Well….on Monday night, I was watching “Top Gear” specifically since they were going to do a review of the new Miata and I hadn’t seen a review or video of the car so I thought it would be kind of cool….and the piece with the Hamster started out good with them driving either a Marina or Laguna blue old one and then getting into the new one…and Hamster was really impressed with the new car…loved how it drove…that it was slow but a perfect sports car…but then, he just had to trot out the tired, old stereotype of the Miata being a car that only women and hairdressers bought throughout it’s history….now…I have only known a few women who drove sports cars (T being one of them) and I have never known a hairdresser that owned one…I will admit that I don’t know very many hairdressers so that sample may be a little skewed….I do know one thing…or two things…I’m not a woman or a hairdresser and I own a Miata…. just irritated me all to hell that they had to ruin a good segment trying to be cute….
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Ow…and other stuff…
Well..decided to put the summer tires on the car this morning and while jacking it up, the handle came out of the jack and I mashed the backs of all the fingers of my right hand…a little black and blue and they hurt like crazy…but, I don’t think there is much damage since I can still type….the car does look good with the summer wheels on…I did have some other stuff to talk about..oh, I just remembered it…one of the 47 repub traitors who signed the letter siding with the hard liners in Iran over our president has tried to backtrack a little…but, just a little. John “bomb Iran” McCain has said that he probably should have thought about it a little more before signing but he was rushed since there was a snow storm coming and he wanted to get out of town. Yep…this idiot undermines our country’s foreign policy just because he needed to not get snowed on….what a bunch of crap…the senators and the letter…geez…
March 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but, as usual, I didn’t get much done….slept crappy too but that’s normal and I am not going to dwell on it….the allergies keep getting worse and I feel pretty crappy right now…might have to start taking things for it during the day which is not normal at all….but I am really tired of being stuffed up and coughing…I did get the top down on the car yesterday all day and that was nice and not too cold….it’s supposed to be down, after all…I did get out for a couple with G last night and it was fun…and she agrees with Tom that I should color my hair if I get and in person interview in the future….not much to do today…need to make the grocery run in few minutes but that is about it…should put the summer wheels on and I might…more later….
This is funny…
Well…just got back from a bike ride in shorts for the first time this year and thought I’d take a look under the hood of the car to check the fluids, etc. and just broke out laughing…some animal had tried to build a nest on the top of the valve cover with housing insulation…it was a big one, too…then I found another one tucked into the side of the fender that had sunflower seed shells in it…once I saw that, I came back inside and got a pair of gloves just in case there were actually critters in it….I can’t remember how long it’s been since I had the hood open but I know it’s a least a couple of months…just glad they didn’t start gnawing on the wires…..
March 11th
Well…sitting here waiting for the car to de-ice so I thought I’d get this one out…it was an okay day yesterday and I had a nice lunch with T so that was cool…slept okay last night but feel pretty crappy today so it is going to be a low key one…I do have to change out the tires on the car today since it looks like there won’t be more snow….or I could wait a day or two…not sure….other than that, not going to do much other than clean a little and read the papers…it is supposed to be 34 degrees outside…I wonder why there is ice on the car? More later….
March 10th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday…other than the interview…and I did get the top down for a little drive yesterday so that was cool…and today looks the same…I do have to go out and get my hair cut since it is rubbing on the headliner in the car and it feels like a spider on my head….slept crappy, crappy last night and have been up since 4:30 so you’d think this one would have been done earlier…I did do another one, though, so maybe that’s something…feeling okay with being kinda good last night and that will continue for the rest of the week but the allergies are flaring again already and that is just irritating….need to get the summer wheels back on the car but I think I’ll do that tomorrow since I am meeting up with T later today….more later….
Stupid Republican senators…
Well…have been up since 4:30 and thought I’d get at this one since I’m already bored…if you haven’t heard or read yet, there is a group of 47 repub senators who have sent a letter to the leaders of Iran trying to derail the nuclear negotiations by saying that any agreement has to be ratified by the senate and would only be in effect until Obama leaves office…both statements are wrong and were pointed out by, of all people, the Iranian foreign minister who dismissed the letter as having “no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy” and he goes on to say that he is astonished that members of the US congress find it appropriate to write to leaders of another country against their own president and administration….as am I. The smackdown continues int he rest of the letter where the foreign minister goes on to say “It seems that the authors not only do not understand international law, but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy.” Now, I find is just so rich that we have an Iranian foreign minister that has a better grasp of the executive branch power in foreign policy than these idiot senators…and that he understands, where the repubs don’t that changing administrations doesn’t remove the international obligations and that removing the agreement would be a violation of international law. But, one thing we do know from the torture fiasco is that repubs don’t really care about or understand international law…they are just a bunch of idiots…geez…
Interview update…
Well…just a short one to update the phone interview…did not go as well as I expected….and after I prepared all weekend for it…oh, well…I guess tomorrow is back to the resumes…and Friday is not the last pool day…so that’s something…and I had the top down in the car taking it out to wash it and that lifted my spirits some…..more later….
March 9th
Well…it was an okay dya yesterday but a little busy prepping for the interview today…going to work on that all morning, too, so that will basically be my day. I am going to wash the car as soon as the interview is done since it is going to be nice today…I did get a short bike ride in yesterday and I may have the shifter fixed…we’ll see later…I should be out on the bike in shorts later in the week with it supposed to be in the 50′s so that will be cool…but, I am still waiting for the ice to melt off the car right now and I will be happy to see that go…slept okay last night but feel a little crappy with the allergies this morning…and the time change is still having an effect…still doing the math in my head…it is really 7:15 right now and it feels that way…okay, need to go get the papers an have coffee…morw later…
March 8th
Well…running a little late today but not really since the time change was last night….have spent the past half hour just resetting all the clocks here and it is a pain….but, it was nice going out for the paper this morning and not having the sun in my eyes…slept okay last night but feel a little slow today and that is to be expected….I am a little sore from the bike ride yesterday and the shifter is giving me problems again…may have to get another one..but it was nice to get a good sweat going again….I may try the bike out again today when the temp comes up a little….not much to do today…have to do the prep work for the phone interview and watch the Wings but that is about it…..more later….