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Stress…

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

We all have it, some people handle it better than others, but is it something that we can control? I was driving to work the other day, and it popped in my head. I seem to have a lot of stress in my life, especially now and I was wondering if it was something that you could just…tune out.

I normally can handle a lot of things at once, and stress really isn’t a problem, but it has seemed to catch up on my lately. There are only a few things that I can do that actually makes me forget about any issues I seem to face and unfortunately I can’t spend all my time doing those things.
It’s a pretty lame blog post I know. I am trying to get back in the swing of things after not going at it for a while.

So, how do you make stress a bit more bearable in your everyday life? Any secrets, tips, or tricks?
-DH

Topping off?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Gotta get it even...

Gotta get it even...

Do you top off at the gas pump?

It stops at 31.20, do you bump it to the next dollar, or to the next .50 cents?

I always try to bump it to an even dollar amount, what is even worse is when I bump it up and I go over by .01. Jeez that is so upsetting.

Most vehicles it is not a problem to add that extra portion of gas after the pump shuts off. However as I say that, there is an exception. The Corvette.

In order to give the Corvette a good driving range they had to do dual 9 gallon tanks. There is one on the left and one on the right side of the vehicle and the are connected. The right fills up first, then spills into the left if I recall correctly.

Well when that sucker gets full…you might get another .20 before she will overflow. I definitely found this out through experience.

I have found that most pumps discourage topping off for whatever reason. Does anyone know why this is?

Regardless, I always top it off. Do you do this as well? If so, what is your reasoning.