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Cisco chump

I passed my final CCNP exam today!  This has nothing to do with cars but will remind me I need to renew it in 3 years.  I celebrated with tea and toast, a nap on the sofa, then Toy Story 3 in the evening.  It was very good, which is just as well as the novelty of 3D cinema has already worn off for me.

Soft Top Sunday at Goodwood

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I haven't posted much recently because nothing has broken.  It's quite astonishing, although the MX has seen no track action it's covered thousands of miles in the past few weeks, much of it in juvenile idiot-mode.  It does chuck out quite a bit of blue smoke on the overrun sometimes, and the oil pressure isn't all it was... I've never rebuilt an engine before, could be a winter project. I went to the Goodwood Breakfast last weekend, with a few other MX5s and TVRs I met up with in Guildford (it was a gentle quiet drive and no laws were broken, OK?)  I've never seen it so busy, cars were arranged around the track as far as the eye could see.  Here are some photos - 2 of them are cars I am considering buying, can you spot them? I've carried out the foamectomy of the MX driver's seat, and so far it's excellent.  I sit a good couple of inches lower in the car, and suddenly everything is in the right place - the instruments, steering wheel, door mirro...