Kaptain’s Log

Wow, it’s been nearly a year since I wrote one of these things. A whole lotta changes since then… The price of a barrel of oil has gone waayyyy down so has gas, but not as much. (Thanks for nothing Wall St.) When the economy tanked, so did the price of crude, and while the price at the gas pump has returned to a more manageable number, if it had kept pace with crude it would be around 1.35-1.55 a gallon. And if you’ve been paying attention of late, the price at the pump only reacts when oil goes up. It should be an interesting summer. Read the rest of this entry »

… Been suffering from “Blogjam” lately. A lot of excess neural firings just building up between my ears. So here are a few in the hopes my brain will begin functioning again. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, well there’s no “and found” part of this, because things that are lost around our house generally stay that way. But I figured if I called this one “Lost” you’d think I was writing about the TV show, which I have never seen. I know this pretty much makes me a social outcast, because seemingly the rest of the earths populace wait in front of their sets for each weeks’ episode, but I just don’t find the show’s premise appealing. The same goes for Read the rest of this entry »

Well here it is, the summer driving season is upon us and with 4 + dollar a gallon gas it seems that they’ll be fewer of us driving. As someone who commutes roughly 50 miles a day, all I can say is Yah-freakin-hoo! I take the L.I.E. for the majority of those miles and I can tell you that most of the drivers I encounter are pros. You have to be because traveling at those speeds it just takes 1 idiot (and trust me, there is ALWAYS 1!) to screw things up. As an example Read the rest of this entry »

For those who have been reading this blog so far, you’ve probably realized that I’m usually sarcastically ranting about one thing or another. But not today, I’ll go back to being silly and irresponsible next week. I was struck by my colleague Glenn’s blog about the true meaning of Memorial Day, and I realized he has a point, we have forgotten what this day is about. Earlier this month, I Read the rest of this entry »

So have jingle writers become extinct? It seems these
days that classic rock songs are ubiquitous on radio
and TV commercials now? There have always been
instances of songs being used to sell product, but
usually the tune was put with new lyrics to reflect
the product (a fine example is Good Vibrations being
used to sell Sunkist orange soda in the 80’s) so at
least someone had to come up with an idea so that
there was a connection to what was being sung, and the
product that was being sold. Now I think Read the rest of this entry »

No, that’s not a new radio frequency. To me, that’s what the price of a gallon of gas should be. I just filled up my tank and it cost me $82.00 In the past, I have driven to Florida and not spent 82 bucks on gas! If your like me and got your drivers license in the 70’s you remember really cheap gas. (After I got my license, the first tank of gas I ever put in my ‘68 Plymouth Fury III cost me 11 dollars!) You also remember the oil embargo that led to gas lines, odd-even plate rationing, the Ford Pinto and the Chevy Vega! Remember people swearing that if the price of gas ever hit a dollar a gallon they would just stop buying it? I think Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the first in what might be a continuing series of musings and ruminations from the mind of a head full of useless information. Well here we are,  2008 an election year here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. and one of the hot topics is once again health care. Here in America we currently have a system in place that, depending on whether you have insurance, can ensure you’re fixed up in a jif, or possibly left in the hallway of the E.R. for 7 hours. More on that later. Our neighbor to the north has a system that, Read the rest of this entry »