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Working 24/7

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The moment you wake up your working. You get out of bed and get ready to go to your paying job your working. You try to clean up a little before you leave, your working. You try to explain why you came home late yesterday to your spouse, your working. You scramble around in the fridge to try to reduce the hunger in your stomach while still trying to find something to take with you and eat later for lunch, your working. Then you get in your car and have to deal with everyone else's morning blues, dealing with the crappy traffic and then when you finally get to your actual job you realize you forgot something you needed and now you know you cant go back home so you just have to deal with the fact that your just going to have to go on with out it today. So you go to work and do more than your expected, you bust your ass and attempt to improve your self. You listen to other peoples problems and attempt to be sympathetic. Then you find out there was a meeting and no one told you abo

Got Gas?

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Today people will go to any ranks just to find cheaper gas. With gas now at $3.90 for regular in some places you cant help but to look for a cheaper station to fill up. I even drove 3 miles out my way just to use my GIANT gas points at the Shell Station. Lets face it, it doesn't look like gas will get any cheaper any time soon so here are some tips to save money and boost your gas mileage. When your at a red light (those with automatic transmission) shift in to (N) this will take the strain off your transmission while your not moving and reduce fuel consumption. Use your cruse control when your on the high way, this will improve your MPG by controlling acceleration.  Use fuel additives like octane booster and performance improver in your fuel tank this can also increase MPG by 2.5% (may not seem like allot but its worth it.) Make sure your oil is changed regularly and your air filter. Your if your air filter is dirty this can significantly decrease your MPG. And the most impo