This Pretty Much Sums It Up

Got this from the afternoon guy at WRAF, Steve Gimbert. Pretty much sums it up for me.

2008 Word of the Year

The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen its 2008 Word of the Year. Do you keep the tires on your car properly inflated to maximize your gas mileage? Have you removed the roof rack from your vehicle to streamline the car and reduce drag? Do you turn your engine off rather than idle at long stoplights? If you said yes to any of these questions you just might be a "hypermiler."

"Hypermiling" was coined in 2004 by Wayne Gerdes, who runs the web site http://www.cleanmpg.com/. "To hypermile" is to attempt to maximize gas mileage by making fuel-conserving adjustments to one's car and one's driving techniques. Rather than aiming for good mileage or even great mileage, hypermilers seek to push their gas tanks to the limit and achieve hypermileage, exceeding EPA ratings for miles per gallon.

Here are few ways USAmericans hypermil:

1. Driving without shoes (increases foot sensitivity on the pedals)
2. Parking your car so as to not have to back out of a parking space
3. "Ridge-riding" - driving on the white lines so as to avoid driving through water-filled ruts in the road when it's raining.

Though some have called the practice has "eco-driving" and have given hypermiling a thumbs up, the AAA has issued statements condemning the practice.

Share the Wealth!!

Cartoon by Rick McKee, from the August Chronicle, Thursday Oct. 23, 2008

Morning Show Top 10

Top 10 for the Week of November 3

1. Chris Tomlin - Jesus Messiah
2. Wayburn Dean - I Need a Savior
3. Jadon Lavik - Wondrous Love
4. Christ for the Nations - Glory to Our King
5. Jamie Slocum - My Dependence
6. Michael W. Smith - A New Hallelujah
7. Mercy Me - You Reign
8. Curt Collins - You Reign
9. Ginger Millermon - We Are Amazed
10. Natalie Grant - Our Hope Endures
    

Election Day Blues - GET OVER IT!!

Well the day has finally arrived. For some, this will be the day when the planets align and all is right with the world. For others, this is the beginning of the apocalypse. All I have to say is - GET OVER IT!!

I'm a political junky and I love reading, listening and watching the stump speeches, the analysis, the pundits - everything about politics really jazzes me up. But for the last few months I've been hearing more and more how if one side wins the upper class will continue to get all the breaks. If the other side wins we are well on the way to communism. Let me ask you one question: Who do you have faith in - the one who sits in the White House or the one who sits on the Throne of Heaven?

Let's not forget that the God of the Universe, the One who created all things, the One who has every thing in His hands is not suprised by any of this. And it is all part of His Will. We mortals tend to look at things from our finite point of view and believe God is also seeing things from that same point of view. Our God is a 4-dimensional God and sees everything from every possible vantage point. Let's rest in Him alone and allow His perfect will to work.