Egg hunts (on the East Coast anyway) should be a little more pleasant this year, since it's later. One year recently (last? I can't remember) we were in winter coats and freezing our butts off.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Mar 26, 2009 5:49:18 am PDT #12380 of 30000
Because books.
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2009 6:34:21 am PDT #12381 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I gassed up my car today and I'm pretty sure the tank didn't get completely full. I don't know why the cutting off point while filling up seems to vary so much. I calculated 45mpg from that tank, which is too good to be true. The tank before yielded a crappy 28mpg.
My wife also fueled up her car yesterday. She reported that there were two teenage girls making out furiously in a VW Bug parked at a different pump. She said she was trying to will the pump to go faster so the kids didn't notice and start asking questions.
No girls making out where I got my gas.
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2009 6:49:12 am PDT #12382 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I gassed up my car today and I'm pretty sure the tank didn't get completely full. I don't know why the cutting off point while filling up seems to vary so much.
I think when you fuel a car, sometimes air gets trapped inside the tank, causing gas to back up through the gas tank fuel tube thingie which triggers the "tank is full" sensor in the pump.
I calculated 45mpg from that tank, which is too good to be true. The tank before yielded a crappy 28mpg.
Yeah, you really need to do a running average over multiple tanks to get an accurate MPG amount.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 26, 2009 7:44:26 am PDT #12383 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
No girls making out where I got my gas.
What a shame.
Liese S. - Mar 26, 2009 7:45:43 am PDT #12384 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Thanks Kathy! I think I could do some of that. Although I don't drink pop much, but I do sugar up my hot drinks.
Plagiarism is so stupid and annoying. Kids need to step up and do the work.
Hee to Gud re: the Halliburton printer. Maybe it'll print the FOIA papers and shred them at the same time.
I miss our old version of our current van. (In weird news, the scrap guy we sold it to for a grand rebuilt it and was using it as his personal vehicle, which we resented. And then last month he died of cancer unexpectedly. It was awful in a peripheral, I don't know what to make of this, way.) That van had the dohickeys that calculated your current and ongoing mpg, so we could adjust our driving styles to maximize.
Of course, about the best we do with both of those vans is 17mph. We really could do with a more efficient vehicle. But we need the 4wd, or at least the awd, or we couldn't get out of our street. I dunno any subcompacts with 4wd.
Glamcookie - Mar 26, 2009 7:47:44 am PDT #12385 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
She reported that there were two teenage girls making out furiously in a VW Bug parked at a different pump.
Aw! Baby dykes are so cute!
cupcake vs. donut
Cupcakes are delicate flowers while donuts are squat, fried, and dense. My money's on the donut (though I'd prefer to eat the cupcake).
Trudy Booth - Mar 26, 2009 7:48:22 am PDT #12386 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Rock ON, Kathy!
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2009 7:51:18 am PDT #12387 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Of course, about the best we do with both of those vans is 17mph. We really could do with a more efficient vehicle. But we need the 4wd, or at least the awd, or we couldn't get out of our street. I dunno any subcompacts with 4wd.
Ford Escape Hybrid?
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2009 7:51:58 am PDT #12388 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Suzuki and Subaru make 4wd compact cars.
Theodosia - Mar 26, 2009 8:02:59 am PDT #12389 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I wouldn't call my Forester compact, but it's Not Large, and it's AWD, and gets mid-20s mpg.