Ok, so I lied in my last post. I am actually telling you the day AFTER tomorrow. My bad. A girl gets busy, ya know?

So anyway, my experiment was actually a nice success. I actually did not think it would make a difference, doing 65 on the highway, just b/c of all the city driving I have to do.

But instead of the average of about 335 miles per tank of gas I usually get, I made is to right around 400 miles on that tank.

That’s over a 50 mile difference! I believe 50 miles in my cute little hyundai takes about 2 gallons or a little less of gas. I was able to go an extra 50 miles, which equals 2 gallons, which equals about $8 (I like nice round numbers, thank).

That’s basically the equivalent of saving $8 everytime I fill ‘er up. So, let’s say I fill ‘er up 4 times a month (that’s about accurate, sometimes it’s closer to 3 times) and I spend about $50 like I said, I like round #s). I spend easily around $200 a month on gas - if I save $8 each time, that’s 4 x 8 = $32 a month. 32×12 = a number too big for me to do in my head. Hold up, calculator check - well shit, I could save $384 a year!!

Ok, that’s it. I need to permanently get the lead out of my damn foot, that’s for sure. So there you have it, a real life experiment. If you don’t believe what you hear, then believe me since I actually did it. You can get way better gas mileage and wind up saving a couple hundred bucks a year just my slowing down a bit ont he highways.

Don’t get it twisted, that shit was hard to do b/c I’m an impatient person…but I also like saving money. I think the penny pincher in me will win over the impatience in me.

Shout out to PennsylvaniaGasPrices.com, since I used their site to help find me the cheapest gas in Lancaster. I believe they have one of those for every state, you just swap out Pennsylvania with your state of choice.

Happy traveling!

So my co-worker just told me an interesting tidbit: When GW first got into office way back in the beginning of 2001, gas prices were only around $1.42 (I believe that’s either a national average, or in PA alone, not sure which one.)

So now multiply that by 3, and that is most likely what gas prices will be when he’s out the end of 2008. Shoot, HOPEFULLY they’ll be that low. To listen to everyone else tell it, they’ll be much closer to $5. Ouch.

It’s just wrong when an 07 Hyundai Elantra costs over $50 to fill up. WRONG I TELL YOU!

I did, however, conduct an experiment. Those far more versed in automobiles then I have told me that you get optimal fuel efficiency on the highway going about 55-65mph. The quick research I did online verifies that info as well.

Me, being the lead foot that I am, drives an average of about 90mph on the highway and 50-55mph in the city (where speed limits are 25-35). So um, yeah, I like to go fast. What can I say, I’ve got road rage, I’m working on it.

So about 2 weeks ago I had decided that I’d run my car till it was on E, fill ‘er up and then do EVERYTHING IN MY POWER to never go above 70mph on that tank of gas. You have no idea how hard it was.

Usually, I’ll get between 325-350 miles per tank of gas. I wanted to see if I could beat that when I was driving my car at “optimal fuel efficiency speeds”.

So I did it. I ACTUALLY controlled my lead foot enough to conduct the experiment.

Maybe you’re wondering how it went? Well…I’ll tell you…tomorrow.

K thanks bye!

So far no one I know has heard this song Handlebars by Flobots. What’s up with that? It’s a good song, great beat, intense lyrics - they call it hip hop, I think it’s more of a punk hip hop or even rock hip hop if you will. Take a listen to it over here at Project Playlist. I call it a message song - I think I sometimes split music into 2 categories - songs that have a message, that make you think or have something to say - and songs that are strictly entertainment, with a sick beat and catchy hook.

Anyway, the first time I heard Handlebars it made me think and I immediately started trying to dissect its message or theme. I think it’s a leftover habit from my college Lit courses (I loved them). It kind of reminded me of a bit of a dig at Bush, but it more so made me think about the potential of a human life as it grows, what it finds important, what signifies power - and just how scary and powerful we can grow. If this sounds crazy, you probably haven’t listened to the song yet!

Anyway, I found this site that gives lyrics and then people comment about what they think the songs really mean, or what they’re really about. Maybe I have too much time on my hands, but I though that was pretty cool.

I also thought it an appropriate temporary tagline for the site as I learn and grow, till I finally pick a direction to go in with this and restyle and rename as needed. I’m a smart cookie and have a lot of skills that will help me build an awesome site. Um, I just have to learn the basics first.

With my MushBlue 1.0 theme goin on! So although I am pretty darn knowledgeable when it comes to matters of Internet Marketing, SEO, copywriting, etc, I haven’t actually had my own website since um…1998 or 99 perhaps? Either way, it was back in the day when I was proud as all get out the day I was finally able to code frames into my html. Woooooo. But anyway, I’m just a little intimidated by this whole thing, just because it’s a brand new experience.

As a matter of fact, it was really my awesome coworker that hooked this up, Mr. Alex Barger - he showed me how to set up the site, get a host, download the WP theme. Hope I paid good attention for when I have to do it again for a new site!

I’m pretty pleased with this theme so far, but I’ve really only looked at the design, not actual functionability. I’ll have to see about that as I play around. Took me forever to decide on a theme though - I kept finding ones I liked for OTHER site ideas I had that I’m not ready to start yet. Figures.

This is also my first time with the new version of Wordpress - we still use the old one at work. It’ll be nice to get to know a new interface - hope it’s an easy one!

My first mission - find out to edit or delete categories. They got the add part all big… eh, TBC…

Update: Um, yeah, categories interface is the in the same area as in the old wordpress. Where’s my “That Was Easy” button?