Puggy I filled up for $2.79 a gallon on Thursday. I think the sign said $2.84 this morning.
Oh, and the proper thing to end “I don’t care anyway!” with is a SO THERE! 
Fine then. last fill-up was $2.99.9, but I buy premium. Today, that same premium is $3.08.9
I got gas for the riding mower and filled up my vehicle while I was at it yesterday.
$52.00 total, and 2.999 a gallon.
This past weekend, I lost my faith in Og.
You see, where I do my grocery shopping, you get discount tickets for gasoline if you buy the right stuff. I dutifully Look For The Proper Items, and rack up a 32 cent per gallon discount ticket. I leave the store and make a beeline to the pumps.
They were all bagged. Bastiges. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Oh, yeah.
:smack: 
Did you have sushi for lunch, dear? That allus makes me thirsty.
That rots! Did you take all your stuff back and demand a refund? 
I GOT A JOB OFFER! WOO! With a signing bonus even! ::does happy dance::
Now I just have to decide whether to accept it today and try to cancel my trip out to Mpls tomorrow or to keep the trip tomorrow and actually take the time to fly out there and go through one more interview. Dunno. I think in the end I’ll end up accepting this offer. So is it really fair to make the other company fly me out there when I probably won’t take a job with them? Hmm…
Gas at the station on the corner is $3.059/gal. This is part of what is making me lean towards the current job offer since it’d only be 2 miles from where we’re going to live!
WOO HOO! (happy dancing along with you) Go taxi, go taxi, go taxi, go taxi!!
taxi, that’s faaaaaaabulous!. See, an you were all worried for nuttin! 
Oh, go to Mpls–why not? When will you be there again? And isn’t BF there as well? This may be the dream job, once you get there…you’ll never know, if you don’t go.
And congrats–I wish my job search was going as well.
That is fantastic news! Congrats!
This is actually a THIRD round interview that I’d be going for. So I’ve already got a good idea about that job. It’s fine, but not “better enough” to justify the probably 45 min to hour drive each way to and from work, compared to the current offer I’ve got.
And BF isn’t there. It’s where we’re moving, not where he is.
Thanks and good luck on yours! It took me a long time and >80 resumes. So don’t give up!
YAY FOR TAXI!!!
taxi!!!
I was actually screaming your name and dancing til people started looking at me funny.
Now, I’m just eating my lunch. Lunch = microwave popcorn. 
Congratulations, taxi. Even if you decide not to take the job, it’s kind of a nice boost to know that someone wants you, right?
I paid $2.89 a little over a week ago when I last filled up. But I know prices have skyrocketed since then, and virtually all of our stations are well over $3.00 per gallon now. On the radio I heard our city average is $3.12/gallon which doesn’t surprise me. By the time I have to refill this weekend, heaven only knows what I’ll end up paying.
I’m just glad I drive a fuel efficient car and don’t have a long work commute.
Can BF meet you there? Have a rondezvous on that company…
But from a moral conscious POV, cancel the trip and apologize to the other company, but you got a better offer
That’s what I’m thinking but can I cancel the flight, hotel and car at this point?? I can’t really afford to pay for all three if I don’t use them.
And unfortunately, BF is about 5 hours away and in the middle of trying to finish a Master’s thesis… no booty call for us.
**YAY
TAXI !!!
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Cancel the other interview. You can save a day of leave or two for sump’n fun that way. You know, like a getting together with KeithT to celebrate long weekend.
First - congrats, taxi! Way cool news!
Second - way to get all profound with the OP, Mika! Ya done good.
Third - our official selling-of-the-boat-day is Weds. We close the deal, get our check, and become boatless for the first time since 1990. Except for the dinghy. And the inflatable. And the 14’ Laser. But those don’t really count because you can’t sleep on them - at least not comfortably.
Fourth - once I get done posting this, I think I’ll take some pics of my latest batch of ceramics and post them. Some really neat pieces, some not so much.
Happy Monday, all! MWAH!
Thanks, everyone! I’m glad you all liked it. Ok, here we go!
Ok, you all have probably heard of Bollywood movies. Some of you may have even heard of me talking about them. But unless you’ve watched one, you don’t know. So here begins a plot synopsis of one of my favorite Hindi movies.
Each Hindi movie is three hours long, so this will be in three parts, a part for each hour. Unless I don’t feel like it. Then I may do it in two parts.
Naseeb
The movie’s name is Naseeb, which means fate or destiny. It is a gripping look at each of our destinies. Can you change them, is the question asked by this film?? Or are they set in stone?
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Part I, The First Hour
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Imagine, if you will, four best friends. We will call them Ragu, Jagi, Damu, and Namdev, because that’s what they’re called in the movie and this is confusing enough as it is.
