Odds & Ends

I have decided to only restore 2005’s posts. 2002 through 2004 will languish in a file on my hard drive. Maybe when I get around to it I will go back and read through them and publish a “Greatest Posts” page. There are only 2 surviving 2004 posts and those are the Mr. Fletcher’s Ride photos and are part of a series that will finish up later this month. When that happens I’ll probably create a separate gallery for the images. Speaking of separate galleries for images, that is more than likely what will happen to the photo meme posts which weren’t restored along with the rest of this year’s posts.

The FRS won today big time over the hated Yankees and clinched the wild card playoff berth. In honor of this accomplishment I have given them their own category here on the blog. A five game series with the Chicago White Sox starts Tuesday afternoon in the Windy City. The Wild Card route is how they made it into the playoffs last year and look what happened then, they won it all. As a matter of fact the last three World Series champs have been Wild Card teams. So here we go…

We got a late start this morning, so we skipped the planed bicycle ride and decided to take a Miata drive instead. We got about a mile away from the house when we ran into a wall of light rain. Quickly turned around and found a spot to remove the boot cover. Then, still top down made another u-turn and proceeded with the drive. We managed to keep dry as we kept making direction changes to stay under the partly blue in the sky. While we took a walk around the North Augusta mile walking track the top went up as a precaution. The top made a cycle one other time while we were still moving to avoid a passing soaking rain, but after that it was a nice little drive.

Part of it was to go check out where our used-to-be-local Mazda dealer went to. There is a for sale sign in front of the old building, but it looks like they are still selling Izuzus there. The new digs are way over on the west side of Augusta and is the former Honda dealership building. There were still quite a few Hondas on the lot (I guess the new Honda store isn’t completely finished) and there were a lot of Mazdas on the other half. Only three new Miatas MX-5s were on hand and they were off in a corner. One red Grand Touring with black top and interior, one black Grand Touring with the tan/brown interior and one silver Touring. All of them with a supplemental sticker adding $599 dollars to the MSRP for premium handling, 5 year warranty and a couple of other bogus add ons…

New color scheme in honor of Halloween.

West Wing is on at 8:00 PM on Sunday nights, not 9:00 PM, so I gotta go…