As of Monday, April 6, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1990 Shelby Can-Am | 1962 Chevrolet Biscayne LS3 | 1980 Mercury Zephyr Wagon |
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| I don’t know, maybe because it was blue… | Blame this on watching too much Motortrend channel. | I know the 80’s are cool again, but come on! |
Friday after lunch we went on a walk around our end of town, mostly on road, but with some double-track dirt road thrown in. It was chilly (upper 40s), but the sun was shining, so when we got home I suggested taking the Miata out for a spin. It had been since last Friday we last drove it. Then it was sluggish to start, but this time it wouldn’t turn over at all. Had to pull the Mini around to give it a jump. We then took a nice little 20 mile spin (stopping once to take the new blog header image) and parked it in the garage. This time I remembered to put the battery tender on it, so next Friday it should fire right up. A new battery is planned for later when we can actually go on a trip or something.
Yesterday the Ladybug ticked over the 40,000 mile mark while dodging raindrops on the way home from a Jimmy Johns pickup lunch.
Although from looking at the title and the images in this video you almost believe that Tanita Tinkaram is of American Indian descent, but in actuality she was was born in Münster, Germany, the daughter of a Indian-Fijian British Army officer and a Malaysian mother. This song is from her 1988 debut album Ancient Heart and I still occasionally hear this song on Radio Paradise.
We all have Schrodinger’s Virus.
Because we cannot get tested, we can’t know whether we have the virus or not.
We have to act as if we have the virus so that we don’t spread it to others.
We have to act as if we’ve never had the virus because if we didn’t have it, we’re not immune.
Therefore, we both have and don’t have the virus.
Thus, Schrodinger’s Virus.
After somehow managing to subscribe to 2 separate British TV/Movie streaming services, I present to you, a Keep Calm and Drive On Edition of Track-Daily-Crush. As of Monday, March 30, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| Triumph-Based Dio AmBro Special | 1994 Land Rover Defender 90 200Tdi | 1961 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite Project |
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| Matching race helmets included…. | Thanks to our binge watching Vera, this vehicle has now replaced a Jeep as our 4-wheel drive desire. | The only thing uglier than these things is a Miata with a bugeye kit. |
Alt-Rock band R.E.M. playing one of their finest tunes. Everybody Hurts is from their 1992 album Automatic For The People.
While not on this list, this 1987 song from their album Document is now seeing a resurgence in 2020 for obvious reasons…
Like most everyone in the US world, we’ve been staying close to home and watching a lot of TV lately. We have been watching mostly comfort TV. When Donna has control of the remote we are inhaling Food Network and HGTV, both live and stuff from On Demand. Sometimes I get control it is usually tuned to Motor Trend TV. On Sunday and Tuesday from like noon to 10 PM we are locked on WEtv because they have the rights to the original Law & Order, all 456 episodes, and run a marathon.
Our Amazon Prime subscription has come in handy. Modern Love was a recent nice find that we both enjoyed. We have rewatched all three seasons of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and I’ve watched both seasons of Counterpart and it is amazing how different J. K. Simmons looks here than in the old L&O’s.
We also subscribe to Netflix and have been devouring Cheers like it was hot buttered popcorn. We are currently up to Season 8 Episode 8. There are 11 total seasons and after we finish the last hundred or so episodes in the run we may watch all 7 seasons of Mad Men next.
But after watching Cheers we might just cancel Netflix and sign up for Hulu so we can watch all 11 seasons of Fraiser. Then if we are still quarantined, Hulu also has all 8 seasons of Wings, another Thursday NBC Must See TV show to binge.
Right now we are locked on watching Vera, a British police procedural. I equate DCI Vera Stanhope with Columbo, she is kind of rumbled, drives a beat up car (1996 Land-Rover Defender 90) and has a tendency to get halfway out the door while questioning folks before turning around and asking. “Just one more thing.” There are ten seasons of the show and each one consists of only 4 episodes, but each episode is an hour and a half long, so they are essentially movies. We started a 7-day free trail ($6.99 a month after) of BritBox to see the show. Turns out we can only watch seasons 3, 4, 5 and 8, 9, 10 there. We have finished the first three and are ready to start on the next three seasons and have until Monday to do it. If we want to see seasons 1, 2, 6 & 7 we will have to subscribe to Acorn TV for those.
