Friday 20 April 2012

MrGrumpy and another blue sky day

MrGrumpy woke again at 5:25am, annoyingly he seems to wake up at this time every day, it leaves just long enough to fall asleep again before the alarm goes off at 5:45am. MrGrumpy decided to have a snooze for a few more minutes, doh, 6:02am, the fifteen minutes had gone in a blink of his tired eyes.
Dawn is just starting to break at 6am in California, MrGrumpy has his Cornflakes followed by Orange Juice, and then takes his daily Anti-Histamines, by the time he is ready to leave it is quite light, the blue cloudless skies suggest another nice day is to follow.

MrGrumpy's Mustang heading to work @ 6:34am
MrGrumpy checks he has everything he needs for the day (keys, tag, wallet, phone, laptop, camera)  and heads off to work. Today MrGrumpy was going to see if he could remember the way to work without the aid of the SatNav, he should be able too, it is quite a simple route. Strangely the route to and from work (as supplied by the sat nav) are different, making it a circular route, probably due to not being able to turn left somewhere. But anyway MrGrumpy fires up the Mustang and heads to work.

Success, MrGrumpy found his way to work, without any issue, the car park is pretty empty at that time in a morning, most people don't arrive much before 9-10am. MrGrumpy parks the Mustang next to the Tomota Airmchair, he still has it, just in-case something goes wrong, he will return it next week assuming all is well. MrGrumpy has found something which is not ideal with the Mustang, the drivers seat is showing major signs of wear and fatigue after its 159K miles, the foam has just about given way. MrGrumpy decided that it may be worth getting the seat rebuilt, as he is planning on doing quite a lot of driving at weekends over the next year.

MrGrumpy used the MrGoogle and MrYelp to search out a good auto upholstery shop, he found one quite local (well about 15 miles away), it turned out to be quite a good find, an elderly MrDavis, second generation upholsterer. MrDavis was surprised at the good condition of the Mustang, this made MrGumpy a little happier about his purchase, they discussed the options of how to repair / rebuild the seat. It turns out that in the 1990's Ford built their seats by simply filling the seat covers with Expanding Builders foam (effectively)  and with time that just breaks down, there is no additional support within the seat cushion. So no wonder it has given way after 14 years. MrGrumpy got a quote and went back to work to think about it.
After giving it some thought, MrGrumpy decided to apply some "gordonomics"(tm), as he had spent less than he expected on the Mustang, he had some more to spend on fixing it. He rang MrDavis and said he would like to go ahead and get the seat rebuilt.


MrGrumpy has notices there is something about 1998, his Porsche is 1998, the Mustang is 1998 and he got married in 1998, so maybe good things come in threes as well. This along with the 26 degree C sunshine and clear blue skies make MrGumpy much less grumpy, in fact if he was not so far away from his family and friends he may not any where near as much of a MrGrumpy as he is.

Today was a special occasion at MrGrumpy's office, it was the first Friday since both offices in the bay area had merged, there was a free company lunch, which turned out to be quite tasty and came complete with Beer. As the sun is out and MrGrumpy had eaten he decided that he would leave the office around MrKeef o'clock and take a drive up into the mountains.

1 comment:

  1. MrAudiophile was surprised to see MrKeef in the office at 15:45 on Friday. Then the cheeky b**ger left before me.

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