Month: October 2005

It’s All Greek To Me

It?s All Greek To MeDidn’t get a Vampire Teeth photo in, but for now here is an out take from Saturday’s portrait shoot. I’ve said the car looks more snake-like than vampirish, but in this picture it kind of reminds me of the Alien from the movie of the same name.

The only Miata trip was a run to the store for groceries, barely got the oil warm.

Donna, her Mom and I piled into the MSV and went over to Augusta to the Greek Festival, mainly to eat lunch and poke around some of the crafts for sale. Tables were set up for eating under a big ol’ tent in the center of which was a small stage and a dance floor, so for our dining pleasure we were serenaded and regaled by traditional Greek music and dance. I even had a Greek beer with my gyro called Mythos, and the connoisseur that I am declared it very beerish.

Started up, went down, still down.
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On The Road Again

Got the freshly machined piece for the tandem’s seat clamp on Friday. Remounted the seat on Saturday evening. This morning we went for a 15 mile ride and everything worked just peachy. Thanks Tool Room Guys.

We ended the ride at our favorite Sunday morning breakfast spot, The New Moon Cafe, for fresh fist-sized muffins. Mmmm. While we were standing in line the fellow in front of us asked if there was some sort of bike thing going on because he had seen a few bikes around this morning. He is a semi-regular like us and drives a bright yellow custom Harley full dresser. We said sure the SC Governor was sponsoring a bike ride from Aiken to Columbia. He said no, I mean motorcycle, not bicycle, pointing to my Lycra attire, to which we shrugged who knows.

29,000 Matchbox Cars

29,000 Matchbox Cars29,000 pairs of socks. 29,000 knives. 29,000 VHS tapes. 29,000 out of date bottles of asprin. And 29,000 used chainsaws.

Today we went to the Jockey Lot outside of Anderson, SC. Someone thought it would be fun, so we planned a trip with the MMC and it was a nice day for a drive. While the Jockey lot is a huge ass flea market, pretty soon it all starts to look alike, did we have fun? You bet. Will we go back? Doubt it. About halfway there the Emperor passed through the 29,000 mile mark. We bought this Miata just before Thanksgiving in 2003 so it looks like we will make it past 30k before the 2 year mark.

Most of the time the skies were blue with scattered clouds, but on the horizon, in every direction you looked there were dark gray clouds. The weather forecast called for a chance of rain and while it never did (on us anyway) everytime we stopped for any lentgh of time everyone put their tops up in case. On the way back we stopped in the quaint little town of Abbeville for lunch. We parked over on the same street as we ended up at the last Trivia Road Rally the MMC did in May. I had snagged a picture of one of our member’s cars as it was parked and the wall and art there made a nice back drop, today the Emperor had it’s portrait taken there too.

Can’t really tell from the picture, but the car was really dirty. I did wipe off the big stuff with a towel I keep handy, but when we got home the car got a much needed bath.

Started up, went down, went up, back down, back up, down again, up again, then down, then up, still up.
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Not So Much Undead As…

…snakelike. The Vampire Teeth are in and the more I look at the car with them on, the more I think it looks like a snake. So I guess I’ll toss out the Blood Bank background idea and start looking for a Reptile Zoo.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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Maybe Next Year

Now that is more like the team I know. The FRS were swept out of post-season play, three games to none tonight by the Chicago White Sox. At least they didn’t lose to the Yankees.

I said way back in June that I would quit complaining about the erratic reception of WEEI on MLB.com and I kept my word, but now that the season’s over…I’ve got nothing bad to say. Sometime not too long after the All Star Game the internet broadcasts settled down, loosing all the annoying cut outs and became listenable again. I guess that means I’ll be signing up for next year broadcasts. When I’ll get treated to 162 ups and downs on the roller coaster life of a Red Sox fan.

Hello, New In Town?

Nope, just moving back into the old place, with the new furniture. Reclaimed the old name too.

Added a Mr. Fletcher’s Ride Photo Gallery and placed links to all the galleries in the sidebar for your ease. Don’t confuse the Miata Photo Gallery with the category Miata Photos, the Gallery will contain my favorite Miata shots, while the category will be populated with the everyday Miata pictures.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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ROCK STAR MOVING TO AIKEN

So shouted the headline the other day in the local paper. I wondered who. Did Madonna tire of the English countryside? Was P Diddy bringing his fleet of blinged Diet Pepsi trucks to town? Nope. The former lead singer of ’60s rock group The Youngbloods and his wife are going to build a 5,000 sq ft cottage in Aiken’s Historic District adjoining Hitchcock Woods. Turns out that Jesse Colin Young married an Aiken native some 18 years ago and the family (they have two kids) wants a nice place to settle in. Even though they plan on living in Aiken full time, they are keeping the house in Hawaii.