Economy Blowage

This struck me as downright annoying as I was driving home last night. Most days I go to work (i still maintain a day job, at least until i make 30 grand a year off a blog - SIGH) and sit at my desk doing whatever tasks I might have on the agenda for that given day, then like a trained monkey the end of day comes and I drive home completely unconscious of the world around me.

I'm a typical cubicle worker, I have no windows and have an office that is no more then 5 foot by 5 foot in total space. You math geniuses out there can do the math and whip up the square feet on that bad boy! So while I sit and toil for the man all day, I rarely get to see the outside world. This works to my favor on some days, like rainy days as I'd rather not stair at a dismal gray down pouring of rain anyway. However, it completely sucks when its 75 degrees and sunny outside, with little blue birds sounding the coming of the spring and summer seasons. It would be at least nice to get a ray of sunshine to my face once a day.

With that being said, once I'm out of work at the end of the day the last thing I do is actually pay attention to anything I'm doing on the drive home. Usually I completely zone out and just drive on auto pilot until I get home. This nice little zone out time was completely trashed yesterday when I needed to get gas because I was a complete dumb ass and didn't get it the day before, because at 3.29 a gallon I was too cheap.

Well F me hard the next day when low and behold the gas is now at 3.37 a gallon! Not only was my zone out time completely smashed, my sense of well being and positive outlook on my finances were now completely obliterated, and any hope of getting a retardedly yummy hot dog from the silver mini van stand at the corner were destroyed.

$50 later my tank was full and I was poor. Yah, you read that right, $50 for a tank of gas (15 gallons). I pin my lack of tasty hot dogs squarely on the greedy money grubbing oil companies who have posted record incomes the last few years, and on a public that is entirely too dependent on a substance that is controlled by a select few. Of course our government is going to do a damn thing about it since they all have ties to the oil industry. Now this really only applies to readers in the states, as people from abroad seem to have a much more stable relationship with gas prices and the ability to work without it.

Ok I'm done ranting for now. Off to find some cheaper replacement for yummy silver mini van hot dogs.