
| BMI: | 26 | > 25 |
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Today is the day I finally order my Focus ST. My 13 year old Cougar has been showing it's age for some time, but I refused to buy a naturally aspirated car and the current forced induction vehicles on the market did nothing for me. Enter the Focus ST rumors almost a year ago to which I clung desperately. While a huge fan of the new Focus when it launched last year, I knew I'd need more than the 160hp the standard engine produced, and I wasn't keen on another aftermarket option, so the ST became my new fanboy obsession. After spotty reports of vehicle testing, tuning, and engineering sign off I'm finally on the precipice of greatness.
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