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Dave screams…
45 CENTS FOR A TANK OF GAS!!!

“HOW OH HOW CAN I ALSO HAVE A TANK OF GAS FOR 45 CENTS?!?” you ask, plaintively.

Well, you see, Giant Eagle has this program called “Fuel Perks.” It works like this: you allow them to track you like cattle when you shop at their store. They give you the “Advantage Card,” which you use every time you buy their overpriced groceries. It’ll give you a little savings off of some of your merchandise, and they learn what you like to eat so that some day when our Corporate Overlords finally move us all into work camps, they’ll know how to stock the larder.*

Anyway, they also give you ten cents off per gallon of gas you purchase at their GetGo stations for every $50 worth of merchandise you buy. So Jul and I had $1.00 saved up. Then we moved Maxx’s insulin prescription over from Medic when they went belly-up (that’s another story). For moving prescriptions over to them during the Medic-to-Walgreen’s transition, Giant Eagle was offering a $1 off per gallon coupon. So now we had $2.00 off/gallon. Then we went grocery shopping, bringing our total discount up to $2.20. I had the SUV with me yesterday and ran the tank virtually dry in anticipation of filling up with cheap gas. This I did, to the tune of 2.9 cents per gallon! Wow, that was great.

Now if only the oil companies would temper their greed a bit, it wouldn’t be so exciting to get cheap gas once.

* I made that part up

If you’re working a polling place, you may want to refrain from catching a smoke, dropping the butt on the ground, crushing it with your heel, and leaving it there. You may think nothing of it, but many of us see that and think “damn, that guy’s a pig” and cast our vote for the other guy.

Just a li’l heads-up for you.

Joe says…
I’m obsessed with getting a photoblog to work on this site. I really like the look of Stop Design’s Photo Gallery Templates. I’ve got it up and running over here but I can’t post to the blog. There is some sort of template module issue that I believe has to do with the recent update to v3.2 of Movabletype. I’ve posted my errors and attempts to fix them on the author’s site but he’s busy having a fuckin’ life and hasn’t answered me yet. Do you have any idea how batty I go when I can’t get something to work? I won’t sleep properly tonight. I’ll be short fused with everyone I come into contact with. If I light up the local fast food joint with an AK-47 it’s not my fault.
Dave says…
It’ll be killer when it’s done, though. At work we’re about to start a CMS project for one of our clients (to be hosted at InMotion, of course) and we’ll be looking into things like that photo gallery. Not sure which way we’re going. InMotion has a ton of stuff pre-installed, so we’ll try all those solutions first. Joe and I will have to keep a running tally of our results here…
Dave says more…
Okay, I took a stab at using Coppermine, the gallery script available at InMotion. I couldn’t get it to accept any image uploads, so I deleted it and I’ll try again tomorrow night.
Joe quips…
I’ve tried all of the InMotion solutions and didn’t care for any of them. Your mileage may vary.
Update…
I’ve got it working. I blew out my MT installation, including the MySQL DB, deleted all the StopDesign files and directories, and then re-installed everything to the letter from the Mac binaries. The first installation was done on my PC using the windows .zip files (I use the PC because it’s hooked up to the big monitor) and has more processing power and RAM than my 15″ Powerbook. I hope to get a new iMac or G5 soon. Anyway, the gallery is up and at ‘em and I managed to figure out how to tweak the templates, CSS, and title images from the original .psd files Doug included with the download. I’m going to post a tutorial for customizing the .psd images for my own reference that anyone who decides to use these templates is obviously welcome to refer to.