Distance To The Moon

Top hasn’t moved since very early last Sunday morning, been under the boot all week. Might change tomorrow though, predicting rain. If I had only brought a coat to the drive-in last weekend it would be a streak of 12 days with out changing position.

Going to take the digital camera when I go out tomorrow. I have to stop and take a picture of the odometer when it rolls over to 100,000 miles. Sitting at 99,987 right now. It has taken 5 years and 5 months to get there. I traded my first Miata in with 118,000 miles on it, so since November 1989 I have driven nearly the distance to the moon in a Miata.

The Barndoor Fan Club Spring Photo Contest is over, go and vote for the People’s Choice Award.

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Decalcification

6 month dentist cleaning and check-up today. I’ve got another cavity on #5. Had one last time on the same tooth. Delores the hygienist said that I have a line of decalcification and as that happens the enamel gets soft and cavities form. Oh goodie. The dentist came in and started poking around, while he had his hands in my my mouth he was giving the hygienist comment to write in my file. He was using words like buckle and margin, was he talking about teeth?

Breakfast Songs

Dentist appointment for both of us this afternoon. It is 6 month cleaning and check-up time, we schedule them at the same time so we can leave work at the same time. Our appointments were for 3:00 PM, so we left at 2:30 to take a bit of a drive before ending up at the Dentist’s office.

Finally burned the CD’s for May’s Mix of the Month Club going to print out the cover and label at work tomorrow so I can use the color “laser” printer. Up until this evening I had 2 versions of Breakfast in Bed on the CD, but tonight I snagged a couple of more songs in my bear trap and I took one off. I really liked both versions, but because I couldn’t find 60 minutes of just breakfast songs, one had to go.

Picked out the shirt to have the Miata Club Logo embroidered on – Jerzees 447M. Going to get it in Birch, kind of a gray color. My first thought was white, but I just don’t know if I’d wear it. Plus I’d get the white dirty in an instant.

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WebSticker.Com

This is a rant on them as well as myself. I tooted my own horn yesterday about how I learned my The T-Shirt Shoppe lesson, well I hope I have learned my WebSticker.com lesson. I went to them to produce the Barndoor Fan Club sticker a few month’s back for the price. Their quote was 15% less than my ol’ faithful in town. I went with it. It took like a week and a half of emails correcting proofs until I thought we had it right. When I got the stickers the logo was smaller than the proof and it was slightly off center. I called and complained and it turns out the designer forgot to mention that an 1/8″ of unprintable are was required all around. The off center was slight and I was told “it was within acceptable industry standards.” They knocked a 1/3 off the price, so I kept them. It took over 2 weeks of email to get the right proof this time and I even sent them the Adobe Illustrator file of the logo! We’ll see what happens when I get them.

Embroidered Shirts

Exciting time to be in the Master’s Miata Club, we’ve gotten T-shirts, yesterday I ordered the new club window decals and tonight we got an email from John Haff’s secretary about choosing what kind/color of polo shirt we want to get the Club logo embroidered on. Gonna go surfing and try and find each style shirt (3 different ones from 3 different manufacturers) and make a choice.

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The T-Shirt Shoppe

Just on the infinitesimal chance that someone who is reading this, is considering having some screen printing done and is thinking of having The T-Shirt Shoppe in Aiken, South Carolina do the work, DON’T.

Two reasons:
1) He will put a little change, barely noticeable twist on your design. The only person who will see it will be the designer of the shirt. I can’t be sure of this, but knowing this type of individual, it is probably so that if for what ever reason this design takes off and sells millions, he can come back and demand a cut of the profits, because, he’ll claim it wouldn’t have sold as well if his twist was not there.

2) He will convince you to pay up front by offering a “discount” and once he has the money he will only print the shirts under pressure. Gentle reminders don’t work, you have to go and demand your shirts on such & such day. Then when you go to pick them up, he will invariably be printing right then and you’ll end up watching him print the last of your shirts.

I know this because I have had a first hand experience of #1 twice and #2 once and now the President of the Master’s Miata Club can say he has experienced #2.

Really Nice Leg Warmers

Cool time at the drive in on Saturday. Eight cars made the trip to the Big Mo and 7 stayed for the movie. We moved the time for leaving the Sonic up a half hour and it paid off. We got there before the gates opened and were like 4 cars back from the ticket booth. The last 3 times we have gone we have been stuck in the back row or split up. This time we got in the 3rd row and all in a line. Actually, after a close call with a minivan parking nearly in front of us, Stacey Timmerman and I moved our cars into the row right in front of the other 5. There surely wasn’t going to be any problems blocking the screen with a Miata. The dozen of us pulled out the folding chairs and chatted and snacked away the hour before show time (pun not intended.)

During the day on Saturday it was nearly 90, so quite few of us were unprepared for the coolness that arrived after sundown. A decent breeze made it seem even colder. It was a good thing that Rudy finally picked up the Club T-shirts and brought them to the Sonic. He passed them out to those who had ordered them and a couple of them made really nice leg warmers for those bare legs.

In between movies we lost 3 cars to early departures. Too bad too, as they missed the highlight of the whole evening, a marriage proposal over the PA system. Seems a couple had their first date at the Big Mo one year ago to the night. (Coincidentally the Miata Club was there too.) They decided to come back on the anniversary to see another movie. The guy had a plan. In between the usual announcements and trivia contests, the owner asked this fella’s girl friend over the PA would she marry him. After a few minutes the answer was announced, she said yes.

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