Psst, buddy! Wanna save 30 cents a gallon?

Or, if you live in Beverly Hills, make that forty cents.

I'm doing a pure shill here, because none of us are in a position to waste money on stupid shit when we don't have to, when there are so many better things to waste money on when we're not wasting it on stupid shit.

Get a K&N air filter.

Seriously. I've kept a freaking spreadsheet of every cent I've put into Zim since I bought it three years ago, and in the year and a half since I got one, my MPG has gone up 10% (from 27 to nearly 30).

Since I average almost 50 miles a day on my new commute, this is decidedly non-trivial. Doesn't make me any happier about the inflated fuel prices, but it takes a touch of the sting out.

Need to get one for K's car soon (they didn't have the 33-2293 in stock when she first got it). Plus, her commute's about to go from 10 miles in heavy traffic to a mile and a half in almost no traffic at all, all of which is happy-making, even without the niftiness that is going back into her field of choice. :-)

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fridayfiver
1. When is the last time you were broke?
- I apparently invoked some sort of balance-transfer djinn two weeks ago after paying some bills online.  If you subtract what I owe from what I've got, technically, I'm in the hole anyways, and have been since sometime in late 2001.

2. What makes you lose focus?
( o ) Y ( o )

What were you saying?

3. How tall are you?
- Five eight and a half-ish.

4. Are you brave or cowardly?
- Circumstantially, either.

5. What's in your pocket?
- My money clip, which has some cash, my licence, two credit cards, and a Smoothie King stamp card in it.

thefridayfive
1) How do you feel about people who commit suicide?
- That they're dead.  I assume they have a good reason for it and they think they're better off.

2) What do you think people say about you behind your back?
- Shit that's probably true as far as it goes, from their perspective.

3) If you could own and operate any major business, what would it be?
- I assume that you're not going to allow "The United States Government" as a valid answer, even though it's obviously up for sale and grossly mis-managed.

4) Are you/would you be embarrassed to talk to your friends or family about sex?
- Look, if somebody doesn't start talking about sex at the dinner table when we eat with my folks, something's wrong.

5) In some cultures, young women are married and begin families as soon as they start a menstrual cycle. Do you believe this is right or wrong? Why?
- Nope, not keen on the arranged marriage thing.  Then again, it can't be any worse than the selected partner thing that's working like crap for most people in America today.  Frankly, if you're going to be in an arranged obligation, there should be some built-in leeway to occasionally fuck someone else so you don't grow bitter and resentful.  Having feelings isn't something that's capped at a finite sum.  Anyone surprised I'm such a fucking free-love hippie?  Kiss my ass.