dontwantaname wrote:Diesel is expensive right now.
It was over a dollar more than gas in the last station we saw it at.

When you compare fuel economy, it works out to favor diesel.

$3.24gal/28mpg = 12 cents per mile

$4.24gal/45mpg = 9 cents per mile

But there's only a 10-20 cent difference between diesel and premium, around here.

$3.62gal/45mpg = 8 cents per mile

dontwantaname wrote:I loved that black cloud! If the guy behind you was making me mad, I would just gun it and he would be covered in diesel smoke!

Which was good, because this was a late 70's VW and top speed was 70. Maybe. Downhill with the wind behind you.

Well that was with the luggage rack that we used camping.

We never got a speeding ticket and we had that car from FL to Maine to Louisiana a bunch of times.
Gave trouble on every trip, but never totally broke down.
We did have to push start it on one trip.
Had to make sure we were parked downhill, with nothing in front of us, so we could push start it.

WTheH, in your 20's nothing is a problem.

Where in Florida did you park downhill??

Just got an ad for Bed, Bath & Beyond. There's a BANANA SLICER. Plastic. One handed for easy use. Cuts 5 uniform slices at a time. Only $9.99. Oy!

Josephus wrote:It's pretty clear that one effect of the drugs is to convince the patients that they are not necessary any more. the drugs usually take weeks to do anything at all, and by the time they start working, they seem to be completely ineffective. Then, one of the things that happen is that they cause the patients to become much more enabled, and more likely to DO stuff. One of the things that they decide to do is to stop taking the meds. Blaming them for that is like blaming me for occasionally having insulin reactions because I have to take insulin 4 times a day to stay alive. If it isn't a side effect of the drug, it's an effect of the disease unmasked by the drug. either way, it shouldn't be blamed on the patient.

tl;dr. i blame you.

pooflady wrote:Just got an ad for Bed, Bath & Beyond. There's a BANANA SLICER. Plastic. One handed for easy use. Cuts 5 uniform slices at a time. Only $9.99. Oy!

Can't let my mom see that, she'll get one and then my sister will complain about how useless and silly it is.

The sheer quantity of weird kitchen gadgets amazes me. Mom loves them.

Mavyn wrote:Can't let my mom see that, she'll get one and then my sister will complain about how useless and silly it is.

The sheer quantity of weird kitchen gadgets amazes me. Mom loves them.

You don't think every kitchen needs one?

pooflady wrote:Just got an ad for Bed, Bath & Beyond. There's a BANANA SLICER. Plastic. One handed for easy use. Cuts 5 uniform slices at a time. Only $9.99. Oy!

What if my banana isn't uniform? o.O

pooflady wrote:You don't think every kitchen needs one?

The only thing my kitchen needs is a replicator

FenStar wrote:What if my banana isn't uniform? o.O

Then you'll have just one nonuniform slice.

FenStar wrote:

aren't there any rules against posting uncensored pictures of reproductive organs in the forums?

no1 wrote:aren't there any rules against posting uncensored pictures of reproductive organs in the forums?

Perhaps. I didn't resize it correctly so it looks unnaturally sharp and aliased though. I'm looking into fixing that.

EDIT: fix created if anyone wants to see it.

Evenin'.

edit: Wow.This is bleak.

Been playing with Ver3.

The facebook game Orc's been helping to develop goes to beta tomorrow (this time for reals), so I've been trying to dig out any other last minute bugs.

Oh and we have 2 feet of snow, but school wasn't canceled because for once the city was on top of the road thing and driving is not a pain at all. Kids were tunneling all over the school yard, easy day.

KtCallista wrote:Been playing with Ver3.

The facebook game Orc's been helping to develop goes to beta tomorrow (this time for reals), so I've been trying to dig out any other last minute bugs.

Oh and we have 2 feet of snow, but school wasn't canceled because for once the city was on top of the road thing and driving is not a pain at all. Kids were tunneling all over the school yard, easy day.

How do we sign up for the beta.

FenStar wrote:How do we sign up for the beta.

tell Orc you are interested on facebook. Or PM me (preferably on facebook) your facebook ID and that you want in.

Josephus wrote:It's pretty clear that one effect of the drugs is to convince the patients that they are not necessary any more. the drugs usually take weeks to do anything at all, and by the time they start working, they seem to be completely ineffective. Then, one of the things that happen is that they cause the patients to become much more enabled, and more likely to DO stuff. One of the things that they decide to do is to stop taking the meds. Blaming them for that is like blaming me for occasionally having insulin reactions because I have to take insulin 4 times a day to stay alive. If it isn't a side effect of the drug, it's an effect of the disease unmasked by the drug. either way, it shouldn't be blamed on the patient.

Hubby had a client in his social worker days that refused to take her meds. He got a court order and a social worker took her to the health department every so often for a shot. Of course this was in the early 80's. Things are different now.
edit: She was schizophrenic. Had been in the Marine Corp. Really bright lady when on her meds.

*sigh* borders did it again. I pre-ordered a book, which is now available in stores, and they immediately stuck it on back-order.

What is the point of pre-ordering a book?

No wonder they are going bankrupt. Arthurs

kdccrosby wrote:*sigh* borders did it again. I pre-ordered a book, which is now available in stores, and they immediately stuck it on back-order.

What is the point of pre-ordering a book?

No wonder they are going bankrupt. Arthurs

Had the same thing happen the only time I preordered from EA, never again.

Good evening. Granddaughter #1 and her SO came for dinner this evening and just left. Really nice sitting and talking to them.

Night all. Tomorrow.

Good morning.
Awoke with a splitting headache.The dog has an earache. I hope the day gets better.

Mornin'.

Good morning everybody!

Morning!

Yesterday around 2, I started craving chicken wings for dinner. Aha! Tuesday = Wing night at a local pub. Good choice.

It was busy when we got there, but we found seats at the bar. Ordered drinks. Waited. Flagged down the bartender to order wings. Guy next to us orders. Gal down from him orders. Couple on the other side order.

We wait. Get another lager. Wait.

Guy next to us gets his order.

Wait.

Gal gets her order.

Wait.

Annoyed...ask the bartender and we're told "It's wing night, it's really busy, some people are waiting up to an hour."

Canceled our order and left. I get that they were busy, but why would 2 people who ordered the same thing as us get their food AHEAD of us? And why didn't he mention that it could be up to an hour when we ordered? Jerk wasn't even apologetic.

Good morning chunder! At work, processing new transfer student transcripts for Psychology... we're getting swamped!

ThunderThighs wrote:Morning peoples. How goes it?

Got to call Gatz to wake him up at 5am for a site issue. Some mornings just start out great like that.

I bet he'll be thrilled. Wonder if he had a late night last night...

Blog updated

Morning. I wanna go back to sleep.

ThunderThighs wrote:Morning peoples. How goes it?

Got to call Gatz to wake him up at 5am for a site issue. Some mornings just start out great like that.

Was he coherent?

Morning everyone.

I was talking to an electrician yesterday who told me that the newer refrigerators are set so that if the surrounding temperature goes above or below certain degrees they shut off. They can be reset only three times. I'm sure hoping the one we have in the garage isn't one of those. The whole thing annoys me as much as the light bulb issue.

Doing some random unpacking.

Keep finding boxes labeled 'tee shirts'.

Good lord do I have a lot of tees.