Year: 2002

Off To Hilton Head

We took half a day vacation from work and are off to Hilton Head for the weekend. We get to stay free at a condo on the beach. Payback for doing a web page for the owner. He owns a couple he rents out and manages a few more for rent as well. I designed the original page and now I keep it updated and add/remove units as needed and he thanks me by letting Donna and I stay one weekend a year in the off-season.

Really cold morning, but by noon when we left Aiken it was warm enough to put the top down for the trip. It stayed down for the 2-1/2 hour trip to HHI. We shopped for breakfast items and tonite’s dinner, headed over to condo, parked and put the top up. Supposed to rain tomorrow and maybe Sunday, might have been the only time the top is down all weekend…

Started up, went down, went back up, still up.
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Packing

We are going away for a weekend – 2 nights and a day really – yet the trunk of the Miata will be fuller than when we take a 2 week vacation. Do we really need all this stuff? Books and magazines that we will never read. 4 shirts each? Camera, we have been there a dozen times before what more could there be to take pictures of!?! It is going to rain anyway we probably won’t even veture outside.

I know I gotta have the laptop, how else will I do the daily blog thing. Gotta have our own showerhead, no possible way should any place be allowed to call themselves a resort if it has a water saver showerhead.

Red Lobster

Wednesday is one of only 2 nights I actually watch some TV. So tonight’s rant came from a commercial, again. But the is time the rant is for just the product. I love the Red Lobster commercials. The older ones for the crab leg promotion where it showed people’s legs frolicking in the surf, cool. And the recent one with this guy looking at a lobster in an aquarium and makes his hands mimic the lobster’s claws is just great. But I still don’t want to eat there. The value just isn’t there for me. My idea of a seafood meal is flaky whitefish batter dipped and deep fried with malt vinegar on the fries….mmmmm. That’s right, Captain D’s – Long John Silvers – Arthur Treachers, $5 and I’m smiling.

Cadillac CTS Commercial

Must be the same marketing folks that did the Chey Impala commercial I ranted about awhile back. Boomer aged guy driving a cherry 60’s vintage Cadillac Seville Convertible. They show him breaking out of a traffic jam and then while cruising down a two-lane back road he is passed by a new CTS. If you thought the Impala was angular, this sucker has got F-117 Stealth Fighter angles. No one, and I mean no one who appreciates that vintage Caddy would want this new car!

Oh yeah, new car is silver with heavily tinted windows….

We Ain’t Scared Of No Cold

Braved the chill this morning on the way to work. When we get in the car in the morning it is relatively warm from sitting in the garage all night which makes the first part of the commute OK. Today we wanted some Hardee’s Biscuits ‘n’ Gravy for breakfast. So while we were inside the car was outside cooling off. Turned on the heater for the 6 miles, no big deal, but I’m sure we looked nutso to the environmentally challenged. I had the boot on because there was no mention of rain for the next couple of days (just cold and we ain’t scared of no cold.) Fortunately I had to run an errand at around 9, because as I was coming back to the plant it started to sprinkle. When I got in the lot I quick like put the top up. As I walked back into the building from the far corner of the lot I actually got a little wet. As fast as the errant shower appeared, it disappeared just as fast. By lunch and for the rest of the day it was mostly sunny. Dropped the top for the ride home. Probably be up for the next couple of days, weather folks are predicting 40 degree days and teens at night.

Started down, went up, back down for the ride home, still down.
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Silver Cars with Tinted Windows

What is it with that combo? 99% of car commercials use that look. Is it silver=quicksilver=fast? I don’t think so….
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Frost On The Fields

Drove to work as usual with the top up. There was frost on the fields, but we are going to get to 70 this afternoon. Spring is slowly approaching though, almost don’t need the barndoors up for the morning commute, getting lighter every day. I really should be working on the next edition of The Driver, but instead I am posting on RoadsterChat, Miata.net forum and blogging about my dull day. I don’t mail it ’til Thursday, so I probably won’t start working on it in earnest unit Wednesday. 🙂

Started up, went down for the ride home, still down.
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