Buying Love
The Beatles sang, “Money Can’t Buy You Love'” but they were wrong.
It’s on sale at the United States Post Office right here in Aiken, only $7.40, so I bought two:
White Face
I have always thought that the proper color for fog lights was yellow, so I bought some of those Lamin-x fog light protectors in yellow. They would protect the lenses, make them the proper color and tie in the amber side markers and yellow turn signal bulbs. Ah, the best laid plans…
The OEM fog lights aren’t very good as fog lights and the amber color is different from either the turns signals or the side markers. Step one was to turn the useless fogs into something maybe useful, daytime running lights. Step two I accomplished today, removed the yellow Lamin-x, added some clear side markers in the front and a pair stealth bulbs for the turn signals. A subtle difference to be sure, but hey I’m happy, and when Brian is happy, everybody’s happy.
Here are some comparison images:
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Chose Death
South Carolina has around 100 different “specialty” license plates that a person can have instead of the plain ol’ plate. I have a non-standard plate on my car as a matter of fact. One of those plates, not mine, has kicked a bit of controversy since it’s introduction in 2001 and made it all the way to the doorstep of the US Supreme Court.
The “Choose Life” plate was ruled as a violation of the First Amendment in 2003 because there was no state sponsored alternatives for the pro-choice side. Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, upholding the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, keeping the plates on the shelves. In an effort to allow the issuing of the “Choose Life” tags, South Carolina lawmakers introduced several bills today proposing new license plates, including ones that say “Pro Choice” or “Choose Abortion”. My favorite comes from Greenville Senator Mike Fair which will say, “Choose Death.” I wonder what the artwork for that one will be? A bloody coat hanger? Here is my entry in case they have a design contest…
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33-04
That is the random number that was generated for my Japanese license plate. It has got a little squiggly in front and my class vehicle is 04, whatever they mean. I made a cardboard mock-up of the bracket tonight. Tomorrow I’ll see what I can do to have it made up.
The plate came via UPS yesterday, but writing about it was knocked off the front page by the exciting garage door spring incident. Total bill from Aiken Door Repair and Service to fix it today was $90.97. Cable $6, Spring $15, Pulley $3.50, Tax 1.47 and Labor $65. When the cable snapped and the spring contracted violently it got kind of mangled when it hit the backstop, so it needed to be replaced. The pulley bearing was worn out and they refused to say if it wobbling was the definitive cause of the cable rubbing and then breaking, but it could have been.
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Mmmm…Spam
We had Friday off from work so I have 4 days of spam to digest this morning. And it seems if I was premature in suggesting that the levels were dropping back to the usual 50-60 a day, I think the new usual is going to be quite a bit higher. Reports from Friday through Monday indicate that my work email received 94,114, 85 & 94 pieces of unsolicited junk. Here are some low lights:
Heyz,, me again from Dickerson@glay.org Funny, I must have missed his first email amongst all the spam I’ve been getting recently.
Olsen Twins use online Pharmacy from LakishaLondonAnas@vSt.com I wonder how much endorsement money this meant to Mary Kate & Ashley?
Please Respond by Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:47:1… from gemmabehm@freemail.nl This seems to be a popular new ploy. I got a bunch of these from various senders with a time to respond about 12 hours after receipt of the message. I had better get right on them, if it is not too late.
[no sender] seems awfully insistent that he get in touch with me about [no subject] because of the 94 emails I received between 6:00 AM Sunday and 6:00 AM Monday, 11 of them were from him.
Horrors!
The Emperor has been exiled from the Throne Room. After I got back from Rollerblading this evening I was standing in the garage taking off my wrist guards when a loud bang startled the heck out of me. One of the cables on the garage door snapped letting a big ol’ spring on one side contract rapidly and bang against it’s support. Fortunately Donna had driven the Miata over to the health club to go swimming because when one of those goes the garage door remains shut so tight only Superman could get it to move. Not having the proper equipment to even try and loosen the other spring, the Miata will spend the night in the driveway. I did go put the cockpit cover as best I could over the raised top in case any of the neighborhood cats decide to climb on the car tonight.
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