Miatatude

MX-5 Passion Stickers

Way back in October of last year the folks that run the MX-5 Passion site, a Miata Net like site for Italy, discovered the Barndoor Fan Club and emails were traded, pictures shared, etc. Then one fellow asked me to send him 6 of the BDFC stickers and he would mail me the same amount of their site’s stickers once they had them made up. I mailed them off and everyone of their team put a sticker on their car, even the M2s. I hadn’t heard about the stickers in so long I forgot all about them, until yesterday. Ben emailed me to let me know that a half dozen MX-5 Passion stickers were on the way. wOOt!

Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $73.75
Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 51

Amelie

Looks like a rainy week, at this rate it is going to be over a month since the car has needed to be washed, but hasn’t. Which means it has probably been a couple months since the last wash. Maybe this weekend. The oil needs changing as well, the lifters are clacking with more frequency on startup.

Watched the best movie I have seen since Amelie, back in February, tonight. It had drama, sex, tension, pathos and a cast of like 2. Go rent The Business of Strangers if you can find it. And if you don’t like it, email me and tell me why and I’ll paypal you your rental fee.

Purchased Today: zippo
Money spent since 03/03/03: $73.75
Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 51

You’re Dumber Than You Think I Think You Are

Went out for breakfast this morning and managed to eat outside although a little chilly. Afterwards we were going to walk around downtown and pay our bills, water, cable and power, but the rain started lightly so we had to put the top up and drive to the three places. I’m sure we burned more in gas than we saved in postage, but oh well.

Watched Chinatown and The Two Jakes back to back today. I remember watching The Two Jakes on video way back when it first came out and I thought it was an OK movie. At the time I didn’t even know that there was a prequel. Today I thought it sucked, most probably it was because I could compare it to Chinatown. May even buy Chinatown for my meager collection. To me everything just looked right, Jack Nicholson was perfect for the role, as were the other main characters, but Roman Polanski’s direction is what made the thing great. On a side note, Chinatown was on AMC today about the time I finished watching it on DVD.

Favorite quote from the first movie: “You’re dumber than you think I think you are.”

Purchased Today: $15 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $73.75
Started down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 51

Eating Lawn Clippings

Half-Day-Friday. We met Donna’s mom downtown at Malia’s. Donna loves this place because Donna loves salads and Malia’s is the king of salads. I eat there because I get brownie points for taking Donna and they have a manly steak salad there so I can still feel like I’m on top of the food chain while eating lawn clippings. Afterwards we came home and started the back deck cleanup. There must have been a 1/32 of an inch thick layer of pine pollen coating every surface on the porch area. Donna washed this off while I hit the front porch. Tomorrow I will attack the deck area with some cleaner to rid the thing, hopefully, of mildew.

Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $58.75
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 50

Extruded Potato Flake Mush

Had the April Master’s Miata Club meeting tonight. In our never ending quest for just the right combination of food, price and privacy we ventured to the S&S Cafeteria in North Augusta. I don’t remember who suggested it, but I hope they don’t read this blog – the food was terrible. The trout was cold and the coating too thick, the green beans were bland. The succotash was so over cooked that you couldn’t tell the difference between the corn or the lima beans except for color (barely.) The “cheese” potato was extruded potato flake mush in a tin foil oval with a bit of cheddar like coloring on top and the deviled egg had so much pickle in it that it overwhelmed any egg taste. If I never eat there again it will be too soon. On the bright side we had 22 people in attendance, a record.

Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $58.75
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 50

Flash Our Tits

Made it back from the Crescent City. Kind of weird being a tourist in a tourist town after living there a while and then leaving. Some things have changed for the better, some for the worse and of course some things never change. We stayed at the French Market Inn and the web site makes it look a lot nicer than it was. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice and the location was excellent, but it really fell short of the mark in a lot of ways.

We did the touristy things – rode the St. Charles Street Car to the zoo – took the Natchez steamboat ride – went to the Aquarium & Imax – had coffee & beingets at the Cafe Du Monde (3 times) – wandered up & down Bourbon Street – browsed the antique stores on Royal Street – ate seafood – ate “cajun” food and read The Times-Picayune on the Moonwalk listening to jazz and watching the barges go by.. We did *NOT* flash our tits for beads – get our palm read on Jackson Square – take a carriage tour – buy a T-shirt with a dirty phrase on it – get drunk on Hurricanes at Pat O’Briens or take a Voodoo Walking tour.

As Glenda told Dorothy, “There’s no place like home.”

Purchased Today: $18.00 in pizza
(Not actually Miata related so I’m not adding it to the total)
Money spent since 03/03/03: $58.75
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 48

Leelee

Three posts in one. Friday the monitor arrived and I got about 15 minutes in front of it. Donna graciously let me at least take it out of the box before we piled into the car and drove to Hilton Head Island for the weekend. It didn’t rain the entire drive down, but close. Saturday morning was spent visiting about 8 of the condos Jerry manages to take pictures for the web page update. Saturday evening the four of us, me and Donna and Jerry and his Donna, went out to eat at place called Charley’s Crab. The hostess who seated us reminded me of Helen Hunt. I couldn’t stop looking, every time she came near our area to seat other customers, I would take another peek. I hope she didn’t notice, but then she is probably used to being stared at with those looks. Actually she was a lot younger Helen, more of a Leelee Sobieski.

Sunday we drove home. It wasn’t raining really, but it was too cold and damp for the top to be down. We got back in time for Donna’s Mom’s famous St. Patrick’s Day feast of corned beef, cabbage carrots and potatoes. The neighbors across the street came over and we all stuffed ourselves. After dinner I went over to help this fellow out of a computer jam. He started using AOL. but after a year or so he traded them in on MSN. He recently got tired of paying 21.50 a month for the service so he moved over to ATT Global Net. Did I mention he is a computer novice? He has only had a PC for 2 years, having finally broke down at the age of 75 and joined the internet revolution. He was still getting a dellnet thing popping up in the background, so I headed over for what I thought was a 5 minute fix. I came home an 1-1/2 later having fixed a few things, but still left a possible virus alive. His son mentioned he might have the Klez worm, so I went to the Symantec site to update the Norton virus stuff he got with the PC 2 years ago. Trouble was he had Windows ME which I know nothing about it peculiarities. Left him with the downloads running, so I’m going to have to check back with him tomorrow to see what happened.

Purchased Sunday: 12.25 in fuel
Money spent since 03/03/03: $43.00
Started down, went up, still up.
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