Yesterday, me and Nick went down to Hastings to pick up and engine for his new Hilux (dudes got like 4 cars now). A Toyota 2L-T, 2.4 litre turbo diesel.

I just got off night shift and he picked me up from work at about 730. Got to Taupo after about 3 hours driving and then through State Highway 5 (the Napier-Taupo Highway). That road is AMAZING! All twisty and wicked views and no houses for miles. Lots of cool looking places to Moto-X too. Awesome road. So want a bike.

Tried to have a sleep on the way down but couldn’t, ended up taking the dash of Nicks van apart while driving on Napier-Taupo road so I could plug in my iPod and cranked some metal instead.

I also took a pad and pen along and did some data normalisation and sorted out the database layout for the new telescum site.

It was such a nice day too, got to Napier and cruised round there. Then onto Hastings, trying to find the place to pick up the engine from but we got lost a bit. Found it, but it looked like no one was home. After about 15 minutes of knocking on the door and trying to figure out how to carry the (heavy-looking) engine around a Hilux Surf, we finally woke the dudes wife up and she moved her jeep for us.

We backed the Hiace up and ended up making a ramp with a plank of wood and dragging it up. It was a heavy peice of shit. We strapped it in and then had another engine which we were delivering to Hastings, so went and found that guy, and dropped it off.

Then back on the road to Taupo. My turn to drive. By this time its about 130pm and I have been without sleep for about 21 hours, but I had a Demon and was sweet. Got to drive all the way back through the Napier-Taupo road, was mean. Except for Nicks van. Its a mean van, but the engine is a little rooted (after like 450,000k’s) so its a bit gutless. You have to gun it on the straight before a hill and then try and keep it going but you always end up having to shift down to 3rd and plodd up the hill at like 50kph. Not so mean. My van powers up hills.

We got to Taupo at about 5pm, and contemplated going to Taranaki because he’d also bought an engine stand from there (yes, Nick is a trademe whore…). But after calling the guy we worked out it would cost the same to freight it as it would cost in diesel.

Went to Pizza Hutt to get some dinner, and they were playing rap or hiphop or some shit in there. I said to the girl who served us (who looked a lot like what I would imagine a 15 year old Lilley to look like – you got a cousin in Taupo Lilley?), “God I feel sorry for you guys, having to listen to this crap all night!”, and she was like “haha, yeah…” and started blushing. Went to wait outside and Nick said to me “I think they actually put that on the stereo”. Lolwhoops!

The manager there looked like a creepy dodgey mother fucker too. Like I touch little girls kinda dodgey. Yuk!

Nick got back behind the wheel and drove until the lookout at Maramarua where we stopped for a rest and I had the longest urination in my entire life. I never knew my bladder could hold that much fluid!!! Lol, sorry, Too much information!

Then I drove back, the rest of the way. Nick fell asleep and by now its like 8pm, 28 hours without sleep, so I was swerving a little bit, maybe shouldn’t have driven lol but we’re still here.

Got back to my work at about 930pm got in my van and raced nick home. He drove on the motorway without his lights for like half the way back, crazy mother fucker.

Yeah fun times.