"Ziggy Stardust" by David Bowie

Getting it centered and the spacing correct

Two tiny spiders were crawling around while I worked

Part of the stencil tore off in the 'C'

It's hard to believe how much time it has taken painting just the "Black and "Matter" on my car.  Several hours tonight just doing the "Black.

The first David Bowie album I ever bought.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KEn0uOEILs
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXq5VvYAI1Q

"The Bitch Is Back" by Elton John

One of our favorites (it's red after all)

Our sexy sleepwear from Black Velvet

We decided to take a day off from working on the car and go visit Wendy and pick up Rachel's Father's Day gift from her.  Plus Rachel saved a little money from her Economic Stimulus money to go to Black Velvet our favorite sexy shop.  That is what it was for to support local businesses.  As you can tell by all the sexy things Rachel has bought there over the years, we love that place.

Black Velvet Boutique: http://blackvelvetboutique.com/

Located at 595 State Street, Clearfield, Utah

After Rachel found a couple of pretty new items at Black Velvet, we decided to go get us a Veggie Ben at the Burger Bar in Roy, Utah.  We were kind of sad to see that Black Velvet's old location was being torn down.  That place was epic for us!  The first place Rachel ever tried on and bought lingerie.  As you can see from her collection above, she spent a lot of time in those old fitting rooms.

Black Velvet Boutique's old location

Almost completely demolished

As anybody who follows Rachel's blog is aware, it has been a while since we made a post.  The fatigue from the heat and stress most nights we had nothing left to give by the time we were finished working on the car.  Plus, even though we are still using the old Blogger interface, the thought of maybe eventually having to use that cumbersome new Blogger interface just freaked us out.

But Rachel has many draft posts she just hasn't finished, so we are going to try to get those finished.  So hopefully The Bitch IS Back!!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGo6x_uzG8Y

"Fool If You Think It's Over" by Chris Rea

Note: As of today (6-Sept-2020) I have 83 "draft" blog posts.  ("Draft" meaning posts I've started but haven't finished, so they aren't published yet.)  I want to add comments about the song.  Tell what is happening in my life, etc.  Add pictures of what is going on.  But at this point There is just no way I'm ever going to catch up.  The evidence is that I can't even keep up.  So I'm just going to publish these posts with a link to the song (hopefully one that is unlikely to disappear).  Maybe if a miracle occurs someday I'll be able to add comments / photos to them.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSui9_IBgao

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3myI0IJmTlQ

"Spiderwebs" by No Doubt

I had 5o go buy a tap to clean out the threads so the banjo bolt would screw in

Woohoo!!!  The left side is complete!!

I'm so excited!!  I completed the drum brake to disc brake conversion on the driver's side of CeCe today!

I remember when my daughter was first living with me that she took an segment of this song and put it on our answering machine for the greeting.  The audio quality was so bad it was difficult to even tell what it was.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZktNItwexo

"You're So Mean to Me" by Coco Montoya

KRCL's The Blue Devil's Blues Revue CD

Of course it is my "Dead Name" in the credits

I dug out some CD's to play while working on my car.  I played a part in the creation of this CD, I used to go with my friends Rob and Connie and run the UHF transmitter that sent the audio for the Blue Devils Blues Review program over to the KRCL studios for broadcast.  It was around 30 years ago.

I'm finishing this post like three and a half weeks after I started it.  I've just felt so overwhelmed by everything.  First it turned out that this song by Coco Montoya did not appear on YouTube anywhere I could find.  I considered posting a different song, but it felt like that ruined the meaning of this post.  So I decided to make my own video on YouTube for it.

Then Google changed the interface for Blogger... I have no idea what they were thinking.  I suppose they wanted to change it to the current interface style.  But I think it's HORRIBLE!!!!  It's ugly, less concise and far more cumbersome to use.  It just threw me for a loop, when I was trying to deal with all this other stuff.  I just didn't have the fortitude (?) to make a video and deal with that nasty interface.

I did find a way to revert back and use the old Blogger interface, which I'm so thankful for!!  I hope they leave it available, I'm dreading the thought of a time when I have to use that NASTY new interface!

Anyway, here is the video I made for this song, from on the CD.  I introduced the CD for a minute at the beginning of the video, there is a link to start at the radio introduction of the Blue Devils Blues Review and where the music starts.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8D-kL1DHk
YouTube (radio intro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8D-kL1DHk&t=90s
YouTube (music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8D-kL1DHk&t=119s

The wind made a mess last night

The rotor is finally on!  I love that I have red dust boots!

