"She Fades Away" by Alphaville

The lawn mower wouldn't run today.  Digging that old grass out was gross.

Making progress on painting the Switch Plate

Getting ready to break loose that lower ball joint

No success yet.  Damn these are a pain in the ass... or hands at the case may be

Cutting out the holes for the gauges

These are going to be so... SEXY!!

This is one of my favorite Alphaville songs...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmC4j-JN0hE
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RgrttqY91w

Too weird bra for me!!

I saw this weird bra thing on Twitter or Instagram and was curious.  It took so long to arrive I had forgotten all about it.  I put it on and it completely weirded me out!  Creepy!!  I decided I'm fine with bras that are about the same as my grandmother wore (not as pointy LOL!!).

In point of fact I remember trying on my grandmother's bras  :D

#Transgender

"Color My World" by Petula Clark

CeCe color's my world and cheer's me up every time I see her!!!

I've started painting the switch plate out of CeCe

I've decided to go with the same Philly Pride flag on the dashboard of CeCe.  I started painting the switch plate today and I plan to do the same with the instrument cluster.

I had to get an impact wrench to break loose the bolts holding the wheel assembly together

I found that 52 years worth of rust on those bolts, there was NO WAY I was going to break them loose by hand.  SueZQ suggested Harbor Freight and I got one much cheaper than other places I checked.  And it is incredible.  One pull on that trigger and those bolts were DONE!!!

Anyway, SueZQ was playing this song today and I thought that is what brings joy to my world is having so much color!!!  Seriously I believe that CeCe has healed me.  I feel better than I've felt in maybe years!  I think this song is very appropriate for me!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdmTfB2tRE

"I Just Died In Your Arms" by Cutting Crew

Seth Meyers joke CD music from Trump touring a mask factory

This is absolutely hilarious!!  While Trump was touring a Honeywell mask factory in Arizona somebody played this song and these others on the PA system:

"Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney
"It's the End of the World" by R.E.M.
"Fever" by Peggy Lee

This is where Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert talk about the background music:

YouTube (Late Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcC01svBx_Q&t=6m
YouTube (Late Night): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZB7dijpF20&t=2m43s

These are the links to view the entire clips:

YouTube (Late Night): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZB7dijpF20
YouTube (Late Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcC01svBx_Q

Anyway this is a great song, so 80's!  And check out the 12 minute version, the Live in 2007!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxUArvDcCi8
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOwHzCHfgA
YouTube (live 1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACW7I1v7sFk
YouTube (live 2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VgstsVS44

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SueZQ dyed my hair black today.  I *LOVE* IT!!!

I scratched the living shit out of the switch plate getting it out of CeCe

I was using screwdrivers to try and pry the switch plate out of CeCe (my car) and I really scratched the shit out of it.  I finally took some metal putty knives, stuck them between it and the dash panel on top and bottom of the switch plate and was able to pull it out without much difficulty.  I've decide to paint it the with the Pride Flag colors now.

Got a brake tool today and popped off the old brake springs and shoes

Progress on converting CeCe to disc brakes is so PAINFULLY SLOW!!  :(

"Happy Birthday" by Altered Images

Judges order changing my name to Rachel and gender to female as I am

Then of course this dumb ass junk mail comes today

I had a good cry this morning, this has been the *BEST* five years of my life!!  But last night was so very nasty.  I went into that (MS thing?) where it felt like I was freezing to death even though it was not cold.  The thermometer in my room said it was 75  degrees in my room.  I had to put the blanket, that I took off my bed a couple of weeks ago, back on my bed and still it felt like I was freezing to death!  I was completely freaking out!!!  I finally took the one Valium I had (from my MRI in January).  Thankfully that hit me really hard, really fast.  I couldn't even stand up and it put me out just minutes later.

YouTube (Vevo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1vaF50Ks0

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I think this looks so cool! 

That black stripe just looks so good!

I was worried how this would look, but I think it looks pretty dammed good!

"Dog Eat Dog" by Joni Mitchell

Installed the stereo in the dash, so I could connect the antenna and the radio works now. 

One of my dear friends son got married today on Zoom.  I was tired of having the car stereo sitting in different place and constantly having to move it around.  I set my phone where the glove box was and I was able to attend the wedding and install the car stereo at the same time.

Having the stereo there also allowed me to connect the antenna cable so the radio works now.  The first radio station I listened to was KRCL of course.  I also put a bulb in the dome light, so now there is at least some light when you open the doors at night :)

I also painted the black stripe on the back of the car this evening

Funny you can now see the car stereo playing in the car!

I was wearing one of my favorite KRCL T-shirts today

I was wearing makeup again today!  What is weird is that I can see my eye shadow in the photo on the left and I can't see it at all in the photo on the right.  Those photos were taken like 26 seconds apart.  How did mt eye shadow disappear?

