Happy belated Birthday! I do hope you had a nice time even though you weren't celebrating it fully!
Even though it is quite warm where I live, I got chilly looking at those pictures! I imagine it was quite frigid! And when it is that cold, all sorts of things happen to cars that normally wouldn't happen!
I don't really play racing games too much, but I do own a couple of them in my Steam Library. Perhaps I'll get a chance to play them someday. Feel free to add me on Steam anyhow if you wish. :)
When do you hear how your thesis did?
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Thanks :) yeah, two of my friends came to visit me and they brought cake that was named after me, silly candles and most silly non alcoholic champagne :D
Yeah, the cold was crazy. The van seen in pictures was brand new so that one didnt really have problems. Electronic speedometer couldnt show speed because the system was so cold it was all laggy. Second van we had was equipped with pre heating system so even being quit old it started easy. But it just couldnt warm up the inside of the car so it was always driving in skiing clothes :D The system broke as well at one point - we had to try to fix it on the road.
At monday I have the presentation. After that I'll know how I did. There is actually one person who reads my thesis and rates it and gives summery for thesis hearing. And usually school sends us those so we can already know what to expect and what our grade was. But the person that was assigned to me was on business trip until today. so he will rate my thesis over weekend so I might not see it and I will be going in monday blind.
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happy belated birthday !
i owned grid and played it but it's really hard compare to nfs xD
so i prefer that
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It sounds like you had fun. I actually envy your travelling experience. I would love to be able to visit Germany and Lithuania, as I am a quarter Lithuanian and about 37% German, lol. Haven't looked at your GAs yet, but thanks ahead of time, and happy b-day!
Cheers!
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Thanks :)
How do you know your descendance ? Did you send in your DNA where they send you back a list of your ancestors ?
Would be cool to find out that as well :D
Btw the vocalist of Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony Kiedis) is also from Lithuanian descendant. It was his grandparents or parents who moved to US if I remember correctly
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No I've not done a DNA test, but my maternal great grandparents were from Lithuania and came to the US around WWII, one of my maternal grandparents was German, and then my paternal grandmother was German. What the other 38-ish% of my immediate ancestry is, I've no clue. Probably English.
I think I remember hearing/reading about the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (but I could be misremembering altogether, lol).
There's actually a few funny stories concerning my maternal great grandparents. My mother believes that my great grandfather illegally changed his last name to sound more "American," it didn't really work in my opinion, lol. It was originally something like Sinchevacus (horrible attempt at spelling it), but he changed it to Sinkius (I might have spelled that incorrectly as well). Also, when they first came to the US, at some point after arriving (but before fully settling somewhere), they were stopped by the police and detained. They were afraid that my great grandparents were spies. My great grandfather said something along the lines of, "I'm not a spy..., but my wife is." I've no idea what their relationship was like (lol), but they actually held her for 2 or 3 days until they figured out that neither of them were actually spies. Shrugs
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Happy bday! thanks for sharing your rally adventure, hope the thesis go well.
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Happy birthday, and congrats on the internship, even if you didn't stay. sounds like a great experience.
Bumpity bump bump
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Congratulations on everything, and thank you for the train. :)
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.... and yesterday I handed in my Bachelors thesis. Had a rough half a year writing it, but on to that in a bit.
Results are in - I got a 9 in my thesis work. super psyched about it. On 21st I have graduation and officially am an engineer :D
Thank you all for the wishes who I didnt answer directly as well :) Appreciated
Turning 24 today. Sadly I wont be celebrating today as I had to move away from my hometown so everyone is back there, but Im happy to create a train as well, as I havent made a post or GA for some time.
Regarding the bachelors theses - I started to write it and when a month had passed it turned out to be not that thorough as I wanted and didnt really meet the criteria. So I had to change what I wrote about. Had less time and it was bit more stressful to come up with something else. In the end I wrote about horizontal road markings. Basically research on road safety regarding the markings. Handed it in yesterday and now its waiting game. I have to present it in front of jury now on June 10.
And the train ends on 10 of June as well.
The train goes on here, but further I write about my awesome experience in my internship/workplace. . Hope you find something for you on the train and find my little story interesting as well. Looking forward to discuss stuff if anyones interested. You can ask about rally as well if your interested and Id be glad to answer
Year started interesting - started an internship in rally racing team. We built Ford Fiesta rally cars and rented them for people. Met some interesting clients from all around the world - Japanese, Indians, Taiwanese, British, French.. Had a chance to go to Germany, Poland several times, Lithuania. Most exciting was a trip to Finland. We went to Lapland rally. Its beyond the polar circle (my first time going that far to north). Had constant -30 degrees celsius. Spent half an hour in the middle of night, in the middle of forest road with broken down car in -30 degrees. But I loved it and would love to go back again.
We went through Estonia there. We had a ferry to board in an early morning so we went in the evening and the plan was to spend the night in a hotel. It was 1 o`clock in the night. Google Maps lead us into some forest road and it ended going onto field. We got stuck with van that had the rally car on trailer. we fucked around for an hour and a half until we got everything unstuck. Had some 4 hours to sleep with 2 hour ferry ride, breakfast and full days drive through snowy Finland.
It was not just extreme for us but it was extreme for the car as well. It was our teams first experience with rally in such conditions. Car didnt work for most part, kept broking down and our lead mechanic kept working on it to try to fix it fully. In the end it worked great and we learned a lot and will know what to expect in the future when dealing with such conditions.
Sadly didnt stay with them due to lack of work as Rally after all is a pass time for rich people mostly. I still have contacts and I hope my ways will cross with them as rally is my passion but Im still excited about the time with them so wanted to share it here :)
Added some pictures. from top to bottom :
first is taken at service park that is in the middle of stages. The team has to go to designated place to fix the car. It was some 100 km from the actual service park where is all our stuff and its in open air. Embracing all the nature.
second picture is the place where we fueled the car (again in the middle of forest in the middle of stages)
third is the actual service park. Everyone is working on their cars shoulder to shoulder. With warm and colds drinks, some warm air being pumped in the tent and food.
forth is on the road to Lapland. Beautiful country and beautiful roads.
Reuploaded pics, hope they work now ;)
PS. Those who play Dirt Rally or Dirt 4 (any Dirt for that matter) or even Grid games feel free to add me on steam if you want to. I like comparing my times in racing games :)
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