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Miata Mileage

107,000 Blades Of Grass

Saturday, May 1, 2010

We went out to do some geocaching this morning, back over on the new bike/hike trail along side the new section of I-520 that we covered part of last weekend. That section had 8 caches and this section had one until yesterday evening. The second was published late last night and this morning no one had logged it as found yet. With all the FTF Hounds around here we didn’t expect to be the first, we were sure someone already had and just hadn’t logged it yet. Didn’t matter one way or the other, we didn’t find it and no one has yet either…We did find the other cache though. We just didn’t have our geo-mojo working at all today and ended up with just three finds to go along with our three measly finds.

Now there are three caches on that section as part of our mission was to place a cache along that stretch of trail. It is out in the wild, just not published yet and like the rest of our hides it should be an easy find for folks. We think we are going to head out tomorrow morning and place a couple more out there. We scoped out a couple of likely spots. One of which we eliminated when on my way back down the embankment I slipped on the newly planted grass and did a slo-mo face plant at the bottom.

After giving up on the caching we stopped in downtown Augusta at the Greek Orthodox Church to have some lunch. We had bought a meal ticket last Monday when we ate at the local Greek place. The half chicken meal with sides was just the right size for us to split. On the way home we detoured through North Augusta to get some ice cream at the Pink Dipper, but all I had in my wallet was a buck, so we had to stop at an ATM. As I pulled to a stop at the bank I noticed that the Emperor’s odometer was sitting at exactly 107,000. In honor of that I tried to withdraw $107,000 from the ATM, but apparently that was above my daily withdrawal limit, because it only gave me $40.

Started down, went up, went down, up, down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 619
Tagged: Geocaching, Miata Mileage

106,000 Patrons

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Once a year Donna and become golf fans, we watch the Master’s on TV. I guess because we have been there in person…

On our way home from Georgetown this morning we made two quick caching stops to pick up the last DeLorme pages we needed for the eastern part of the state. And just outside the town of Eutawville (YOO • tah • vil) the Emperor passed the 106,00 mile mark.

Started up, went down, back up, down again, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 588
Tagged: Geocaching, Miata Mileage, Road Trip

105,000 Lines of Bar Code

Monday, March 29, 2010

I have been using a Just One Club Card for years and it has kept my wallet slimmer. There were 5 stores on it, but recently we added a Staples Reward card to our repertoire, so I went and made up a new justoneclubcard.

Tonight shopping at Krogers I went to use my new card and the scanner wouldn’t read it (at the pharmacy nor at the checkout.) Now what? Like a bonehead I tossed out the old card before testing the new one. On top of that I have no idea where the original cards may be.

I did notice that when I print the card from the JOCC site it is a lot smaller than it was on my old card so I enlarged it by 120% to fill the card better. I was careful to use the pixel resize mode so that I wouldn’t get a blurry enlargement and I printed them out on the laser printer. Maybe I need to blow it up in nice round numbers? I wonder if 200 times will still fit on a wallet card?

On the way to work this morning the Emperor reached the 105,000 mile mark.

Started up, back down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 572
Tagged: Miata Mileage

Way Behind

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I am either way behind in blogging about the oil changes on the Emperor or just way behind in actually doing one. My routine has been to change the oil every 3,750 miles, which is exactly twice as often as Mazda recommends and while I’m at it I rotate the tires from front to back. But the last time I mention an oil change was on September 6th, which judging by my Miata Mileage posts would put it at around 95.5K or about 9,000 miles ago!

This Saturday I’m going to do the oil change slash rotate the tires thing. Unless I forget to buy oil or it rains or…

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 551
Tagged: Miata Mileage, Miatatude

104,000 Band Aids

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Donna is making slow, but steady progress towards normalcy, but she still is using the restroom a lot more than usual. Consequently she is washing her hands a lot. This means that they are exceedingly dry and chapped with numerous cracks and splits in the skin. Towards the end of the day these really start to hurt. Tonight I put 104,000 band aids slathered with neosporin on her hands. Actually 104,000 is the number of miles the Emperor passed through on our way out to do some shopping today, the number of band aids was closer to 10.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 538
Tagged: Miata Mileage

One Hundred and Three Thousand :-)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

We were gone for 12 hours, basically from dawn to dusk. A couple miles out of Aiken the Emperor passed by the 103,000 mile mark. Drove 325 miles total, probably 45 with the top down, and spent $22.50 on gas. We ate breakfast at Hardee’s, lunch at Jack’s Cosmic Dogs and dinner was chicken salad sandwiches Donna had made and we took with us. Walked around 2-1/2 miles of the West Ashley Greenway. We found 12 caches (a personal best) and DNF’d 2 (pretty much average.) Crossed off Charleston County and Pages 59, 60 & 61 from our South Carolina Challenges.

So were the hot dogs worth the trip? Yes and no. They were My-T-Fine and if I’m ever in the neighborhood again I’ll definitely stop by and try another variety, but I probably wouldn’t hop in the car drive straight there, eat a dog and drive right home.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 529
Tagged: Eating Out, Geocaching, Miata Mileage, Road Trip

102,000 Gray Hairs in My Beard

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

We went to Kroger this evening to buy supplies for the 4 day Christmas holiday we have off work, needed the stuff to make a Paula Dean breakfast quiche we saw her do yesterday. Plus various other things to keep us fed on Christmas Day because the Weather Channel is telling us we have an 80% chance of T-Storms on the 25th.

Apparently Wednesday is Senior Discount Day because the cashier took 5% off our total when we checked out. The demarcation line is 55 and even though I still have 9 months to go until I reach it, I didn’t correct her, I’ll take any $2.38 break on groceries I can get. Must have been all the gray hair in my beard, couldn’t have been the thinning hair on my head because that was all covered up in a Santa hat that I wore all day.

On the way home I noticed that the Emperor was a few miles north of the 102,000 mile mark…

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 513
Tagged: Miata Mileage
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