Comment Spam

We get annoying phone calls selling us stuff we don’t want. We get regular mail flyers full of stuff we don’t want. We get tons of spam emails for stuff we don’t want.

I got hit with a new one yesterday and until someone comes up with a clever word for this, I’ll call it Comment Spam.

It wasn’t random at all. If you search my rant site for the word cholesterol you get one hit, it’s in the post they left the comment on. Notice that I had accidentally mis-spelled cholesterol. If you search for the correct spelling, there are no hits. in the comment spam they too spell cholesterol wrong, with an “al” on the end. I never get a link or even the name of the supplement, so was this a random act of a random person who stumbled on my site?

Gotta Go Air Up

Short posts tonight and tomorrow as I’ll be getting the car ready for our Club’s Annual Gap trip. That’s right, twisty ass roads of North Carolina with the dragon as the icing on the cake. Plan on a fun run Friday evening after arrival and then a early morning more spirited assault. Followed by a day of enjoying what the mountains have to offer.

Gotta go put a little more air in the tires. use 32 psi for normally driving, but I want to add 3or 4 more to stiffen the sidewalls a bit more. Tomorrow I guess I’ll shake out the mats and use the California Duster to get the light coating of road dirt off the car. It is not enough to go fast, but you have to look good doing it. 🙂

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Holy

Today’s Phototime Tuesday theme was “holey” and didn’t know what I was going to shoot. Inspiration was slow to come. My first thought was, I’m having swiss cheese in my sandwhiches this week, why not grab a slice and click, but then what kind of background would I use. How about a toe poking through a holey sock? I don’t have any socks with holes and I didn’t want to sacrifice a perfectly good one for the sake of art. Then it hit me, the holes in the seats of the Miata for the headrest speakers.

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I’m Not A Gearhead

But I would like to be able to do the “easy” stuff on my car. Changing the oil and rotating tires has become second nature. I’ve done the brakes, i.e., change pads, bleed them, etc twice now. I would like to change out the transmission fluid and the differential oil, but to do these you need both a 23mm and a 24 mm socket. From a quick search on the web these will run me $15 a piece, plus $10-15 for the 1/2″ ratchet. Then a oil pump would make this easier to get the oils back in these hard to reach places, another $5-10. Not to mention the cost of the fluids. Probably be cheaper to get the Mazda place to do it when they change my timing belt in a couple weeks.

Cowboy Down

The Red Sox lose their game against the Yankees today and it is my fault. I watched the game on ESPN Friday night and they won. I watched the game on Fox Saturday afternoon and they won. Today the game was not on TV, I couldn’t watch, so they lost. Sorry.

The rain started about the time the alarm went off this morning. The bike ride didn’t happen. We could deal with that, curled back under the covers and slept another hour. The rain paused for about 15 minutes a half an hour ago, but it is back at it steady. No picture taking today, for the web site or the contest.

The inclement weather created a perfect opportunity for a movie day. First up was Catch Me If You Can borrowed from a co-worker. After about 10 minutes, Donna wanted out. I convinced her to stick it out. After 25 minutes I wanted out, but she was now interested. At 25 minutes the phone rang and while she was talking to her mother I popped out the disc. Second movie was my latest purchase, Donnie Darko. I watched it all the way through (for the second time) while Donna watched half heatedly. This evenings entry was The Last Boy Scout, a totally predictable Bruce Willis movie, that is from Netflix and has been sitting on my coffee table for around a month. At least Donnie Darko was good.

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Boy I Sure Do Miss Radio

Watched the Red Sox – Yankee’s game on Fox this afternoon. The game went better than I hoped. Boston 11, New York 0. Watching was great, but listening sucked. Tim McCarver was in the booth with Rick Sutcliff and they couldn’t get it together. Both of them seemed tongue tied too often. Maybe it is because the aren’t used to working with each other or something. Then there was an inning or two that Ozzie Smith joined them, trying in vain to explaining a Radio Shack promotion (something I’m sure he is getting paid to do) having to do with lifetime tickets to the World Series. Lamo.

About the second inning they flashed across the screen that the broadcast was available in Spanish via SAP (if available) by inning 5 I tired to get it in Spanish, but my local FOX affiliate didn’t have it available. I guess we don’t have that big a Hispanic population…

The Time Is Now

So Cowboy Up. And the Sox did just that tonight in the first of a 3-game series against their arch-nemesis’s the NY Yankees in the house that that candy bar fellow built. I think we will have to win at least one more this weekend from the Bronx Bombers if there is any chance of taking the division from them. A sweep would be nice, but 2-1/2 out with 25 to play, and the way they are playing, is not to big a hill to climb.

Turns out that a 40% chance of rain showers means a 60% chance of cloudy, gray skies with no precipitation. Got the ride in to work with it down, but that was it. After work-work we went to work-out, so the ride home was broken into 2 short trips with a long pause in the middle. The skies looked iffy so we just left the roof up.

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