i miss my miater, but am making tons of ching-dow
11-13-2006, 04:18 PM
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i miss my miater, but am making tons of ching-dow
I've been in Santa Fe for a few weeks now, and probably won't be back home until February. I'm stuck driving a Hyundai Sonata, which is actually a pretty good car aside from the incredibly slow throttle response. However, I'm making about $6000 per month after taxes, so I'm definitely going to have some cash to play with in terms of turbo system.
Just wanted to say that I really, really, really miss driving the miater, and open a dialog with other miata driving people. Hopefully I'll make enough to build the turbo system and join the MS crew.
Just wanted to say that I really, really, really miss driving the miater, and open a dialog with other miata driving people. Hopefully I'll make enough to build the turbo system and join the MS crew.
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11-13-2006, 06:30 PM
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One word.... Geronimo's (http://www.geronimorestaurant.com/) FTW!!!!
I'm just trying to hold out until 12/15, so I can get on a snowboard.
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11-13-2006, 06:36 PM
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I'm from Alaska, but i've been spending my winters in TN for college. I miss snowboarding back home so much. Before I got into cars down here I was into snowmobiles. Wish I could ride my Arctic Cat ZR down here. I used to be able to take it to High School back home, who thought you would spend more time warming your machine up then riding it. It was soo fast though. Almost scary running it in a foot of snow at 105mph. Fastest i've gone on one is 125 though and that was a 700cc tricked out Polaris that would kick my ZR up and down the street all day.
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11-13-2006, 07:11 PM
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considering I have to send at least $6700 to visa before the turbo money starts, its not so great. But I'm getting there damn-it! This job is great for stuff like that.
A few people I know who worked in NOLA anywhere from 6 months to a year of 80 hour weeks with $59 per diem cut checks for phat cars. One coworker has the license plate "KTRINA" on his lexus GS430, which he cut a check for.
A few people I know who worked in NOLA anywhere from 6 months to a year of 80 hour weeks with $59 per diem cut checks for phat cars. One coworker has the license plate "KTRINA" on his lexus GS430, which he cut a check for.
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11-13-2006, 07:16 PM
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The scene is great here though, people are generally pretty nice. Its also great to go out on the town and be the "guy here on business." Kinda sad though because I just met a woman in Dallas that I was really interested in...and a 6' tall quarter horse breeder/rodeo queen. All the women out here are amateurs.
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11-13-2006, 07:49 PM
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Ya, NOVA is rediculous. I'm from fredericksburg (not technically NOVA) and everyone that lives here almost commutes north for work. So now housing prices have basically doubled in the last 6-7 years. My mom originally bought our house 10 years ago for something like $180K. It was appraised a year ago for $350K. Let me just tell you that I would never pay $350K for our house.....I'm thinking that if I can get a nice engineering job around Blacksburg I would love to live here. The mountains are nice, lots of twisties for fun weekend drives (right beside skyline drive), and I could have alumni prices on Hokie football tickets for the rest of my life. What beats that?
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