Year: 2003

This May Be It

This may be the rant I’ve had fluttering around inside my head for the last few days. I could have sworn I used it before, but a search of my site reveals nothing like it. I may have actually verbally ranted to someone and that is why it seems familiar.

I don’t need a TV to eat my meal. Really. I must be in the minority though, as it seems like every restaurant I have eaten in, in the last month has had multiple boob tubes hanging all around. Outback, Tony Roma’s and Krystal to name some chains. Vinny’s Pizzeria, Ferrando’s Italian Restaurant and Acropolis to name some local places. The only places I’ve been that didn’t have any were Burger King and Popeye’s. Can they be far behind?

Simple Green

The garage smells of Simple Green. Tonight after work I put the car up on jackstands and squirted the stuff everywhere on the differential and transmission (and the bottom of the engine for good measure.) After about 10 minutes I sprayed it all off using a garden hose. During those 10 minutes I took the time to sweep out the dust, acorns, leaves and dead roaches from the garage. The bottom of the car is clean and now I will check it on the weekend and see where my leak(s) is coming from. I say it like that because I noticed that there were some oily drops on the floor near the middle of the car to go along with the ones at the rear.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $2597.67
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 261

Indian Summer?

If it is in the upper 80s and it is November, is it too late to refer to it as Indian Summer? Beautiful day. We spent a big chunk of it blasting hither and yon on Lake Thurman with friends from the Miata Club. To and from the lake were spent enjoying the beautiful day.

When I got home I peeked under the car to see if I could see where the leak is coming from. It doesn’t look like it is at either the fill or drain plug. Must be coming from the front seal. If that is the case, I may have to go back to plain ol’ oil. Tomorrow after work I’ll put the car on jack stands and clean it all off, then check again in a couple of days.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $2597.67
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 261

Two Words

Average Joe

I can understand good looking shallow people falling for this Reality TV chance at stardom/love/money ploy, but now they’ve gone too far, the corruption of “normal” looking people. God save the human race.

One Little Thing After Another

Bad Gas part 2. Maybe it wasn’t bad gas before that was causing the engine knock. It was back today under hard acceleration. The gas level was low so I filled it with high test again. Maybe the knock only appears when I get to the bottom of the tank?

Didn’t pull all the way into the garage when we got home from work today as I needed the aforementioned gas and we needed gas for the lawn mower. As I walked through the garage into the house I noticed a couple of oily looking spots on the floor. They were towards where the rear of the car sits. I just switched to synthetic and from what I’ve read on Miata.net sometimes this leaking is because synthetic has smaller molecules that sneak by where the bigger dino oil molecules can’t. May have to switch back.

Not car related but annoying none the less, the water heater now has a small drip coming from the place where you hook up a hose to drain it. About a 1/4 cup in the last 24 hours…

Purchased Today: $14.00 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $2597.67
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 261

Today Is Not Much Better

Just wasn’t into blogging last night and tonight is not much better.

4th listening of Dido’s new CD, it is definitely growing on me.

The pictures from last Theme Thursday’s challenge of “Picture Yourself” are up on the Picture Yourself site. This is my 3rd entry over there.

I haven’t scanned any new images in the last two nights. I have been busy cobbling together the November issue of The Driver. (The link is for last month’s, this month’s won’t be up until later this weekend, as I won’t mail them until tomorrow.)

Found this over at missives anonymous, another blog I read regularly – the Postal Gallery Database. I’m not sure what is more pathetic, somebody actually came up with idea/web venture or that I am definitely going to contribute. 🙂

Coincidentally there is a link on the bottom of the Postal Gallery page for another internet lost cause that I have contributed to No More AOL CDs. (The link is for nomreaolcdsnj.com, but wasn’t working when I clicked it.) I used to be on the Biggest Contributor list when I sent them 88 CD last year, but as you can see I’ve dropped of the radar screen. I’ve got about 10 more at work to send now….

Vinny’s

Someone suggested that the Miata Club meet at this new place that opened up in North Augusta, Vinny’s Pizzeria. The meeting is next Thursday at 7:00 PM, so as a recon mission, Donna, myself and her mother went over tonight around 7:00 PM to eat. The place is cobbled together out of who knows what it used to be. Very small and if we get a big turnout we might overwhelm the place. As it is the owner mentioned we could have the back room all to ourselves. Well the back room had 3 tables in it. Plus the pool table and an air hockey table. Going to be tough to hold a meeting while somebody is playing air hockey. I’ll let you know.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $2583.67
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 261