A New Toy!!

First off sorry for the delay in my post. Second of all, I figured I would wait until I had something really exciting to write about. So I think this one takes it. Ok so it all started when my uncle came over to my house on saturday, April 25. He said he wanted to show me this car he had saw on e-bay that was right in Wantagh. It was this nice 1970 Oldsmobile 442. So on Monday I come home from school and he's over again, and my mother says "guess what Uncle Carmine bought" I said "The 442"? He said yes. He said guess what I'm selling. Let me stop right there, my uncle has this custom dune buggy since 1991. I've always loved that car. Ok so I immeadiatly say "the dune buggy"? He said yes. I replied "How much"? So not to take up much more time he sold it to me for $1000. That was Monday, on tuesday afternoon I cleaned our driveway with my aunt and some of my brothers in like 2 and a half hours. He brought it over that night. This car is so cool. I love it. Here are some pictures of it:

The exhaust is REALLY loud. I was driving with Franky that night and as I passed a car parked on the side of the road the alarm went off. It was funny. I was also parked next to Rocco's car just idling in nuetral and his went off also.

It's a four speed so he had to teach me how to drive it before he left. I did pretty good. I got it going in the first try!. I just have to practice a lot more. It also has these two air horns. One really loud one like a truck and one that sounds like an old car from the 30's.

On the front of the buggy there are two chrome head lights, smaller matching turn signals, the air horns and these chrome bull horns. They look pretty cool, I think.

I cant wait to get it on the road and drive it.

HEY!! Guess What!!

Tomorrow is my Birthday!! I'll be 19 years old. (Wow that sounds weird). I can remember a lot of things that happened, and can't with others. So figured I'd add a list of things that had happened through my years:

1990- Besides Mikhail S. Gorbachev becoming Pres. of Soviet Congress, well I was born!

1991- The Soviet Union collapses.

1992- Mall of America opens, covering 78 acres.

1993- Andre the Giant dies.

1994- President Nixon dies at age 81 from a stroke.

1995- Oklahoma city bombing.

1996- Blizzard of '96, Northeast is covered with 2-3 feet of snow.

1997- Dolly the "cloned" sheep is born.

1998- 5,000Th episode of "The Price is Right" airs.

1999- Y2K, world is relieved at 12/31/99 at 4 a.m. when Fiji is the first to go into 2000 and none of the computers blow up or anything.

2000- George W. Bush is elected President.

2001- 9-11 attacks rattle the USA.

2002- Congress authorizes attack against Iraq.

2003-Major black out in Northeast.

2004- President Bush re-elected.

2005- Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans.

2006- Fidel Castro gives up power to his brother Raul Castro.

2007- Former First lady Claudia "Ladybird" Johnson (President Lyndon Johnson's wife) dies.

2008- Meteoroid explodes in Earth's atmosphere over the Nubian Desert.

2009- My 19Th Birthday of course.

Rocco's 22nd birthday...

Sunday March 1st was Rocco's birthday, he turned 22. There were 29 people over our house. We had lots of fun.

Daniella and her cousin Julianna singing karaoke.

Rocco blowing out his candles.

Rocco and our Grandmother.

Rocco and his girlfriend sharon.

This is Julianna (think of the smallest, squeekiest, little mouse voice and thats what she sounds like)

I guess Butchy Boy partied too hard.

What is it??

What is that? Thats probably what your saying right now. Well what does it look like? A toe, a deformed finger... Those are good guesses but there wrong. It's actually a....

SWEET POTATO!!

It looks nasty, well, because it is. So we were having dinner (either Christmas or New Years) and we found this among the plate of baked sweet potatos. I took these pictures and I thought I should share them with all of you. A little late but I forgot all about it, sorry. Enjoy :)

Why people are overweight...

Dominic told me of this website that is full of just pictures of food that people have made or are sold in resturants. It's pretty scary because people eat it too! There's nothing gross execpt for the different combonations of ingredients (mostly bacon). Some, I guess could taste alright but I wouldn't try it (too unhealthy). The website is www.thisiswhyyourefat.com Just look at it, it might make some of you hungry.

Poetry...

For my english class I had to write a poem. So last minute I wrote this:

"A Sad Day"

When I woke up in the morning,

I noticed that my brother was sad,

I asked him and he said "I am in mourning,

Something happened that is very bad."

He wanted to be left alone,

I told him "I'm here for you bro.",

He said in a low tone,

"She was so young, you know."

I asked him, "Who are you talking about"?

