Month: December 2002

Not A Miata Was Stirring

The Miata never left the garage today, kind of like a Sunday for it. I’m shooting for no movement tomorrow too. It will be Christmas day and I hope to be watching the DVDs that were on my Wish List. 🙂 Supposed to be cool and windy anyway. But if it turns sunny in mid-afternoon, you never know.

The Short Shifter kit is in. Unfortunately I had it shipped to my work address and the plant is shutdown for these 2 days for the holidays so it is still on a UPS truck. I’ll get it on Thursday.

Started down, still down.
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Christmas Eve?

Today I decided to clean up some of the Desktop clutter that has been accumulating for the past couple of months. Out went links to blogs I read, pictures I saved there temporarily until I uploaded them and such. I found a Winamp playlist from my too late to submit for October CD Mix of the Month, entitled Scary Music. I couldn’t just toss it out because it was such a good idea. The music was still stored in a directory on the C: drive in a temporary location. So that is what I spent the afternoon working on, a Halloween themed music CD. Yesterday I wasn’t sure what day it was, but today I was not sure what holiday I was celebrating….
01 – Danny Elfman – This Is Halloween
02 – John Carpenter – Halloween Main Theme
03 – John Carpenter – Halloween II Laurie’s Theme
04 – Sheb Wooley – Purple People Eater
05 – David Seville – Witch Doctor
06 – Misfits – Monster Mash
07 – Rob Zombie – The Munsters Theme
08 – Vic Mizzy – The Addams Family
09 – Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters
10 – Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
11 – Fred Schneider & The Shake Society – Monster In My Pants
12 – Mike Oldfield – Exorcist Theme
13 – Bernard Herrmann – Psycho
14 – Harry Manfredini – Friday The 13th
15 – Lalo Schifrin – Amityville Horror Theme
16 – John Carpenter – The Fog
17 – Don Davis – House On Haunted Hill
18 – Danny Elfman – Into The Woods
19 – Christopher Walken – The Raven

My Bottom Front Tooth Is Actually Four

Put the top up for the drive to work because it was upper 30’s. The top went back down for the lunchtime drive to town for the annual Fabrication Engineering Department lunch at The West Side Bowery because by 11:45 it was in the upper 50’s and climbing.

It stayed down the rest of the day and Donna and I drove to our bi-annual dental cleaning. Every six months after Dolores is done I get to marvel at the fact that my bottom front teeth are actually 4 separate pieces of enamel.

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
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Monday?

The calendar says Monday, but I’m not really sure what day it is. It was the first day back after 2 days off so it seemed like a Monday. For some unknown reason, paychecks were distributed today which made it seem like a Thursday. But we have the next 2 days off from work so it seems like it should be Friday. I’m sitting in front of the PC blogging so it could be any day….

Giant Inflatable Snowmen

This year’s icicle lights. My wife and I walked around our neighborhood and must have seen 4 of these beauties. I’ve seen them in various stores and they only go for around $40. Hard to resist something like that for so cheap and apparently a lot of people felt the same way. When I first saw one, I thought that would look really cool in the corner of my cubical. But didn’t get one because it would have taken up too much room and the fan would probably be annoying after awhile. Still, it would have been a perfect statement on what Christmas has morphed into these days – something bright, loud and over the top.

No Heater Required

Started out as a typical Sunday where the Miata would just spend the day in the garage, but at 3:30 PM when my wife returned from grocery shopping with her mom, she came inside and said, “It’s a beautiful day out, let’s go for a drive.” So we did. A little 30 mile drive in the low angle sunlight of a winter’s late afternoon. No heater required, but by drives end it was nice to get back inside the warm house.

Started down, still down.
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Christmas Shopping II

We put the modified Plan A into action this morning. We went back out to our local mall and shopped for stuff we wanted and brought it home. I’ll wrap the stuff for her and she’ll wrap my stuff. We’ll act all surprised on Christmas morning, “Oh, it’s just what I wanted. How did you know?”

I bought a couple of long sleeve polo shirts for winter wear at Sears. The original price was $36, they were on a rack with a big tag that said, 40% OFF. At the register they were taking an additional 10% off for an Early Bird Special, so the shirts cost me around nineteen and a half bucks. What are they really worth, probably just that, a sawbuck. What did Sears pay for them in the first place, probably $10….and they wanted $36.