3 Simple Ways to Get Greener and Save a Few Thousand Bucks

Burn less oil. Save at least $1,400.

At today’s fuel cost of about $4.00 a gallon, If you drive about 300 miles a week, the annual fuel cost to commute in a 17 mile per gallon SUV is about $3,529 a year, or $294 a month. Switching to a car that averages 29 miles per gallon saves you about $1,460. That’s more than $120 a month. Assuming gas prices stay constant (!??), you will save more than $7,000 if you keep your fuel-efficient car for 5 years.

The Political Prime Directive

Cecil Rhodes, of Rhodes Scholarship fame,
who had noting to do with this.
Lord knows why it was deleted from Wikipedia.
Rhode’s Law
When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose [...]

You’ve got to love the English language.

Here is a word I admire so much, I’ve named this blog in its honor. I am particularly fond of “an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus” as an apt descriptor for these posts.
eructation – a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
belch, burp, burping, belching
ejection, forcing out, expulsion, [...]

Jumpin’ Off…

If you asked me to give you a term that defines the life I lead, I’d say “journey” fits. But it’s usually in the looking back that I see the pattern.