Prices Rise Again

Wow gas prices hit über high today at $3.10 a gallon in the Twin Cities! Prices down the road from my house were around the $2.72 - $2.79 mark. You can check out what the prices are in your neighborhood at Twincitiesgasprices.com. I guess I started to take the bus to work just in time. These high gas prices are just in time for our trip to the Wisconsin Dells this weekend. With the Cherokee getting around 14mpg on the hwy this should be fun. It will be nice to relax this weekend. Work has been really busy the last couple weeks and should continue until at least January because of the mail-in rebate test & holiday season coming up. All that is going on in the world today, the war, hurricanes, gas prices, tsunamis, bombings & all the violence in the world it almost makes you want to just leave everything behind and live in seclusion up in Alaska away from everything. I only mention this because I was watching TPT about 1 year ago and saw a story about a man named Dick Proenneke who set out to live in a pristine land unchanged by man. He built his own cabin in Alaska, hunted & fished for food & lived there for over 30 years. You can check out his video at Dickproenneke.com.

Katrina

Nothing new as of late. Hurricane Katrina has been kicking the crap out of New Orleans. That should be a fun clean up since New Orleans is practically at sea level. Reason #3 of why I live in Minnesota; NO HURRICANES which comes in at a close 2nd to Reason #4; No Earthquakes. Yeah it may get cold in the winter & you will develop the annoying Minnesotan accent but hey it's worth the risk...eh?

White Stripes

Good article in StarTrib today on the White Stripes. And NO Jack & Meg are not siblings. They were once married and Jack took Megs last name.

WhiteStripes.com

Tour De Lance

Why can't they just leave the guy alone. Stoopid media..
Lance Armstrong

iPod

After 2 days of riding the bus to work I have confirmed that I need an iPod. I am currently ripping my CDs to MP3s and I have roughly another 300 CDs to go. I am already up to 9,200 songs & just over 32GB of music. As much as I would love to have the 60GB iPod, I think I am going to get the 20GB version. I thought about it today and I am going to cancel my XM Radio service and then sell my Pioneer car deck with the XM tuner then buy a new car deck that is iPod compatible. So for those long road trips I will have most of my music library with me!

Free food, cheap beer...where's the restroom?!?!

A new BW3's was getting ready to open in Savage off of hwy 42 & 13. Before they grand open BW3's has these training events where they invite people from the community to come in for free food & $1 beers then they run everything like the would if they were open just so they can work out all the kinks before the grand opening. Corey got some tickets at work so we went over there yesterday around 11am. We both got some mild boneless buffalo wings and a beer or two. We were there for a couple hours because the video games were free too! After playing some Golden Tee & Bowling I felt like my stomach was about to fall out of my ass. I was just hurting! Remember that scene from Dumb & Dumber when Harry sits on the toilet at Mary's house? Yeah I felt like that. Again all day today my stomach has been gurgling & making fun noises. This little incident made me think of the Plush Microbes you can buy at ThinkGeek.com. Stomach Ache(Shigella) I solute you….

MVTA Here I Come

I checked the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority website and they have a bus leaving Apple Valley (1 block from my house) at 7:01am arriving at Best Buy at 7:42am then a bus leaving Best Buy at 4:52pm and arriving in the Valley at 5:34pm. Because of all the traffic I drive through every morning this will only add another 10-15 minutes to my commute PLUS Best Buy will pay for the MetroPass which will get me on any bus for free including light rail. So what do I do on the bus? Maybe catch up on some sleep or buy a MP3 player to listen too, I dunno….who cares I'm saving money.

Thanks Mr. W(anker)

On my way home from work today I looked off to the right of hwy 77 and see the BP sign with a price of $2.59-2.69 a gallon for gas!! This is just getting dumb! I need to do something because the Jeep is only getting 12-16mpg at best. I'm really considering taking the bus to work now. BBY will pay for the monthly pass as long as I use it so many days out of the week. If I take the bus I could potentially save up to $150 a month just in gas. Downfall to taking the bus is that there are only 2 times in the morning and afternoon where the bus stops at BBY Corp. & instead of 15 minutes to work it would be around 1hr because of all the stops. OR if someone wants to donate a car to me please let me know…I’ll take anything…Kia, Aspire, Echo…

Feel The Orange Inside

mmm...Sunkist is da best soda eva'.

Also thanks to PeteRyan.com I am now informed to what a "Muffin Top" is.

When Spiders Attack

We had a Discovery Channel moment at the Nordmeyer's house tonight when a HUGE barn spider that is growing on the back of their house kicked the crap out of a hornet that took a wrong turn into her web. The spider swooped down and rolled the hornet into a little ball of silk to preserve it for a little snack later. I hate spiders...

Day off

I was off from work today because I worked last Sunday. Since I was off I decided to swap out my 33" BFG M/T tires for the almost brand new 35" BFG A/Ts that have been sitting in my garage for the past month. Discount Tire was packed because they only had 1 person working the sales floor so after 2 hours of waiting and $92 later I now have the tires on my Jeep.

Corey stopped by and so we ran over to Wal-Mart for some 2 for $11 DVD's out of the huge metal bin at the front of the store. You can always find some oldies but goodies in that bin. After picking up a couple DVDs it reminded me I needed to make more shelves for all my DVDs so it was off to Mernards for some supplies. I think it is now time to sit down and relax for awhile.

BTW Congrats to Corey on his new job that he starts Tues!

Sporkkkkkkk........

Learned of a new site today.

Wikipedia

which is an online encyclopedia written/edited by anyone & everyone. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia is stopping by the Corp. Campus on Wed to talk about the site. Then Robert Stephens, Geek Squad founder and Chief Inspector, will unveil Best Buy’s own online version encyclopedia. YAY! So what does this have to do with a Spork you say...well on this day in 1970 the word "Spork" was trademarked in the US & UK. Altough this eating utensil has been around since the late 1800's. Yes Pete I know Wikipedia was so last year.

Learn more about the spork

Spork

Lunch WTF?

I bought 10 of these Michelina's meals (different flava's) at Cub foods a couple weeks ago for $1 a piece. These meals barely have enough food to feed a rat! Only 8oz each! I had the meatloaf today but I had to bring in 2 of them to nuke in the microwave to feed me. Although they do taste better than some I think I might have to look at the Hungry Man or Lean Cuisine meals. I guess $2 is better than going to Chipotle and spending $7.03 for a burrito and soda everyday for lunch. Yeah you heard me I said S-O-D-A…. stop calling it 'pop' people!!

Cheerio!

I enjoyed a delicious bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios this morning before heading off to work. Now I shall sit in my cube like the robot I am until 4:30pm while listening to Ben Folds 'Live' album working for 'The Man'.