Month: August 2002

Snake’s Nest Of Wiring

Got the DVD player this morning and spent most of the evening hooking it up. Wouldn’t have taken that long, but I took this opportunity to clean up the snake’s nest of wiring and patch cable behind the entertainment center. Cool thing about the player is that if you put a DVD in it, the TV automatically turns on and switches to the correct video input. Think I’ll put off the next couple of Miata mods and buy a JVC receiver and VCR to complete the package, this compulink thing is coool.

Started down, still down.
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J.C. Whitney

I bought some fru-fru for the Miata the other day – $7.95. Some stainless steel stone guards to put over the 7″ round headlights. It’s not like I travel any gravel roads or anything, I just thought it would look kind of retro (and different.) They charged me $9.95 for shipping! They can’t weigh much and they are sending the stuff via the US Postal Service, so $5 would be more like it. Maybe this rant shouldn’t be so specific because they are not the only ones who probably make a good percentage of their profits from the so-called shipping & handling charges. FWIW, Best Buy is shipping me my new DVD player for Free!

Drive Past Where You Normally Turn

Another to and from work drive day for the Miata, the only things different were the routes. We like to mix it up and drive a slightly different way to work each day of the week. Try it you’ll like it. The best one to do first, if you have a set route you take to work every day, is to as you are about to make the last turn, don’t take it. Go on up to the next street and come back to the work parking lot from a different direction. Even if it is a 1/4 mile further along, the feeling of freedom generated by “driving past” where you normally turn will be worth it.

Called Serious Auto up and asked if they had got my order. They had, they just hadn’t changed the tracking stuff because they couldn’t yet. The spark plug wires are on back order, so no UPS yet. The mats will be drop shipped right from the manufacturer, so no tracking number will be available.

Started down, still down.
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I’m a Hypochondriac

Finally got around to looking through the copies of my medical records from the doctor that fired me. Right in there he calls me hypochondriacal about my BP! Yikes. He also mentions that they told me I might want to seek some psychiatric care for my worries. I remember asking about that after all the test came back negative, but they pooh-poohed it. Hmmmm. Trying to sabotage my new doctor with those kind of comments? Or is that my paranoia showing?

Tracking New Stuff

Drove to work, drove home, that’s it. My chrome rock guards for the pop up lights were shipped from J.C. Witney, $7.95 (with $9.95 more for shipping.) Track them here. Serious Auto hasn’t updated their database or they haven’t processed my order for the mats yet, as their online tracking still shows that my last order was delivered on July 15th. But I can track my non-Miata shipment from Best Buy here – a new DVD player.

Started down, still down.
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A Couple Of Quick Toots

Well it wasn’t exactly crowded out there, but when you are used to only seeing a dozen cars total on the 10 mile trip, 30 or so seems like a lot. Almost all of them on the one road that goes by the entrance to a middle school.

One thing happened to make up for the downer traffic though, we were barreling down a back road and noticed a half dozen kids just standing around or sitting on their book bags waiting for the school bus. As we got closer one little girl about 8 or 9 notices us coming, she jumps up shouting and pointing, “That car’s got teeth on it! That car’s got teeth on it!” All the other heads turn our way, a couple of quick toots on the air horns and everybody’s, kids and car occupants, morning just got a little brighter.

Started down, still down.
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I’m a Cheater.

Screwed around on the computer doing stuff I wanted instead of what I should have and lost track of time. So instead of actually trying to Blog at 10:20PM I just went to Blogger and typed in a couple letters and posted it. It is now 7:30AM on Tuesday morning and I’m at work entering this drivel. But because I did what I did last night, it will look like I blogged this last night. Too bad Enron isn’t hiring executives, I’d be a shoe in.