This Saturday I am going to bring my Z, nicknamed ZERO, into the shop. This is a big day for me, as I haven't wrenched on a Z in many many years. To this end, I have been preparing the elevated slab designated for my car in the shop.
There were many pipes and conduits sticking up out of the slab. There were also about 60 threaded rods set into the concrete. After an evening with the angle grinder and a hammer the slab was relatively smooth.
In order to make it flat, however, I'd need to pour some concrete. I hopped in the G35, and took a trip to our local home depot, which is luckily only about 10 blocks away. 7 80lbs bags of concrete stowed safely in the back, I drove home blasting Major Lazer through the Bronx.
Once I got to the shop, I prepped the slab for the pour, filling the holes with insulation to keep the concrete from falling through. I wheeled out the mixer and filled the shopvac with water ( It's great having the right tools for the job).
I only ended up needing 5 bags to fill the slab. I leveled it with a 2x4, floated it smooth and called it a day.
When I was cleaning up, I looked down at my boots and felt a bit proud. My boots are scuffed and dirty. They aren't even that old, but they look like they've been used for years. I love it. This is what boots should look like. Boots are the shoes you wear when you're doing something special. They're for building or riding or going somewhere unpaved. I think every man should have a pair of boots that look something like this.
Also, we now have a couch.
-W.W. SBSS
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