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Oh You Rebel You

Today is Tuesday and this is the first time our garbage and recycling will be picked up on Tuesday instead of Thursday like it has been for the last 19 years.

I knew it was trash day and I consciously didn’t put it out by the curb.

Because it is just the two of us, the rolling trash bin and the recycling bin never get more than half full over the course of a week, so there wasn’t any need for me take any thing out after just 5 days. Trust me, we’ll still have room left next Tuesday after 12 days…

Good thing I am not triskaidekaphobic because the top count has been stuck on 13 for a few days and because we are going through a January “cold” spell, it will remain at that number for the foreseeable future.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 13

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I’ve got to start carrying one of those little notebook that detectives or reporters carry so that I can write down blog ideas that occur to me during the day. Because as I sit here tonight staring at a blank textarea, I might have benefited from something like that. That is if anything happened oday worth writing about.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 13

Weekend Odds And Ends

SimpsonizedI’ve been Simpsonized!

My Lost discs that I bid victoriously for on eBay will be mailed on Monday. They are coming from West By God Virginia so they should be here by Thursday.

This morning we finally raked up the last of the dead leaves out of the backyard. We had ignored the backyard all fall, always keeping the front neat, until earlier this week when we got half of it cleaned up and piled in front of the house for the city to pick on Thursday. Now the rest will get picked up this coming Tuesday. Thats right, more big news from around here, our trash pickup day has been moved from Thursday to Tuesday.

When we went to Subway for lunch the temperature was 49°, but because it was a short ride we kept the top down. When we stepped outside after eating and sitting a bit it felt cold so we put the top up for the ride home. At home I checked the temperature and it read 51°, go figure.

A little link action. Last night while blog surfing I stumbled on another blogger with a Miata, er MX-5 and added a link to his site. Welcome Mike who is apparently notoriously nice and from what I’ve read so far he has been nice. I also, with great sadness, removed long time read, Will Burnham Down The House. After 5 years he is closing down his blog. Too bad, will had an interesting life and an interesting take on it. Today a fellow Club member wrote asking if I had any clip art depicting a woman or girl in a Miata. She was thinking of making her own stationary. And while I could have sworn I’d seen something almost exactly like that in the past, an internet search didn’t turn it up. It did turn up a couple more bloggers with Miatas that have been added to the blog roll in the sidebar. Welcome Jon (jcm’s blog) and Ralph (Van City Blue Miata.)

It also turned up a couple oddities — a female impersonator named Miata, a whole website dedicated to sexily dressed women getting their cars stuck in the mud (video 029 has a Miata) and a Miata Art Car.

I’m thinking of buying this T-shirt, but wished it came in something other than crap brown

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 13

Lost Data

I’m sitting here watching a Win XP Setup progress bar on the desktop. Not mine, but a co-workers. She has a 1-1/2 year old Dell she is thinking of donating to her grandson, why I’m sure, he’s the one who has the PC in the first place, but hey, she’s the grandma. I don’t know how this is going to go though, she didn’t have a restore disc or a copy of XP anywhere (grandkid probably snagged it and sold it on ebay) so I have booted it to my XP CD and when it asks for a product key I’ll enter the one from the side of her tower.

We had a nice warm day with no call for rain, but at the noon walk it looked cloudy so at my doctor’s appointment this afternoon I raised the top. Good thing too as there was a smattering of fresh rain drops on the car when I returned. Today’s top transitions doubled yesterday’s total which had doubled the day before’s. That exponential increase will probably end tomorrow as I can bet that the top won’t transition 8 times…

Started down, went up, back down, up again, down again, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 6

Lost the Will to Write?

It is 10:00PM and it is time to prepare for beddy-bye, but I haven’t written anything here yet, so the day isn’t complete. I’ve done some legitimate things this evening, not just Blogging Avoidance stuff, rollerbladed 3 miles, “helped” cook dinner, worked on getting the MMC‘s 2008 calendar online, read some of “The Passage” by my favorite Navy author, David Poyer, watched a couple of Law & Orders (OK, maybe that was BA), but still I have nothing to say (and so far this rambling post proves that beyond a shadow of doubt.)

The only remotely exciting part of my day was riding home from work with the top down, there you have it, the top transitions doubled for the year so far.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 2

The Emperor’s Lost Sunday

The Miata sat unused all day in the garage. After sleeping in we walked downtown to the New Moon Cafe for muffins. When we got back home there was brief talk of going for a drive, but I pooh-pooh the idea to stay home and read.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 01

Lost Laptop In Space

Dharma LaptopA friend (Hi Rae!) got a new notebook for Christmas, a nice Ruby Red Inspiron and when I saw it I was very jealous, it made my 2-year old laptop look down right dowdy. I considered painting the silver lid with some of the Garnet Red in a can I have left over, so it would match the Emperor. That seemed like an awful lot of trouble. I decided to take the easy way out — a Pixel Decal laptop skin.

I didn’t think I would watch all 29 episodes in Season 1, but I thought would make it past 15 minutes of the un-aired pilot. I have little memory of watching Lost in Space when it originally aired. I do remember having a crush on Penny though, as she and I were roughly the same age. And I do remember Dr. Smith always calling the robot names like, “You bumbling bubble-headed buffoon.” Neither of those two characters were in the un-aired pilot. We almost turned it off at about 10 minutes in as the meteors that that sent the Jupiter II (called the Gemini XII here) off course turned out to be easily recognizable as wadded up aluminum foil. What finally made me hit the eject button was the 1-2 combination of terrible acting by Mark Goddard as Professor Don West and Guy Williams as Captain James Robinson when they tried to give the impression they were battling high winds on a mountain top followed by the “giant” one-eyed monster that showed up in forced perspective dressed in an outfit made of squares of burlap bags. Couldn’t take the cheese anymore.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: Ein