Eat All Your Food!

The all you can eat price at this Korean BBQ joint is $17.99.  But if you leave food leftover.... you're paying more (in the lower right).  Don't disrespect the Korean ladies!

In-N-Out Line At Night

The line for the drive-thru at In-N-Out down the street from me was a dozen deep.  And this was at 10pm.

New Car Engine Break-In Oil Change

Ya know... most, if not all, modern cars don't recommend a first oil change until something like 7k-10k miles.  I bought my first new car recently and the first oil change isn't scheduled until 10k miles.  Well, I'm a bit old school and have been playing around with cars for a while.  I also deal with engineering stuff.  So, it's of my opinion that there's still a lot of breaking-in of engines.  So, I think it makes sense to do the first oil change within the first 500-1000 mile time frame to get rid of the oil that has all the stuff that broke loose during the break-in.

So... this is what was at the bottom of my oil container after draining the oil with about 700 miles on the engine.  I'll stick to the old school method of changing the oil soon after break-in.

MPG change with summer blend vs. winter blend gas

So apparently, Cali just switched over from the winter formulation gas to summer blend.  Different additives are used here for emissions reasons depending on the season.  My car (and others which is how I learned of this) seem to like the summer blend more; I'm getting about 5% better mileage.