Miatatude

Found another blogger that is running a CD swap. Ever since the demise of Crabwalk’s CD Mix of the Month earlier this year I have been jonesin’ for a free music swap, but am to lazy to actually run one (besides the list of regular readers here is too small.) I *have* swapped a couple discs with one semi-regular, Sinclair of Hello Mr. Mackenzie fame since then.

This one is not monthly, best I can tell this is the second in a sporadic series, but I have signed up to play Burn-It. If you want in, better hurry, sign-ups end Tuesday.

Purchased Today: Zero
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
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Well not the stickiness part of the tape, but the foam in the middle. A few weeks back I installed a 3rd brake light flasher that a fellow I work with is making. I used double stick tape to hold it in place in a spot in the top of the trunk. Today on the way home from work when I closed the trunk there was a loud rattle that I didn’t recognize. I opened it back up and there was my ABIA hanging by the wires. Sticky stuff still on the car and sticky stuff on the unit, just the foam had torn.

Going to remount it tonight using Velcro and epoxy. Epoxy one side of the Velcro to the ABIA and epoxy the other side to the cubby hole in the trunk. We’ll see if this will last longer than 2-1/2 months.

Purchased Today: Nuttin’
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
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Went out this evening to snap some photos of the car after being inspired by this web page. Found a deserted parking lot on the north side of town and parked my car in it at an angle. I was hoping to catch the sun going down in the background and then get some other pictures after sunset in the magic twilight. Right after I snapped photo number one, who should pull in, but an Aiken Public Safety Officer. Of course I was nervous even though I was doing nothing really wrong. He was just checking to see if I was all right and wished me good luck with the pictures once I explained what I was doing.

I did the K& N air filter cleaning and re-oiling this afternoon. I bought a bottle of cleaner and a small vial of oil instead of the cleaning kit as I didn’t think I’d need that much oil for my approximately 5″ x 10″ sized filter. Wrong, I got about a third of the filter soaked in oil. Off we went to the auto parts store to buy some more oil. They didn’t sell the stuff separately, so I ended up buying a cleaning kit anyway. I now have an awful lot of the cleaner solution, so come on over and get your K & N filter unsullied, free of charge. (Also snagged a new bottle of Meguiar’s Quik-Detailer while we were there.)

On the same trip we also stopped into Target to buy a set of smaller folding chairs. They had ones that are half the size of our current ones on sale for $4. We wanted some that would fit in the trunk and still leave room for some luggage. The ones we have now have arms and a high back so that a pair of them practically fill the trunk. Although needed for one reason they were not needed for another, our little 3 person household has 8 folding chairs stored in the back of the garage.

Purchased Today: $15.88
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 137

After tonight’s Master’s Miata Club meeting it was such a pretty night that Donna wanted to go the long way home. Well, she didn’t have to twist my arm very hard, but first we needed some gas. The first place I pulled into must have run out of gas because the numbers were moving real slow and they stopped dead on $0.12, netting me a total of 0.08 gallons of mid grade. Drove about a mile down the road to the next station where I finished filling up.

I wonder how much it is going to cost that store and my bank to transact a twelve cents purchase?

Purchased Today: $13.87
Money spent since 03/03/03: $843.75
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 137

After Wild Bill the Tropical Storm passed our are in the night, we woke up to a forecast that called for no rain. The skies looked threatening, but bolstered by the forecast I left the top down and used our new cockpit cover.

About 10 o’clock my wife called and said that it was raining and maybe I should go put the top up. About that time I heard the sound of a really hard rain hitting the roof above my head. It only lasted about a minute. After it quit I thought I’d go look under the cover and see how wet it might be. Walked out to the car in the still sprinkling morning and when I peeked inside it was 99% dry. Cool the new cover worked like a charm

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $830.88
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 137

Because we filled up at the Inn on Friday, didn’t drive the Miata at all on Saturday and drove right home this morning, we still have a half a tank of gas left over. Mileage from the Pisgah Inn to 778 Boardman Road, Aiken, SC is 198.

Spent the afternoon catching up on Barndoor Fan Club business, washing 4 loads of clothes and catch up blogging.

While taking the bear pictures yesterday I just had to snap a picture of this Office Supply store, Sinclair’s.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $830.88
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