Eight & 500+

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Two completely arbitrary numbers today.

Got more than 500 miles on my last tank of gas (521.1 on 15 gallons - 34.7mpg for the division-averse) through a combination of putting air in my tires (ho hum), not hauling ass from a dead stop or doing 75 (those of you who've spent any appreciable time with me behind the wheel know how uncharacteristic this is), and what I'm sure confused the shit out of those nearby... turning the car off at stop lights. If it's just turned red, I'm not going anywhere for the next 45 to 180 seconds.

In much less globally-aware, but far more personally relevant news....

Today makes it eight years with Kim. Awwwwww....

Comments

[tylorael.livejournal.com]

8 years! Congrats!!!!!

[xany.livejournal.com]

Awesome news! Congrats you two!!!

[trid.livejournal.com]

Super much congrats on the 8 years!!!

I've been playing the same game with my work truck. We got a notice from ultramegacorp that they were trying to improve everybody's mileage and that the most improved would win a Home Depot gift card. They also gave everybody their current recorded mileage (since you key in your mileage every time you fill up at the pump)...mine was 6.85 mpg. Two things skew this: One was that I was working primarily at the Navy bases which were between 1 and 5 miles away. Ergo: lots of stop and go, and maybe 10 miles in a day. The other is that given this distance, I was using maybe a tank of gas (20-ish gallons) in around 3 weeks.
It seems kind of stupid that they laud 20+ mpg if you're driving 100 miles each way and filling up twice a week, but not 6-ish even though I'm using 6 times less fuel in terms of consumption.
Even so, I've taken to playing the game of putting it in neutral going down hills and such...I'm averaging around 18 mpg (getting kicked off the Navy jobs helped this, too). No sign of that HD card, though...I might have to bust some skulls :)

Also, I'm curious to find out how cutting the engine might work...I find that starting the car in the morning takes a chunk out of my mpg (gotta love those nifty dashboard computers) which I attribute to the cold-start injector blasting a huge volume of gas into the engine. I'm wondering if this is disabled when the car is warm (hence "cold-start" injector) or not? I'll add this to the game now :)

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

congrats on the 8 years :-)

i usually get around 450 out of a tank of diesel, but i'd get better if i drove a little slower out of intersections...

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Dunno how it works for trucks or for very recent vehicles, but about ten years ago, UW Engineering school was telling the local free paper that a typical new car used no more gas starting a hot engine than it used in 30 seconds of idle.

A fun keyword related to this is "hypermiling".

[the-tangent419.livejournal.com]

Congrats...me thinks the two of you are lucky that you randomly met each other.

As for the mpg thing...yeah...the chances of NOT going from 0-75 in nothing flat is not going to happen with me. :-P

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Congrats on both pieces of news, but big major squishy hugs to you both on the latter.

As an aside, if anyone did not have an idea what gender you are, you just outed yourself. :-)

A woman would have devoted the majority of text of this post to the latter issue, and a brief blurb on the former. ;-) Not that there is anything wrong with your gender. Oh, wait. No, there is. ;-P

(kiddingkiddingkidding... sorta)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

By this point, if people didn't know we started seeing one another just for the sex... well, they're new. ;-)

[theonebob.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the 500 miles per gas tank!

Oh, and the 8 years with Kimachu!

[trid.livejournal.com]

There are other reasons?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

You're asking *me*?