Year: 2002

Hershey’s Miniatures

Another San Francisco morning here in Aiken, SC. Cold, damp, foggy, real ugly this morning so we put the top up for the ride in. Today was lunch date with my wife and by noon it was sunny and had warmed up nicely. We made the 20 mile round trip to the Burger King that is less than a mile from the plant for Whoppers (Regular for me and a Jr. for Donna.) Can’t imagine being trapped inside a giant SUV with an A/C that is on all the time, missing the sounds and feel of the outdoors on spring days like this….

Not having an SUV almost cost us a couple of pieces of chocolate though. On the way home we stopped at the drive-thru of our bank to cash a check. Used the lane closest to the bank so when the teller pushed out the little draw again with my cash and driver’s license back I reached up and in, grabbed the envelope and started to pull away. The teller as she was wishing us a good weekend, said, “Wait, you forgot something.” When I took the envelope, I felt something else in the draw, but ignored it as they always keep a pen in there for folks who don’t have one and I thought that is what is was. When I reached back in there I could feel some little squares, so I picked them up. They were a couple of those little Hershey’s miniatures in St. Patrick’s Day colors. The teller smiled and said, “See, not a pen.” If I had an SUV I would have been looking down into the tray and would have seen the candy. Of course, taped to one, was a bit of paper that invited us to refinance our mortgage with Regions Bank. Erin Go Braugh, indeed.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 50

Yikes! How about a warning?

I guess I set myself up for this one. Way back in the late 80’s when the internet was young, my favorite past time was to view other folk’s web pages. Find an ISP and look at all the local people’s sites. Some were lame, some were good and others were awe inspiring. I could waste hours a night surfing home pages.

Flash forward to the 00’s (?) and today’s new home page is the blog. Go to the Blogger home page and there on the left are recently updated blogs and blogs of note. Click one and it leads to more, which lead to more and the next thing I know it is time for bed. how I got there last night I don’t remember, but I started reading Sean’s Daily Drivel and for whatever reason it captivated me.This guy was writing about ordinary events like most, but he was incomplete. He kept refering to Kelly in the past tense. I read further and further back and then there it was, February 25th would have been his wife, Kelly’s, birthday and this was the one month anniversay of her death! Just 6 weeks ago Sean is another happy-go-lucky 25 year old, married for about 6-1/2 years and today he is a widower. Wife got sick on a Saturday with what they thought were kidney stones and by Monday she was gone, a victim of a blood infection.

That wasn’t what I bargined for while reading blogs. Damn, I’ve been bummed all day thinking about that. One day things are cool and like 48 hours later your world is rocked, big-time. Hang in there Sean, I hope the blogging helps ya. It sure opened my eyes.

Missing THC

Top down and boot on for the ride home. Because of the continued absence (63 hours and counting) of That Hosting Company the Miata club site is nowhere to be found. We still have the Geocities space so I uploaded the most current web site back there. Figured a banner ad or two is better than nothing. http://www.geocities.com/masters_miata/

Started up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 48

Emergency Ice Cream Run

We had to make an emergency run last night. Drove the 15 miles to the grocery store that is a mile and a half away to get chocolate chip ice cream. Now go figure, we put the top down. I guess maybe because it is dark it is OK to be cold…

…because this morning, in the light, we put it back up for the ride to work. Foggy as all get out and lower 50’s. Even if we had braved it, I would have put it up at work because we are still in the clouds and the interior would have gotten soaked.

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 47

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

Enough already – the swimsuits are nothing new, how many ways are there to make a bikini?

No top with hands over the breasts, done it. Wet T-shirts you can see thru, done it. Back lighting so you can see through translucent cloth, done it. 3-D, done it. No suits and just paint, done it. This year they decided to pose some of the models with ordinary people, not good, as this just shows how skinny and unrealistic “super” models look. They only thing left is total nudity and if they did that how could they call it the Swimsuit Edition?

More Toggle Switches

You could see the rain on the radar, it was close, but being 50 degrees we left for work with the top down. Made it about 2 miles and had to pull over and raise the roof. It has been raining on and off for the rest of the day so it is currently up.

Found a neat idea over in the Interior/Exterior Section of the Miata.net forum on changing the Hazard and Pop-up switches out to toggle switches, this may be my Tech Day Project.

Started down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 45

Nigthly News Watchers Among the Sickest in the Nation

Tom Brokaw might as well have read that headline on his NBC Evening News show this evening. I can’t tell if this was a statistical anomaly or every night it is like this, but on tonight’s show nearly every commercial was for some wonder drug or over the counter medicine. There were only about 3 non-medicine ads and they were cross promotional spots for MSNBC…