Everyday Stupidities

Okay, just let you know: Things did not turn out as horrific as I feared. The modem arrived on Monday while Paige was still home to sign for it, I got home from work with enough time to set things up and be able to call Qwest before their office closed if need be, I plugged the modem into the livingroom phone jack as a test and it synched up, and I've been online with great happiness ever since. The speed isn't too shabby: about 1mbps down and 500kbps up. So I can rest better, whenever it is that I go to bed because now I have this zippy toy...

The stupidity of the moment is one we've covered before but I thought was no longer an issue. It can be summed up with the words: geez, I could swear the price of gasoline was $2.53 when I left the house yesterday, so why was it $2.67 when I was coming home? One of the local newscasters, warning us of the spike, gave some reason for it that you could tell by his face he realized made no sense at all. I suspect a bunch of places raised their prices because they were told the prices would possibly be going up. So at right is another one of those vehicles (circa 1949 but likely not as safe as a DMZ SuperCar) which prove that we can make internal combustion engines that get high mileage but yet we don't. Hey, anyone else beside me think this new Death Race 2000-variety TV show on FOX called "Drive" is setting a bad example?

Just wanted to let you know that I have no further gripes about the DSL setup and I'm not using dialup anymore. One slight complaint though: After years of being on dialup, picking up music files and such r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y, I now have a fat pipe, and those files I'm downloading off the peer-to-peers... are still coming in really freakin' slow. What?!? Either those people are on dialup or they're sharing with so many people their bandwidth is getting diluted. But it's still pretty fast on loading sites and downloading from webpages, so it's all good.