INSTALL A GALLERY ON YOUR WEB SITE

Posted by: snakecharmer  //  Category: Off Road Tech, News and Reviews

I was two steps away from the edge of a very high bridge, ready to try to fly, because that seemed easier than installing a gallery viewer on this site, when I hit a button by mistake and it worked. (this is no fault of the guys who invented this plug in, they are great and it is great, I am the dummy when it comes to this stuff) So at long last, we will post up pictures of our wacky existance and be able to give close ups of technical projects and our clients cars and trucks. If you enjoy this gallery HALF as much as I hated installing it,  we can look forward to huge street parties, fireworks and cheering masses.

See you soon,

Snakecharmer

Who is the F-King?

Posted by: snakecharmer  //  Category: MORNING HUMOR

Good “F” King morning. How about another shot of “the sit show”?

I took a glance at the way a word looked on a page long after I wrote it. Maybe its the hour of the day, early early am (when the goblins chase me out of bed) or maybe its the amount of tequila (that’s the source of the goblins) or maybe its just a wacked out mind with nothing to do at the moment. Whatever the reason, take a look at the word (or candy coated conjunction) F-KING.  It has no nasty in it at all. The “F” King must be a guy, a nobel guy, a man of highest morals and grand intent because “F” King is around all the time. He is on the tip of everybody’s tongue and used to describe almost anything from gutter to glorious.

This indeed, truly is the mark of the “F” King thing.  I mean think about it….he really is everywhere. You hear about him on the street, as you pass by a group of skaters, “check out the “F” King kick flip”….why he must be a skater. He must also drive a taxi, I heard somebody ask specifically for the “F” King taxi. He is also in politics, a common question today “who do you think will be “F” King president?”

I mean, I find myself thinking that I would rather be “F” King”, than just talking, to the girl at the coffee shop. I wonder if she would vote for me to do the “F” King thing if she knew that I wanted to be the “F” King thing that she wanted to do?

It gets so out of hand that it make me “F” King crazy. That’s it! The whole world has gone “F” King crazy and they just don’t know how to say it. A long time ago “F” King was kept in the dark, hidden behind a cloak of other words used to describe the same thing. I am glad that we have evolved, cause now every thing can be linked to a “F” King thing and “F” King’s lineage is alive with princes, dukes and all sorts of other dignitaries. Think about it or better yet “F” it. Or sometimes ”F” her or “F” him. OR “F” that or this. Not to mention intercontinental applications, “F” you (Japanese).

So today, lets make it a “F” King of day. Have a grand time, though a party, get “F” King happy. I am going to invite ED to my party, he’s a great guy, fun to be around. Do me a favor would you? Get your big “F” King ass  out of here and go find Ed. You know what, Ed is a prince of a man, he needs a title.

Go get “F” ED.  I don’t know about you,  but I feel “F” King great.  Its good to be King. Even better to be the “F” King.

It’s good to be the ”F” King thing, that makes people crazy.

Ride Dirty or don’t ride with me.

The “F” King Snakecharmer

 

cheap gas in mexico

Posted by: snakecharmer  //  Category: MORNING HUMOR

ok, it looks like the over the border gas/diesel deal has got a little presure from one government or another. On the last trip to cheap fuel land I hear that folks were told that they could not fill up “such a big tank”. Seems like the subsidy by  the mexican governement does not include gringos who want to fill up a “grande tank”. I dont have all the facts yet but trust me I will dig ‘em up and keep you informed. For now, however, if you have a “grande tank” you ain’t gonna get it Grande filled, at least not without a little grease for the effort. Mexico is still a wonderful land filled with wonderful people who understand the value of service when it comes to that touch of class or extra coin.  get the drift?

ride dirty and take an extra peso for paco when you fill up, it just makes good sense, no?

snakecharmer

Gas Prices and Scooters

Posted by: snakecharmer  //  Category: MORNING HUMOR

OK, this one is killing me. It’s 7:00 am. The freeway is jammed because somebody crashed going North, on the same freeway I happen to be driving on. Traffic is backed up, people are getting pissed. It must have been a big wreck….yup, its sure was. The problem I have with all this shit is that WE ARE DRIVING SOUTH.  The other way. Nobody crashed in our lanes. Everybody is fine over here. The cops are all over there, so why the hell aren’t we hauling ass?  Oh no, we have to look, stare, try to see, yak back and forth on our f–king cell phones while we try to see….talking to somebody, telling them “how bad traffic is this morning”… The traffic would not exist if you morons would just drive and leave the stop and stare BS to the other side of the road.  At least they can see something. Did I forget to mention that there is a great big cement wall between us and them?  The kind you can’t see through, just barely peek over the top….if your in a tractor/trailer rig.

