Dressing – Undressing Contest

This afternoon I finally polished the right taillight to match the left. When Jim got to the Sonic, we walked over to my car so I could give him the wheel and polish back, he said, “Missed one.” Me, “Huh?” Jim, “The third brake light on the trunk lid.” Me, “DOH!” accompanied by a Homer Simpson-esque head slap. The Procrastinator King now has 10 days to do the center taillight before the next Club meeting.

Big crowd for MMM…Time number two, considering 3 of the regulars were off tearing up the track at Talladega. Judy Arrowood and sons, Nicholas and Zachary came out in the Miata with the VW Bug kit. 🙂 Cathy Miller rode navigator in son Andrew’s car, while her friend Roxanna Lane drove her car. Ron Kaufman’s son, Keith and grandson Josh came along in a Corvette. And guest Terre Bohman joined some of us regulars in his turbo’d white ’99 with those sweet Flyin’ Miata duals. Seven Miatas and nine cars in all.

Plan was to hang out at the Sonic an hour or so, then take a back road drive over to North Augusta and the site of last month’s MMM…Time, the Sno-Cap. The Sno-Cap was having their 4th Saturday Cruise-In and we wanted to look under the hood of a car besides Jim’s. We ended up staying a while longer than planned at Sonic, as Jim was stuffed under the dashboard of Andrew’s car fixing his windshield wipers. Without too much more than the usual shenanigans associated with a nine car train on public roads, we managed to make the last half of the Cruise-In. John & Jackie skipped the drive and were waiting for us at the Sno-Cap.

When we finished parking, the lot was full, even with Ron and son parking in the church lot across the street. Besides us there was a little of everything, classics, hot rods, 60’s muscle and even a couple of choppers. They held some drawings for door prizes and Jim won a milkshake, while John won a banana split. Andrew would have won a T-shirt, but he left 5 minute before they drew his name. Ron missed winning a Long Dog for the same reason.

After the prizes, Sno-Cap owner, Rachel tried unsuccessfully to coerce enough contestants to hold some sort of dressing/undressing contest. She swears that they had done it once already earlier and everyone had fun, we remained unconvinced.

Started up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 63

Lockergnome Windows Daily Part II

I started getting the Lockegnome Windows Daily newsletter again. So I tried to resubscribe to the missing 3 using yesterday’s technique and got back three similar messages:
Sorry, but the email address ‘Brian_the_Red@mastersmiataclub.org’ is already a member of ‘lgtech’. Because you are already subscribed, ListManagerSQL did not subscribe you again.

I guess I will have to unsubscribe and resubscribe to get these missing ones.

Lockergnome Windows Daily.

I subscribe to nearly every Lockegnome daily newsletter. Well when That Hosting Company went dark last Thursday who knows what happened to those email newsletters. Eight days later my email started coming back in and 2 of the 4 newsletters started right back up. What happened to the other 2? Does the listserver automatically remove you after repeated bounce backs?

I went to the site Lockegnome and tried to resubscribe to one of the missing ones and I got this in response:
The email address ‘Brian_the_Red@mastersmiataclub.org’ was a held member of ‘lghtml’. Your status has been reset to ‘normal’.
Does that mean there are still sending them and I’m not getting them or does it mean I’ll start getting them again tomorrow?

Overdraft Privilege

We got a little flyer included with this month’s checking that describes a service the bank likes to call Overdraft Privilege. If you can understand the gobbledy gook they have printed on this 1/3 page you are either a banking lawyer or certifiably insane. I wish I had a scanner at home so you could see it, but I think this little asterisked portion on the bottom sums up this service nicely:

The Overdraft Privilege Service does not constitute an actual or implied agreement between you and The South Financial Group, Inc. Nor does it constitute an actual or implied obligation of or by the bank. This service represents a purely discretionary courtesy or privilege that the bank may provide to you from time to time and which may be withdrawn or withheld by The South Financial Group, Inc. at any time without prior notice or reason or cause.

I just knew I could count on them…

Little Yellow Clouds

Had a pattern going there…but not anymore. Just started raining and is supposed to go most of tonight and all tomorrow. I hope it rains hard so as to knock all the remaining pine pollen out of the trees. The parking lot at work has a yellow tint and when the wind blows it makes little yellow clouds fly across the asphalt.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 60

Major Dusting

No fog for the first time in a while, but the clouds were not pretty looking, forcing the top to be put up while at work, just in case. Good thing too, didn’t rain, but saved the interior from a major dusting of pine pollen. The car was covered with the stuff at the end of the day. The top went back down and we drove the 20 miles of our 6 mile commute home.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 58

Honda Civic Gas Gage

Donna’s Mom has a 1997 Honda Civic DX. It is an official Miata Support Vehicle and as such every time the 3 of us go anywhere I get to drive the Civic. The one thing that always bothers me is the location of the gas gage. It is an automatic and there is no tachometer. The instrument cluster consists of three circles. The biggest one is the speedometer in the center which also has the odo and trip odo in it. To the right of the center circle in a slightly smaller circle is the gas gage to the far right, while the gear indicator lights are to the left in that same circle. To the left of the center circle is another slightly smaller circle with the temp gage to the left and to the right are the words, “Unleaded Fuel Only.” Why didn’t the verbiage about unleaded fuel go in the same circle as the gas gage? To logical?