He just replied, "It was so untimely",

"Who died!" I said with a shout,

He said, "I'll tell you", I said, "Finally!"

"It was Trish,

My Goldfish."

It's supposed to be a sonnet (whatever that means) so I just did my best. I don't know I just hope I get a good grade.

Just to catch up...

Butchy Boy in a deep stare.

My mother put some old food outside for the birds. I then looked out there when I heard some commotion. I saw these seagulls enjoying themselves on some leftovers, but that was short lived...

...When butchy went out there to scare them. He then decided to help himself to the rest of the food. He's like a bully on the school play ground, he always does the same thing, scares the animals then eats the food.

Franky and I decided to bury Angelo under the snow. It was funny!!

Don't Fuss with Russ...

On New Year's Day we had a bunch of people over our house for dinner. After dinner there were arm wrestling matches. I made this video of Russell totally destroying everyone in arm wrestling. In the second video the man is a Orazio, my cousin Daniella's cousin, he was cheating by using his weight and pulling down on the counter, but he still could not beat Russell. Enjoy!! (You might want to turn the volume up a bit)

Insignificant yet Beautiful...

This evening I was outside by the lights in front of our house. I was going to make a snowball. So as I put my hands down on the snow something caught my eye. Something glistening in the light. I knelt down to take a closer look and to my amazement I saw this:

So I ran into the house, grabbed my camera, and took this picture. I never saw a snowflake close up like this. My mother pointed out that it looks almost like the Star of David, and it does.

Some interesting riddles...

Here are some riddles that I thought might be fun for you all to try and figure out. If you think you know the answer(s) tell them to me in a comment. After about a week I will post the answers. So, good luck!!

1. Father and Son
The sum of the ages of a father and son is 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. Furthermore, the father's age is a multiple of the son's age. How old could they be?

2. New Door
Rearrange the letters in 'new door' to make one word. I will only accept 1 answer.

3. Dark car spotting
A man walks from his hotel room to the car park across the road and could spot his jet black car over 400 yards away without electrical aid or the aid of moonlight or streetlamps. Assuming the valet parked his car and he did not know where it was but insisted on finding it himself, how could he see it?

4. Letters
Look at this sequence of letters and then tell me what the last three letters should be.

O T T F F S S ?

5. Cowboy

A cowboy rides into town on Friday. He stays three nights, then leaves on Friday.

How is this possible?

Shopping spree...

A lot of people go on shopping sprees and buy clothing or things like that. Not me. Today I went on my own type of shopping spree. A lot of you know I like cars, so what do you think I bought... Well, I'll tell you, I bought myself a brand new Flow Master exhaust system for my Camaro. It's a whole system with a new muffler, dual stainless-steel outlets, and everything else I need. I would never of bought it so soon, but this other part I have for the car won't work properly with out this whole kit. So why not? The car will look and sound Amazing when this is done. I'm going to try to get them installed very soon, like tomorrow if possible.

Bowling...

On Monday Dominic, Franky, Russell and I went bowling. We had lots of fun. I got these pictures with my new camera.

Russell picked out the song.

Then on Tuesday we went again with the addition of my mother. These are the final scores for three games. The top is my mother, 2nd Russell, 3rd dominic, 4th me and 5th Franky.

Christmas meals

For breakfast my parents made deviled eggs, crescent rolls, bacon and Cinnamon buns.

For dinner we had manicotti, meat balls, sausage, pork, and quail(they look like sparrows), but they tasted really good.

Heres a picture of the quails wishbone, it's so small!

ITS CHRISTMAS!!!

On Christmas morning I woke up about 7:15 and discovered that I was the last one to wake up(besides my parents)! There were soo many wraped gifts under the tree. I got a lot of really nice gifts from my family.

I'd say one of the most interesting of the gifts I recieved was this knife/pocket watch set my grandparents got me. It could be thought of as a

collectors item or maybe a little controversal. But anyway its the thought that matters.

The pocket watch dipicts the Confederate general Robert E. Lee (left) and the Union general Ulysses S. Grant (right). It's a really nice gift!

WOW!! A GIANT SNOWMAN!!

WOW!! It's a 9 FOOT SNOWMAN!!

Franky and I built it Friday afternoon. Franky wanted to beat our record of 7 feet from last year, and, I think we did. In order to get the head on I had to stand on a bench with my arms fully extended above my head with the heavy snowball in my hands. By the end of the day it was toppled over by the wind i guess. It was fun to build it!

