But a rave really, got an email today entitled “Love your blog.” At first I thought it was another one of those WORM_KLEZ.H generated emails until I noticed there were no hazardous attachments. Woohoo, it was from an actual admirer of these ramblings. Thanks Sean, checked out your blog and I can see why you like mine, I like yours. We can start our own mutual appreciation society here. Thanks for the linkage – right back at ya.
It took a week to get a response from the OR Attorney General and as expected it was a canned response. The best part of it was it was the WRONG canned response! It is at least of 5th generation copy, the letters are barely readable and it is crooked on the page.
The introductory line reads: Re: Nigerian Scam Huh?
The salutations reads: Dear Oregon Consumer: Did they glance at the address they were mailing it to? OK, I’ll give this one ’cause I did purchase my “goods” in Oregon.
The body is obviously all wrong because they thought I was complaining about being ripped off by Nigerians.
Then there is the 3 page enclosure about how to recognize these sorts of money laundering scams. Didn’t they think that I already knew how to recognize the scam? I mean, if I figured it out enough to report it to them…..
Liar, liar pants on fire! I still ain’t got no picture of the knob. Subconsciously I must think it is ugly. Starting to get used to feel, but the look….
Today was Polo with the Miata Club. Only two other cars showed up. Was it because it was Sunday? Was it because it was Polo? Was there an Autox somewhere? Was it me? Oh, well the 6 of us had fun. The only down side was that we were way early because we didn’t have anyone raise their hood at the welcome center and of course it isn’t too hard to keep a 3 car train in check. Sooo, we just went for a longer drive.
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Tomorrow, I promise on the pics of the MG Woodoo shift knob. The jury is still out, not sure I like the aluminum top and rubber middle (can’t see the aluminum bottom normally) and the transition between the feel of the two materials is, I can’t put my finger (no pum intended) on it, slightly off putting.
Decided to exercise the top today. Took the boot off because of the iffy weather and then ended up put the top up twice while running errands when I could have put the cover on.
Started down, up, down, up again, down again, still down.
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4 days and still nothing yet from the OR Attorney General, I imagine it will take a while and all it will be is a canned response.
The web_hosting_troubles group at Yahoo has been slow. Today someone joined just to chime with his offer of low cost hosting. Geez, kick a group when they are down why don’t you. I unsubscribed. I think it is time to get over it and move on. This is not the first time I have lost money on something and I’m sure it will not be the last. There goes a perfectly good domain name too.
What’s next?
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What happens when you put a Magnum Spun Voodoo knob on Calvin’s Transmogrifier with a MGW Gripper knob – you get a MG Woodoo! Looks OK, feels OK, not sure what to think, will drive the weekend with it and see. Pictures tomorrow in the light.
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I took the Voodoo knob off and put the OEM knob from a 99 Miata back on. I have plans. I like the rubber ring from around the MGW gripper knob and I love the feel of the shape of the Voodoo, so why not the best of both worlds. I pried the rubber ring off the MGW and took some measurements. Applied those to a drawing I made of the Voodoo knob and turned it over to a buddy who is a wiz with a lathe. I’ll let you know what happens. Some folks hate it, but I actually like the way the stock knob feels. I like the Voodoo better, so if this doesn’t work out, I’ll get a new one, this time in pearl so I won’t have to keep renewing the spun finish.
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