Month: May 2024

Ran over to my local gas station to top off the tank in the 300 and pick up a couple of 20oz sodas for the day… Something I’ve been doing at this particular gas station for over a decade now because they sell high-test that isn’t mostly water and I tend to drive super picky hotrods.

Yes, buying stuff at the gas station is more expensive than going to the grocers, but going to the grocers these days is an exercise in frustration with the crowds, lines at the self-checkout, and having to pay for the bags that you are bagging… I figure it would have taken a solid half an hour to get two sodas at the nearby Walmart – so I reserve that particular suffering for when I need to actually buy groceries.

Anyway, said gas station sodas in 2019 were two for $2 and I would grumble because I could get two 12oz cans at work for $0.50.

In 2021 those two sodas were two for $3 because end-of-the-world global-pandemic supply chain issues or something.

Last year I was irked because they were two for $4 and I figured that was essentially robbery.

Today they were 2 for $5 and I guess I’m done with gas station sodas.

Listening to "Rockstar" by Blue Stahli

Got word from my CFO yesterday that things are coming to a head with the company; Bidenomics are kicking our ass as far as operating costs and we don’t have enough business to offset them because Bidenomics is kicking everyone else’s ass too.

So it appears that after 20 years I will once again be job hunting.

Nothing is immediate so there’s no emergency… I probably have through the rest of the year to line up something and gracefully end things at the office. I have some potentials already, but I need to work on my CV first – which hasn’t been touched in over a decade.

And then there’s the fact I’ve not really interviewed for a job since before the turn of the century… My “interview” in 2004 for where I work now consisted of me walking in, talking to the project manager for about 45 seconds, and then sitting down in front of a PC to test a matrix of conditions for a game… Prior to this I had an actual two-part departmental interview for the IT position at Amerind in 1997. So, it’s been a while.

Listening to "Save a Prayer" by Duran Duran