Month: July 2002

Open A Crack

Had a test of the cockpit cover’s rain protection today. Heard the thunder and went outside to check to see if I should put the top up. It was already sprinkling hard, so I headed out to put it up. By the time I walked 10 more steps the sky opened up. Since we park out in the north forty, I figured I would get soaked on the trip out and the inside would too on the transition, so I went back inside to wait out the rain. Poured big time for about 15 minutes. After the rain virtually stopped I went out to inspect the results. The inside was fairly wet. The cover I’m sure reduced to quantity of water by lots, but it took a towel I keep in the trunk and a half a roll of paper towels to get the inside of the top and the seats dry enough to drive home in. At home I placed a bunch of other tools on the carpet behind the seats and on the rear package self to soak up the rest of the water. Not entirely dry inside now, but if I leave the windows open a crack tomorrow with the top up it will dry the rest of the way (as long as another errant shower doesn’t pass by.)

Started up, went down, went up, back down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/02: 197

More Time Constraints

Both my wife and I are tired of being tired all dang day. Our normal bed time has been between 11 and 11:30 and with a 5:30 wake-up call that is not much sleep. So today we decided that the light was going out at 10:30 to give us a little extra shuteye. There goes another hour of time that I can’t use to do stuff. Couple that with the fact that work is busy, things are starting to backlog.

Instant Gratification

Almost a repeat of yesterday, except that I put the top down in the garage this morning instead of it being down already. Well it is the end of the month and I get my allowance to spend on Miata goodies. I’m thinking of going with some aluminum pedals. I do want to upgrade my door and headrest speakers as well, but can’t do it at this level (I would have to wait until next month.) Oh the dilemma, instant gratification with pedals or anticipate the sound upgrade

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/02: 194

Time Constraints Again

I’m in the middle of doing the 2 monthly newsletters and I don’t have enough time to blog and blog surf like I like. Only 4 more to go of the Aiken Bicycle Club’s newsletter then I’m done. Hopefully I’ll get some time back to waste on the Internet….

Did you see this cool thing that you can add to your links toolbar called NextBlog? It allows you to hit a random recently updated blog, I love it when they make wasting time so time efficient.

Days Inn Cornelia, GA

We stayed there on Thursday night on the beginning of our long weekend. It looks like it is rapidly approaching the losing of its franchise status and becoming a place where you can rent rooms monthly or by the hour. Judging by the style of the building I would say the place is no more than 15 years old and once looked just like the photos on the Days Inn web site. But perhaps the materials used in construction it is deteriorating fast. Peeling wallpaper. The mattress looks like it has been around for a century. And the furniture may have looked classy when new, but now looks like Flea Market finds. Oh, well, the AC is pumping out nice cold air and the shower is couple of notches above the usual mist level.

9 Miles Of Frustration

Thursday night and Friday morning were fine, but Friday afternoon and on Saturday I felt feverish and had stomach pains so I did not even drive the famous road. Oh, well the Club goes up in September I’ll drive it a couple times to make up for missed opportunities this trip. Not to say I didn’t get in a few runs of some very twisty roads. In some respects it was better on the trip up than some runs on the Gap itself. Friday morning Donna and I had the back roads of north Georgia almost to ourselves. Carving up a lot of not-so-intense windy roads is more satisfying than a free 2 mile stretch of the gap and then 9 miles of frustration behind a minivan that won’t pull over.

Started down, went up, went down, went up – Thursday
Started up, went down, went up – Friday
Started up, went down, went up, went back down -Saturday
Still down – Sunday
Top Transitions since 02/02/02: 193

Rants & Raves

Well I went ahead and did it. New links and old links in a different set up. Exciting huh? Taking a couple of nights off from blogging, be back Sunday write it all in. I’ll take my notebook along and write (with pen & paper no less) out any rants I have. If you want to know where I am just take a look at THIS. Probably the only rants I’ll have will be for the stupid slug-like tourist who won’t pull over and let a little sports car by.