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77,000 Shades of Green

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

When I parked the Miata in the garage this afternoon after we were finished running around, the CTBNL’s odometer read 77001.

For grins, I looked back at what I blogged about when the previous Miata hit 77,000 miles. The post was entitled 77,000 Lumens. The first part was about having an eye exam where my eyes are dilated and how afterwards, even dim lighting seems way to bright to look at. There was a thumbnail picture at the top that related to the second part of the post. It was of our freshly remodeled bathroom in Aiken and I talked how I was putting up the new towel racks, etc.

I was struck by the synchronicity of how nearly 12 years earlier the 77,000 mile marker for the Emperor happened around the time I was doing something similar as I was doing now and both bathrooms were shades of green. Very different shades, but green none the less.

Tagged: Miata Mileage

Track, Daily, Crush

Monday, March 2, 2020

In Like A Lion Edition. As of Monday, March 2, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:

Track Daily Crush
2018 Chevrolet COPO Camaro 1991 Nissan Figaro 1983 Mercury Zephyr
One look and you just give it your lunch money. One look and you just want to give it a hug. One look and you just feel like you need to barf.
Tagged: Cars, Track-Daily-Crush

Weekly Wrap

Sunday, March 1, 2020

First up is a picture from last Sunday and if you follow me on Instagram you will have seen part of this before:

Monday we walked downtown and did some geocaching on the way. We DNF’d the first two. Number one is in a small park we walk right by every time we do walk downtown. Number two was a caboose at the county museum and not finding it was expected, we never seem to get these. We found the third and then promptly DNF’d number four. We did find the next four we hunted for, but three of them were virtual, so there wasn’t an actual container to look for.

Tuesday we walked downtown and had pizza for dinner at Rodeos Pizza and Saladeria. A medium The Boss pie, six slices consumed on site, two taken home for my lunch the following day. This is the first time we have eaten here for dinner and have decided that the lunch cook does it more to our liking. This one had a touch too much sauce and came out of the oven a minute or two early making the crust not as crisp.

Wednesday I prepped the master bath for painting by removing the shower curtain rod, towel racks and patched the holes with spackling. Then I masked off everything. It was also our biannual visit to the dentist for teeth cleaning.

Thursday was painting the master bath.

Friday was pulling down the tape in the bathroom and putting it up in the master bedroom.

Saturday was supposed to bring wet winter weather so we had planned not to even leave the house. The weather never materialized, but we still didn’t leave the house. I painted the bedroom, which took most of the day, and Donna spent just as much time in the family room downstairs sorting the jumbo cache of Morrison memories. She is trying to go through all this and separate the stuff that belongs to each of her three brothers, so as to pass it along to them.

Today I put up the old shower curtain rod, new towel racks and TP holder in the master bath. Put the master bedroom back the way it belongs, but we probably won’t sleep in it for a couple more days so as to let the paint smell totally dissipate.

Tagged: Whatever

Track 13 – Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

Saturday, February 29, 2020

I went through a phase where I was in love with Pacific Island Music. It started from hearing Cecilio & Kapono back while on Guam in the late 70’s. And was rekindled by this surprise hit medley by Israel KamakawiwoÊ»ole in the early 90’s. And now, just by posting this, I’m off to YouTube and down that rabbit hole…

Tagged: Quintessential Burn

2019 Motoring Challenge Results

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Alliteration: I only wish Wayne sold Wasabi instead of fireworks…(2/26/19)

In spite of missing out on 3 months of prime Aiken photo taking weather at the end of last year, we still managed to finish as one of the 50 runners up in the 2019 Motoring Challenge. Our final score of 152, or a little more than half the total of the Miata Division winner’s, put us in 34th place.

The photo above is probably both Donna and my favorite photo from last year. The fellow running the contest thought it was pretty cool too as he included it on the 2019 Winners Page (keep scrolling, it is way towards the bottom.)

Our second favorite photo from last years is below. One of the objectives was a picture with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. This one is on a page on the Moss Motors site as well, 2019 Motoring Challenge Wieners! (this time we are just the 5th one down.)

Wienermobile: With fingers crossed, hoping the Wienermobile App was going to be right, we braved driving into the outskirts of the Atlanta megalopolis to go to a Walmart parking lot in Lithonia. We were all smiles as soon as we pulled into the lot and could see it in all its glory. (2/17/19)

Our runner-up Gift Certificate showed up in today’s mail. Within an hour it was spent. It took care of most of the cost of a front license plate relocation kit for the Miata. Or more accurately, a front license plate mounting kit. Because South Carolina didn’t require a front plate I never had a front plate mount, but because Oregon requires both front and back plates I need one now.

Tagged: Motoring Challenge

Track, Daily, Crush

Monday, February 24, 2020

Another Regular Ol’ Edition. As of Monday, February 24, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:

Track Daily Crush
1984 Citation Formula Vee 1956 Chevrolet 210 2-Door Sedan 1989 Honda FL400 Pilot
Even comes with its own trailer! I wonder if it has a tow package? Crushing this to discourage others.
Tagged: Cars, Track-Daily-Crush

Track 10 – The Captain

Saturday, February 22, 2020

This song ran over the ending credits of a Sopranos episode and I absolutely fell for it, so I bought the 2 CD soundtrack album to the TV show called Peppers & Eggs. This song was the best one of the 20 some odd tracks on those two discs. So then I bought Kasey Chambers’ CD entitled “The Captain” and once again it was the best song on that disc as well. A one-hit-wonder for me, and definitely on the Quintessential Burn list as a product of that time (early 2000’s) but it is still worth another listen:

Tagged: Quintessential Burn
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