While wasting time after dinner and finishing listening to Thistle & Shamrock on the local NPR station, I flipped on the TV muted and did some surfing. Paused on CNN for a bit and read the scroll, “Ebay halts sales of Challenger debris.” read one. Holy shit! What kind of people were selling/buying this stuff? Have we gotten this low in our quest for making money and getting rich?
Got a real nice day today, mid 60s & sunny, so we took a longer drive this afternoon than we did yesterday. Going to leave the top down tonight, it will get into the 40s overnight, but tomorrow it is supposed to hit 72.
My Miata caricature arrived Friday from CarArtz.com. In today’s newspaper was a coupon from Michael’s for 1/2 off custom framing so that is where I’ll be heading this week.
Also in the mail Friday was a flyer from our favorite B&B in Western North Carolina, the Blue Boar Inn, offering a return guest special in April. We are going to a Deal’s Gap weekend with the RoadsterChat group the last weekend in April. They are charging just $99 a night and we were going to be staying at a Microtel Inn at $89 a night. Let’s see Bed & Breakfast, Microtel, Bed & Breakfast, Microtel – no brainer. We changed our reservations.
Started down, still down.
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Finally got a sunny day that the temperature made it to the upper 50s, it seems like it has been forever. We dropped the convertible top this afternoon and went for a drive. We were minding our own business, motoring along a two-lane road at 45 (that had a posted speed limit of 40) when a full-size pickup approached from behind, closing fast. After a few seconds of filling my mirror trying to intimidate me into increasing my speed or something, he passed me. Less than a 1/4 mile later he turned left into his driveway. Sorry I got in your way pal.
Well it has been a year since I started keeping track of the movement of the convertible top of the Miata. You’ll notice that somewhere over the period of the year the date changed from 02/01/02 to 02/02/02. I don’t remember when, but I think I did it because I really liked the alliterary quality of the 2nd’s date written like that. Not sure where to go from here, should I keep up the top thing, keep track of something else like how much money I spend on the car (gas mileage is so overdone) or do nothing.
Watched the rest of the Rumpole today. The last 4 episodes of season 2 and the movie Rumpole Returns. Alone. No one else in the house gets it. I just couldn’t help myself. There is something about that kind of humor that I love. I wonder when the other 5 seasons worth will make it to DVD?
Started up, went down, still down.
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