Miatatude

Big turnout for the Master’s Miata Club meeting tonight, 21. In an effort to mix up the meeting locations some we held this month’s at the Atlanta Bread Company. My wife called last week to reserve a spot for 15-20 people and re-called this afternoon to re-confirm, when we got there was nothing set aside for us. fortunately the corner we asked for was empty, so we moved a bunch of tables together and marked our territory. It was OK, but probably won’t be in the regular rotation.

Purchased Today: $14.75 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $14.75
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This is the busy week. First Wednesday of the month is the Aiken Bicycle Club meeting and the first Thursday is the Master’s Miata Club meeting. At least all I have to do at the Bike Club is sit and listen, at the Miata Club one I am the Secretary so I have to write stuff down. Which means I have to sorta pay attention. The bike club meeting was neat as we had some folks come speak to us about an upcoming bike race that is coming to town. Rich Hincapie (brother of George, Lance’s main man on US Postal) of Hincapie Sports and Tim Farrar from the SC Heritage Race Series chatted about what was going to happen on May 2nd when the bicycle circus comes to town. I would love to be there and help/watch. but we have already made or reservations for the inaugural “real” hike in the Georgia mountains that day.

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Can’t decide what to mod to buy next. I am torn between some new Gage Faces or some Real Aluminum Trim. I’ve $200 burning a hole in my pocket….

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As promised, a new Miata thing to keep track of. I’m going to keep track of all the money spent on the Miata. Everything, including gas, repair parts, service, and mods. I was going to do mileage, but I forget to write down what the mileage was this morning…maybe I’ll start that on next April 4th.

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Started ugly, but changed into a beautiful day around lunch. Went for another hike in Hitchcock Woods this afternoon. We’re not sure of the mileage, because when we checked it at the car at finish it read .03 miles. Once, part way into the hike it read 1.9 miles. We were in the woods about an hour and a half so if we interpolate from Friday’s data (two miles in an hour) we probably covered 3 miles. Unlike Friday were I knew exactly where we were at all times, this hike was spent in the I Think I Know Where We Are mode a bit with a couple of How The Heck Did We Get Here moments thrown in for good measure.

After the hike we decided to watch “Jackie Brown”, Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard, how could you go wrong? But somehow it did. The actors were good, the characters were good and after 40 minutes the plot looked good, but the pace seemed just a bit too slow (no wonder it was listed at 154 minutes.) I thought it might make a good 2 hour movie, while Donna was not so generous, she said 1 hour.

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As I loaded the trunk with the Miata caricature this morning in preparation for taking it to work, my wife asked, “Why don’t you hang it here at home?” I responded with, “Huh?” She said that I could try and hang it here in the “computer” room. So that is where it is now. I pulled the giant map of Guam off the wall and placed it on the exposed nails. It is a little, no a lot, too high, so I guess tomorrow I’ll fill in some holes and drill some more.

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