Hi Ryan!
Things over here are good for me at this time mate. The weather has been almost tropical this last two weeks with temperatures soaring to 68F with average temps hovering around the 62F area with blue skies most days.

I have been told by my engine guy that the Rover will be almost done by tomorrow. So I guess that means it will be done sometime next week. I'm in no rush and David Knight (my engine guy) is very busy with doing stuff for pro racers. David has been off work for a lot of last year after having surgery to remove a cancer in his neck. I'm glad to say that all is well now and he is in remission and has decided to do sensible stuff now like only work 5 days per week while his staff take up the slack and he has also decided to take a full 2 weeks off at Xmas and also take a proper 2 week vacation in the Summer now while his staff do their stuff. God bless him, he is a great guy. So some of my work was put back as he was busy taking on some work from 4 other guys I know who's cars are ready to roll as they are in proper competition classes and need to be racing. I'm just a weekend warrior in the MG so I told him to put my stuff on the back burner. One of the guys he is working for is my mate Andy Frost. Andy is reworking his Vauxhall car to run 5's now. Andy has no doubt been in the Drag Race press over your side of the water as he wants to regain his crown as the quickest street legal car in the world as Larry Larson took the crown last year. But over here wheelie bars are not classed as road legal ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMr1p7w5F9I

Then he backed this up with this pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6bW1zc9F_Q

The reaction from over here and over your side of the pond regarding street legality is a firey debate for sure. But Hey Ho!! I'm just happy to be running my MGB at RWYB meetings. Andy However has now got the bit between his teeth and is prepping the Vauxhall for a serious 5 second assault on the 1/4 mile. So I'm happy to wait a few more weeks for my old Rover to be finished so I can sell it and buy the rest of my SBC stuff for later this year.

Family wise I'm enjoying my Grandpa Duty and took Faith out twice today in her little car. Only 30 mins around the block as she enjoys talking to folk and insists that she gets out to pick flowers from the grass on the pavement. We have just has a concrete base laid in the back yard for a conservatory. The conservatory arrived last Tuesday and is piled up as a flat pack on the base. Now I need to find a guy to build the dwarf walls for the kit and then find someone who can erect the kit and bolt it to the house This will give us an extra room sized at 11 feet wide by 13 feet long just outside the sliding doors to the garden so Gill can move her workstation out there and Faith can have all of her stuff out there as well. This means i can have my lounge back and move my sofa back in front of the fireplace ready for next winter

Work wise !!
The two owners of my company have decided to employ a new guy to run outsourced project work which we normally do via subcontractors. And they have also decided that this guy is now to be in charge of me and my team of in house engineers and what we do. The guy is 20 years younger than me and has Honours degree's in engineering. He is a nice lad but he cant actually fix much stuff when it comes to getting the spanners out on site to figure out why a water booster set has failed or get his electrical test gear or gauges out to find out why an AC unit is not working? The other guys in my team are up in arms about the new management change. I'm very happy about it because it means I have to do less work now while the new boy attempts to do what he was doing before he came to our company as well as trying to run an engineering team. I will just let him do his stuff until he stumbles. Then I will offer my help if he wants it. I'm hoping that he does not want my help to be honest. That means I will be spending more time hanging around the workshop drinking tea and waiting for instructions as opposed to organising my team to make sure they are bust every day. The owners of my company agreed that I can do my 8 hours per day based on my starting time each morning. Normal work hours are 8.30 to 5.30 with a 1 hour lunch break. I get to the office or site at 7am and dont bother with a lunch break as I eat on the drive in and on the drive home. So my work hours will now stick to 7am to 3pm as usual. You may have guessed from my comments that I am a little pissed that the bosses have somewhat overlooked me in the next phase of the companies expansion. But I am now laughing all the way to the bank as the new guy is on a salary that is $24,000 less than mine ? Happy Days
Sorry Ryan... You did ask how everything else is going over here !!

I am hoping to be back here in 4 weeks or so to say that I have sold my old engine for $8000 so I can buy more stuff the new SBC engine
Wow!!
That was a bit of a read eh ?
Gill and I are hoping to spend her birthday week next October in Las vegas. Well maybe 4 days to be honest. I have already paid for a week in the Canarie Islands in August for me and Gill + Faith and her Mum So we can have some fun in the Sun with our Grand daughter while I get involved with teaching Faith how to swim etc... and also doing some snorkleing.

Regards and respect to all you folks over there.

Perry