Passing Gas

Moonshine needed a fill-up today so I went to one of the BP stations by the Interstate exit. When I got there, the attendant was throwing "out of order" bags on the pump nozzles...they had sold out of regular and mid-grade. (Earlier my father told me that something like that had happened at the BP in "downtown" Dandridge.)

[Yes, I know what you're saying. I was brand-loyal to BP from when they were Amoco, and kinda wish they still were Amoco. But that's part of this story.]

So I went to the Shell on the other side of the Interstate overpass and fueled there. I noticed on the pump they were offering a new credit card with the following plan: buy more than 45 gallons in a month, and Shell will discount your tab by 5¢ per gallon, up to 100 gallons per month. In my head I crunched the numbers...my car gets, conservatively, at least 33 miles to a gallon in normal use. To qualify for the monthly discount, I'd have to drive over 1500 miles in a month to get...$2.25 in discount savings. And the maximum discount per month is only $5--only enough to pay for TWO gallons at today's prices.

My folks may be in the market to "renegotiate" our gas cards, but the above plan is gas worth passing. (Pun intended.)

Yes, There WAS Air Before Jordan

( And Phil Didn't Need A Roundball Anyway )

Brand New Key

Consequences of one spilled glass of iced tea...

Over the weekend Mum spilled a glass of iced tea on her twelve-year-old keyboard and killed half the membrane in it, so today we replaced the keyboard with a new one...

...Which her OS didn't recognize. So we upgraded her OS...

...Which made her computer forget the distinction of its own modem from a hole in the ground. And other sundry talents we find useful. So Mum's out of (online) circulation till we can sort this stuff out, and I accomplish the necessary troubleshooting.

Writer's Block: Evil Thoughts

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Unemployment is evil. So there is no way I can make it any more evil than it is. Other than somehow involving bacon.