All but Jagi are married and have kids.
Namdev has two boys, Johnny and Sunny.
Ragu has two boys also; their names are unimportant as they are interchangeable. Simply know them as Older son and Younger son.
Damu has one son, Vicki.
When the movie opens, Vicki and Johnny are about 12 years old and are best of friends. Johnny gives Vicky a cake every year for his birthday, and has since they were old enough to give gifts.
Ragu and Damu are poorer than the rest. Namdev works in a hotel as a waiter, and one day a homeless man shows up, eats food, and claims he can’t pay. He offers a lottery ticket worth five rupees in exchange for his food bill of 4 rupees. The owner flatly refuses, but the four friends figure – why not?
Each friend puts in a rupee to pay for the bill and they take the ticket. They draw lots to see who holds it, and Namdev wins and takes it home.
The next day, Namdev sends his wife and children, along with their housemaid, Mrs. Gomes, and her daughter Julie off to vacation. He promises to follow in a few days. In the interim, Jagi checks his ticket and discovers they’ve won. He begins to call Namdev in joy, but Ragu and Damu are watching (and snickering evilly).
Ragu and Damu agree to kill Jagi for their share of the money. Ragu murders Jagi by stabbing a knife into his back. But Damu takes a picture of the moment and hides it away. Remember this picture, it will be important later. They hide, and Jagi finishes his call with difficulty.
However, all that Jagi can get out in the phone to Namdev is *“Namdev…Namdev…” * Namdev, upom hearing this, of course runs right over. Ragu is waiting in the shadows. When Namdev grabs the knife to remove it Ragu tells Namdev to run away or the police will catch him and blame him for the murder. Damu meets him a little down the street and takes him away but pretends to have a heart attack. They get out of the car. Ragu, who has hidden in the backseat, jumps out of the car and clubs Namdev on the head. They both throw him in the river and wash their hands of it.
Meanwhile, there is an earthquake where Mrs. Gomes and the family are visiting, and Jagi and Namdev’s wife both die. (Note that there is none of Jagi’s family left now. He is no longer important.) Mrs. Gomes finds out Namdev has been accused of murder, and vows to take care of her own daughter Julie as well as Johnny and Sunny.
Back at home, Ragu and Damu, the murderers, decide to pool their money and open a revolving hotel. Damu sends his son Vicky overseas to study, and they ever so graciously give Namdev’s son Johnny a job as a waiter in the hotel.
Fast forward twenty years or so. Vicky is all grown up but still does not celebrate his birthday until Johnny sends a cake, which he does so faithfully every year. Vicky remains a decent man even though his father is not.
Ragu’s sons are more corrupt than he is.
Johnny and Mrs. Gomes’ daughter are like brother and sister.
Vicky sees the famous singer Asha sing (cue song sequence) and falls in love. (This is the theme song, “Mere naseeb mein tu hai ki nahin”, or “Are you in my destiny?” Vicky pays some goons to pretend to attack her so he can rescue her (cue fistfight), to get in her good graces, but she discovers the ruse and angrily throws him out.
Vicky’s heart breaks and he begins to drink, heavily.
Meanwhile. Johnny’s brother Sunny is being put through school by Johnny. He is one point short of passing, and threatens to kill himself in a big over-exaggerated death to bring the school bad publicity if his point is not given. In the middle of all this, his girlfriend Kim (a lipreader – this is important) accidentally sets off the smoke detector with a cigarette. The girls’ dormitory empties, and all the men ignore Sunny and race off, yelling. “Girls!” (Er…you didn’t see them much back then.) Sunny complains until they tell him Kim is still stuck inside – they don’t know it’s just a cigarette – and he rushes to rescue her.
He finds her safe and sound but they concoct a plan. They play a trick where they pretend she’s badly hurt and he pretends to save her life. The female headmistress is so grateful, she orders the male headmaster to pass Sunny, and all is well. (cue song sequence) This song is when they get the boys and girls to play *Kabaddi *together. I think I’ll detail *Kabaddi *in a separate post.
Asha returns to India and is genuinely accosted by Ragu’s son because he wants his own girlfriend to sing at his father Rahu’s hotel and not Asha. Johnny rescues her (cue fistfight) and she is suspicious at first but slowly begins to fall in love with him.
There is a great scene where Johnny rolls some girls’ bracelets into the garage where Asha and Ragu’s son are…when asked, he says, “Attacking helpless females? You may as well be a female yourself, so why don’t you put these bracelets on?”
Whew! Tomorrow - Hour 2! Ask questions if you’ve got them!