Miatatude

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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A Longer Drive

Donna and I used to go out to eat once a week. It was a change of pace from sitting in my cube, but there are like only 4 “fast” food places close enough to get a lunch in and leave time for a little drive afterwards. Well after last Wednesday’s disappointment at Popeye’s we decided to just skip the lunch part altogether and just go for a drive. Now it can be a longer drive too. Today we ate lunch at our desks a little early and then went driving for about 45 minutes. Much nicer, drive and no more biggie sizing the combos and then wanting to do nothing but nap for the afternoon.

The CD Mix of the Month care package came in the mail today. wOOt. Josh had a little CD burner setback so they were late this month, but definately worth it. Really enjoyed Josh’s disc this month. The second disc comes from va spider which also rocks (I’m on the second listening already.) After listening to these two I am definitely getting an inferiority complex, my April mix seems lame.

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Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

Tonight is music download night. I’m way early for this month’s mix, but I’d rather be doing this than something I should be doing. This month’s theme is “Let’s Eat.” I was listening to the soundtrack to the movie “The Mighty Quinn” and on it is a song that I really like called Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, so I thought to myself I’ve got to include that on the CD. Which led to looking for songs with dinner in the title. I came up with a few, but not enough. From there I went hunting supper, then lunch and finally breakfast. I’ve corralled about 30 songs from which I will pick the 15 or 16 that will go on the CD.

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Hidden Source Of Light

Just another boring day in convertible paradise, but without the lunchtime drive.

I’m getting mod withdrawals, I haven’t changed anything on the Miata since I did the shift knob transmogrification eleven days ago. I think hooking up the garage remote to one of the toggle switches is next. That means once again disassembling the dash. While I’m in there I am going to try one more time too move the CD/MP3 player forward a bit so it doesn’t hit on the trim ring every time I pull the faceplate down. May even try and locate the source of light for the A/C button and turn it red. Right now I’ve got a piece of black tape inside the button so no light shows.

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