There are like 5 guys walking around up on top of the house right now. And 4 of them have air powered hammers.
That’s right, we are getting a new roof.
They arrived at eight o’clock and it took them until 1:30 PM to get down to just the roof decking. After about a thirty minute lunch break they started throwing up bundles of shingles. A couple hours later and they are almost finished laying them down.
Ran into an old coworker at the grocery store this evening. After listening to her talk about the changes that have occurred for the worse, and all the stuff that was supposed to make it better that now aren’t going to occur for a while, both Donna and I are sure glad we aren’t still working at the Valve Store.
That reminds me, I missed my retirement anniversary. My last day of “work” there was March 2, 2018. Time flies when you are having fun.
I didn’t have an idea for how to use seventy two thousand in the title of this post, so I went back and looked to see what I used when the Emperor hit that mark over a little over 11 years ago: 72,000 Grains of Rice. Perfect.
Last Friday I washed both cars.
The Miata because it needed it. The other day I leaned into it to get something out of the center console and when I stood up there were dark smudges on the both thighs of my khaki hued jeans. Man, do silver colored cars hide road grime well.
The Mini because it needed it. When Donna got home from the gym on Thursday she complained because you could see of fine coating of about 72,000 pine pollen grains built up on the roof of the car. Man, does a gloss black roof show yellow pine pollen grains.
On our day trip Saturday to gather a few Moss Motoring Challenge points just outside Tennille, Georgia the CTBNL passed through the 72,000 mile mark.
I’ve been really having a hard time blogging. There has been plenty of stuff to write about, but I open up a browser check a few websites and then login here to write…and stop. When I verbalized this to my wife yesterday she said, “Why don’t you post a picture and just one sentence?” Well I already try the one picture thing with Instagram, so maybe I need to just write a simple line or two each day to get the ball rolling again. After all that is how this whole thing started, below is post number #1 of The Miata Diaries, the predecessor to Life of Brian.
Happy 2002
Tuesday, January 1, 2002
New Year’s Day. Cold, maybe mid forties. The Miata sits in the garage all day. The farthest I venture is around the block on rollerblades. Donna goes to the store, but uses the MSV.
Tagged: Miatatude
The “a decade ago” WordPress plugin I use returns one day early no matter what combination of years/months/days I enter in the settings, so in actuality the March 5th post of 2009 is called The “My Album Cover” Game. The last time I stole this idea it was from a blog that I have out now lasted, so this time I’m stealing the idea from myself.
To Do This
1 – Get a random Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and the article title is the name of your band.
2 – Get a random quotation http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php and the last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is your album title.
3 – Get a random photo from flickr https://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/? and the third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
I had to cheat to get this photo because the photographer had disabled downloading, so I did a print screen and cropped to just get the photo.
4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 – The original number five was to post the album cover to Face Book and tag others, but I’m still not “on” Facebook, so here exclusively here on my blog is the cover of Anzan Ardabil’s new album entitled As Well As The Earth.