Miatatude

A Day In The Ho-Hum Life

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged my comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup…

About the only non-standard blip in my day was sitting inside a 2002 Mustang Cobra. A fellow brought in his brother-in-law’s car for the day. Thought it might be fun to park it next to our Director of Operation’s 2003 Cobra. At lunch a few of us went out and oohed and aahed. Boy Howdy I’m glad I didn’t have to drive that thing in the Peach Parade on Saturday, I’d have never made it. I’m not sure I could make it through a long red light with that thing pushed in. Yikes that clutch is a stiff. Not sure how the action is as I didn’t drive it, but a few seconds with the clutch pushed in was a definate quad workout.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $804.88
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 127

Shopping Spree

Mazda has changed the diameter of the stock oil filter (rambled on about that back on May 31) Today I decided to buy the new filter wrench to fit them from Finish Line Performance. While I was there I figured I might as well buy a couple of filters too. Total spent here was $$22.96.

I need to replace my cockpit cover. I’ve only had it about a year, but it seems to be deteriorating at a rapid rate. My SWAG is that once I Scotchguarded it started to eat away at the fabric and ever since it has been leaving a fine white powder behind when I take it off. Shopping at Moss Motors cost me $63.40. For that I got a new cockpit cover and the cleaning solution/new oil for K&N air filters. The K&N has been in there for a while and it is probably past due for cleaning.

Purchased Today: $86.38 ca-ching
Money spent since 03/03/03: $804.88
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 127

Is That All?

Donna and I went for a hike in Hitchcock Woods this morning. We got in early, 8:00 AM, and it was actually cool in the beginning, because of the hills and trees it was still a little dim as well. After about an hour the sun was penetrating enough that I needed to put on my sunglasses. After about an hour and a half I pushed up the sleeves on my shirt and by the time we exited the woods 15 minutes later I had worked up a nice little sweat. Very pleasant little walk. Probably around 4 miles, but we have stopped keeping track. The only downside was walking though the webs of industrious spiders hoping to catch a morning meal.

The entrance to the woods is probably 2 miles from the house and that is all exercise the Miata got. The drive to and from the walk was about the same amount of miles we covered while in the woods.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $718.52
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 127

Pink Elephants On Parade

Or actually, 8 gaily colored Miatas on parade.

Donna and I misjudged our arrival time to the meeting place, we were 25 minutes too early. After sitting a bit she suggested that we take a little drive to kill some time. We ended up being the last to arrive.

The parade was a short little event that wound its way trough a small section of town and then around the square that the rest of the Peach Festival was being held. There were only like 30 entries in the parade and to make it seem bigger they split us into 2 groups of four. There were also a couple of fire engines, several tractors and of course a half dozen horses, thankfully at the end. To help us have fun and make the kids along the route happy we got to throw candy.

After the parade we all went and did the festival thing. Shopped the craft booths, ate sausage dogs, funnel cakes and of course peach ice cream on top of peach cobbler for desert.

Purchased Today: $13.50 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $718.52
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 127

Makin’ Magnets

Short post tonight, got to get busy making the round Master’s Miata Club magnets as loaners for tomorrow. The Club is participating the the Peach Festival Parade in Johnston, SC. If you are in the area 🙂 come out and watch us, the parade starts at 10:30 AM.

Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $705.02
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 127

Isn’t It Ironic

My Blogger Shirt arrived today. As a matter of fact I have it on right now. I wanted one a long time ago, way back when I started this blogging gig, but the were closing out the shirts and didn’t have my size. They never re-stocked. I guess flush with some new Google money they made up some more shirts, so I got me one. Kind of ironic though, I just moved one of my blogs over to Movable Type and I’m work on converting the other.

Purchased Today: nothing
Money spent since 03/03/03: $705.02
Started down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 126

Frog Strangler

Went out at lunchtime to walk around the parking lot for a bit of exercise and fresh air. Two steps out of the building it was apparent that it was going to rain big time any minute. As a matter of fact it was raining lightly as we pulled the cockpit cover off and raised the top. Lightning was visible to the south as we walked back in. Smug with the satisfaction of dodging a bullet, we returned inside. Well Mother Nature doesn’t like smugness, so she made it not rain at all over our company’s property all afternoon.

When we left work it still looked like rain in spots so we left the top up. Good thing too as at about the halfway mark on the trip home we ran into literally a wall of water. With the windshield wipers on high a forward speed at 20 MPH was too fast. The lightning was flashing all around us like we were Madonna and Guy Ritchie entering an LA eatery. Then about a block from home it throttled back to just a normal light rain. I bet we had 3″ of rain in the 20 minutes it took us to drive 3 miles.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $705.02
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Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 125