And I really *LOVE* that I have red calipers!!

"Saved by Zero" by The Fixx

Track listing of the KRP on air cassette I found

I made a track listing of the cassette I found that was an on air recording of KRP a short lived New Wave station on November 1st, 1987.  (See yesterday's post)

I was going to post another song from the cassette today and I was thinking maybe "Secret Separation" by The Fixx.  But when I checked to see if I've posted it before, I noticed that I've never posted "Saved by Zero".  I was like WTF?  How can that possibly be!!  That was one of the first songs I heard on MTV that really drew me to it.  It was just an epic, quintessential song and video for me.  So I've decided I should post it for today!

Interesting that the extended version has additional lyrics.

YouTube (Vevo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiZP8FS5Ww
YouTube (audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euBzxXFEuA4
YouTube (Topic-extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-4iqBhU6Qk

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Good to see the red grease poking through the ball joint

And I love that I found red dust boots for the ball joints

New tie rod end, new spindle and caliper bracket installed and torqued

The bolts that hold the caliper bracket to the spindle are supposed to be torqued to 95 foot pounds.  I could never get the torque wrench to click indication it was at 95 ft. lbs.  I put the assembly on the ground and tried to hold it still with my feet while I wrenched o  the bolts.  Couldn't do it.  I had SueZQ come and help me and we still couldn't get there.

Finally it occurred to me that if I attached the spindle to the car, the car would hold it steady for me.  I did so and it was cake!

"Current Stand" by Kids In the Kitchen

Mystery Tape turned out to be a recording of KRP from 11/1/1987

I have been digging through this bankers box in the garage that has all these miscellaneous cassettes, to find tapes to listen to while I'm driving SueZQ's truck.  This mystery tape turned out to be a gold nugget for me!!  It's an on air recording of the short lived New Wave station, KRP.  From things the deejay said and an ad for a concert, I'm fairly certain the tape was recorded on November 1st, 1987.

Here is a list of the New Wave stations as I remember them:

• Super 107 - I don't remember this, but one of my friends said it was the first
• KCGL - it was in a building in Bountiful, Utah on Orchard Drive, near the hospital
• KRP - rented time in the evening on the station that was WKRP during the day
• KJQ - on a backstreet off of 12th Street in Ogden, Utah - in the beginning just at night
• X96 - KJQ was bought out (?) and became a Christian radio station, so everybody (?) left and started X96 which was more Alternative
• KJQN - Owned by the same people as X96, to be a New Wave station.  Focus groups messed this up, wasn't the same music as the original KJQ. 
• KCQN - Chet Tapp and I and some of the DJ's from the old stations, started this Internet radio station after I lost my job because of MS in 2011.  We first went on the (Internet) air on October 1st, 2011.  Chet still kids me that it was the longest 2 weeks of my life.
• 103.1 The Wave - KCQN finally became a real, over the air, terrestrial radio station on October 1st, 2016.

103.1 The Wave:  https://www.1031thewave.com/

I'm making a track listing of the cassette now.  It's just so cool to me to hear almost 33 years later, not only the music, but the ads for places that are long gone.

Also this song has a distinct memory for me: I gave this album to my brother, Brad, for Christmas one year.  I had gotten a new video camera for Christmas that year so we had the family Christmas party at his house and somewhere I have video from that party with kids opening presents while this song played in the background.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zQW4xkCw8

YouTube (U.S. version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqpneyrWVA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wojHa2-4APg

YouTube (MTV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9zdgZlLZcI

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The "Ultra Sharp Lines" tape tore off a chunk of the brown paint, sigh!!  :(

I'm pretty sure grease is not supposed to be this stiff ;)

I finally got around to changing the plug on my battery charger

The 12 volt battery in our old Prius was bad, so I finally just left my battery charger in the trunk, connected to the battery all the time.  One time I forgot to unplug it (one time? hahaha) and it pulled the cord out of the back and, unbeknownst to me, it dragged on the ground and filed down the "Hot" pin on the plug.  It also broke the ground pin off completely.  So towards the end the arc every time I plugged it in burned the pin.  I could just smell the ozone whenever I plugged the battery charger in.