Glue Sniffers

Today was an MMM…Time with the Miata Club and one other person besides my wife and I showed up at the Sonic. We just chatted for about a half hour and then went our separate ways to finish our Honey-Do Lists.

The Batmobile is coming along good. I have got most of the painting done and have started the assembly. This morning I realized that I didn’t have any model cement, so off to Hobby Lobby we went. Whoever all those glue sniffers were I would like to put a curse on you. This new cement smells of lemons and doesn’t really hold. Good thing this puppy is put together with glue and some screws. After a couple of missteps (from not reading the directions,) the chassis is all together. Tomorrow comes the interior.

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Netflix

I’ve had the DVD Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans right at the top in my rental queue for about 5 weeks and the status has been “Long Wait” the whole time. So I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email on Wednesday that it had shipped and that I would receive it on Monday, May 26th. It was taking longer than the other movie that shipped the same day because I guess it was coming from California as opposed to the regional center in Georgia. No problem, I’ve waited this long, a couple of more days won’t hurt. Well today I got an email from Netflix saying I had returned the DVD. WTF? I hadn’t even got it in the first place, how could it have been returned? I guess it got a wrong label or something. I went and put it back on top of the queue and it’s status is now, “Now.” Maybe when they ship it out this time it will make it all the way to me.

Glued and Screwed

It wasn’t raining and the radar showed no more green so we dropped the top for the ride to work. Apparently radar doesn’t show light mist. We did make it to work with it down, but it went right back up. At quitting time, lunch time today, it was still misting. By the time we were done eating and then doing a little shopping at 1:30 it had stopped misting so we drove the last couple miles home in the open air.

Bought a model of the 50’s version of the Batmobile today. Haven’t built a model in a while, this one needs a little painting on the interior and then it gets glued and screwed together. Hope I finish this one, the last model I bought was an X-Wing Fighter and it sits semi-assembled in a box in the garage…

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Analyze That

I liked the first movie, up to a point, so what made me think I would love this one. Hope springs eternal I guess, after all I’m a Red Sox fan. Some funny stuff like the first one, some totally stupid stuff too. Nothing makes the word fuck sound so poetic as an Italian/New York accent. And is it just me or does Lisa Kudrow with her hair pulled back look like the prototypical alien – all high cheekbones, sharp chin and big eyes?

You’ve Got Mail

The Thumb Drive showed up on Tuesday. You know me, I’ve got some complaints: The old one had a red drive light that worked like the standard one, it was lit when there was activity. This one does the same, but has the added annoyance of flashing once a second to let you know it is, I don’t know, working? Another nice feature is that it came with a couple of different color covers to match your mood or I-Mac color. The fly in that ointment is that to change the cover you have to remove two screws from the back which are hidden underneath the sticker that says, “Warning! Warranty void if removed.”

The Mug arrived the next day, Wednesday. You know me, I’ve got some complaints: It took a whopping ten days to get here. The thumb drive came from California too, and it made it 5 days. The dark green of the outside ring of the logo came in way too light. That is livable, but the big problem is that the Club’s circular logo appears oval when looked at on the mug. They preach what you see is what you get, the photo on the site doesn’t look like an oval, but in real life it sure does. My wife thinks I’m too picky, but I think it is unacceptable. I tweaked the logo by stretching it in the horizontal by 10% and ran a cylinder filter on it in Paint Shop Pro. I test printed it and it looks a lot better. I uploaded the new image and ordered another mug to check the results.

Warm Connecticut Summer Evenings

Top motion was the exact opposite of yesterday today. We even saved an errand for tonight just for the pleasure of an evening drive, only to have it start to rain just as we left the house.

Red Sox – Yankees on ESPN2 tonight. I’ve got the game going in a small window in the upper left as I type this. The dreaded Yankees just took the lead in the top of the 7th. On certain Wednesdays ESPN2 is brining back legendary broadcasters and tonight it is Curt Gowdy. Brings back wonderful memories of warm Connecticut summer evenings listening to Curt call the Red Sox games. Pardon me while I get all misty eyed here.

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