Miatatude

Kind of feel like I’m living in the northwest, raining off and on all the time. So the top is down for the ride to work and up during, then down or up for the ride home depending on conditions. Well the 9 hours days are done, tomorrow is why we did it, off at 11:30. We are headed up to Asheville, NC for the weekend. My sister and her husband are going to meet us there and we are perhaps going leaf peeping or if it is raining there, a movie or something.

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Rainy day for a change. We made it to work with the top down, barely, so I put it up on arrival. Still spritzing when we went out to Wally World looking for a light coat for Donna. She lost her last one of the face of the cliff at the Devils’ Courthouse when an unexpected gust of wind sailed it of the ledge she had rested on.

Well Blogging has finally come to the notice of the folks at the newspaper in Augusta. There was a little column in today’s paper quoting one person and citing a couple of vague statistics. I’d link you to it, but they haven’t even added it to their web page yet.

I guess they wait until the next day so the paper’s subscribers don’t feel cheated out of their 50 cents. Here is the article: The blog-o-sphere filled with news, nonsense.

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Another night on the town! Master’s Miata Club meeting at Bobby’s BBQ out on Highway 1. Usually we get a back room, but they were all booked, so the 15 of us were at a big ol’ table by the wall. Kinda hard to hold a meeting over the really old guy in the corner playing music on a Hammond organ, but then again we usually don’t have much of a meeting. (For all I know that could be Bobby himself.)

Glad I like BBQ as we are having a catered lunch at work tomorrow and that’s what we are having, BBQ.

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Finally got around to repairing my 3rd brake light. On the last Master’s Miata Club run, the person following me told me it was dead. As it was twice before it was the wire breaking right near the trunk hinge. Next time it dies it might just stay dead.

Made it to Outback for my birthday “lunch” this evening. Did you know they don’t serve kangaroo steaks? I ain’t never going back there.

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Backed the Miata out of the garage to make it easier to clean some shelves in the garage. I put the top up to keep out the leaves and any other tree debris that might fall in the cockpit. Damn, now that I said that word it reminded me that I should have used the cockpit cover….

Didn’t watch any of my birthday movies yet. We are right in the middle a “The Sopranos” marathon. We don’t get HBO, so we rent the DVDs when they come out. Season 3 was recently released and I timed my Netflix rentals so that I could get all four discs at around the same time. Thursday, 1& 2 arrived and today the other two were in the mailbox. We watched 1 episode on Thursday and 3 more on Friday. Today was 5 more episodes and we will probably watch the last 4 tomorrow.

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Did you know that Outback isn’t open for lunch? I sure didn’t. Oh, well, we resheduled our dining down-under until Sunday afternoon. I hope it rains hard the whole weekend, I’ve got a bunch of movies to watch. Mother-in-law gave me Die Hard & Lord of the Rings on DVD for my birthday. My wife gave me A Hard Days Night and the combo of Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi.

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