My new tires are HERE! They will probably get mounted on Friday. That is the day we have a half-day off because of working 9-hour days Monday through Thursday.
Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 110
Last night we made it 45 minutes into Welcome to Collinwood before turning it off. This morning we only got to the 30 minute mark of All or Nothing. This got me to thinking just how many of the movies I’ve picked from Netflix have we not finished watching. Because I’m that sort of anal retentive person I have a spreadsheet that keeps track of every movie I’ve rented and how long I kept it before watching it and how many movies we average watching in a month. I went back and ran through the list and added another column for the DNF (Did Not Finish) marking. I had to look up some of them so I could remember them, but I think I got a pretty accurate count. Turns out it is pretty damn close to 20% of the movies rented were not watched all the way through.
Here is the data:
1081 Total Days Member
236 Total Movies Watched
47 Movies Not Finished
19.9% Percentage Of Movies Not Finished
6.5 Average Movies Watched Per Month
$3.23 Cost per Rental
18 Average Days Out
Had a real nice turnout for our Meet and Greet with the writers from the German Miata Magazine, Blue Sky, with dozen cars and about 18 people. We hung out and chatted while Eberhard took photos of the cars. Afterwards most all drove into Augusta to eat pizza at the Pizza Joint. On our way back to our cars Rudy said too bad we didn’t take them to the Blue Sky Kitchen a few blocks back. The only thing that salvaged us from this major missed opportunity is that after checking the web page Blue Sky Kitchen isn’t open on Sundays.
Purchased Today: nada
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 110
This morning was Adopt-A-Highway trash pick-up day with the Aiken Bicycle Club. we got about half of 3 block area picked up when the rain started.. No problem as we brought an umbrella because of the weather. I held the umbrella and bag and Donna picked up the bits of stuff on the median. There were 4 others helping us out and 6 people is just fine for our little stretch. Best piece of trash today was a tie, 2 different plastic hub cap/wheel covers from 2 different cars.
Purchased Today: $zero
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 109
Nobody else wanted it, so I’m going to do it again, President of the Master’s Miata Club. Elections were tonight and I won the election unanimously, of course, the fact that I was unopposed may have had something to do with it too.
Track my new tires – expected delivery is next Tuesday.
Purchased Today: $13.75 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $609.22
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 108
What is up with the Brittney Spears imitation? Don’t know what the name of the song is, but the music and the video could be from any blonde teenage wonder. Jeez.
Big purchase today, nearly $300. As mentioned a couple of posts ago, the Bridgerocks were fast approaching the wear bars. After poking my head in on the Tires and Wheels forum on Miata.net I discovered that Onlinetires.com is running a special on the much ballyhooed Toyo T1-S in my 195/50-15 size. $59 a piece. From the discussion I read they have a much softer side wall than the Bridgestones I’m coming from so turn in will not be as crisp, but the grip is right up there. Right now I think I would like a softer side wall, we’ll see how long it takes to transition between these two tires. One thing is for sure, the Toyo’s have a much more aggressive looking tread, I’ll be the envy of all the rice boys. ETA, 2 weeks.
Purchased Today: $283.46
Money spent since 03/03/03: $595.47
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 105