Miatatude

The Miata never left the garage today, kind of like a Sunday for it. I’m shooting for no movement tomorrow too. It will be Christmas day and I hope to be watching the DVDs that were on my Wish List. 🙂 Supposed to be cool and windy anyway. But if it turns sunny in mid-afternoon, you never know.

The Short Shifter kit is in. Unfortunately I had it shipped to my work address and the plant is shutdown for these 2 days for the holidays so it is still on a UPS truck. I’ll get it on Thursday.

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Put the top up for the drive to work because it was upper 30’s. The top went back down for the lunchtime drive to town for the annual Fabrication Engineering Department lunch at The West Side Bowery because by 11:45 it was in the upper 50’s and climbing.

It stayed down the rest of the day and Donna and I drove to our bi-annual dental cleaning. Every six months after Dolores is done I get to marvel at the fact that my bottom front teeth are actually 4 separate pieces of enamel.

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Started out as a typical Sunday where the Miata would just spend the day in the garage, but at 3:30 PM when my wife returned from grocery shopping with her mom, she came inside and said, “It’s a beautiful day out, let’s go for a drive.” So we did. A little 30 mile drive in the low angle sunlight of a winter’s late afternoon. No heater required, but by drives end it was nice to get back inside the warm house.

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We went out for breakfast and to finish up the Christmas shopping. We left the house at 8 AM and we were done and heading home by 10:00. The sun was bright enough that we drove the half dozen miles home with the top down.

I put the Alley Gator teeth back on today.

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It had quit raining so we drove the work with the top down. It was 63 degrees and the day’s predicted high. It went back up while at work because there was still a chance for more rain. Even though it was cooler by quitting time, we put it back down for the ride home. It went back up for tonight’s trip to the mall. It was time for the annual Christmas shopping trip. We each make out a list of goodies we would like and give then give it to one another. At the mall and enter in the middle, where she goes left and I go right. We then meet up at a certain place after a certain amount of time having bought what we could off each others lists. When we get home, it is off to separate rooms to wrap.

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I just bought a Lockergnome sweatshirt last week. They were closing them out and $9 for an embroidered XL sweatshirt was too good to pass up. I also bought it because it was forest green and just last month I decided to retire my green Hartford Whalers sweatshirt. It was over 15 years old and the cuffs were fraying and it had a couple spots on it (it’ll make a nice waxing rag for the Miata.) Along with my sweatshirt they threw in a CD from Gnomedex 2002 and a bumper sticker that reads, “Geek used to be a 4-letter word, now it’s a 6-figure one.” Cute, but it won’t get on my car. What might is the Chris caricature that adorned the left side of the sticker. I trimmed all around it and think I’ll stick it on the back bumper for now – then move it to the trunk lid with the rest of my stickers in a couple months.

I haven’t tried the CD yet for fear it will be more of Chris’s home movies. I think I will plop in there, may be some good freeware on there…..

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Ordered a couple of my Christmas presents to the Miata tonight.

First up was a customized caricature from CarArtz.com I sent in pictures of the car, wheels, etc. and sometime after Christmas I will have a picture to frame. (the photos included the car with the Alley Gator Teeth so I guess that is what is going back in the mouth.)

Secondly I ordered the Moss Motors Short Shifter Kit. They had it on special for $119, down from $169. You can track the shipment here.

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