Month: June 2003

Missed Me

Went I came up back up front to my office this afternoon I was met by a friend who said, “You better go put your top up. Russ already did.” (Russ is the other Miata owner where I work) I went to my desk and fired up the Weather Channel’s radar and after watching the radar loop for a bit almost decided not to go out. But something told me to go ahead and do it, just in case. Good thing I did, about 5 minutes after I did, it rained big time. Too much for the cockpit cover to have held back.

While rummaging around in a draw looking for something, I stumbled onto some Miata logos in blue reflective tape I had hand cut out a few years back. I already have some on my car, so if you would like these (two 7″ and one 4-1/2″ long) let me know and I’ll mail them to you.

Purchased Today: diddly
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started down, went up, back down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 112

Tires Arrive Alive

My new tires are HERE! They will probably get mounted on Friday. That is the day we have a half-day off because of working 9-hour days Monday through Thursday.

Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 110

Movies, Movies, Movies

Last night we made it 45 minutes into Welcome to Collinwood before turning it off. This morning we only got to the 30 minute mark of All or Nothing. This got me to thinking just how many of the movies I’ve picked from Netflix have we not finished watching. Because I’m that sort of anal retentive person I have a spreadsheet that keeps track of every movie I’ve rented and how long I kept it before watching it and how many movies we average watching in a month. I went back and ran through the list and added another column for the DNF (Did Not Finish) marking. I had to look up some of them so I could remember them, but I think I got a pretty accurate count. Turns out it is pretty damn close to 20% of the movies rented were not watched all the way through.

Here is the data:
1081 Total Days Member
236 Total Movies Watched
47 Movies Not Finished
19.9% Percentage Of Movies Not Finished
6.5 Average Movies Watched Per Month
$3.23 Cost per Rental
18 Average Days Out

Blue Sky

Had a real nice turnout for our Meet and Greet with the writers from the German Miata Magazine, Blue Sky, with dozen cars and about 18 people. We hung out and chatted while Eberhard took photos of the cars. Afterwards most all drove into Augusta to eat pizza at the Pizza Joint. On our way back to our cars Rudy said too bad we didn’t take them to the Blue Sky Kitchen a few blocks back. The only thing that salvaged us from this major missed opportunity is that after checking the web page Blue Sky Kitchen isn’t open on Sundays.

Purchased Today: nada
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 110

One Man’s Trash Is Still Trash

This morning was Adopt-A-Highway trash pick-up day with the Aiken Bicycle Club. we got about half of 3 block area picked up when the rain started.. No problem as we brought an umbrella because of the weather. I held the umbrella and bag and Donna picked up the bits of stuff on the median. There were 4 others helping us out and 6 people is just fine for our little stretch. Best piece of trash today was a tie, 2 different plastic hub cap/wheel covers from 2 different cars.

Purchased Today: $zero
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 109

Hail To The Chief

Nobody else wanted it, so I’m going to do it again, President of the Master’s Miata Club. Elections were tonight and I won the election unanimously, of course, the fact that I was unopposed may have had something to do with it too.

Track my new tires – expected delivery is next Tuesday.

Purchased Today: $13.75 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 108

Jewel

What is up with the Brittney Spears imitation? Don’t know what the name of the song is, but the music and the video could be from any blonde teenage wonder. Jeez.