Sunday Stuff

We were on vacation and did not seek out any Post Offices, but this happened by pure chance. We went into the food store in the same shopping ceter.

We expected a Sebring for our convertible rental in Seattle, but ended up in a PT Cruiser. Not a lot of trunk room in it, more than a Miata, but no where near as much space as in a Sebring. It was a smaller car than we normally get, so you would have thunk it would be easier to maneuver in tight spots, but you would be wrong. It had the turning radius of a bus, which I guess goes right along with the very high seating position. I’ve always kind of liked the looks of the PT Cruiser and the convertible has only 2-doors which I think looks even better than the standard 4-door version, but apparently it is not as distinctive as I thought. On one of our ferry rides we were stopped next to a car load of twenty-something females and the driver asked me what kind of car we were in. I replied, “PT Cruiser.” “Oh,” she says, “I thought it was a Beetle.”

Just over a week ago I was reading Ain’t Chicken where Carol was talking about her first spawn and I was sort of jealous. I’ve been blogging a year and a half longer than her and I’ve never inspired anyone to start blogging. Well, I’m jealous no more, CT started What Do You Drive? last Friday and credited me with “inspiring” him. I’ve of course linked it in the Miata Blogs sections in the sidebar.

A hazy long term memory made me think that I might have actually inspired another one, but my initial search didn’t turn up any evidence. Deeper probing resulted in a confirmation of my original thought, it happened way back in May of 2004 with Rick’s Obsession (that link to me in his post is dead by a couple generations though.)

I’ve also added another category of links for folks who blog that also live in South Carolina, appropriately titled, SC Blogs. So far there is only one link, Random Connections, an upstate blogger who stumbled onto me via my SC Post Office page on Flckr. I will probably go Googling for others in the near future.