Miatatude

Fading Blurry Video Tape

A friend from work has lent me his DVD set of the first two seasons of Rumpole of the Bailey I loved this series when it aired on PBS in the late 70’s -early 80’s. I have quite a few episodes on fading blurry video tape. I watched 2 episodes tonight and I vaguely remember them so it was much fun watching. The back of the DVD mentioned they are on the discs in the correct chronological order. They are at least in a different order that what it listed on the few web sites I visited. 10 episodes to go and then there is the 2 hour movie Rumpole Returns on the last disc. I do hope the release all of the series on DVD, I think there were 6 or 7 series of 6 shows apiece. Leo would do 2 seasons and call it quits, it would take a couple years of coaxing to get him back to playing Rumpole. Then the cycle would repeat. He finally hung up the robes and powdered wig for good in the early nineties.

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Couple Of Cute People

Busy for a Sunday. Made a bagel run at 8:00 AM and back out at 4:00 PM to make a trip to Kroger’s for some iced molasses cookies (my next week’s daily snack at work.) The top was up for the morning drive and down for the afternoon run. The top will go up first thing tomorrow as tonight’s low will be in the 20’s.

This afternoon we watched “Serendipity.” Second chick flick in 2 days and this one was as innocuous as the other, a couple of cute people stuck in a lame, but cute plot. At least it wasn’t a total waste of time.

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10th Anniversary Dinner

Ironed out the details on the Miata caricature. I know you are probably asking what the difference is, well if you look at the first one closely you would see that the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car (the fellow who does them is in England.) Plus I didn’t want to see the big CarArtz.com logo in the white space. Dave has agreed to make it a lot smaller and hide it in the shadow of the car.

Tonite was the “gala” 10th Anniversary Dinner for the Master’s Miata Club. Good time. We had 25 people enjoy good food and good company. We had 2 of the founding 12 in attendance. One is a somewhat active member still and the other has pretty much been a ghost, she hasn’t been to an event since I’ve been active with the Club (November 1995.)

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Stadium Seating

For our half day off Friday we went over to Augusta to see a movie. We have devised a plan in which every other Friday afternoon off (which means once a month) we will see a movie at a matinee. The drive to Augusta is that is where the closest stadium seating theater is, plus when the weather is warm it will be a good excuse to go for a drive. Today I let Donna pick, so we ended up seeing “Two Weeks Notice.” Donna is a sucker for Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts movies, so we go, and I get major brownie points for it (and believe me, I usually need ’em.) Next movie will be my pick.

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The Heebie-jeebies

Actually went for a little drive this afternoon. Real little and the top was up. It has been like 3 weeks since I’ve modified anything on the car and I’m starting to get the heebie-jeebies. I’m not sure what’s next though…I’ve toyed with the idea of replacing the indiglo gages with something from AWD, maybe the MS version. I just can’t leave well enough alone.

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Basking In Its Electrical Warmth

Too cold to even think about going outside. The Miata hasn’t moved all day, almost like it was a Sunday. Spent the day huddled in front of the PC, basking in its electrical warmth.

Tonight I’m on my own movie-wise. Donna will be glued to the tube watching the ladies figure skating in the U.S. Championships from Dallas. I may watch Memento or maybe Ronin.

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Give Me Dumbo

Top stayed up again today. If this trend maintains it may just work out that there will have been exactly one top transition for every day in the year by the time February 1st rolls around.

Tonight’s feature was “Lilo & Stitch” and we only made it through about half way before turning it off. Can’t really explain it, except it just didn’t seem like fun. Give me Dumbo any day.

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