Month: March 2002

Cockpit Cover Arrives

Top up for the ride to work, top down for the ride home. Big news is my cockpit cover from Rspeed came in today. Going to spray it with some Scotchgard waterproofing tomorrow for insurance (supposed to already be weather resistant.) Then, put it on so I can get the straps adjusted. We’ll see if using this thing turns into a hassle, I hope not. I hope that using it in combination with the boot I can slow the climb of the number at the bottom each post, thereby increasing the life of the top.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 69

5 Down, 2 Up

Didn’t put the top down until the trip home. So in honor of an absolute perfect spring day we took the 25 mile long cut home. After, I ran right back out to go to Mailboxes, Etc. to make copies of the Aiken Bicycle Club’s newsletter for distribution. On the short 3 mile trip there I saw 3 newish Chrysler Sebrings with their tops down (I told you it was a perfect spring day) I also saw a 3-series BMW with their top down. Also a red M1 & silver M2 Miatas with their top up and a silver M1 with it down.

Started up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 67

Buick Rendezvous

They have changed to ad for the Buick Rendezvous over to a New Orleans flavored ad as opposed to the last version with the old black & white 1930’s feel. The earlier one had the Edgar Winter Group’s, “Frankenstein” playing in the background and to me it was just a little too true. While the Pontiac Aztec is the actual Frankenstein’s monster, the Rendezvous is pretty much the Bride of Frankenstein. It looks a little nicer, but still seems to be tossed together from bits that fit together, although oddly.

Bifocals

I got progressive lens bifocals about a year ago. Kept misplacing the $15 drugstore reading glasses. But now I find I have become lazy, I look through the magnifying portion all the time. Now everything seems fuzzy without the glasses. Have my eyes just deteriorated over the last year or have they gotten lazy only because they can look through the magnifying portion?

New Club Sponsor

Made it to work with the top down, but up it went as rain was in the forecast. Lightly rained a couple of times during the day and we ran right through a heavy line of thunderstorms on our way to Augusta to run the Miata Club newsletters through the postage meter.

Big news is it is a different postage meter. For the first time in nearly four years of Miata Club newsletter producing we have a different sponsor. Ever since the last GM at Andy Jones was hired our relationship has soured. I hope the guy is selling cars for Andy, because he sure wasn’t nice to us. Let me put my Nostradamus hat on and say this is probably cyclic and we will be back at Andy Jones in another 10 years. Right now the new guys are interested, the GM and a salesman at Rader are Miata owners and are in the club, but life is fluid….

Started down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 66

Random Music

Today at lunch I ran to the Post Office to mail off my CD of the Month. I mailed 2 copies and I should get 2 back, one of Josh’s and one from somebody else who sends in two. I just love this idea of random music. When will I get it? Will I love it? Will I hate it? I made up some labels for the CDs and stuck them in one of those plastic cases I get at work. I wonder how intricate the ones I get will be? Wait here, I’m going to check my mail and see if they are there yet. 😀

When I got back from the PO I decided to put the top up. There was no mention of rain in the forecast, but there were a couple of big gray clouds wandering the sky. Went right inside and called Rspeed and ordered up a cockpit cover, this way on days like today where there is a slim chance of water droplets from the sky I can use that instead of taking off the boot and raising the top. My fancy-smancy A/C Cover Plate is not in yet. Two weeks ago they said 2 weeks, today they said one more week.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 65

X-Files III

No X-Files tonight. I thought for sure tonight was Skinner’s turn to be in a coma. 🙂 I guess Fox didn’t want to try and compete with the Oscar broadcast. Humph, is the demographic of one even remotely the same as for the other? I could see in the X-Files’s heyday not competing with the Emmy’s, but come on. With the sorry state of the show I would have thought they would be more worried that someone like me might tune in, see they were not on, figure that the run was over and never try and tune in again.