krim wrote:

a tank of gas would only last me 4 days... even after the $100 gets taxed (it will be i just heard), i should get at least 2 weeks of gas outta that.

i certainly hope that gas prices will stop rising cause $3.35/gallon is just damn crazy...

probably 100 bucks just to fill a tank of gas for those gas guzzling Surburbans....thankfully i don't have one of those...

qilver wrote:

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i certainly hope that gas prices will stop rising cause $3.35/gallon is just damn crazy...

I saw on the Japanese news that over there gas prices are around $5.50-$6.00 a gallon

Which is fine since they have excellent public transit. And it's more expensive in Europe due to higher gas taxes which funds transit.

And sadly, we depend on our cars too much here. I am guilty of it. I can't do a commute of 2-3 hours, when it only takes me 1+ by car.

i wish i could take the rail to work... but it'd take 3 hours... vs 30 to and 45 back by car... not to mention the 3 train changes and 2 buses would drive me crazy.

krim wrote:

i wish i could take the rail to work... but it'd take 3 hours... vs 30 to and 45 back by car... not to mention the 3 train changes and 2 buses would drive me crazy.

Exactly. I can't remember how many transfers involving how many transit agencies it would take. And if I miss one transfer? Forget it.

AND, i'd have to walk 2 miles from the last train station to get to work, cause there's no direct bus.

AND i work at 6am, so i'd lhave to leave home at 3am...

You're preaching to the choir.

gaijin mark wrote:

qilver wrote: Quote: i certainly hope that gas prices will stop rising cause $3.35/gallon is just damn crazy... I saw on the Japanese news that over there gas prices are around $5.50-$6.00 a gallon

I would guess that's an estimate b/c I believe they sell gas by the liter over there. Plus, just about everything there is more expensive. I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of their oil is imported.

They have a few oil rig in an area claim by China too. Nothing much though.
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the annoying IT guy shaved his head again... the lice must have come back.

a list of things that went wrong this morning.


- phone system down
- T-1 slow
- email down
- offshore VPN connections refused
- 2 servers on the fritz
- 1 server drive died
- 404 error on our website
- sink is out of order
- A/C didn't work, office was 74 degrees at 6am
- clients not getting edi data
- server pushing incorrect data

Ouch...

A nice day to stay in bed.
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gaijin mark wrote:

qilver wrote: Quote: i certainly hope that gas prices will stop rising cause $3.35/gallon is just damn crazy... I saw on the Japanese news that over there gas prices are around $5.50-$6.00 a gallon

dang...that is crazy...

i was running a huge file (12+ million polygon) on server Glomgold using RDC, and i seemed to have crashed the server.

Good thing I took yesterday off. A waterpipe broke and they had to bring in some port-a-potties. I LOVE working in high-tech

guh, im transfering some data from north carolina, and its going at 10k/s, when it's usually 150k/s+... i'ts going to take another hour to complete.

im going home and let it run overnight.

I though i was a lush, but...

so they ran out of Duck Tales names, and now they're using liqour names.. the first batch of new servers is named, Rum, Vodka, Gin.

^ Nice. And I thought naming my machines after Japanese cities was creative.

im waiting for Single Malt Whiskey.

krim wrote:

guh, im transfering some data from north carolina, and its going at 10k/s, when it's usually 150k/s+... i'ts going to take another hour to complete. im going home and let it run overnight.

wow, an upload rate of 150kb/s

10 is slow though...