All Lance All The Time

I complained the other day about how I knew that the commercials on during the Tour de France would be the same and get tiresome easy. Well today was day 2 and it has happened already. Not only is the coverage focusing on Lance, but also he is in all the commercials. Several of the ads are hocking contests involving Lance – got to our web site and enter to win a ride with Lance, win Lance’s bike, win a trip to the Tour to see Lance ride, win Lance’s sweaty used lycra shorts….

Of All The Gin Joints…

…in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

The Master’s Miata Club was “hosting” a cruise in at the Sno Cap Drive-In in North Augusta tonight. We had about 8 of our cars and a smattering of other cars in attendance. About halfway through the evening, in pulled a blue Miata that wasn’t a club member. Hey, wait a minute, that car looks familiar. Sure enough, it was our old car. I went over and said hello to the new owner Shannon Vick and her son. She and he were in North Augusta and he suggested going to the Sno Cap for something to eat. They had no clue that we would be there. Boy that sure is a pretty car.

You must remember this;
A car is still a car,
A sigh is just a sigh ?
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

Ahoy Maties

I’m reading a book called The Circle by David Poyer. Mother-in-law brought it back for me from a recent trip to the used bookstore. It is about a freshly Annapolis minted Ensign on his first cruise aboard an aging WWII destroyer. Fairly interesting so far, but it is obviously written by someone who was in the Navy. The book takes place about 5 years before I was in Uncle Sam’s Yatch Club, so the language and especially the slang terms are taking me back 20 years to when I was in. This is the most realistic book about the Navy I’ve read since Stephen Coonts’ Flight of the Intruder. Excuse me, but flight ops are over so the smoking lamp is lit, I’m going to head back to the fantail to burn one and watch the line of trash bags stretch to the horizon.

Exciting Day At Work Today

I got my new electric pencil sharpener. This puppy’s got a cord, no more wimpy, battery operated, hold it just so, slow poke. This thing wil make dust of a full size pencil in just under 2 minutes. I know, I timed it.

1099 Hours

I bought a bit of computer stuff for work and when it arrived today it had one of those handy AOL CDROMs inside the box with it. AOL 9.0. Oh Boy. The current offer is 1099 hours for 50 days. Hmmm, let’s see, 50 times 24 is 1200. That means you will have to break yourself away from all that fabulous content for 101 hours in the next 7 weeks and a day. What are they nuts? How can I possibly be off-line for 2 hours, 3 minutes and 36 seconds a day. Impossible! I’m holding out for 1500 for 60 days, that way I can be online for 25 hours a day.

I’ve Got Gmail!

Thanks to Rick at Obsession I have now arrived fashionably late to the current web status party. So email me if you want at brian.the.red@gmail.com. Go ahead, spammers too, I need to see if this thing works for me. I have been an Outlook Express user for years and have grown quite used to it, so I don’t know if I can make the transition to web-based email. Right now I know I can’t because there is no way to import my long list of names in my OE address book into Gmail’s contact list.

I Am A Carrier

I think the poor fellow had a predisposition for the affliction though. Back in January I let him take a spin behind the wheel of the new Miata and within a few months he had to have one. He didn’t tell me what year he wants me to guess when I see it next trip down. I did get the fact that it was red, that is no big help in narrowing it down as there has been a red offered every year. I refrained from asking a few key questions that would help me narrow it down. The only other hint, if you could call it that, was that it has 36,000 miles on it. He said it proudly, so I’m guessing clean first generation. Knowing Jerry wouldn’t spend a lot, I’m betting on a 92 or 93, which with those miles would be a sweet car. He mentioned it came with a hard top that he has no need nor desire for. That puppy is probably worth a grand and if he can sell it, that will lower his purchase cost considerably.