Protection of Knowledge

In order to have more money in this world you must be smarter then the other guy. While its good to help people every once in a while and help them move up you also need to keep your secrets to yourself in order to bring your value up. So if you keep your best secrets to yourself, then your value will be high in the field you specialize in...

Here lies the problem with society.. If people are too afraid to reveal there secrets.. We'll naturally get dumber as a society because people will only remember the secrets to getting the most money.. Is money what this life is all about??

Music to My Ears

Now that the band is back together we've been thinking about recording a CD... Just down the street and doing it quasi professionally again... I've been thinking that we could basically do that type of CD if we just had the proper equipment to accomplish this task.. Therefore I've been putting some real thought into finally buying the proper mic kit i would need for my drums..

Have a look...

We'd probably need a new mixer also but that's currently in the works... (or we'll see pile)

I'm also getting ready for a trip down to Columbia Maryland this Thursday to see Wilco play. To get ready for the concert i am taking all my wilco cd's to work to refresh my mind and to be able to sing along with the lyrics..

The Time Que

Oh how i miss the days of not working, having all the time in the world to do various projects.

Right now it is hard to accomplish any writing while furthering my career, having a girl friend and trying to get things back together with the band. I was use to seeing results in fields of my life instantaneously but now i feel like this time sharing between tasks is only moving them along at miniscule paces. I'm no longer seeing the leaps and bounds and feel like a 286 Pentium trying to process high powered applications.

Now when a computer processes a bunch of applications all at once and can't handle the workload it tends to freeze... I always wondered why...

I sort of understand now, when I'm working throughout the day, i have all these tasks planned, but in the end i only get a handful of them done. You need some time in life to freeze, to not do anything and let you brain process the information before adding more activities to your que.. And just relax...

Thoughts on Gas

1.) gas prices should be standardized.... They shouldn't flux between 2.80 to 3.07 because of a driving session.. We know there's going to be increased need at this time in the beginning of the year so wouldn't it just be wise to say hey were all going to pay 2.89 for gas for the entire year instead of hiking gas prices up and down every time there's increased consumption.

2.) We need to have a larger oil reserve/gas reserve in this country. Whatever the amount is its way too low to sustain our country for very long. Right now i think our current system has us alright for one month..

3.) Refineries should schedule downtime/maintenance on an alternating schedule so that no two refineries are down at the same time. As well as trying not to schedule downtime during summer driving and winter heating session...

4.) when gas prices go over a certain amount say 3.00 cents its mandatory that the gas company invest those profits in the oil infrastructure /alternate fuel / do something to lower the cost of gas... Honestly there's no difference between this year and last year in terms of supply and we were paying 2.30 for gas... They simply did not invest in their infrastructure causing a choke point where gas comes into the country.... By controlling that aspect they can keep gas prices higher then they were..

That is all for this subject...

Gas

The next time you drive down the highway and you see gas prices at one station way lower then you expect... Any typical American would move their foot from the gas pedal to the break, look at their gas situation... and decide whether or not to buy gas at this cheap place...

Quite often we might drive to one particular gas station to obtain our gallons of gasoline...

But look where that left us, by only buying gas at a certain station, the gas stations slowly dwindled in competitive areas... Competitive pricing is no longer one of their plans of the oil industry as they start to work together at setting prices in certain areas... Competitive pricing is still going on to a point, and its not too late for us to make a difference in this gas consumption war.

Now instead of buying gas all the time at the cheapest location every single time, i think its our duty to buy gas that might be two cents more then the cheapest gas... To be honest we need to keep competition in the gas industry, or we'll have places like sheetz who buy the cheapest gas they can (with a slightly higher water content) and get an over all worse product... All because we wanted to save a few cents....

The funny thing is, were now paying the same amount for this cheap gas now as a quality gas product. ultra low quality gas, or gas that's able to just run are cars is now being made readily available and you have to buy fuel cleaner just to make sure your gas is alright... I say, the low quality gas stations are good for competition, but keep buying the better quality gas so it stays in America...

We need a mix of both and not overindulgence in either...

The only way to truly keep gas prices low, is to keep the gas stations open where competition is fierce... If you see a station struggling across the street, don't just let it go... because in a few years your gas station you spent all that money at will charge more then what the other one would have...

Another thing we should do is get rid of one of the grades of gasoline, maybe instead creating two products of gas that are in between low and mid and mid and high...