Now all of that has nothing to do with the topic o the day except it sets the stage.  Remember its never the fall but the sudden stop that hurts. Anyway some folks were saving gas this morning, they were riding a scooter. When I say folks I mean two and when I say scooter I mean one. Some people are so damn stupid they should wear helmets, all day, on or off the scooter.

I carry a camera everywhere I go for occasions such as these. However, when opportunity knocked this morning the damn thing was somewhere deep up under my dash, smashed into that position because I had just laid down 40 feet of rubber and spilled a macho grande starbucks on my balls. That was my reward for  missing the morons on the scooter. AS if this wasn’t enough, the two hells angles in front of me came right out of a circus. The one riding bitch had 10 asses, 9 of which had totally engulfed the seat. The pilot was about 85 pounds and hunkered over the bars with her chin damn near on the headlight. The fact that I drive a big, I mean big, diesel eating, gross polluting 4×4 on stilts was not even on their radar. 

Communication is a wonderful thing but its best left to those who are evolved enough to use language. The two clowns in front of me had a system of communication that defied even my weird imagination. Fatty would twist and look behind and then smack bones on the side to which she thought they should turn. Bones would then turn the opposite way of the slap. Fatty would then slap again and yell “GO RIGHT” while slapping Bone’s left side. Dealing with them was like that dance you do in the grocery strore when you meet some idoit in an asile that can’t commit to go either way but instead just does the little shuffle in front of you…except i am in my truck and they are on a scooter, and I’ll be damned if we ain’t trying to go the same stinkin direction.

Remember the wreck? This pair of clowns is what I have in front of me, coffee is what I am about to get all over me. Fatty wacks bones on the left side trying to tell her about the wreck, Bones turns right, Fatty wacks right, Bones slips left, Fatty wacks again and Bones turns around to scream about the quality of the signals. Scooters bounce I guess. Because the last thing I saw before I damn near passed out from a pair of scalded balls was that scooter pinging off of the three cars around me like a pinball. At that point my balls were still fine and this was good entertainment. The part that got me and saved them, was this little tiny ray of red light peeping out from under Fatty’s ass. Instinct I guess, red lights no matter how small, make you jam the brake. 

Do they know how close to death they were?  Hell no. In a cloud of burning rubber, screaming from the burning pain I watch them keep driving down the line between the cars. 

Oh yeah, one more thing. I can think of only one person who was even remotely happy to have been screwed this morning by the scooter riding freaks. This would be the feller who stuffed his hood under the back bumper of my truck. I couldn’t give two dead flys at the moment due to the fact that my happy sack was still on fire and fire was making a run towards my back porch. When he appears at my window, his face turns ashen, he thinks he’s at fault for the look of pain on my face. I am a decent dude, a damn prince of a man come to think of it. I don’t give a crap about being rear ended, its all I can do to snarl out that I’m leaving now and if your car is stuck up my ass you can have it back when it falls out. He just looks at me with his mouth hanging open.  It hung open for about 30 yards, and so did his car. 

And may I ask, how was your morning?

Snakecharmer

check out the sit down comedy “page” for more of the same

Posted by: snakecharmer  //  Category: MORNING HUMOR

Every morning I get wound up about somthing. It starts with having three boys ages 13,13 ,14 rasing hell at 5:30 am about who is wearing what bling bling BS that day. It continues when I get to the office where I have contracted and continue to foster a very serious case of “client based turets syndrome”. Its unfortunate for for me, but the truth is, this crap is funny I dont care who you are. So, if Ican’t laugh at myself,  I’m really getting left out of the fun ’cause everybody else is.

