For the past week every time I step in to the shower, I say to myself, “I need to trim those toenails.” Yet every time when I get out I don’t. I forget. Is it conscious or subconscious? My toenails have gotten so long that they sorta look like I’ve got one of those “French” manicures, you know light colored tips and darker bottoms. I’m going to start poking holes in my socks pretty soon. Didn’t Howard Hughes get so wacky that he stopped cutting his toenails too?
Our washing machine doesn’t spin so well anymore. Been deteriorating for a couple of months now. It works OK some times, but others it leaves a sopping wet mass of clothes in the bottom. For some reason it just isn’t getting the contents spread out well enough to get itself balanced to do a good spin. I’m sure it can probably be repaired, but Donna and I will probably go out and buy a new washer/dryer set. We want to help keep the economy rolling and these things are about 15 years old, so it is time.
This week is one of those work an extra hour Mon-Thurs to get Friday afternoon off – 9 hours. Painting kitchen cabinets, a light color over dark requiring 3 coats. Can only do half of the cabinets at a time to maintain working kitchen – 1.5 hours. Eat (breakfast & dinner) – 1 hour. String lights on Christmas tree (wife hangs ornaments.) – 1 hour. Blog – 1 hour. Read Miata.net forum – 1/2 hour. Shower – 1/2 hour. Sleep – 6 hours. 3.5 hours left over? Doesn’t seem like that. I must be forgetting something. Oh yeah, deleting spam – 3 hours. đŸ˜‰
Did everybody get enough to eat? I was a good boy in keeping my servings small so that with even having seconds, I had enough room for a slice of pie and didn’t explode.
Visiting Donna’s sister and her husband was nice, but the 550 mile trip, one-way, was a killer. No need to mention that there are too many people traveling on I-95 and they are all going too fast and driving too close together. On our 10 hour trip down we passed on accident and in the 11 hours homeward we passed two. One of those was a 6 car chain reaction cause by just such behavior. All three caused us to travel at least 2 miles at walking or slower pace.
The car is back at the dealer awaiting Wednesday’s arrival of the “paint guy.” Who I guess is like Thursday’s “dent guy”, traveling shamans who visit dealers to fix what ails new cars. Kind of puts me in mind of Mr. Haney from Green Acres or Professor Marvel from the Wizard of OZ. I remain skeptical that it can be fixed with anything less than a repainted door, but we shall see.
When Donna went to get in the car this morning she said, “Hey, what’s this.” I went over and looked and there are about 8-10 little scratches on the top of the door. Looks like someone’s dog either rode around in the passenger seat with its paws resting on the door top or it spent a few minutes licking the face of a passenger. We do not own a dog and when we drove the car home last night we pulled it straight into the garage. They must have been there from an earlier test drive. When we looked at it Sunday on their lot when we decided to buy, it was covered in dust, etc from being outside. The car was washed but who ever did the job didn’t notice or didn’t want to say anything. When the salesman or whoever (maybe even the person who washed it) parked it under the awning for delivery didn’t see them because they are on the passenger side.
When I called the salesman he was very apologetic and said bring it back and we’ll make it right, no matter what it takes. He did say wait until Monday though, with the Thanksgiving holiday they won’t be able to get to it until at least then.
Had there only been a couple or maybe if they were in any other spot besides the top of a door where it is really noticeable, I’d have said nothing. I mean the car is going to get a scratch or two or worse eventually, why not just be done with it.
Went ahead and traded in the 8 year old Miata on a shiny new one tonight. We briefly considered offering on the Splash Green as it had started to grow on us during the 4 days we had it. We thought if it grew that well in 4 days after about a year we would love it to death. Then simultaneously we went, “Nah.” More than likely we would regret it after a month as it would not have grown any nicer, but probably would have back slid into repulsiveness.
That means we bought the maroon and tan one. Actually, its more formal name is Garnet Red Mica and Parchment, but who has time to type that all out? On Sunday we visited the Mazda dealer on the SC side of the river and he had a Garnet car with the black top and interior. It was OK, but not enough contrast maybe. (Remind me tomorrow, as I’ve got a good rant about this place.)
Right after that we went to the GA Mazda dealer where the one with the tan interior sat. On second look I realized it was a nicer combo than the maroon/black combo and actually a very nice looking car.
With this move there will probably be some changes. This site is hosted on the domain I use for the fan club for 1st generation Miatas, now that I own a second generation, I’ll be giving up the domain, if I can find a caretaker, in February when the rights and my hosting agreement expire. May move back to, shudder, Blogspot. Got a while yet before this become a pressing issue.
After test driving Minis yesterday we stopped in to a Mazda dealer just down the street. We parked off to one side and started to wander the lot. A salesman noticed us and asked if we needed help. We said, “No we are just browsing, but if you give me your card and we decide to buy, I’ll ask for you.” He saw that we had driven up in a Miata, so he said, while waving in one direction, we have a $2750 rebate on the ’03 Miatas and we are ready to deal. We have some pre-owned, pointing in a different direction, that are marked way down that we can also deal on. And if you want that one, we can really talk deal as we just can’t seem to sell it.
You guessed it, he was pointing directly at a Splash Green Miata.