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Once again it’s time to clean out the RSS feed.

I do this from time to time to keep the noise level down to a somewhat normal level. The amount of blogs I was following had crept over the 200 mark once again so I cut it down by 20.

I think this is going to be an onward trend. I have noticed that I am less likely to post if I see a subject has been hammered to death by other bloggers which ultimately makes me post less as a whole.

If I don’t see it being hammered to death by other bloggers I won’t be as discouraged to chime in.

So today the feed is lighter by 20.

Next week I am going to cut another 20.

That means if you are on my feed, you better make some memorable posts in the next week!

4 Favorite Foods

1. Cheeseburgers
2. Pizza
3. Spaghetti
4. Chicken Wings

4 TV Shows I DVR

1. Law and Order SVU
2. Family Guy
3. Ghost Hunters
4. Myth Busters

4 Movies I could watch Over & Over

1. The Rock
2. Superbad
3. American History X
4. American Psycho

4 Music Artists I’m listening to now

1. Seether
2. Three Days Grace
3. Miley Cyrus - I know, I know
4. Linkin Park

I see gas took another 10 cent jump yesterday afternoon brining the price per gallon to $3.49. Diesel quickly followed suite and raised to $4.15 a gallon, a modest 4 cent jump compared to gas.

I recently purchased an old Ford diesel pickup to replace my Chevy Duramax which I sold a few months ago. I needed something really cheap to pull my camper to the lake on the weekends until it sells. (Might as well use it if I’m paying for it…)

I was pleasantly surprised to see that this 1986 beast with 313,000 (yes thousand) miles makes just a hair over 20 mpg (actually 20.6 on the last fill) doing mostly town driving. Compare that to the 12.6 mpg my Chevy half ton gas pickup makes. (Which has recently become my daily driver ever since the transmission went out of my Monte Carlo about a month ago.)

When you break down the math, it costs about 28 cents per mile to drive the gas pickup versus 20 cents per mile for the diesel at current gas and diesel prices. Since I usually average 800-1000 miles driven per month, that adds up to $64-80 savings every month in gas/fuel costs if I drive the diesel truck instead of the gas.

I guess my daily driver is gonna switch to the rusted out 3/4 ton pickup even with fuel at over $4 per gallon as it is still the cheaper option…

Now only if that darn Monte Carlo hadn’t have bit the dust!

Yup, I’m still alive.

I’ve been playing around with twitter over the last week and have to say that it is quite interesting, although it really seems to be a lot of disjointed conversations happening at once.

Maybe that gets better the more you use it, but to a newcomer it may be somewhat overwhelming…

If you are wondering when your tax stimulus rebate check (ie: the government check that will go straight to your gas tank for the month) will arrive, look no further.

Nickel over at fivecentnickel.com has posted the time lines which show favorable to those that have direct deposit.

Here is when they will start sending rebates to those for whom they have direct deposit information:

Last two digits of SSN:
00 through 20 = May 2
21 through 75 = May 9
76 through 99 = May 16

And here is when they will start mailing checks to everyone else:

Last two digits of SSN:
00 through 09 = May 16
10 through 18 = May 23
19 through 25 = May 30
26 through 38 = June 6
39 through 51 = June 13
52 through 63 = June 20
64 through 75 = June 27
76 through 87 = July 4
88 through 99 = July 11

Visit his article for more information.

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