The Workermonkey

Monday, April 03, 2006

working like a monkey 

# posted by ron @ 4/03/2006 09:39:00 PM

I have been working hard but there's no good story associated with that. Just hours of clicking and some extra gas money in the check.

I added up my march gas bill. Between driving to work, fucking around and one trip to VT to pick up a road bike: 270$. So minus the VT trip and I'm right round 230$. For the sake of ease, if I paid an average of 2.30$/gallon thats 100 gallons of gas. (Probably less because i probably paid more like 2.50$/gal). Burn baby burn!

Brian, nice crazy bitch story. As a side note, the band Buckcheery has a new single out called "crazy bitch".

Damon, I dont want to hear any lip about burning 100 gallons a month. I'd burn 10x more if it was cheaper. How can a single person like me ever make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions? Someone should really look into that, but first we should study more prayer and medical benifits.

The sun is out longer, the biking hours are getting better. I got another bike, but I find myself saying, "things should be better, why aren't they?" I'm not really talking about my life. Things are pretty good, I'm sure they could be better (they all ways could, right?). I'm talking about other things like, take for example my visit to the boston museum of science saturday to see the star wars exhibit. It was really cool. On the way out however, we had to wait in line to pay the parking ticket (inside the museum, instead of in the parking garage). We paid, and they handed us another ticket. We then put that ticket into an automated ticket taking machine, that an attendant was "watching?" I dont know what he was doing. why why why? There has to be some reason. Thats the most recent thing that comes to mind. That and traffic. I hate traffic. My poor car is going to have a toasted clutch by the summer. I utilize the first gear crawl but it still sees 10x the wear than it usually would. Then as a result of being annoyed by traffic I drive really fast otherwise. I took the exit 10 ramp on 9S at close to 70 last week. It was awesome, but I'm gonna be dead if I screw that one up some day.

One thing is for sure, just saying "why" and "things should be better" isn't going fix a damn thing.

rpl out!

4 comments

I don't care you burned 100 gallons, I am just glad it cost more now. I wish it cost $4 a gallon or more.

That article was weird, had a lot of negativity, but tried not to sound too bleak I guess. More estimates that say the temp by 2100 will be about 1.5-6 degrees C higher , which is 1.8 times more increase than that article said.

A road bike? How did that happen?

By  Damon, at Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:57:00 AM  

Easy man. Easy. You are going to burn yourself out! I'm trying to tell you to take it easy on the coffee and working hours. Its just not healthy. It builds up inside you slowly then before you know it stupid things like automated ticket machines and traffic are making you want to burst.

Jesse, we could use some calming wise words over here. The monkeys are rattling their cages.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:47:00 AM  

I'm comparable to you on fuel, if not worse. You were behind me in traffic on Rt. 9 the other day - I could tell from the bike rack. Saw some pretty deft maneuvers!
I don't mind burning oil, because it'll cause peak production to run out that much sooner.
Than we'll switch to hydrogen.
Then we'll find a better energy source.
Then finally by the year 2300 we'll have figured out the power of prayer.

The geeks of the year 2300 will have t-shirts with in-house humor like "ask me about my prayer transducer."

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:52:00 PM  

A better shirt was in the MOS gift shop, "Vader was Framed" with darth vader's head on the front of it. I almost pulled the trigger.

By  ron, at Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:14:00 AM  

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