{"id":255,"date":"2004-10-17T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:43:32","slug":"power-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/17\/power-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Current mood: <\/strong>Revved Up<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>Currently listening to: <\/strong>Spike TV&#8217;s &#8220;Power Block&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotta stop watching Spike TV&#8217;s &#8220;Power Block&#8221; lineup on weekends. With shows like &#8220;Car &#038; Driver,&#8221; &#8220;Horsepower TV,&#8221; and &#8220;Trucks,&#8221; it can only lead to dissapointment. I mean, these shows end, and I just wanna go out and rev up the car and race somewhere, or go off road, or buy a turbo kit and install it, or something! <\/p>\n<p>Man, I guess it&#8217;s like they say&#8230; &#8220;I am my father&#8217;s son,&#8221; and if there&#8217;s a &#8220;car&#8221; gene, I must&#8217;ve got it. Or maybe it&#8217;s just the geek in me, who loves to tinker with machines. In any case, I&#8217;ve got plans for the Keithmobile-D&#8230; now I just have to wait until I can afford it!! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>On a somewhat unrelated note, I did some &#8220;Scoutlanding&#8221; the other day, and checked out a spot that my friend Tom had told me about. It&#8217;s up Route 12 a bit, out of Fitchburg, heading north (although by the compass I think I was heading west &#8211; gotta love the US highway system). There&#8217;s a break in the guardrail about maybe, oh, 5-10 miles down from West Fitchburg, where Route 12 splits from Route 2A &#8211; by a place called &#8220;Once Upon a Tile.&#8221; Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t able to go Outlanding there, because it had just rained the other day, and the beginning of the trail is through a field and then what appears to be a stream. In other words, it was a bit too muddy for me. But maybe I&#8217;ll be able to check it out again later this fall, when things have dried up a bit. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, sports fans &#8211; see you next time. Over &#038; out.<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotta stop watching Spike TV&#8217;s &#8220;Power Block&#8221; lineup on weekends. I just wanna go out and rev up the car and race somewhere, or go off road, or buy a turbo kit and install it, or something! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-and-trucks","tag-fun-stuff","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-47","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":703,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/01\/21\/dangerous-obsession\/","url_meta":{"origin":255,"position":0},"title":"Dangerous Obsession","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Man, I need to stop watching Spike TV's \"Powerblock.\" Especially the \"X-Treme 4x4\" and \"Trucks\" shows. 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