Capone (155-378)

As I read more into this book, it got really interesting. He was the original "Scarface" from the movie made in 1939. Then there was the remake with Al Pachino...but I dont think it was pointed at Al Capone. The book went into complete detail on his life and the murders. He had two main hit men on his side. These are the two from the shocking St. Valeltines Day Massacer, where he lined up the whole bank staff and had them all shot to death with the imfumous fully automatic Tommy Machine Gun. This was the most memreble part in Capones life. He had his hands in few drugs, mainly more of hits and random murders. In the end, Capone eventually dies from syphilis. But other than all of the horrible crimes he did, it was a great book to read and the marked a time of history in U.S.

Capone (1-155)

This is a very interesting book I got form a buddy of mine. It tells about the life of Al Copone and how times were back then. We all see how he was a bad figure, a thug, and an outlaw. But in the story, there is much more to that. He would actually help people that were in debt. He would give them money an say "Im going to rent your spare room" but would never use it. It was more of a cover up for the poor people. I'm sure as I read more into it, it will go to more detail of all of his crimes.

Mentor Log- April 10, 2007 (8.5hrs.)

April 6, 2007
Went to hang out with Danny and helped him with his new bike.

I met again with my buddy/mentor Danny this past weekend. He just purchased a new bike, so we played with it a little. It's a late model Honda Shadow. We went and did a complete tune up on it. This was time consuming because of it being a tight area to work in. It was educational and pretty interesting as well. I'd say we probaly spent about 2.5 hrs. on this. So we poped open some drinks, and went to work. We started on the spark plugs first. Replaced them with Denso Tri Prong plugs. This makes a more hotter fire for the block, as aposed to the single prong plugs. I run Denso Quad Prongs in my 89 Toyota Supra. Next we replaced the spark plug wires. Since he really dosn't listen to his radio on the bike, we went ahead and ran all copper wires. This will deliver more horse power and quicker response to the wheels. The oil filter was next. Danny showed me a trick to this. Once you drain all of the old oil out of the system, grab your new filter, put some new oil on your finger tip and run it along the filter rim. This will give your oil filter a better seal.
The next three hours we worked on his 1994 ford Branco 4x4. He got some new toys to put on it and was eager to put them on. There was a new brush guard and KC high beam fog lights. He had a old bruch guard on it that was in horrible shape. We tryed taking it off the normal way with the nuts and bolts. This was not easy. The brush guard was welded on to the frame as well as the bolts. So we did as much as we could, then we got the cutting tourch out. Mmm...much fun! Ones it was off we started cleaning up the front end. Then we put the new chrome brush guard on. Pretty easy, but took a little bit of time. Then we drilled hole in the brush guard to mount the fog lights. This took like 2 seconds. He gave me the fun part. I had to run the wires to the ditribution box under the dash. After all of this hard work, it was time to play. We went out that night to a new subdivision and ran stuff over and spot light animals.

How I Found The Strong (1-103)

This was a pretty interesting book when i started it, and i dont even like history books. It's about this little kid and his dads slave named Buck. His dad and his uncle went to war with the North for the Civil War. And it was pretty much about how they spent there time back in those days. It also went into alot of detail about how the slavery days were as well.

Mentor Log- April 2, 2007 (3hrs.)

Feb. 10, 2007
I stayed at Danny Branson’s house to try and plan out some drift spots.

5:00-8:00p.m.
About 5:00p.m. we got board and took his 1989 Nissan 240sx out drifting in Occonee. At this point we went around town trying to find some spots to shoot a drift video.
We then came back to his house around 7ish and our other drift buddy C-Lowe came over in his 1992 Nissan 240sx Hatchback. Danny is planning (already sold) to sell his car so we were deciding on what car to use. We still can use Danny’s, C-Lowe’s or a few choices from Street Stuff in Athens. This went on for another hour. We havn't set up another time to meet yet, but will prob be pretty soon.