Nick Postagulous
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Yellow
Yesterday, I ordered the shocks, gear oil, and chrome palm tree license plate surround from JCWhitney. The shocks are Gabriel Gas Ryders, or that was what they used to be called. Now they are just Gabriel and then some number. They are the cheapest shock that Tokico makes. They are sold here under the name Gabriel. Gabriel is a good brand for SUV style shocks, but are considered cheap by the Miata crowd.
I also ordered my shock boots. JCWhitney didn't have any, so I ordered from some SUV shop online. I had to say I had a GMC Suburban to get them. But I ordered (I swear I did) red shock boots. Late last night, they send a confirmation that they shipped my Yellow shock boots. I printed out the thing at work. I'll check when I get back Monday. But red or no red, those are the boots that are going on.
The reason I'm ordering Suburban shock boots rather than Miata, are because I'll reuse the bump stops and just zip line the new boots on where the old ones have fallen apart. Picture here. I'll be using Hakuna's method for the boots. But I'll be using Bob Cohen's Method pretty much the rest of the time, as I have no intention of separating the ball joint at the front. It's pretty similar to this and might be the same as what the Sandiego guys did, but I haven't read theirs.
Hunter
This morning, after some mega-shopping for the babyness, Alison and I went to Atlanta Bread Company. One of the people eating there looked familiar. And he was. It was Hunter Johnson who I went to school with from first grade all the way through twelth. I wasn't sure that he was at Dead Astronaut High School with me, but there were 4000 of us there, so who can tell. He was. As was his wife, who I'd never seen before. In fact, they hadn't met in high school. He doesn't live here anymore but down in a town between to larger town, near I-20, east of Birmingham. He has two sons, six and two. We talked with him for about ten minutes outside the place before Alison and I went to Baby's R Us (unproductively) and then Target (productively).
