Miatatude

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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Grape Sized Hail

Wuzzed out. Saw a dark sky when passing a window at work this morning, checked the radar and saw a line of green headed our way so I went into the parking lot and put the top up. All the while I was doing it was sprinkling. Rained for about 1 minute then quit. Oh well. Put it down for the trip home and it sat in the garage while we had grape sized hail fall for about 5 minutes this evening when a big ol’ storm barreled through town. How do people who have to keep their cars outside deal with that? Had to run to the store tonight and we were still on the fringes of the rain so the top went up, although as it worked out, it probably didn’t need to be…..

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AWOL T-shirts

Tonight was the monthly Miata Club meeting. We met at Davenports in North Augusta. The food was OK, the service was so-so, we ain’t goin’ back. Next month we are going to try the new Grand Buffet. It just opened up in the same spot as our old meeting place was, the Old Country Buffet, except this is Chinese plus other stuff. I can hardly wait 😉. The Club T-shirts are still AWOL, Rudy sez he’ll check on them tomorrow. The fact that it might cost more money to find a new web host and pay for a domain name didn’t sit too well with the populous, so we will be staying at Geocities for a while. I can’t get worked up about designing a spiffy site that is going to have a java pop up on top and pop under ads. I think I’ll change the site to be text based and just update the calendar…

I wonder if the M2 owners would object to having a www.barndoorfanclub.org/masters_miata URL?

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Ugly Knob

Liar, liar pants on fire! I still ain’t got no picture of the knob. Subconsciously I must think it is ugly. Starting to get used to feel, but the look….

Today was Polo with the Miata Club. Only two other cars showed up. Was it because it was Sunday? Was it because it was Polo? Was there an Autox somewhere? Was it me? Oh, well the 6 of us had fun. The only down side was that we were way early because we didn’t have anyone raise their hood at the welcome center and of course it isn’t too hard to keep a 3 car train in check. Sooo, we just went for a longer drive.

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