Miatatude

Back To The Doctor

Left it up for the trip to work on Thursday, but it went right back down for the trip home. Friday it was upper 50’s so we drove to work with it down, nothing like a little brisk fresh air in the morning. Back to the doctor this morning to try another pill. Feeling better today, but not normal. Hope I feel well enough tomorrow to make the Master’s Miata Club’s MMM…Time. We meet at 4 and there is a matinee showing of the Attack of the Clones at 5:30, I’m going to try and get them to go to the movies.

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Bat Cave

Finally hooked up the garage remote to the “Bat Cave” toggle switch. Works OK. You have to have the key on and you can’t hold the switch up or the garage door stops traveling. It’s a momentary on type switch, but that just means it is spring loaded, you can hold it too long and it confuses the opener. I’m sure with a little practice I will get the hang of it. 🙂

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100,000

Donna had an eye doctor’s appointment at 9:00 this morning. It started to mist on the trip over and by the time we pulled into the parking lot it had started to sprinkle. She went inside and I stayed out to remove the boot and raise the top.

The Optometrist is only a couple of miles away, so when we got home we were still 8 miles shy of the magic number. Good thing too, as I forgot the camera. The rain finally passed completely about 6:30 PM. After dinner we both had cabin fever, so we went for a drive and needed coats as it was in the 60s (unusual for us this time of year, it should have been 10 degees warmer.) We made a big 25 mile loop of the trip to the grocery store for OJ. Pulled over at a subdivision entrance along the way and took the pic.

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Distance To The Moon

Top hasn’t moved since very early last Sunday morning, been under the boot all week. Might change tomorrow though, predicting rain. If I had only brought a coat to the drive-in last weekend it would be a streak of 12 days with out changing position.

Going to take the digital camera when I go out tomorrow. I have to stop and take a picture of the odometer when it rolls over to 100,000 miles. Sitting at 99,987 right now. It has taken 5 years and 5 months to get there. I traded my first Miata in with 118,000 miles on it, so since November 1989 I have driven nearly the distance to the moon in a Miata.

The Barndoor Fan Club Spring Photo Contest is over, go and vote for the People’s Choice Award.

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Breakfast Songs

Dentist appointment for both of us this afternoon. It is 6 month cleaning and check-up time, we schedule them at the same time so we can leave work at the same time. Our appointments were for 3:00 PM, so we left at 2:30 to take a bit of a drive before ending up at the Dentist’s office.

Finally burned the CD’s for May’s Mix of the Month Club going to print out the cover and label at work tomorrow so I can use the color “laser” printer. Up until this evening I had 2 versions of Breakfast in Bed on the CD, but tonight I snagged a couple of more songs in my bear trap and I took one off. I really liked both versions, but because I couldn’t find 60 minutes of just breakfast songs, one had to go.

Picked out the shirt to have the Miata Club Logo embroidered on – Jerzees 447M. Going to get it in Birch, kind of a gray color. My first thought was white, but I just don’t know if I’d wear it. Plus I’d get the white dirty in an instant.

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Embroidered Shirts

Exciting time to be in the Master’s Miata Club, we’ve gotten T-shirts, yesterday I ordered the new club window decals and tonight we got an email from John Haff’s secretary about choosing what kind/color of polo shirt we want to get the Club logo embroidered on. Gonna go surfing and try and find each style shirt (3 different ones from 3 different manufacturers) and make a choice.

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Really Nice Leg Warmers

Cool time at the drive in on Saturday. Eight cars made the trip to the Big Mo and 7 stayed for the movie. We moved the time for leaving the Sonic up a half hour and it paid off. We got there before the gates opened and were like 4 cars back from the ticket booth. The last 3 times we have gone we have been stuck in the back row or split up. This time we got in the 3rd row and all in a line. Actually, after a close call with a minivan parking nearly in front of us, Stacey Timmerman and I moved our cars into the row right in front of the other 5. There surely wasn’t going to be any problems blocking the screen with a Miata. The dozen of us pulled out the folding chairs and chatted and snacked away the hour before show time (pun not intended.)

During the day on Saturday it was nearly 90, so quite few of us were unprepared for the coolness that arrived after sundown. A decent breeze made it seem even colder. It was a good thing that Rudy finally picked up the Club T-shirts and brought them to the Sonic. He passed them out to those who had ordered them and a couple of them made really nice leg warmers for those bare legs.

In between movies we lost 3 cars to early departures. Too bad too, as they missed the highlight of the whole evening, a marriage proposal over the PA system. Seems a couple had their first date at the Big Mo one year ago to the night. (Coincidentally the Miata Club was there too.) They decided to come back on the anniversary to see another movie. The guy had a plan. In between the usual announcements and trivia contests, the owner asked this fella’s girl friend over the PA would she marry him. After a few minutes the answer was announced, she said yes.

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