Miatatude

GI Joe Sized WW I Movie

Our whole front and back yards are dug up for the sprinklers we are getting put in. Looks like a scene from a GI Joe sized WW I movie. Friday they put in a new sidewalk. This one is a concrete one about 3′ wide replacing our falling apart brick stepping stone like thing that has been there since we moved in. We hardly ever use the walk, as our main ingress/egress portal is the garage, but now I told my wife that we will have to use the thing more, seeing as what we paid for it. 🙂

Started up, still up.
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18-wheelers On I-95

Up at 7:30, ate a bagel, packed the car and started home. Still raining, so there was no sense hanging around Hilton Head when we can sit at home and watch the rain. Driving west we exited the rain storm, but left the top up as the road was still quite wet and the 18-wheelers on I-95 put out quite a spray. Off the dreaded interstate and driving into Hampton, we couldn’t stand it anymore and put the top down. The windshield was occasionally getting hit with a light rain and the sky we were driving towards looked really dark gray, but we managed to last about 40 miles, until just the other side of Barnwell, before raising the top. Not 2 miles further down the road the rains came harder and we would have gotten soaked.

Started up, down a bit, then back up, still up.
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Watching Gulls

Raining on and off, but mostly on, all day. Went out to lunch at the Atlanta Bread Company because we like the food and it is right next to that second-hand book store where we bought some old library books to read yesterday. Ate and went back into get some more used hardcover books for less than the price of a new paperback. Yesterday’s Robert Parker Spenser book lasted all of three hours, kinda like a big ol’ piece of cheesecake; not really good for you, but delicious and sadly, over too soon. After lunch and book buying we headed back over the half-dozen speed bumps of the codo complex back to our parking spot. Still raining, so we spend a lazy afternoon watching the gulls, the waves and the TV out of one eye and ours books out of the other.

Back out for dinner, Donna wanted seafood, so we were headed to Crabby Nick’s where we had eaten before, but somehow ended up at a place called Captain’s Seafood. We had eaten there once before as well and remembered it fondly. Tonight it was packed because a church bus had pulled in about 15 minutes before we did. Still it didn’t take long to get seated and served. Something about fried seafood, a tossed salad and iced tea…mmmm good, but somehow it didn’t seem to be worth the $29 total it cost.

Started up, still up.
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Off To Hilton Head

We took half a day vacation from work and are off to Hilton Head for the weekend. We get to stay free at a condo on the beach. Payback for doing a web page for the owner. He owns a couple he rents out and manages a few more for rent as well. I designed the original page and now I keep it updated and add/remove units as needed and he thanks me by letting Donna and I stay one weekend a year in the off-season.

Really cold morning, but by noon when we left Aiken it was warm enough to put the top down for the trip. It stayed down for the 2-1/2 hour trip to HHI. We shopped for breakfast items and tonite’s dinner, headed over to condo, parked and put the top up. Supposed to rain tomorrow and maybe Sunday, might have been the only time the top is down all weekend…

Started up, went down, went back up, still up.
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We Ain’t Scared Of No Cold

Braved the chill this morning on the way to work. When we get in the car in the morning it is relatively warm from sitting in the garage all night which makes the first part of the commute OK. Today we wanted some Hardee’s Biscuits ‘n’ Gravy for breakfast. So while we were inside the car was outside cooling off. Turned on the heater for the 6 miles, no big deal, but I’m sure we looked nutso to the environmentally challenged. I had the boot on because there was no mention of rain for the next couple of days (just cold and we ain’t scared of no cold.) Fortunately I had to run an errand at around 9, because as I was coming back to the plant it started to sprinkle. When I got in the lot I quick like put the top up. As I walked back into the building from the far corner of the lot I actually got a little wet. As fast as the errant shower appeared, it disappeared just as fast. By lunch and for the rest of the day it was mostly sunny. Dropped the top for the ride home. Probably be up for the next couple of days, weather folks are predicting 40 degree days and teens at night.

Started down, went up, back down for the ride home, still down.
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Frost On The Fields

Drove to work as usual with the top up. There was frost on the fields, but we are going to get to 70 this afternoon. Spring is slowly approaching though, almost don’t need the barndoors up for the morning commute, getting lighter every day. I really should be working on the next edition of The Driver, but instead I am posting on RoadsterChat, Miata.net forum and blogging about my dull day. I don’t mail it ’til Thursday, so I probably won’t start working on it in earnest unit Wednesday. 🙂

Started up, went down for the ride home, still down.
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MMM…Time

We had our first little MMM…Time with the Miata Club. 10 Miatas and one RX-7. We met at the Sno-Cap Drive In in North Augusta. We popped the hoods and chatted outside. We chatted inside nearly filling all the booths. We pretty much over ran the joint. Before we over stayed our welcome, Stacey Timmerman lead us on a 20-25 mile drive around north of the Interstate. Fun time.

Started down, went up, went down, now up.
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