Geek Used To Be A 4-Letter Word, Now It’s A 6-Figure One

I just bought a Lockergnome sweatshirt last week. They were closing them out and $9 for an embroidered XL sweatshirt was too good to pass up. I also bought it because it was forest green and just last month I decided to retire my green Hartford Whalers sweatshirt. It was over 15 years old and the cuffs were fraying and it had a couple spots on it (it’ll make a nice waxing rag for the Miata.) Along with my sweatshirt they threw in a CD from Gnomedex 2002 and a bumper sticker that reads, “Geek used to be a 4-letter word, now it’s a 6-figure one.” Cute, but it won’t get on my car. What might is the Chris caricature that adorned the left side of the sticker. I trimmed all around it and think I’ll stick it on the back bumper for now – then move it to the trunk lid with the rest of my stickers in a couple months.

I haven’t tried the CD yet for fear it will be more of Chris’s home movies. I think I will plop in there, may be some good freeware on there…..

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Self Gift Giving

Ordered a couple of my Christmas presents to the Miata tonight.

First up was a customized caricature from CarArtz.com I sent in pictures of the car, wheels, etc. and sometime after Christmas I will have a picture to frame. (the photos included the car with the Alley Gator Teeth so I guess that is what is going back in the mouth.)

Secondly I ordered the Moss Motors Short Shifter Kit. They had it on special for $119, down from $169. You can track the shipment here.

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Its A Small World After All

Every night I get all set to post to this little blog, but before I do I usually click on a couple of random Blogs from the recently updated column on the left of the Blogger home page. Sometimes I wander for hours reading stuff others have written. Tonight I stumbled on 4 or 5 that were cool which led me to this one – Ho Ho Holy Shit – absolutely great! On the right hand side there are links to the blogs of contributors and one of them happens to be Gretchen Pirillo, wife of Mr. Lockergnome Chris, whose embroidered head adorns the sweatshirt I happen to have on. Small F*cking Internet.

Out With The Rabbit

Back from a weekend in Hilton Head. Once a year we get the run of a 2-bedroom condo down there for free. Well actually it is in payment for doing the owner’s web page (man, I hope the IRS isn’t reading this) he owns a couple and manages a lot more. I did the original page a ways back and do a couple of updates to it yearly to keep the units and their photos updated.

Actually had the top down on both Friday and Saturday afternoons. Felt good as it had been almost a week since the car was convertiblized…

Yesterday I washed the grime off the car. When I was finished, I pulled the Wabbit Teeth out of the mouth. Never did grow to like them. May give them away if I can find a sucker that’ll have them. Should I put the Alley Gator teeth back in or should I go with something different?

Today it was actually nice enough to ride home with the top down.

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Off To Hilton Head Island

Tomorrow is the half day off I’ve been working extra every day this week for and me and the Mrs. are driving down to Hilton Head for the weekend. Sounds like a big deal, but actually we are staying a friend’s condo and we are bringing our DVD player and three movies to watch. We usually just hang around the condo like we hang around the house, the big difference being we can see the ocean from the window on HHI, while at home we see the neighbor’s decrepit boat that is filled with leaves.

Gloves In My Glove Box

The sun and 60 degree weather didn’t arrive as predicted. The clouds were hanging heavy overhead all day and I bet it didn’t get out of the lower 50’s. By quitting time it was already too cold to think about putting the top down, drat it all. I’m sure tomorrow’s weather will be absolutely correct because they are calling for rain….

My intent was to keep the driving gloves in the center console, but alas there isn’t any room because of the 2 sets of sunglasses that reside there now, so I’ve decided to keep them in the glove box, how about that?

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Poor Earl

Just got through watching “An Evening With The Dixie Chicks” on NBC. While I’m not a big county music fan, I liked this enough to stay for the whole show (which is either a testament to a good program or a statement on the amount of crap available on the other 60-odd channels.) It was actually good stuff. Put me in mind of the Eagles’s Hell Freezes Over concert of a while back. Nice harmonizing with the extra kick of a string section. You can tell it was filmed in Hollywood though, you had to be an aspiring actor/actress to get in the audience – nothing but good looking people to be seen in the whole theater, I’d have never gotten in.