Year: 2011

‘Bout Time

If my tagging of posts is 100% accurate, which is doubtful, the last time I washed the car was November 14th and that was really only dusting and Quick Detailing. Well, whenever the last washing the Emperor actually was, he got the real deal today and it is amazing how purrty he looks from 10 feet away without any of that nasty road dirt on him.

About a year ago Donna lost her wedding ring and we replaced it with a cheapo one we found in a local Dillards. We both got two copies of the same ring in our size and in the past three hundred and sixty odd days we have worked our way through both. Mine currently has one of the diamonds (AKA piece of glass) missing and the gold plating no longer exists on either of our rings. I thought what a nice thing to do for Valentines Day would be to buy some actual gold replacement rings. After hunting around on the web for a bit last night we came up with a ring we both liked. Unsure of our correct sizes we opted to wait until we visited an actual Zales store and had our sizes determined by a trained professional. Which we did today and they measured Donna’s finger as a 7-1/2, which shot a big hole in our plans, as our chosen ring was only available online and only in whole sizes. Back to the net and in short order we found our second choice and ordered them.

We watched The Town today and were tempted to turn on the English Subtitles the Boston accents were so thick. We had an easier time understanding the liverpudlian ones in Nowhere Boy.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 943

Barnwell State Park

Today Donna and I, along with friend Joan, headed to Blackville to have lunch at Miller’s Bread Basket, a great little Mennonite restaurant there. Of course we did a little geocaching too. After we ate, we headed south to Barnwell State Park where there were two ammo cans crying out to be found. When we got to the park we were surprised to learn we had been here BC (Before Caching), when we had circled the lower lake on the Dogwood Interpretive Trail. We didn’t even know there was another trail in the park until we discovered that there were a couple of geocaches there.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 941

We Have Lift Off

After about a week of 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, before or after breaks and lunch, the Tor.com Stubby Rocket is finished. It is 2 times scale of the downloaded PDF and is literally hung by a thread from the drop ceiling in my cube.

I wonder what the reaction will be, if any, on Monday from my supervisor and my manager, who were both are out of town on business this week. The big cheese Director of Operations, who sometimes makes a sweep of the area, wasn’t in today either. He is probably who told my manager to instruct his charges that the new offices should be more business-like and not be shrines to our individual personalities…

Started down, went up, still up.
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Oh Boy! A Special Edition Miata!

I really could have used that sarcasm font for the post title.

It is a top of the line Miata (power hard top Grand Touring) with special interior and exterior colors, plus a few shiny bits and nearly every option in the book tacked on. Naturally the price reflects this, $31K. Yikes! To make it really special there are two exterior color choices. Huh? Why more than one? Maybe because not many people will want a car painted with the pigment made from poor marine mammals unsuspectingly trapped in tuna nets, Dolphin Gray, and will opt for the Sparkling Black. Truth is, the gray is not a bad color on the car, but the porpoise colored leather on the seats is just icky.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 940

Proof that Men Have Better Friends…

Friendship among Women:
A woman didn’t come home one night.
The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend’s house.
The man called his wife’s 10 best friends.
None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship among Men:
A man didn’t come home one night.
The next morning he told his wife he had slept over at a friend’s house.
The woman called her husband’s 10 best friends.
Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.

118,000 Stubbies

Stubby is the February 2011 Free Papertoy of the month over at Custom Paper Toys and is fairly easy build with only 4 pieces. I didn’t particularly care for the slogan that was being espoused by the original, so I changed it to something that is more office work related.

When putting it together I had the hardest time getting the pencil point inside the hexagonal shape of the pencil. I actually had to reprint the body a second time and attacked the build from a different direction before successfully getting it together with the flaps inside. Tonight when I linked the toy’s web page I noticed that the originator’s construction showed the pencil tip flaps on the outside. I had wondered why the flaps were rounded in shape…

I am also currently working on Stubby the Rocket which is a papercraft model by Robert Nava of the “mascot” of Tor.com, a Science Fiction site. I hope to be finished by this weekend.

OK, that was only 2 Stubbies, so I’m 117,998 shy, but the Emperor is not, he ticked past that mileage point on the way to work this morning.

Yesterday Donna had a dentist appointment and I gave her one of my Minimimmoes to give to the receptionist. Tonight we went out to eat and I left another Minimimmo on the table when we were done (I also left a monetary based tip too.) I guess I’ll make a few more and just leave them about haphazardly about the CSRA.

Started up, still up.
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Truck Day

Today is Truck Day, the day they load up an 18-wheeler with baseball equipment outside of Fenway Park and drive it down to the FRS’s spring training home in Fort Meyers, FL. The truck left Boston today around noon for arrival sometime on Friday.

Google maps says the trip is nearly 1500 miles and should take one day and one hour. The truck driver must be only driving 8 to 10 hours a day with 3 overnight stops. After a few minutes of GMap research I figure my best chance to watch the truck go by on I-95 is near Walterboro, SC around lunchtime on Thursday. 🙂