Auto Tip #3

I heard this from my grandmother a couple of years ago, then I saw it on the Internet a few days ago. To preserve the underside of your car from rust and keep any components from rotting, you should have it cleaned. The main reason to clean the bottom of the car is to clean off any salt that gets kicked up from the roads during the winter season. Salt is very corrosive and will prematurely rust and rot the underside of the car. You can get it cleaned when you bring your car to the car wash, just ask them to clean the undercarriage. If you clean your car yourself you can easily clean the undercarriage with a sprinkler. Just put one of those sprinklers that go slowly back and forth under the front of your car for about 10 minutes, then move it toward the back (to make sure every thing gets rinsed).

Auto Tip #2

I learned this tip in school today. I thought it was interesting so I decided to share it with you. The minimum specification for tire tread is 3/32 of an inch. I don't expect anyone to go and take a ruler to their tires. So if you are not sure if the tread (grooves) on your tires are starting to wear too much all you need to check it is a Penny. Just take a Penny, and turn it so that Abraham's head is upside down and facing you (the space between the top of the Penny to the top of his head is 3/32 of an inch), and stand up the coin in the tread. If you can Not see the top of his head, because the tread is covering it, then the tire is fine, but if you Can see the top of his head then you might want to consider looking into a new tire(s), all depending on how much of his head you can see. If it is just barely showing then you might have a little life left but if a considerable amount is showing, then like I said, you might want to buy a new tire or tires (you should check all the tires).

Anthony's auto tips #1

My mother gave me this idea to post helpful tips on here about cars.

This first tip came to me when my car was over heating today.

The first step to know if your car is over heating, is to check your temperature gauge (some cars don't have a gauge, just a light for when the car gets too hot).

Next, if your gauge reads that the water temperature is too high an easy thing to do, is to simply turn on the HEAT, this really works it worked for me today. What that does is it takes the very hot water, that can not extract any more heat from the engine, away from the engine and a fan blows the heat off the water into your car. In turn, cooling the water a bit. As the water flows back to the engine it extracts more heat till it can't any more and puts it back into the car, as long as the heat is on. You should put the fan on high in to order to take the most heat out of the water. This is only a temporary fix until you can get your car looked at or fixed. With my car the anti-freeze level was too low and there was not enough water to extract the heat from the engine.

WARNING: DO NOT OPEN THE RADIATOR CAP AS STEAM AT WAY OVER 245 DEGREES WILL VIOLENTLY BLOW OUT OF THE CAP SEVERELY BURNING YOU. WAIT AT LEAST TWO HOURS BEFORE OPENING CAP AFTER CAR HAS BEEN SHUT OFF!!

The oil change...

On Friday I wore the shirt i got when i worked at Bentley Long Island to my Dr. appointment. The Dr. said to me you work at Bentley, I told him i used to. He then told me about his 2008 Bentley Continetal Flying Spur which needed an oil change. After about 3 minutes of talking he gave me his credit card and told me to go to the dealership and buy what i needed to perform an oil service. After the oil filters, new drain plugs, and a new hood orniment the bill totaled $1500. As I bought the parts the guy at the counter goes to me "That will be one thousand five hundred dollors" I then casually said "No problem" and pulled the credit card out of my wallet and gave it to him. On Monday after my classes were over I took a drive to his house. Apon reaching his fairly large house i knocked on the door. I heard a voice saying "Who is it?" I answered "Its Anthony" (I introduced myself to her over the phone 5 minutes before getting to her house). His wife told my to go around the house to the garrage. She opened the door and there it was a huge, black georgous car. On the way home from her house I was so nervous to go on the southern state parkway, but after a mile or two I started to relax and enjoy the ride. The car is so quiet from the inside I couldn't really hear the cars around me. When i got home my mother was waiting in the street with her camera. Video taped me telling about the car. After the oil change was over and Franky wiped off any fingerprints we both left to return the car. He wanted to play with everything but I would not let him, he was lucky I let him or anyone in the car.

Here's the car sitting in our driveway. Such a nice looking car.

Importance of tires

As a mechanic I know pretty much how important tires are for an automobile. They are contructed in such a way to absorb shock from rough road surfaces, and to provide traction so that the car wont loose control in certain weather conditions. I know that tires play a key role in vehicle proformance.

Not only as a mechanic but as a teenager with a camaro I also know that tires play a key role in vehicle proformance. You know what i'm saying? If you don't, just take a look at this video:

At Frank's birthday party on sunday the 12th. I decided to show off my car a little bit to Mark, Matt, Luke and Russell. Well, maybe a lot.

The aftermath