Saving log - $0 tip box
Spending log - $1.75 coffee + $8 lunch + $16 groceries

You might have noticed that the coffee price jumped by .50. The little deli where I normally get my cheap coffee was closed. I have my fears that its closed for good - its June 1 and it was the very last business inside the Alaska Building which is in the process of its being stripped and renovated. You can't walk past the building along the sidewalk with all the construction, dumpsters, fences, and orange cones surrounding it. There's a big sign and a little pathway to my little deli coffee place, so I was hoping. Fingers crossed that the owner got sick or something.

But there was a little action near that deli. A Seattle police office came out of the inside of the construction, holding something between two fingers. He got out a paper bag from the trunk.

"Looks like you found something," I said.
He walked over.
"We found this inside," he said. "One of the construction guys called it in."

It was a rusted out little Saturday night special. The gun barrel was so rusted out that they couldn't get a serial number. The black handle looked, I swear, like it was made of Bakelite.
The police have no idea if it was part of a crime, without the serial number they couldn't trace it. It will get destroyed.

Last Friday I had a meeting with my supervisor, another woman. We both noticed at the same time how often women say, "I'm sorry" and use it as an um or an er.

I started with, "I'm sorry that I had a different spreadsheet than yours."
She countered with, "Let me get my copy, I'm sorry I have to turn around to fetch it from my computer."

And then we got a bit silly:
"Gosh I'm sorry that you're sorry. Sorry."
"Sorry. sorry."

Of course we were smiling and laughing while we were saying it, but one just has to think that the phrase "I'm sorry" has got to cost us women plenty of money. I mean, how effective can you be to drive a hard bargain if you are saying "I'm sorry" all the time? Waddya sorry about? The seller wants you to buy something, no sorry about it. Why be apologetic? Unless, of course, you're trying to spread counterfeit bills around, most people are glad to see you.

Now that I have my laptop back and I have all these pent up posts .. ker pow.

Friday on the bus I caught this:


And tonight:


So far the neighborhood Arco is holding at just unnnddder $4. $3.98/gallon.

I also read about some gas stations having yet again to retool their pumps or charge by the liter or 1/2 gallon because their dollar digit didn't go up to 4. Seems like very poor planning to me. I can understand if you didn't go up to the dollar, but if you bought a gas pump that went up to the dollar, why only 1-3? Why not spring for all the digits, 1-9$? Why would you even bother making a pump that only did 1-3$? Base ten was invented for a reason.