When I hauled my trailer back from Vancouver this past weekend it was a penny cheaper than it was here when I refuelled here.
Just finished watching this, and it was actually pretty entertaining. A bit scripted and forced, but it's the pilot, so I expect them to get into a bit more of a groove as they go along. I'll be watching the next one.
Yeah I'm looking at about $1.79/gallon for regular gas. Diesel is a little more expensive, but not by much. It evens out with the increased mileage though.
When I lived in Manitoba, the gas prices NEVER changed. They did not vary one cent for months on end. Once or twice a year you'd see the posted rates change. In Ontario? It's cheap on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and they invariably spike it as much as $0.20/L on a weekend, in particular the long weekends. They don't even make an effort to hide that they're gouging. And being so close to the States, I don't know how they maintain it. There have to me lots of people like me who say, "Fuck it, I'll spend an extra 20 minutes driving and save myself $40.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the utilities here. They bill water/electric together, every other month. My bill last month? $690. Let me say that again: it cost me $690 to run the air conditioning and do laundry for one person in a 1000 square foot house. I run the dishwasher once or twice a week, and MAYBE do laundry once a month. Something like half the city saw their bills for hydro be over $1000. It literally costs more to heat this house than it does to own it. In Manitoba it's nowhere near that. I have a huge issue with the government taking a public utility and selling it to a private monopoly. The next house I buy I'll build, and I'll put in a well, a septic field, geothermal and perhaps solar panels. It won't tie into the grid and they can shove their nonsense up their ass. I'm already planning the argument I'll have with the county, because you can bet I won't be willing to pay a large property tax bill if I'm not hooked into the grid. Sometimes I think I should have been born in Texas or something.
The USA is about to enter it's death throes... But I put down some laminate flooring! How did you spend America's last day?
It's awesome. OCD wife so the dishwasher and laundry is going every day, but we're on a well so free water. It uses a little electric to run it but it's negligible. Septic sucks but I'll take the $500 pump out once every few years over a water bill. Middle of summer, 105 degrees outside and it's 72 inside, our house is about 2500 sq ft. Bill never goes above $650. And during the winter we just turn the electric off, don't really need heaters because the highs are still in the 50s.
Know what I'm really worried about today? Daylight savings, that is what I hate. Walked out of class at 5:15 and it was dam near dark.
Hahahaha, try living up in northern Canada. Well I only live half way up in British Columbia, basically the southern tip of the Alaskan panhandle.
Man is made to live on sunlight. I have no idea how you guys cope with November through April. I'm guessing drinking if I have to guess.
I have a 2500 square foot house. I pay my electric and gas together. I've never had a bill more than $160. Sewer and water cost an additional $30 a month. I've never been more happy to live where I do.
pffft, that's barely even North. When I was visiting my cousin up in Yellowknife a bunch of years ago, he said they lost something like 7.5mins of sunlight a day after June 21.
I think its socially acceptable to be hungover tomorrow right? I don't get how people can exist on subs. I would never pass the test do to do and assume those that do are robots.
You know, I don't think anyone proposed building a wall on the Canadian border. Come on down! Uh, or sideways, if that's appropriate. So, same as every Tuesday?
I have to say that I love this dark/winter weather. Working at home, I get up, cook breakfast, brew some coffee, turn on the fireplace, then sit down and code in a dark, cozy room. This weather is perfect for my productivity at work. If there's something I need to do in the daylight (like building out my trailer right now), I can schedule that early in the day and get it done, then work late into the night. Working for myself out of my home office is amazing... especially with clients that are as hands-off as my existing ones. Compare that with the job I had for the last two years where you had a President who had no idea how software development works, and had the archaic thought that nobody was working unless they were in a cubicle from 9-5, and it makes me so happy to be gone from there.
God, I hope so. Acceptable or not, I can make my projections on that right now. I'm such an election night junkie.