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Also having a nice camera helps. I have a Canon Powershot A20. It only has 2.1 megapixels but the quality and color are great. I'm very satisfied w/ the camera.
I got an A40 myself. Nice color, decent auto features. Can take blurry shots (I think pictures come out better w/o the flash), so I use a tripod (or a box) when I can. Using the 2s timer can help too, as I'm not moving the camera by pressing the shutter release button, for shots of scenery or people posing anyway.
Mazdafun, what will you do???
Guess there aren't enough drivers around here interested. Bummer, but figures. They're pretty incompetent around here anyway (almost got run off the road by an Altima yesterday on my way to the airport....tried to merge into my front-left fender).
Guess I'd better check their website and see what's left that perhaps I can drive to. Thanks for the heads-up.
Hey, turns out I'm going to the NPE show right afterwards in Chicago anyway. Looks like a long week for me there (if I get the OK from my wife...that is a significant amount of time away).
It would be great to see you there.
--Dale
2. Buy Hello Kitty scarf.
:P
2) Buy Hello Kitty Scarf and prance around wearing it all day.
Not my kind of car, though. Not quite as nimble as I'd like. It's a demon and I prefer a dancer, if you know what I mean. Boy was it fun to mash the throttle, though!
-Larry
There is only so much to say about your car and without the ability to have a little off topic discussion, I know for me, I've just gone elsewhere.
I'm trying to be good and not post during the day anymore. Seems I have this job I'm supposed to be doing.
Don't know what the other slackers...I mean, Protege owners...are up to.
I only have a limited amount of time to surf the web here at work; lately mine's been occupied by the Yahoo group and, moreso lately, CNN, MSNBC and BBC (the latter because of the free video and faster coverage).
And besides, the Protege is just another appliance ... frankly it looks and drives just like any other Focus, Jetta or Cavalier out there. I don't get what all the hype's about.
Meade
What do you mean "appliance". I love my Protege. It's always there for me, beckoning me to find some curvy backroad and drive it to its limit.
It just has been busy, plus all the news and NCAA stuff going on. And don't even get me started on yard work. I keep thinking about chopping down the deciduous trees on my yard and putting up evergreens. Geez, I've only raked maybe a tenth of my yard and I've got 3 yard waste bags full of leaves and branches.
There. Enough?
Beckoning me to put in one more stained dish and test its limits with cheap off-brand detergent.
Yard work? Been there, last weekend, done that. Got the dirty fingernails to prove it. Fired up the ol' Craftsman 21-inch, 5-hp mulcher (ar ar ar) for the first time this season too. Didn't take too many pulls and cuss words either. No, the cussing started when I decided to transplant several azaleas, some well-established mums and a leeland cypress tree.
Got to fire up the brand-new electric hedge trimmer for the first time too. (Ar, ar, ar.)
Then I spent some quality time washing the Protege.
But that's just an appliance.
Meade
zooooommmmmm..zooommmmmm is the key word for Spring!!!!
all the right measurements
she's made me into a six freak
not too powerful; just right
I find myself daydreaming
of handling her all night
I wouldn't call it an over abuse of care
but my wife is slightly jealous
of my six love affair
Why have you been hiding your talent all this time??
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(whew, that was an easy way out)
May excite the likes of Hans Blix
But those on the go
Prefer, don't you know
A ride we've seen only in pix
I speak, O my friends, of the Three
Whose appearance I yearn for with glee
I'll go zooming past Malt
And it won't be his fault
That his engine's from Ford Company
It's already compared to a Beamah
And it's goin' to be quite a screamah
So get yourself ready
And keep your sights steady
On the next big thing from Hiroshima!
Meade
forgetting malt has 4 times his kid,
aside from that error,
trying to inflict such terror,
the 6 will stand tall as it did.
While malt has loved his cars small,
most cannot fit his kids, all,
but the 6 has that balance,
from hood down to valance,
and never neglects to answer its call.
So while the 3 will be bad [non-permissible content removed],
and cause detriment to the Civic mass,
I will not fear,
the end is not near,
As I'll grab one for the odd weekend pass.
When she should've put it in reverse
Some guy smashed her glass
What a pain in the, er, rear
And then made off with the girl's purse
But please don't let that make you frown
That's not all going on in Chi-Town
If you just hate the war
Or don't know what it's for
You can riot till the cops bring you down
Yes, Chicagoans - they'll take the blows
For punching Free Speech in the nose
They'll riot in rain
But Dale won't complain
As long as she closed her windows!
Nor whimper for your love I'll bleat
But let your tongue wag
While of roominess you brag
Why the 6 has a puny back seat?
He's quibbling over a fraction
Besides, we love Mazdas
(And nothing rhymes with "Mazdas")
I think we've both found satisfaction
O malt, you big pain in the butt
You come across as all-knowing King Tut
But you don't fool me once
And I'm not such a dunce
To know we both like good beer and good smut
So just keep in mind as you labor
To use verse and meter as saber
That since we're both right
Why the hell do we fight
Owning Mazdas makes me your neighbor
I know to you I'm just a speck
To meet me would take quite a trek
But when I chose my ol' Pro
I made your employer some dough
So thank me when you get your next check!
Paul's crab meat can't be beat, it's so complete.
Meade's son is young and Spring has sprung.
Dale is cool, she is a teach in a reform School.
-Lord Love Handle
OK, I can't compete with you all.
I'll stop before I take a big fall.
In my wounds Malt is pouring the salt
He complains that the Three
Won't fit his family
When it isn't the Protege's fault
You see, maltb has chosen his slot
In the Edmunds Protege owners spot
But as his family he grows
I sure hope that he knows
It's time to visit the MPV lot
Sir, you've outgrown the family sedan
So enjoy that 6 while you can
But you'd better buy two
Or a trailer hitch too
Or just buy that big box minivan
You attack like a big Brontosaurus
My skin feels all prickly and porous
But as I reach for the suture
I think of the future
When the 6 becomes Ford's newest Taurus
Your place has great corn on the cob
But on the subject of rhyme
Your verse reeks with slime
Take heed and don't quit your day job!
Please resume your afternoon mirth making. Maybe Dale could give out a Gold star to some lucky poet.
Mmmm...Brontoburgers....
They've found out in dry desert zones
When Mike comes out to play
And joins in the foray
By slamming, of all things, Flintstones
Hee hee, this is too much fun!
Meade
In other words:
"Yes, we're talking about heaps of old bones
They have found out in dry desert zones"
I see your point about using "they're" to refer to where the bones are found. I was referring to people finding them.
Whatever!
Meade
Holding dictionary and thesaurus high
But across this great land
They call me "Wordman"
Word of caution Mike, don't even try!
But wait? Why is that not OK?
For as I leave this room
The urge grips me to zoom
Time to fire up the ol' Protege!
Zoom zoom! See you folks tomorrow!
Meadeball
To see what in fact I have said?
It happens to be,
It is an MPV,
That shuttles my kids home before bed.
Although the MPV is the kind,
and quite a minivan in my mind,
There still needs to be,
a ride suited for me,
yet hauls the kids on the daily grind.
The back seat you speak of is a farce,
Not one has said room is sparse,
but having had a Pro,
with three kids on the go,
was a major pain in the [non-permissible content removed].
But now I bring this to a close,
my time is spare as my prose,
the 6 has a hitch,
pulls like a som'[non-permissible content removed],
and to you I turn up my nose. (not really, but the rhyme was there)
Meade