The Storm

For all you crazy Red Sox fans who wanted to play the Yankees to get to the World Series, you got your wish. NY won tonight beating the Twins 3 games to 1 setting up a rematch of last years American League Championship Series.

Game 1 BOS @ NYY Tue. Oct. 12 8:00 p.m. FOX
Game 2 BOS @ NYY Wed. Oct. 13 8:00 p.m. FOX
Game 3 NYY @ BOS Fri. Oct. 15 8:00 p.m. FOX
Game 4 NYY @ BOS Sat. Oct. 16 7:30 p.m. FOX
Game 5* NYY @ BOS Sun. Oct. 17 4:00 p.m. FOX
Game 6* BOS @ NYY Tue. Oct. 19 8:00 p.m. FOX
Game 7* BOS @ NYY Wed. Oct. 20 8:00 p.m. FOX
* If Necessary

Well, I say be careful what you wish for. The Sox won the season series, but in the last 2 weekends of the season they played a home and home set of three games. Each team won 2 of 3 at their home parks. If that holds true, game seven of this series will be in New York and we will have to hope for a win in the Bronx.

New Shoes

Had the Toyo’s mounted this morning and what a difference. Smoother and grippier. Russ’s old Michelins were pretty hard as well as worn out. We are going to call this a mod for now, mainly because I forced the issue. Next time I replace the tires, in about 18 months, it will fall under service.

My wife will be happy to know that I’m almost finished modifying the car, there are just two things left to do. 1) Tint the windows. That’ll wait until next spring. And 2) the Mazda OEM small side sills. Those will have to wait until she figures I have suffered enough for this recent rash of purchases, probably sometime next summer…

The car got washed this morning. It really wasn’t dirty, as much as it was dusty, from sitting a couple days in a body shop’s garage while the spoiler was mounted and drying.

Der Komet Wird Angebracht

Which if Babel Fish’s translation is correct, is German for “The Comet Is Installed.”

Picked up the car at lunch today and it was definitely worth the wait:

Cripes! Can’t You Make It Easy On Me?

Winning 6 to 1 in the 7th and cruising. No, that was not exciting enough, you give up 5 runs to let the Angels tie the game. And then you put me through a couple of innings of struggling relief pitching, before winning it in the bottom of the 10th. I don’t think I can take this for the next 2 weeks…

Please, Chris Berman and any other announcer, don’t ever give me that, “They are only X outs away from winning the series,” shit. Keep your mouth zipped, that phrase is historically the kiss of death for the Red Sox. (As it almost was tonight.)

Still Waiting

Called this morning only to be told that the spoiler would go on today as it was still too tacky to be mounted yesterday afternoon. Liza didn’t say, but I bet it was still too tacky because they didn’t paint it until Tuesday instead of Monday afternoon when I dropped it off.

Arrangements have been made to get Donna’s mom transported tomorrow so we can use the Civic to get to work. The nice neighbor across the street has volunteered to drive her. He is retired and it will be a nice change for him, he said it would get him out of some chores too. So now the plan stands to get off at noon, go get the car from the paint/body place and drive it to the tire place and drop it off so they can mount the tires. Drive home in the Civic and then return to get the Miata later in the afternoon.

Comet Incubation Period: 13 days

They All Do That

Donna’s mom took her Civic to the local Honda dealer to get the oil changed today. I asked her while she was there to have them listen to the brakes. For the last month or so they have been making a ticking sound whenever you come to a stop. It is speed dependent. It starts out fast and as you slow the ticking frequency slows, but the noise duration increases slightly. The brake power doesn’t seem to be affected, but the noise is disconcerting. They told her they all do that.

It didn’t do it when she first bought the car back in May. As a matter of fact, if I recall correctly, a couple of years ago we had this same noise on her previous Civic. It didn’t do it when she came from Washington to here. It started right after they did some brake work on the car. It always stopped fine, but it made a ticking sound. They told us the same thing, “They all do that.” Not as loud as on this car, but it was annoying. Maybe I should call Click & Clack…

Plastic Surgery

The Miata is staying overnight at the recovery room/body shop. The instructions say: The vehicle may not be driven in the first 12 hours to the gluing. (wash road at the earliest after 48 hours). And at first, I interpreted that to mean don’t drive it for 12 hours and don’t wash it for 48 hours, but I think they really mean, don’t drive it at all for 12 hours and don’t drive on rough roads for 48 hours. They were supposed to silicone on the spoiler this afternoon and I tried to call and find out the progress, but Liza was apparently too busy to call back, so I’m not sure if they did it or not. I’ll find out tomorrow morning and see if they did get it on. If they don’t glue it on until tomorrow, I might not be able to pick it before Friday as the silicone needs to set. Donna’s mom needs her car back for Friday to go to dialysis, but I guess at worse case I might have to duck out in the AM and drive her.

Comet Incubation Period: 12 days