So, in an effort to ease the pain, blow some steam and let you join the rest who point and crack jokes at my expence, welcome to “The morning sit show”.  I purposely left out the “h”  in sit, why have rating issues right off the bat. Besides, the first 5 minutes of “your day at the desk” should set the stage for the rest of the day. “Sit down shut up and laugh”

This is an introduction. A stupid waste of time, but I wanted to make sure that my title, expected content and any other grand scheme relating to ‘the morning sit show” was imortalized here so that my stupidity in print and pictures gets all the respect is does’nt deserve and copyright protection to boot.

Cheap Gas ***VIVA LA MEXICO***

Posted by: snakecharmer  //  Category: Off Road Tech, News and Reviews

DON’T TELL ANYONE….     DIESEL IS $2.20 PER GALLON IN MEXICO

VIVA LA MEXICO !!!   VIVA LA PEMEX  

During the Baja 500 we stopped at a PEMEX station to get a little fuel. Accustomed to the gas prices in San Diego, I yanked out a wad of Jackson’s and got ready for the pain. I don’t speak much Spanish, but I damn sure know the difference between “treinta y cinco dolares  and sesenta y cinco dolares”. The fella in the PEMEX uniform said “treinta y cinco” clear as a bell. For you gringos, that’s 35 bucks, regardless of where you’re from. But I had to check…first in English, then in Spanish, hell even in French at that point to make sure I was hearing right. Well, there was no mistake, gas is HALF the price in Mexico.

That fill-up was in Ensenada, so considering the particularly lubricated state I was in, my mind sloshed over the possibilities while I did my best to see by covering one eye. Good thing I was’nt driving, concentrating on the road, with only one eye would have made be even more dizzy and I would’ve thought the half price gas was all a dream. Arriving in TJ, I made my buddy pull over at my newest most favorite place, a PEMEX station, so I could focus on the sign with the prices. After a few minutes of painful concetration and currency conversion I came up with the figure of 2.61 per gallon.   

At our shop we build aluminum cross bed fuel tanks for diesel pick ups. Generally, these are purchased by contractors with heavy equipment or guys towing trailers who don’t want to stop every 100 miles to fill up their tanks. I had noticed that over the past month or so orders for these tanks had increased, but being slower than most I just welded more aluminum and turned up the country music. The morning after the 500 I came to the shop with a whole new revelation, (and a few facts), diesel sells for 2.20 per gallon in Mexico and I had just paid $5.50 at the 7-11 on corner of Mission and Balboa. I don’t like that place very much anymore. I then looked online to price out the other guys aluminum tanks. Some were a little cheaper than ours (crappy things) and most were hundreds of dollars more (crappy things). The clincher was when I called to see if I could a tank right now, “I mean now, like shipped out today”. A 30 to 45 day delivery time was the answer and prices were higher than expected…due to the increase in aluminum prices.. cough cough BS cough 

I don’t mind the drive into Mexico. I’ve got the XM comedy station, a cell phone I have yet to figure out and all kinds of voices in my head to keep me company. Which means, should there be a little wait at the border I’ve got plenty to do and people to talk with while I wait. And if waiting means I’ve just saved $377.00 bucks on diesel then I would be nuts not to do it. (my truck has a 130 gal tank plus its stupid little piss pot stock one that holds 24 gal).

I have started seeing a lot of ex-patriots down across the border these days, all of us gathering at the PEMEX station, drinking coffee and telling lies. We share stories about secondary inspection and all the places on our trucks the customs guys look for dope and aliens. No worries, all I have on board is just a full tank of of fuel, a well programed cell phone, my current ID and a fading sense of humor if you mention a body cavity search one more time.

So, if anybody reads this blog, it was written with the express purpose of exposing the perils of Mexico and warning all who read it to stay away from the half price fuel just a few minutes south of the border. It burns just as well as the stuff up here that costs twice as much and you have to install a tank in the back of your truck to really take advantage of the savings. Don’t call Precision Off Road Engineering to build you one of those shiny aluminum tanks either, I hear that they are pretty nice guys who don’t charge an arm and a leg and deliver your tank in about three days, right to your doorstep. Don’t let this little secret get out, we wouldn’t want to encourage anybody into taking that dangerous drive down South, risking life and limb all for a few bucks would we?  I’ll see you at PEMEX, and feel free to stop by POE and pick up a tank on the way there.

Now that’s RIDING DIRTY,

Snakecharmer