Wabbit Teeth

The mouth of the car has looked kind of naked since I pulled the Alley Gator teeth off, so last week I ordered a different style set of teeth to put back in there. My wife said she would pay for them if I let her pick the style. Our Wabbit Teeth arrived at work today. When the mail clerk brought the package to me it was so messed up that I thought for sure the teeth would be in pieces. They ship them in one of those triangle shaped express mail tubes from the USPS and it must have gotten wet, letting the weight of other mail bags squish and mangle it, but the teeth are made of sturdy stuff and were just fine. Of course the first thing I did on arrival home is put them on. It is going to take some getting used to this style, right now I think they are a little funny looking. I know what you’re thinking, any kind of teeth on a car look funny! Even if they are supposed to look like alligator teeth.

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Road Repair

And I use the word repair lightly. there are about a half dozen spots on my commute to work that have had sewer work or water main connections or repairs done to them. The patching back up of the road is so dismal that you have to slow down to keep from rattling loose automotive fasteners. I know it would be impossible to return the road to previous smooth as silk condition, but could you at least try? I think they just toss back in what dirt they can find of what was removed, sprinkle on some gravel and then lay a 1/2 inch of asphalt over the top. In the matter of a week there is a 2″ dip!

Fortunately a couple of these “repairs” occur in just one lane of the 4 lane road that I travel, so that I can on most days, switch lanes and then go back to avoid them. I’m sure the big sedans and SUVs behind me wonder why I dodge left, only to go back right. Well I’m saving my fillings from falling out.

Well Oiled

The front office folks (with a few exceptions) are assigned to either Group A or Group B and every other week (excluding weeks in which there is a holiday) a group works an extra hour on Monday through Thursday and then gets the Friday afternoon off. The company started this program during the summer and we didn’t do it. Maybe because we out of vacation time for the year is why we jumped on the bandwagon now. Today was day one of the extra hour and it didn’t seem too long. We got up 15 minutes earlier with thoughts of speeding some morning routines to make up for the other 15. We were so well oiled that we actually started the commute 15 minutes before we planned. So we took an extra long drive in. As a bonus we were so early that the school busses weren’t out and about yet.

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I Miss Sports Night

Caught a rerun of Sports Night this morning on Comedy Central. That was such a well written show. At least I can still get my Aaron Sorkin fix this Wednesday on the season premier of The West Wing. The again maybe it is a good thing it went away after 2 seasons. It went out at the top of its game, like Jimmy Hendrix. We were spared the decent into mediocrity of other things that hang around too long, like The X-Files and the Rolling Stones.

Watchful Waiting

The little dark blue swirls are not as noticeable nor as plentiful as I first imagined, changing my course of action from hurry and clean/re-wax to “watchful waiting.” I mean if this was harmful in a permanent way they still wouldn’t be selling this stuff. While I was doing Miata stuff yesterday I also replaced the two (upper & lower) shift boots. Both of them were broken and cracked horribly. I guess there is less cockpit heat…. While I was in there I notice the oil in the turret was brown and very thin. I guess it is time to change that out. I think that maybe I will buy a couple of quarts and go ahead and change all of the transmission fluid while I’m at it. Maybe next Saturday’s project.

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Turtle Wax Color Cure

Turtle Wax Color wax has made all these dark swirl marks on my car. I’m sure they are temporary, but after waxing the car today I noticed streaks of darker blue in places on the paint. I’m hoping it is just because I inadequately wiped off the dried wax. I used the wax once before and didn’t get this problem, but this time I applied it a bit thicker. Tomorrow I may just re-wax it with a cleaner/wax product and see what happens.

There Has To Be A Limit.

The last 2 days have been about the end of my free ride on the internet. Here is my thoughts on free services: If you intent is to give away something for free on the internet, there comes a time when you have to limit the number of people who can use your free service. If you can spend $100 a month providing this service and it cost $1 a user, stop at a hundred. Don’t go to 200 and then say to your self, “Damn, I’m spending too much money, I better start charging.”

Of course I never attended any business courses in college, maybe this is the way to get into business, get people used to using your service for free and when they are so entrenched that they can’t live with out it, charge ’em. I mean, it works for drug dealers, right?