Year: 2010

Zoom Zoom Magazine

Somewhere along the line I left my name and address in the hands of Mazda operatives and as a consequence of that action I now get a glossy magazine (AKA advertisement) three or four times a year. The latest edition of Zoom Zoom magazine arrived in my mailbox the other day.

Included in this issue were stories about the new Mazda2, a history of 90 years of Mazda vehicles (with a nifty poster) and a story about all 3 generations of Miatas in Hawaii. The reason for Hawaii was that is where the press was first introduced to the latest version of the car in 2006. They rounded up 3 local Miata owners and their cars to drive the same route as they did back during the introductory press drive.

When they wrote the blurb on the 1999 2nd generation car, I guess they took the owner’s description as gospel, because they wrote that the color was British Racing Green, but that color was not available in 1999. British Racing Green was only available on the Miata as a special edition in 1991 & 2001. His car was really painted a similar color called Emerald Green Mica. Doesn’t anyone with Mazda fact check this magazine?

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Whatever Post #1000

When I installed WordPress all those years ago I cleverly renamed the the default category from Default (duh!) to Whatever. Because for the longest time I had two separate blogs running concurrently where in one the main category was Miatatude and the other was Rants I didn’t ever think that the newfangled category of Whatever would ever catch up. But it did, possibly hinting at my lazy categorization habits, and now Whatever is the king of the categories and this post marks its graduation into the 4 digit range.

Stumped as to what to get your favorite SciFi geek for Christmas, io9 has a guide for you. The item that is on the top of my Star Trek wish list is the Enterprise Bridge Full Size Wall Mural. 15′ x 9′ of marvelous-ness, but way out of my price range. More my speed, Expendable Red Shirt T-shirt…

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Still Here, But

I’ve got frostbit hands so I can’t type.

They canceled Terriers and I’m too depressed to type.

We’ll be moving into the new offices out back of the plant next week and I’m too busy packing to type.

We just put up the Christmas Tree and now there isn’t enough juice left to run the PC.

I can’t type now because I’m too tied up filling out online surveys hoping to win a free gift card/shopping spree/haircut from all the merchants we visited the last couple of days.

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Honey, Just Cuz I Talk Slow Doesn’t Mean I’m Stupid

Because we left Crawfordville yesterday with a slight sour taste (literally) in our mouths, we decided to revisit it today. Sweet Home Alabama is available as watch it now on Netflix.

Donna and I finished up our Christmas shopping for each other today. She got a spiffy new red velor top to wear to our many holiday soirees this season and I got me 3 new pairs of brown socks.

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Worst BBQ Ever

We went geocaching today in Crawfordville, GA and A.H. Stephens State Park. We took along a coworker and because the Miata does not seat 3 comfortably we took her car. Crawfordville is where Hollywood comes calling when it needs to film in a quintessential small southern town. There have been about a dozen films that have used this town as a bit player in them and there are 8 caches here with names that are the titles of those movies. We looked for 4 and found 2. The two we missed I don’t count as DNFs because they were in locations that made us very nervous searching which was only heightened by the fact that we were driving a car with New Jersey plates. There were 6 caches in the state park that you can get to by land and we found 5 of them.

Probably the most recognizable movie that was filmed in town was “Sweet Home Alabama” and for lunch we decided to eat at the BBQ place that was used in the bar scenes (Stella’s Roadhouse) of the movie. We were talked into getting the Plate by the almost surly woman behind the counter at Heavy’s as it included meat, brunswick stew and coleslaw. We opted for a rib plate and a chicken plate to split between the three of us. The coleslaw was too vinegary and had way too much pickle taste. The “stew” was run through a food processor for too long as it was kind of a sickly looking brown mush. The only thing remotely edible was the meat and that was overpowered by the amount of BBQ sauce it was covered in. Interesting place to visit, but you don’t want to eat there.

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Family Car Stickers

The 2010’s equivalent of the 80’s Baby on Board signs, family car stickers. Google it and you will get hundreds of hits to places you can buy these things. They are infinitely configurable too, one couple at work have a man with a fishing pole, a woman with shopping bags and a small girl. Add your pets too! You can even add names to make it easier for the criminal element to abduct your wife, kids or dog.

The other day as we pushed out grocery cart out to the north forty of the Kroger parking lot to the Emperor we passed a couple of SUVs with these stickers on the windows. The one that caught my eye and stood out from any of these family car stickers I’ve seen so far is below.

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Geocaching Souvenir

I didn’t know such a thing existed until I received an email last night telling me that we had been retroactively awarded one for Maryland. I read the about page for them on Geocaching.com and I’m still not sure what they are all about. Whatever they are, BTR & D2! have been awarded four of them…

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