Your printer won't print you FOIA request? I didn't even know that Halliburton made printers.

White House Easter Egg Roll

oooooh! WANT.

Instead, we're doing egg hunts at the gardens here.

It's for stores that give money back to local schools so teachers don't have to buy their students' school supplies out of the teachers' own money.

On the same level: last year, it turned out that the university gave (or probably sold) our (the students) cell phone numbers to a polling institute. I raged about it.

oooooh! WANT.

I'm not having much luck getting through. You're likely to have better weather, but this is my niece's last year of eligibility.

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.

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.

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.

No girls making out where I got my gas.

What a shame.

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.

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).