Unless Donna shows up soon and makes good on her threat to go for an evening drive with the top down, the Miata will have sat still in the garage for both of the weekend days. Highly unusual.
I doubt it. Even though it has taken me 12 hours over 3 days to clean the deck, how much do you want to bet I don’t do it every year like I should and have to repeat this process in 5 years?
Now all that is left is to spray some water seal on it. Maybe tomorrow. You are supposed to do it when you are sure that there will be 24 hours of no rain, but with a 30% of rain on Tuesday evening, I may have to delay that procedure.
Today was our second recon mission to Beaufort for our June trip with the Master’s Miata Club to the Hwy21 Drive-In. We made it a non-Miata road trip because it was Donna’s mom’s birthday yesterday. We took her along (in her car) so we could have a nice seafood dinner together when we got to the coast.
We ate at a place called Ollies on Lady Island. The food was a little high, but satisfactory and the view is really nice. You are right on the shore of the Beaufort River with the town on the other side.
After eating we drove the 10 miles further south on US21 to Hunting Island State Park. From memory the beach at the park is real nice and they have a lighthouse you can climb, but it is $4 per adult for park admission and an extra $2 for the privilege of climbing up to the top of the lighthouse, so we politely asked the fellow at the gatehouse for a brochure and how did we get back out of there. I’m thinking when we go with the Miatas we will skip the park and head downtown to wander the shops and riverfront.
I got back into town with enough daylight left to spend two more hours pressure washing more of the deck. I think the pressure washer was invented by a woman as a sneaky way to get men to clean up around the house. “It’s a powertool honey! You can use it much better than I can.”
I had a half finished a long ass uninteresting post about the trials and tribulations of having to clean my deck today, but while checking my work email in another window, Mozilla locked up and there was no way to save it. With my lame typing skills I don’t have time nor inclination to try and recreate it. Suffice to say, the title explains my status on the project, so there is more pressure washing in my weekend future…
The Master’s Miata Club holds it’s monthly business meeting on the first Thursday of the month. Because the members come from all over the general area we rotate those meetings between restaurants in Aiken, North Augusta and Augusta. This month’s rotation put us in Augusta. We because they had a back room we could use and the food is sort of cheap we elected to return to Mi Rancho for May. No one thought to look at the calendar to notice the date.
Turns out the first Thursday in May is the 5th. May not mean much to most of us Club members, but to Mexicans it is a big deal. Cinco de Mayo. The place was hopping. Even though a couple of groups started to join us in the back room they didn’t stay, so it worked out all right anyway.
At 7:38AM this morning I used the last staple from the box I was given when I started working here 505,267,200 seconds ago. To put it in easier to understand terms, I started working at ASCO Aiken on May 1st 1989, which was 5,848 days ago. Each box of staples has 5,000 staples, so I have used approximately .85 staples per day during my tenure here.
I know I don’t use too many staples in my job, but that isn’t much at all. I haven’t worked every single day straight through since then, so let’s do some, as my math idol Jethro would say, cipherin’. Assuming a 5 day work week, we can get much closer to a proper work day number by multiplying by 5 and then dividing by 7. This gives us 4177 or 1.20 SPD (staples per day). What about holidays? Good point, we get 9 paid days off here in Aiken, 9 times 16, so subtract 144 days from the total, giving me a 1.24 SPD ranking. How about sick time? I bet I miss on average 3 days a year for colds or flu or doctor things. Then there was the 2 week recovery from knee surgery in 2000. 3 time 16 plus 10, lets take another 58 days off. Best guess is I have used an average 1.26 SPD in my working here. I am so proud.
This morning when we turned on the TV to check the Weather Channel, to see how we should dress for the day, it wasn’t there. TNT was on channel 19. Eek!
A memory breaks through the fog, the cable company had included a flyer in the last bill telling that they were shuffling a few channels around, that’s it. Now where did it move to? I surfed the dial once, twice and three times but it was no where to be found. Odds were slim that it was on commercial all three passes.
Then another synapse fires and I manually punch in a 1 and a 4 – there it is. Fourteen used to be the scrabbled HBO channel so I had programmed the TV to skip it when surfing. That reminds me, I should go add that channel back in while I’m thinking of it. BRB