Let me start by saying sorry for the long post. ;D
I was reading the countdown post and reality hit me right smack in the head. I had been following that post in a bubble thinking, "Oh I have 101 days to get my car ready for Power Tour, that should be plenty of time". But when I realized in a normal a 7 day week, I really only have 2 good full days to work on the car. You know there's soccer practice for two kids, dance for my daughter, the wife and I play volleyball, I play softball and on and on and on. So 101 days to LR divided by 7 days in a week is 14.43 weeks. 14.43 weeks times the estimated 2 days a week I get to work on the car is 28.86 days left to work on the car. Not quite as peachy as 101 days. Even more so since I would like a couple of weeks to "road test" the car on my commute to work.
I do have a "list" on the dry-erase board in the shop. I think it has about 18 items left on it. Some small, but some that will take a day. I have no doubt I will make it, I thrive under pressure, but it is food for thought.
So the moral of this post, if you are thrashing on a vehicle for PT, thrash harder. Now, I'm going to skip out to the shop, there's a cold beer, a '78 Malibu and a ticking time clock waiting on me. God I feel like one of those guys on the "reality" car shows on TV.
Chad
I was reading the countdown post and reality hit me right smack in the head. I had been following that post in a bubble thinking, "Oh I have 101 days to get my car ready for Power Tour, that should be plenty of time". But when I realized in a normal a 7 day week, I really only have 2 good full days to work on the car. You know there's soccer practice for two kids, dance for my daughter, the wife and I play volleyball, I play softball and on and on and on. So 101 days to LR divided by 7 days in a week is 14.43 weeks. 14.43 weeks times the estimated 2 days a week I get to work on the car is 28.86 days left to work on the car. Not quite as peachy as 101 days. Even more so since I would like a couple of weeks to "road test" the car on my commute to work.
I do have a "list" on the dry-erase board in the shop. I think it has about 18 items left on it. Some small, but some that will take a day. I have no doubt I will make it, I thrive under pressure, but it is food for thought.
So the moral of this post, if you are thrashing on a vehicle for PT, thrash harder. Now, I'm going to skip out to the shop, there's a cold beer, a '78 Malibu and a ticking time clock waiting on me. God I feel like one of those guys on the "reality" car shows on TV.
Chad
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