Miatatude

It wasn’t raining and the radar showed no more green so we dropped the top for the ride to work. Apparently radar doesn’t show light mist. We did make it to work with it down, but it went right back up. At quitting time, lunch time today, it was still misting. By the time we were done eating and then doing a little shopping at 1:30 it had stopped misting so we drove the last couple miles home in the open air.

Bought a model of the 50’s version of the Batmobile today. Haven’t built a model in a while, this one needs a little painting on the interior and then it gets glued and screwed together. Hope I finish this one, the last model I bought was an X-Wing Fighter and it sits semi-assembled in a box in the garage…

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Hot damn, a semi nice day! Top down on the way to work, up while there and down again after. Got a skate in after getting home and even went for an evening drive at dark. Amazing what a little outdoor fun can have on a person’s attitude. Blues, what blues? Every car that I caught on the way out of town turned off before they became a hindrance making for a very pleasant drive on one of our favorite roads. Things got exciting for a minute or so though, DEER! One dashed in front of the car causing me to brake hard, missed by about 10 yards. 5 seconds either way for either one of us and it could have been bad. Just after returning to near normal speed, car and heart, the brights illuminate another set of eyes to our left. This one stood 5 feet off the road and just watched us pass.

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Went out to grocery shop – top up. Went out for an evening drive – top up. After supper Donna wanted to go get an ice cream cone. Last Sunday when we headed into downtown Aiken, it was looking like a ghost town, but the ice cream shop was open. Tonight that’s where we went and we were an hour too late, they were closed. We took the umbrella and strolled through the empty streets and looked in shop windows. On the drive home the skies opened up, man we are glad we have a garage.

It will be amazing if I can get out of bed tomorrow, it is so depressing here now. The on and off rain that started Thursday is slated to continue until at least that day this week. Today was the third day in a row for a downer of a movie, White Oleander was on tap for this evening. I’ve got to go move a couple comedies up to the top of my Netflix rental queue.

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Managed one little trip out in the car today. Minor running around errands. The top stayed up because of the off and on rain all day. Worked out that the lull we went out in lasted for the duration, so we could have had the top down, sigh. The thunder is rumbling right now, the radio station I am listening to has had a few weird pauses and I’ve been booted off line a couple of times in the last half hour. The signs are there, I shouldn’t even have the PC on, but the blogging must go on.

Never did watch Last Man Standing, but instead watched Reign of Fire. I like sci-fi, I like dragon movies, but this sucker shoulda never been made. All through it, I couldn’t but think that the millions spent to make this movie would have been better used to feed a mid-sized African nation for a week. I’ve never seen Battlefield Earth in it’s entirety, just a few snippets on the cable, everyone said that movie was so dark it stank, well this thing makes BE look like the Music Man. Just a couple of days ago I was on a good movie roll, seems to have gone 180 on me…

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I’ve always had a short lived loud lifter clatter when ever it was time to change the oil or the level got kinda low. But the last few mornings I’ve gotten a very quiet little tick that sometimes takes several miles to go away. Hmmm, wonder what this means?

We watched Igby Goes Down this evening and now I seem to back on a hot streak of picking good movies again from Netflix. Tadpole, Playing Mona Lisa and The Business of Strangers to name a couple of others worth looking for at Blockbuster when whenever you find the shelf with the latest new mainstream Hollywood offering is empty.

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Totally bailed on the drive-in event with the Club. It wasn’t all because we had spent most of yesterday with the group either. Several other factors entered into it. First off being that we have been on the go for the last 2 weekends and not being lovers of living in the fast lane, we wanted some down time for ourselves. Second, the more we thought of going to the drive-in to see a movie, the more we realized why people stopped going to them in the 70s. So instead we did the 90s thing and watched a DVD in the comfort of our living room. No mosquitoes, no stale tasting popcorn, no kids running around, no mini-vans in front with there tailgate in the air blocking the view and most importantly no rickety, smelly bathrooms.

Speaking of minivans, I saw my first Chrysler Pacifia this evening, this is the minivan that a man wouldn’t mind being seen driving.

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