Well, actually the Emperor is. Last fall when we were at the Rspeed Open House the folks from Grassroots Motorsports took a couple of pictures and wrote a little blurb about the event. It is in the current issue and one of the photos (right) features the very photogenic rear end of my car parked alongside Ron Kaufman’s 93LE.
This morning’s low was in the twenties and the high was barely into the forties and it is supposed to be like that for a while now. I guess to average out those days of 10-15 degrees above normal temperatures we will now be subjected to 10-15 degrees below normal ones.
Spam levels at my work email address has slowed some with Sunday’s report being just 56 messages. Saturday’s and today’s were a little higher at 71 and 74 respectively. The highlights…
Surpesfat dielrvey from pzwaqbntif@cgocable.com, AKA: Anagram Man
Hey, grape@www.want-a-domain-name.com it is half way through January, a little late for me to be getting Health Tips for December
housewife seeks coock from RBSNZNCYYOVG@maktoob.com. Seeking what? Which one is the extra letter?
Not wanting to rest on our laurels after our smashing success of casting a current remake of Casablanca, we plunged right into another classic movie that we would have remade today, The Wizard of OZ.
| Role | Actor | 1939 Actor |
| Dorothy Gale | Lindsay Lohan | Judy Garland |
| The Wizard of Oz | Robin Williams | Frank Morgan |
| The Scarecrow | Jim Carey | Ray Bolger |
| The Cowardly Lion | Brad Garrett | Bert Lahr |
| The Tin Man | Don Cheadle | Jack Haley |
| The Good Witch | Charlize Theron | Billie Burke |
| The Wicked Witch | Sarah Jessica Parker | Margaret Hamilton |
| Uncle Henry | Robert Redford | Charley Grapewin |
| Auntie Em | Susan Sarandon | Clara Blandick |
| Mayor of Munchkin City | Danny Devito | Charles Becker |
I’ve got a C note earmarked for Miata mods burning a hole in my pocket.
I started out going to buy some clear side markers for the front and some stealth turn signal bulbs. I would then pull off the yellow lamin-x fog light protectors, giving the front of the car a unified white light look.
Then I tossed around adding teeth again. I had some Alley Gator ones on the Laguna, so I would like something different this time. The only other one I really like is the Diablo, but in my travels along the Miata lane of the information superhighway this weekend I have come across two cars with those teeth installed, one of which is a Garnet Red! Are thet too popular or was this just a random happenstance.
My other thought is to go with something I saw on a car at the Rspeed Open House last year – A side mount for a front license plate with a Japanese tag on it. South Carolina doesn’t require a front tag, so if others can put a “GO COCKS!” tag on their cars…
Went for a stroll in the woods today. First time I’ve walked further than the car to work and back since I broke a toe a week ago. This was a test walk to see how I would do and to snap my monthly photo looking southwest at the corner of Mr. Fletcher’s Ride and an unnamed path about 1/2 mile in from our usual entry point. Foot felt good, but I took the picture turned a little further to the right than the previous two. I’ve got to remember to glance at the pics I’ve already posted so I can get lined up right.
I closed up shop on the Barndoor Fan Club this afternoon. I copied all the files onto a sub domain of this site though ( barndoorfanclub.mr-miata.net ) for posterity. My hold on the domain lasts until the middle of next month and I have an agreement with the hosting company until March sometime, but I wanted to leave a custom 404 page out there for a while before it goes dark. I sent out an email to everyone on the list I have and posted something on the Miata.net Forum telling them I was hanging up the spikes. I thought I had someone who was going to take over the show, but the last I heard anything from him was Thanksgiving. Maybe this will jog his memory.
I still remember when I got my order of 125 three inch diameter Club stickers, I thought I would never be able to get rid of them all. Well, 2-1/2 years later they were all gone. I even had T-shirts professionally screen-printed, four different times, probably over 60 shirts. About 10 of them I gave away as prizes in photo contests. The stickers were gone, the T-shirts were gone, heck even my car with barndoors was gone, it was time to hang it up.
