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Interests: Long van rides, Sonic, Setting up and tearing down lots of gear, Sonic, Road construction, Sonic, The occaisional playing of music, Sonic, Watching DVD's and playing Tetris on the Powerbook, Sonic, Guitar Center, Sonic


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Member Since: 4/26/2005

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Our live worship album is finally available for purchase online through urbanjunk

Go buy a copy for all of your friends.


Thursday, August 10, 2006

So we took a dump...I mean we took the trash pile to the dump.

Well, all our trash was piled on the trailer, but it needed to be organized better.  how dumb, but we couldn't move it with everything on it, so off went the top stuff:



ain't no worry - with enought tie downs, you can move anything.  i swear.



we stopped by the scrap yard first and they took the overhead bins becuase they're made of aluminum!!!!!!!!!!!!!  that is after we waited for them to all finish their 10:00 am break.  some guy wanted the tv's and vcr, too...so whatever.  all told, we made $232.00 to put back into the bus.  sweet!!!  then we went to the sanitary land fill.  how they ever came up with that name, i don't know, but it sure stunk.  but they had big versions of the tonka trunks i used to play with as a kid, so it's all good.  we threw everything else off the trailer in a pile in the dirt.  easy enough.  that is until you get nasty landfill dirt INSIDE your socks.  needless to say, i took a shower asap.

and jon passed his CDL tests!!!!

well, this concludes this week in bus demolition.  tune in at the end of next week after we get back.  those bolts are gonna get it!

~jim~


Wednesday, August 09, 2006

You better GO before we go, because there ain't no bathroom on here...and less blood.

things moved along today.  here's our trash pile to date (it's going to the dump in the morning):



the rear area got a lovely makeover:

this:



minus this:



equals this:



so no potty here.  lets just say pictures can't convey smell...nuff said.

after it was discovered that the giant tracks bolted to the walls (more on that in a sec) weren't holding down the metal heating duct covers, we ripped all of those out pretty quick.



this dust build up was in the ducts in the rear of the bus (look real close):



yum.  deep breaths...

okay.  the dumb part.

these giant screws:



are in the giant metal tracks on the wall like this:



everywhere:



and they aren't coming out.  with an air gun.

so we get to drill them out next week.  all of them.  yippee.

but we're getting there.  and as always, i don't post all of the pics so check our xanga photo page for extras.

~jim~

p.s.  jon's taking his CDL driver's test tomorrow, so say a prayer for him.


Tuesday, August 08, 2006

music clips

oh yeah - we finished the music clips for the website and they're up and running and matt's gonna have the online store ironed out in the next week or so.  yowweee!!!

~jim~


power tools are fun. so is beating the snot out of stuff you're ripping out of your bus.

day 2 -

more demolition today.  we took off the tv's and made a cutting edge hi-tech entertainment command center:



we removed the overhead storage shelves.  let me just take this time to say that by simply reading the preceeding sentence, you can't fully grasp the chaos involved in removing the said shelves. 

because they're made of metal and shelves are strong.





seriously, the longer one had to weigh 500 pounds or something.  you know when you have a bunch of people to help carry something and you know it weighs a lot, but it doesn't feel like it because of everyone helping???  well, we had 6 guys and still felt ridiculous...

in other news, josh ripped the wall that separates the bathroom from the rest of the bus and we started working on the back seat and we pulled all the NASTY carpet panels off the wall.

and there was some bloodshed -

Flip -



and Jon -



hmmm....i wonder who won that contest....i chose to stay out of that one.

i'll get updated pics tomorrow of the spaciousness that has developed.  you should see our trash pile...

the rest of the bathroom (toilet, water tank, etc.), rear seat, and floor heating ducts are agenda for tomorrow.   maybe we can check out the floor, too.

anyhoo.

~jim~



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