The last track I need to post that finishes up what I considered of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of a CD mix in December 2004. To see all 19 tracks in the numerical order I placed them on the disc, with any comments I made, here at Life of Brian, click here. To just listen to them in numerical order, check out my playlist of them on YouTube.
A couple of weeks ago, Mazda decided to honor their 100th anniversary and to give us something to keep us indoors and busy during these interesting times, they let loose into the world some paper craft models of their current (and some past) models.
Because I already have, from back in 2006, the instructions to make the first 3 generations of Miatas and this new release included the 4th generation car, I felt compelled to download it. To color it a pleasing blue. And to make one.
This led to my rediscovering a folder full of papercraft stuff I collected back a decade or so ago. Well, I do still have a few sheets of card stock and time on my hands, so I decided to print out a couple of favorites and remake them.
First up is a Java Sparrow last seen here a little over 9 years ago in the post Here Birdie, Birdie. If you would like to make your own Java Sparrow out of paper got to this Livedoor blog page and scroll down a bit to the Marubun Java Sparrow Paper Models where you have several color choices to pick from.
Trees in Bloom
This is the eighth year that Moss Motors has been doing the Motoring Challenge and this is our 7th year doing it. It is also our last, not because we don’t want to do it anymore, but because they are going to stop running it.
Because of the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders we figured we would just wait to start the Challenge once Oregon started easing up on restrictions. But Monday we noticed one challenge that we would have missed out on if we waited any longer, Trees in Bloom. It has been spring here for a couple of weeks and a lot of the trees are already dropping their blossoms for leaves, fortunately whatever kind of trees are, they held out for us.
Well, doing the challenge is sort of like eating Lays Potato Chips, you just can’t eat one, so we went back out today and grabbed a couple more local ones. I hope the Governor understands that driving around with the top down on a nice spring day to do the Motoring Challenge is essential business…
As of Monday, April 27, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1973 Datsun 240Z Race Car |
1968 Volkswagen Squareback | 2003 Mazda MX-5 Miata 5-Speed |
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| This car has it all, really nice livery, Panasport wheels, and it is located in Snohomish, WA the former hometown of my BIL Scott. | We had a ’70 Squareback on Guam in the late ’70s and I sort of wished we shipped it back instead of the ’61 VW panel van. | I was pretty merciless about this color when we had one as a loner back in 2003. My feelings haven’t changed any since. |
I was always a fan of Cat Stevens and bought four in a row of his early albums, starting with “Tea for the Tillerman.” Because it was the early 70’s they were in fact albums and most likely purchased from the infamous Columbia Record Club. When I sold all my albums in the late 80’s and converted to CDs I purchased his “Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2”.1 This CD included two never released songs that from the cult classic movie Harold and Maude, Don’t Be Shy and this one:
Our CARES Act check arrived unceremoniously into our savings account a week ago, exactly 2 weeks after I had the IRS deduct almost half of that to pay for 2019’s taxes. Since then we have been doing our part to stimulate the economy by spending the other half on buying:
A very special 420 Edition of THC (Track, Happily Daily, Crush.) As of Monday, April 20, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| Porsche-Powered Chinook Special Project | 1961 Volkswagen Beetle 1600 | 1972 Alvis Sabre |
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| You definitely have to be stoned to think you can make this into a race car. | You definitely don’t have to be stoned to drive this Official Hippie Staff Car. | You definitely have to be stoned to think you could actually crush this. |