Well tomorrow we will reap the rewards of working an extra hour each day this week, 1/2 day off. We are going to go to Outback for lunch, because it is my birthday and that’s where I wanted to go. I’m going to get a Blooming Onion, mmmm, and a big ol’ slab of kangaroo, grilled to perfection….
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The mouth of the car has looked kind of naked since I pulled the Alley Gator teeth off, so last week I ordered a different style set of teeth to put back in there. My wife said she would pay for them if I let her pick the style. Our Wabbit Teeth arrived at work today. When the mail clerk brought the package to me it was so messed up that I thought for sure the teeth would be in pieces. They ship them in one of those triangle shaped express mail tubes from the USPS and it must have gotten wet, letting the weight of other mail bags squish and mangle it, but the teeth are made of sturdy stuff and were just fine. Of course the first thing I did on arrival home is put them on. It is going to take some getting used to this style, right now I think they are a little funny looking. I know what you’re thinking, any kind of teeth on a car look funny! Even if they are supposed to look like alligator teeth.
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The front office folks (with a few exceptions) are assigned to either Group A or Group B and every other week (excluding weeks in which there is a holiday) a group works an extra hour on Monday through Thursday and then gets the Friday afternoon off. The company started this program during the summer and we didn’t do it. Maybe because we out of vacation time for the year is why we jumped on the bandwagon now. Today was day one of the extra hour and it didn’t seem too long. We got up 15 minutes earlier with thoughts of speeding some morning routines to make up for the other 15. We were so well oiled that we actually started the commute 15 minutes before we planned. So we took an extra long drive in. As a bonus we were so early that the school busses weren’t out and about yet.
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The little dark blue swirls are not as noticeable nor as plentiful as I first imagined, changing my course of action from hurry and clean/re-wax to “watchful waiting.” I mean if this was harmful in a permanent way they still wouldn’t be selling this stuff. While I was doing Miata stuff yesterday I also replaced the two (upper & lower) shift boots. Both of them were broken and cracked horribly. I guess there is less cockpit heat…. While I was in there I notice the oil in the turret was brown and very thin. I guess it is time to change that out. I think that maybe I will buy a couple of quarts and go ahead and change all of the transmission fluid while I’m at it. Maybe next Saturday’s project.
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Put the top down for the trip to work, but almost didn’t make it. After we came back out of the bagel place it was sprinkling. Got going in a hurry and for a second there it came down hard enough for us to consider finding a place to put it up. Passed out of the rain and by the time we got to work it had stopped, so we threw on the cockpit cover. Keep in mind the weather channel insisted that the only chance of rain was a 30% afternoon variety. We discovered on the 10:00 walk around the parking lot that sometime during the morning it rained enough to really wet the pavement. The cockpit cover worked wonders this time, the inside stayed totally dry. The top went up this afternoon because Donna went swimming by herself and the clouds still looked ugly. This evening the skies cleared up enough that we went back out for a drive under the nearly full moon.
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Made it to work with it down, but put it up. It did rain for most of the day, thereby negating the wash job, but what did I expect. Got an email from Moss Motors, the short shifter kit is on backorder and they don’t have an ETA on the next shipment, so they cancelled my order. I think that it is a good thing. I read some of the reviews on Miata.net and now am slightly confused as to which way to go. The Brainstorm one sounds like the right one except for the disclaimer on their site about letting in more transmission noise. Shift boots came today, guess I’ll just put them on this weekend as the research continues….
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Washed the car this afternoon even though it is supposed to rain tomorrow. It was just too filthy not to. It was covered in an even coat of gray, except where I had placed the little RoadsterChat & Master’s Miata Club magnets, it was perfectly clean under them.
Ordered the short shifter kit from Moss. They are proud of their Shipping and Handling department – $15 to UPS that 2 lb. shifter….
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