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Hey my Spring Break just ended and I am back at college, I wish I had another week though. On Friday I spent 8 hours driving from here to my home, then down to Port Aransas, that was a long drive, and thanks to No Doze I made it :lol: But when we got to my house down there (we have a SMALL house down there) we started to party :nonod:  :jester:  but there ended up being thirteen people in the two bedroom house!!! I was still awake at 2am too, and didn't go to bed until 10am :D Since there were so many people there, I was sober, and one other person was too, and when everyone fell asleep (read passed out :lol: ) Me and the other sober guy at about 6am went four wheelin' where he came pretty close to flipping his truck :eek: he was sliding on some slick sandy mud, and hit a 6" bluff, but luckily the tires only came about 4" off the ground, oh he has a early 90's Toy p/u 4wd. We had fun, and got back to the house around 9am, woke everyone up and he took them back to Chorpus Christi A&M. I went to sleep and woke up later and went to the beach where me and the 4 friends that I brought saw a lot of T&A :popcorn:  :nonod: And we partied...Then on Monday evenign I went four wheelin' by myself(had two friends in my car) and I had to pull out a guy in a mid 70's CJ-5/7 with 33/14.50/15 Mickey Thompson Baja Radials, who got stuck in some sticky mud, the jimmy had no problem pulling him out...we proceeded to make it to the end of the trail and watched the sunset...Then I went back home and changed the plugs/cap/rotor and fuel filter on my truck so I can get some beter gas mileage outta her... ovderall I had a blast for Spring Break and wish I wasn't back at school...

 

Sorry for the storybook... But for the younger people in here how was yours? And if you haven't had it yet, whatcha gonna do ???

 

And yes we were safe, while consuming the "Dr. Peppers" :thumb:

 

Tom

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mine technically started last friday at 2pm  :nonod:

 

What am i going to do?  Well worked all weekend.  All week i have to run up to school to conduct some fatigue testing (finish it up asap).  Tuesday i am going to the museum of science and industry.  Hopefully ill have some time to clay bar my truck and put some wax on it.  

 

Also gonna work on my senior design paper rough draft

 

Exciting eh?  I know i know i am a  :jester:

sincityZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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mine technically started last friday at 2pm  :lol:

 

What am i going to do?  Well worked all weekend.  All week i have to run up to school to conduct some fatigue testing (finish it up asap).  Tuesday i am going to the museum of science and industry.  Hopefully ill have some time to clay bar my truck and put some wax on it.  

 

Also gonna work on my senior design paper rough draft

 

Exciting eh?  I know i know i am a  :nonod:

That's okay Ryan, I am a  :nonod: too.

 

My spring break is this week also and what did I choose to do for the week...work... :jester: Oh well, it will be nice to have a little more money.

 

Gotta wash the truck too.  Did some mudding on the salt flat today after it rained alot last night, so I have salty mud all over her.   :lol: (Almost flipped over a couple of times too... :eek: )

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Hehe.. My spring break started thursday at 2:50 pm because I chose not to attend school friday. BUt Im up to nothing all week. Man thats the life :hail:
k1500chevy97 Senior Enthusiast

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My break comes in between first mint cut and the potato harvest (second week of July) Then I work about 12-14 hr days 6 days a week for the next 2 - 2 1/2 months :jester:.

 

Everyone is lucky but me  :nonod:

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Since Im am no longer in school, I dont get a spring break. My boss would give me one if I wanted though. He pretty cool about stuff like that. But, I have to save up all my vacation time, sick days, and personal days at work fo my 4 week trip to Switzerland. And thats going to be my belated spring break. I'll see some T&A, but they'll be my G/F's
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#### yeah my f*cking math prof gave us a test on Fri before my Spring break, just went to class today...got a 50 on it...what can I say I wanted to be DOWN THERE ALREADY, if it wasn't for that class I would have been down at the coast around 10pm... :nonod:  :eek:  :jester:  :nonod:
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My break was last week.  BUt it did not start until Sundat because I was taking certification tests for teaching all day Saturday March 8.

 

After that I spent part of it here at school working at the apartments where I live.  I spent the other part back home, doing as little as possible.  Took the dog out and let her run alot, and played music, and worked on my mandolin.

 

Best part was the on Friday night the 14th.  I got in a jam session with an Internationally Touring Group that played Irish, Scotish, Folk, Blues, and Appalachin Music.  It was pretty cool.  I went to see their show the next night.

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