Miss January 2006

Winter is just around the corner.

Roger called me yesterday looking for a high-res copy of a photograph for his 2008 XKEdata.com calendar. Next years contribution will not be a photo of my car (though he is holding one in reserve in case he can not contact an owner for permission to use his photo) but will instead be a car I photographed from the passenger seat of my car. Well, technically I was hanging out the passenger DOOR of my car but that is a mere detail. 😉

Anyway it reminded me of my car’s FIRST calendar appearance, as “Miss January” of 2006. I love this photo.

To those that do not know the story it was taken on Super Bowl Sunday of 2004. I had just replaced the leaking cam cover gaskets on the car and took it for a test drive up the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River near my house. This spot below Whitehorse Mountain is about 12 miles from my house and a convenient spot to turn around. The view isn’t bad either. I stopped here to check for leaks, and sure enough found one and tightened up the acorn nuts on the cam cover just a wee bit. Sharp eyed observers will note the drops of oil on the road from my (then)leaking engine. I then closed the bonnet and took some photos.

The original photos posted upon my return home can be found here. The weather looks ominous, but it was actually a “nice” day by Seattle area standards for winter time.

My excuse for light blogging of late…

Not to mention all the other stuff I should be working on.

At work we’ve been busy as beavers building onto our facility. We’ve been at it pretty much non-stop for the past year and a half, but things seriously kicked into gear about 7 months ago. First an electrical expansion, we doubled our UPS capacity. Then we started a project to expand our cooling capacity, roughly quadrupling it. That is the stuff that has been keeping me busy of late. You can read all about it here.

Theoretically this project will finish next week, but I have a sneaking suspicion that another one lies in my near future.