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Blog

A collection of thoughts, life updates, projects, and images in chronological order.

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Spring Break - Day 7

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Spring Break - Day 8

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It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

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This morning was spent cleaning up the livingroom and choosing which LEGO sets to bring back to school. It should be fun having more LEGO around in the dorm. My roommates have been aquiring various LEGO sets over the last couple months, so it'll be a good addition to the collection. This is what we settled on:

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+ LEGO CIS tank droid. +
CIS tank droid.
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+ LEGO General Grievous's fighter. +
Soulless One.
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+ LEGO Boba Fett's Slave 1. +
Boba's Slave 1.
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Once that was done, we headed to my dad's again to change the oil in the truck. Before leaving, I couldn't help but capture our cars accidentally parked in a staredown.

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+ Mazda Miata and Chevrolet Silverado in a staredown in my driveway. +
Staredown.
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The last change was 2 years and 7,000 miles ago, so it was time to do so. It hasn't seen much use over that time, so that's why it's been so long. We had our mechanic dog sign off on the job when we were finished.

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+ Coco, my chocolate lab, standing in the driveway. +
Coco the supervisor.
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After, we had dinner with my dad, hung out with Ángel, and headed back for the night to do some more cleaning up. Tomorrow we have some last minute prep to do before heading back to Detroit for school. It's been a fun break.

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Created: 2024-03-09

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Spring Break - Day 7

It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

Today was more LEGO in the morning. One of my friends headed home to Michigan and my other friend and I worked on some more Star Wars sets. Progress was steady, and by lunch we had about 7 sets made including what we worked on the nigh before.

Later that day, I got fitted for a suit for the first time. I'm very excited. Since I'm tall and pretty skinny, stuff never fits from the store. Everything is either too baggy or too short in the arms and legs. Having a suit I can have for events and networking is something that's more important now that we attend networking events, but it was expensive, so I definitely understand why that's not something you up and do normally.

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After, we had dinner with my mom, and headed back for more LEGO building.

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After, we had dinner with my mom and headed back for more LEGO building.

By the end of the night, we got 8 sets pretty much fully completed.

Completed sets lined up on the floor. Completed sets lined up on the floor, second shot.
Finished sets.
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I'm super happy with it. There's some missing and broken pieces on some, which is unfortunate, but everything's a lot more organized now, so I can get right back into building whenever an not have to re-sort stuff.

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I'm super happy with it. There's some missing and broken pieces on some, which is unfortunate, but everything's a lot more organized now, so I can get right back into building whenever and not have to re-sort stuff.

Tomorrow'll be a busy day, as it's the last full day we have here. There's an oil change to do, grandparents to visit, homework, and random housekeeping tasks. We'll see how it goes.

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Created: 2024-03-09

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Spring Break - Day 6

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Spring Break - Day 6

It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

Today was the "final" day on the truck. We headed out and got the nuts installed for the struts and the rear wheels installed. I also tried heating up the bent plastic fender liner to keep it from catching on the tread, but it just ended up catching again later. I just need to deal with that and change the oil, and it'll be set for the trip back.

Jeep CJ-7, Volvo 244, Mazda MX-5, and Chevrolet Silverado lined up in the driveway.
Ready to depart.
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In the meantime, we packed up and headed to Milwaukee to drop off Ángel and meet up with another friend to grab lunch at Crave burgers and Kopps Frozen Custard, both great places to eat if you're ever in Milwaukee. Each Kopps location has a different achitecture theme going on with the building which is fun to experience.

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In the meantime, we packed up and headed to Milwaukee to drop off Ángel and meet up with another friend to grab unch at Crave burgers and Kopps Frozen Custard, both great places to eat if you're ever in Milwaukee. Each Kopps location has a different achitecture theme going on with the building which is fun to experience.

Large sculpture of a sppon and cherry inside of Kopps.
Sculpture inside Kopps.
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By about 3 AM, we made some good progress and finished about 5 sets. Some were missing one or two pieces, and there were some instances of the infamous fragility of brown and maroon LEGO bricks showing itself in the form of fractured pieces. You can contact LEGO to get broken pieces replaced, so I'll be doing that once we're done for the break.

It was a very fun time though. Three friends with some music, a box of LEGOs, and motivation to see as many completed sets as possible by the end of the night is a great experience. I'd highly recommend. Might be a fun yearly event, rotating which house everyone goes to.

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Spring Break - Day 5

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Spring Break - Day 5

It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

Today, the goal was to swap the front struts on my dad's truck. The front end needed to be lifted to fit the @@ -137,8 +171,9 @@

Our next adventure includes bringing Ángel back to Milwaukee with the truck once it's fixed. We'll see what else happens the rest of the day. There's plenty to do.

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Spring Break - Day 4

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Spring Break - Day 4

It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

Today I finally got a haircut.

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Tomorrow, we're going to try and swap some suspension components on my dad's truck, so I can actually have something to drive back to Detroit. We'll see how it goes.

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Spring Break - Day 3

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Spring Break - Day 3

It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

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Overall, it's been another great day. Lots of plans for tomorrow, including a haircut and picking up Ángel from Milwaukee.

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Spring Break - Day 2

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Spring Break - Day 2

It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

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Sketching at Autorama
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Sketching at Autorama.

While on our shift, we met Andrew Berry, a senior at LTU who is also majoring in transportation design. He was friendly, very talented, and we got a bit of a first-hand look into what it's like at another school. I've very @@ -264,7 +301,7 @@

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Andrew Berry from LTU
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Andrew Berry from LTU.

Of course, the rest of the day (before and after) was spent walking around the show. I don't really know many details about the cars, but here's a truncated selection of what I found most interesting.

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My friends and I hit the road for Wisconsin tomorrow. Hoping all goes well. It should.

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Spring Break - Day 1

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Spring Break - Day 1

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Today is the first day, though technically not. There were still classes, but not for me. It is still winter, @@ -332,6 +370,7 @@ at school and the remaining car parts.

Autorama is tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to it.

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