Many of you slackers will be taking the days off this Thursday/Friday to come… I myself will be streaming the games to my computer at work.

Thanks to a local group Allied Urology, you may have an excuse to stay home and watch the games that no boss will be able to refuse.

They are advertising Vasectomy Madness!  I feel like hooking my shit back up just to go through it again!  You will be under doctors orders to relax and watch BBALL all weekend!  those geniuses.  Ironically they did my snip last year on my birthday in April.  I scheduled it after Brad was born, and really you would think that they would have gotten me in early enough to take advantage of this but NO!!!  bastards.

Now they are all about doing as many cuts on Wednesday-Friday as possible.

I need to sell my truck.  Before I put it on the shelf it had started to make a horrible racket from the location of the tranny.

Specs:

7.3L IDI diesel, 5 speed manual trans, 94 F350.

The engine has 34K miles, it is a Jasper Reman.  The Trans has 322K miles.  I drove it yesterday for a short trip.  1st - 3rd gear are not as bad, 4th and 5th the noise really picks up.  going down hill almost no problem, up hill is the worst.

After getting home I inspected and it appears that the drive shaft is pulling out of the trans.  The rear wheels have a broken leaf spring bracket so they could be pulling a bit and pulling on that drive shaft.  My question is, if I fix the bracket and get the rear wheels to stay a bit more solid do you think that will fix my issues or will the trans need some work as well?

Also how much would you pay-sell a truck like the one described before being fixed and after.  I am thinking I would take 3K as is, or 4500 after its fixed.  Bear in mind that the engine is a 6700 dollar unit from Jasper and has only 34K miles.

There is some minor body issues, but I have new parts and the rest can be fixed with a little welding.  the rest of the issues are cosmetic.  It has a nice custom interior put in by Classy Chassis.  And it has 4 brand new tires and 2 that need to be replaced.  Brand new set of chrome simulators still in the box.

On top of this mornings issue with the car, I have been dealing with an issue at work, and felt that I was being avoided.

Well at 3:00 to 3:01 PM both items came to a crashing conclusion.  The GM of the Dealership called and basically said he would give me my money back today, or I can let him work to find a suitable replacement… he said that he is tracking back where they bought the van to see what his options are after that.

Also the big guy and I will be talking tomorrow about my other issue… he sent a text message that beeped in my ear WHILE I was on the phone with the GM…

Susan has been hunting for the copy of the life insurance policy for a while now… so 1 and 1 and 1 is 3….

Ok here is the deal.  Susan’s car as you know was hit by some douche who didn’t bother to stick around.  Being as that car had been through hell, had tons of miles, and didn’t hold all of us very well as Brad moved up to a big forward facing car seat, we took the opportunity to make lemonade and get a new mini-van.

Recently the mini-van, now a part of the Cavins’ Clan for 19 or 20 days has had a couple of issues… and I noticed that the drivers side sliding door doesn’t shut quite right.  So after being told that the expensive warranty did not cover the CD player which also quit working I decided it was time to investigate further.

I found out that in NOVEMBER of 2007 this vehicle was serviced at 72K miles… but WAIT A SEC, I bought it with only 61K miles!!!!!  also there is an accident report on this vehicle (explains the door).

Since the stealership didn’t let me know about these items am I entitiled to take the vehicle back?  we have put under 1000 miles on it, and had it less than a month.

Also, one of the competitors to this dealer, a private dealership without any affiliation to any of Auto line, and without a service department had a similar vehicle for less money… it had more miles, which as it turns out it may have actually had LESS miles, and I was told that they were a shady bunch known to “roll-back” odometers….

So I am thinking I should shoot an email off to that dealerships owner… let him know that the competition is talking bad about him, and doing the same shit they claim he is doing… I am also thinking of shooting an email to a couple of local reporters, and to Ford, Chrysler, Dodge, etc… all of the brands that this dealership represents and let them know how their dealers are doing.

SO that being said, what should I do next?  Should I give them a chance to do the right thing and fix this situation or should I just blow the lid and fuck them gently with a chainsaw?

You all probably had no idea that you were interacting with the worlds smartest man here at KCL.  Now you know.  While this is something that I don’t normally talk about, or to put it better have only mentioned twice in my life, it is truth.

The reason I don’t mention it to people is because it is an unbelievable statement.  It is like telling someone that the sky is purple.  You will read this and regard it in the same way you would had that been the message.  You would discredit it based on your own knowledge of the sky being blue.  Just as you will discredit this based on any number of ways to measure intellect.

You will can discredit me because I can’t spell, or because I frequently use “your” where “you’re” is the correct word.  There are many easy methods to discredit my claim.  There are many ways to measure intellect.  You may ask, “Have you ever…” and I may answer, “No” but that does not prove my statement wrong.

What makes me the smartest man alive? Simple.  I have yet to be faced with a task that I can’t solve.  I have 0 schooling outside of High School, and even there I was the slacker of all slackers.  Yet when I designed a model bridge in 7th grade without even looking at examples I won out of the entire school with the lightest/strongest bridge.  My bridge weighed 6.7 grams (only one lighter bridge came in at 6.4 grams) and held 27lbs of Rock hanging in a bucket from the middle of the bridge. (the lighter bridge at 6.4 grams held 6lbs.) No other bridge even those weighing twice as much as mine held as much weight.  To put this in perspective, my bridge at a weight of 25,000 pounds and given the calculation for adding its own weight would hold as much as the span between the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.  This section of bridge weighs in at roughly 88,000 pounds.  So therefore as a 7th grader I designed a bridge over 3 times as efficient as the Golden Gate Bridge and with 0 experience or prior knowledge.

The above example only gives one account and does not answer the question entirely.  The fact remains that no other person alive today has the right knowledge or decision making ability to have taken the path that I took.  No other person could have taken the uncontrollable parts of my life and wound up further ahead in life than I am.  I am by no means anything greater than average, but no amount of wild luck could have helped another being make it as far as I have with what they had to start with.  THAT is what makes me the smartest man alive.  My ability to see something and dissect how it works within my mind and even recreate it, given the right resources, are what makes me the smartest man alive.  The fact that I am me, the fact that I know you can teach me something, and the fact that I recognize my own shortcomings make me the smartest man alive.  The fact that I am willing to learn, the fact that I am willing to change, the fact that I am willing to try again makes me the smartest man alive.

The beauty of being the smartest man alive in the world today is that I can fully appreciate entertainment, competition, theoretical views, disagreements, and above all life.  You will likely never hear me mention this again, mainly because I don’t like to gloat, but I am the smartest man in the world.