I've got to get a new scanner!  I have to tweak things now in the editor

My friend that I worked with back in the late 70's and 80's gave me the above cassette when that album was released in 1985 and that album was EPIC for me!  It absolutely spoke to me!!  I played this tape yesterday when I was driving SueZQ's truck and I had this title track stuck in my head all night and all day today.

YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj_dUa0eqg
YouTube (live 1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0xPxNMrj1g

"You've Got Possibilities" by Peggy Lee

Track listing, as best I know / can determine for the KBOC Archive #1 CD

Last night I went through that KBOC Archive #1 CD (see yesterday's post) and tried to Shazam any tracks that I didn't already know.  As you can see there are 6 songs I recognize the tune but I don't know the artist and Shazam didn't pull anything up.  There is one ("This Guy's in Love with You") that Shazam pulled up, but it appeared in what looked like Korean to me.  And there are 4 that I didn't recognize the tune and Shazam drew a blank too.

#Shazam

This is a favorite of mine, such a great song!!  Obviously was Miss Peggy Lee, I have this album in fact.  But then I had this song stuck in my head all night.  I kind of feel like this song is applicable to me at this point.  I feel like I've got more possibilities than I've had in a while now.  This car has so helped me have a better attitude and I believe even function better.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6a5oEnm2A

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My son-in-law came over and repaired many of the cracks in the bricks from the earthquake

I started taking the old drum brakes off CeCe to replace them with disc brakes

And I got plenty dirty!

I started the process to switch CeCe (my 1968 Plymouth Satellite) to disc brakes.  It definitely hasn't started out easy... anything but!!  I think it took me well over an hour to just remove the stupid clip that holds the rubber brake hose.  And then I feel like breaking the tie rod end ball joint loose was THE WORST EVER!!  It was well over 2 hours, possibly 3!  I pounded and pounded and pounded on that ball joint fork with a 5 pound sledge hammer.  I got out my propane torch and heated it up for like 3 minutes and still wouldn't budge.  I pounded on it more and from different angles.  Still nada!  Finally I heated it up for almost 10 minutes with the propane torch and it finally broke loose!  I was so done with that process by that point.  I'm dreading breaking loose the upper and lower ball joints on the spindle next!!

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Checking out our plumbing nightmare!  Can you see all the spiderwebs?

Remnants of ancient electrical and telephone wiring

And if I hadn't had enough fun for one day, then I went down into the crawl space below the house to scope out the pluming mess I need to fix.

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I'm sorry but what Butcher said about God in this scene made me laugh out loud!

Lastly I'm watching "The Boys" on Amazon Prime and what Butcher said in this scene totally made me laugh!!!

"Love in Every Room" by Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra

CD I made in 1997 from old cassette

So I grabbed a couple of CD's that were laying here to listen to while I was working on CeCe (my 1968 Plymouth) today.  When this music started playing I thought I wonder if Shazam could identify if.  I know this may sound absolutely silly, but when it popped up it sent shivers down my spine.  After all these years, this song was finally identified.

This is the first music that kicked off that old reel-to-reel tape that was pretty epic for me.  I've mentioned it several times before in my blogs.  It just felt so epic to finally put a name and artist to it.  I had previously estimated from several of the other songs on the tape that it had been recorded in 1967.  But on one of the YouTube videos said this music was from 1968.  How funny that I would find out what this music from 1968 is while I was sitting in my 1968 car.

To the best of my knowledge I don't have the original reel-to-reel anymore.  I copied the reel-to-reel tape to cassettes at some point in the past.  Judging from the cassette tapes I would guess it was in the 1970's (they are some of the first generation of cassettes.  Then in 1997 when I got a CD recorder I copied the cassettes to CD.

Anyway my grandpa knew Cliff Peterson that owned the (later infamous for the HiFi Shop murders) HiFi Shop in Ogden, Utah.  He started the first FM station in Ogden and I believe the call sign was KBOC and that is where I got the title for this tape.  He gave the tape to my grandpa.

#Shazam
#ReelToReel
#CassetteTapes
#KBOC-FM

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WkeQpibkW8
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_Dkj-bswk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_evtqkDWY

I'm not sure if I should link to this video as it has full frontal nude woman in it, I guess if it would offend you, DON"T LOOK!!!!

YouTube (Full Frontal Nudity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWjK8chiDc

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Trying to figure out how to arrange the new gauges

First there was all those nasty tiny little black seeds while I was trying to paint, now this  :(

That VDO Ammeter doesn't work! I had to move the stereo from where I had it

My layout for the new gauges

I've been trying to figure how to layout the new gauges I got.  It looks like it will be tight, but I think it will work.