Emergency Ice Cream Run

We had to make an emergency run last night. Drove the 15 miles to the grocery store that is a mile and a half away to get chocolate chip ice cream. Now go figure, we put the top down. I guess maybe because it is dark it is OK to be cold…

…because this morning, in the light, we put it back up for the ride to work. Foggy as all get out and lower 50’s. Even if we had braved it, I would have put it up at work because we are still in the clouds and the interior would have gotten soaked.

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

Enough already – the swimsuits are nothing new, how many ways are there to make a bikini?

No top with hands over the breasts, done it. Wet T-shirts you can see thru, done it. Back lighting so you can see through translucent cloth, done it. 3-D, done it. No suits and just paint, done it. This year they decided to pose some of the models with ordinary people, not good, as this just shows how skinny and unrealistic “super” models look. They only thing left is total nudity and if they did that how could they call it the Swimsuit Edition?

More Toggle Switches

You could see the rain on the radar, it was close, but being 50 degrees we left for work with the top down. Made it about 2 miles and had to pull over and raise the roof. It has been raining on and off for the rest of the day so it is currently up.

Found a neat idea over in the Interior/Exterior Section of the Miata.net forum on changing the Hazard and Pop-up switches out to toggle switches, this may be my Tech Day Project.

Started down, went up, still up.
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Nigthly News Watchers Among the Sickest in the Nation

Tom Brokaw might as well have read that headline on his NBC Evening News show this evening. I can’t tell if this was a statistical anomaly or every night it is like this, but on tonight’s show nearly every commercial was for some wonder drug or over the counter medicine. There were only about 3 non-medicine ads and they were cross promotional spots for MSNBC…

No Panel For You

Close to freezing this morning, so the top went up for the ride to work. I thought winter was over with? Off to the printer at lunch to drop off the flyer for the Bike Club‘s Spring Century. Put the top down and the boot on. Stayed down for the ride home, but will probably go back up in the morning, Weather Channel say rain.

Bad news is my new A/C panel is out of stock at Rspeed and they are the only folks handling these parts. Guess I am going to have to find something else to do at Tech Day, sigh….

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
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William Shatner

Loved ST:TOS & most of the movies, never watched T.J Hooker, loved those stupid priceline.com ads. I like the way he can make fun of himself. Just saw the TV trailer for Showtime and he is in it, making fun of the T.J Hooker thing….

If he was African-American would he still be working after his last wife drowned in the backyard pool? Or would we be all over him like we were on OJ ?

X-Files

I started watching the X-Files in the middle of season 1. I watched it nearly every Sunday for 7-1/2 years. I watched the reruns on FX both times when they ran all the episodes in chronological order. I voted in the Thanksgiving marathons. I saw the movie. I bought the action figures. I hooked my friends on the show. I was a bonified fan, not obsessed, but close. Last season was painful, no Mulder and Scully was reduced to the Greek Chorus role. I actually warmed to Dogett, but still the magic was gone.

This year I have pretty much ignored the show. Today at lunch with some of the friends I hooked on the show I was asked if I watched it last week. I had to say no. They wanted an explanation of what was going on and I couldn’t say. So I tuned in tonight and it was painful still. To me the show seems a parody of itself, but I guess I owe it to myself to watch it through until the end. At least I can get a rant out of it for the next couple of months. Tune in next Sunday.