I got me some serious GAS!

Gas sucks. No, not that gas, that gas blows. I am talking about the dollar gouging kind. ExxonMobile just announced quarterly profits of 12 billion dollars. Not revenue, not for the year. No, in 3 months worth of time, they racked up 12 billion in free and clear cash. Life must be rough for them.
Now I know that they have little say in the price of oil. OPEC controls 60% of the market, and their output determines the price. But exxon could be doing something about the future of gas. They claim they are investing in future wells. But I never hear the specifics about it. If they are doing it, it sure doesn't get passed on to the consumer, and with that kind of money, you would think that their PR would make that happen.
I am a capitalist. And exxon is making money off the market. But how is that helping the people they are making the money off of? I believe in companies giving back, and more so in the form of innovation, and future products that make the world, the earth, and its people better. And to do that, while making money is the best kind of business. How about spending a months worth of that profit on a new source of fuel?

To Dew or not to Dew

Ok, so I went a year with out partaking soda. Actually, that is a like because I think on two occasions I binged on my mothers spiked lemonade, which was heavily dosed with Sprite. But I did it for a whole year, and was very proud. But lately I have fallen off the wagon. In fact, as you can see from the photo above, I am enjoying a Diet Mtn Dew right now, though I usually stick to the Diet Coke.
My main reason for quiting last year, was becuase I had picked back up Mtn Biking, and was riding two or three times a week. Well after the baby was born, that ended. So now I am a sedentary cube worker, whose workout involves wrestling a honkin six month child to sleep at night, and then only getting 5 hours of sleep. Soda keeps me awake at work, water does not.
Besides all of that, water tastes like, well....um....water. That is great for 80% of the time. but when I am resting on my couch watching some useless and irrelevant TV program, I really enjoy having a soda.
So for now I am Dewing the Soda, and hopefully some day I will stop. But I will not beat myself up for it in the meantime.

AARRRGGGHHH!!

When it rains, it pours. I find out late yesterday that the buyers on our home could not qualify for their loan. So no sale. This especially sucks, because we had just found an awesome house out in Saratoga and had put an offer in. I guess it was a good thing that it was not finalized yet, so we backed out.
Amy was up late last night cleaning the house getting it ready to show people. It is really hard for the girls, because they really have to limit the mess that they are making. It is hard on Amy because she needs to spend time every day tiding up.
We know it is our friends fault. They have flat out told us that they do not support us moving, and have been praying that things would go bad with our move. They must be living a better life than us, because they are winning now. I guess all we can hope for is to find another buyer real quick and then start looking again.

Traveling

With my job, I do not travel very much. But today I find myself in St. Louis for a customer event. The above pic is my unfortunate view from my hotel room. That is the Cardinals stadium out my room window. Tonight is a game in a suit while we wine and dine the customers. It is a tough job. Now I just need to get the customers to buy.

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Lunch with Keith

Just had lunch with Keith at Legers in Sandy. He did my PPI and said I failed. Oh well, I can't be perfect at everything.

House offer

Yesterday we received our first offer on our home. As expected, it was a bit of a low ball, but tonight we signed a counter that puts us where we want to be. I guess we will see where it goes.

If the house does sale, we will immediately start looking for a new home. We will probably need to find an apartment in the mean time. I am not looking forward to that. But we want to have the time to make the best deal on a new home, and an apartment accomplishes that.

Eating out

Since we have put our house up for sale, we have been eating out a lot. With the traffic in the evenings of people looking at the house, we have been out of the house to stay out of their way. And to prevent the house from stinking like food, we have decided that it is just easier to eat out.

Tonight is wingers. The girls just finished gymnastics and are a bit rowdy, but at least they are not boys.

In other good news, a realtor who showed our house a couple of weeks ago, called to tell us that an offer should be coming soon. Fingers crossed. I will update as soon as I know more.