Vinny’s Part Deaux

The Miata Club met at Vinny’s tonight. After last weeks visit to the place and seeing what room was promised and sampling the food I didn’t have high hopes. Well boy was I disappointed. They gave us a big long table in the corner instead of the room with the pool table. The pizza was excellent instead of just so-so. Please we had a large (for us) crowd in attendance. Too bad we didn’t have any real business to attend to…

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Hey That’s Wet

Tonight was the Master’s Miata Club meeting. It was unusually warm for a November evening and we had the top down and comfortable is just T-shirts. We were inside Vinny’s Pizzeria for about an hour and a half and when we came back out, condensation had formed all over the interior of the car. Fortunately I keep some paper towels in the trunk, so we could dry off the seats before plopping back down in them.

OCM Phobia

I can’t prove it, but I think Donna feels threatened by Alexandra Steele. She is an On-Camera Meterologist at he Weather Channel and seems relatively new. I think she is on mostly weekends, but has occasionally showed up in the mornings. Whenever Alexandra Steele comes on Donna picks that time to change the channel. I know it might be coincidence, but my Man’s Intuition tells me otherwise.

While Alexandra is an attractive woman, Donna has nothing to fear from her. Now, Kristina Abernathy or Sharon Resultan, that’s a different story.

This May Be It

This may be the rant I’ve had fluttering around inside my head for the last few days. I could have sworn I used it before, but a search of my site reveals nothing like it. I may have actually verbally ranted to someone and that is why it seems familiar.

I don’t need a TV to eat my meal. Really. I must be in the minority though, as it seems like every restaurant I have eaten in, in the last month has had multiple boob tubes hanging all around. Outback, Tony Roma’s and Krystal to name some chains. Vinny’s Pizzeria, Ferrando’s Italian Restaurant and Acropolis to name some local places. The only places I’ve been that didn’t have any were Burger King and Popeye’s. Can they be far behind?

Simple Green

The garage smells of Simple Green. Tonight after work I put the car up on jackstands and squirted the stuff everywhere on the differential and transmission (and the bottom of the engine for good measure.) After about 10 minutes I sprayed it all off using a garden hose. During those 10 minutes I took the time to sweep out the dust, acorns, leaves and dead roaches from the garage. The bottom of the car is clean and now I will check it on the weekend and see where my leak(s) is coming from. I say it like that because I noticed that there were some oily drops on the floor near the middle of the car to go along with the ones at the rear.

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Indian Summer?

If it is in the upper 80s and it is November, is it too late to refer to it as Indian Summer? Beautiful day. We spent a big chunk of it blasting hither and yon on Lake Thurman with friends from the Miata Club. To and from the lake were spent enjoying the beautiful day.

When I got home I peeked under the car to see if I could see where the leak is coming from. It doesn’t look like it is at either the fill or drain plug. Must be coming from the front seal. If that is the case, I may have to go back to plain ol’ oil. Tomorrow after work I’ll put the car on jack stands and clean it all off, then check again in a couple of days.

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Two Words

Average Joe

I can understand good looking shallow people falling for this Reality TV chance at stardom/love/money ploy, but now they’ve gone too far, the corruption of “normal” looking people. God save the human race.