Picture A Day – 29 September 2009

By Parrothead Jeff, on 30 September 2009

Nope, I sure didn’t post much today. Been a bit tired. And NCIS was on

But mostly just tired. There’s issues going on in the life of someone very close to me that I don’t necessarily want to air out over the entire gosh darned Internet, but which have me not sleeping quite so well.

But at least I got this post up

29 September 2009 - Verifying the accuracy of the gas pumps

I think they check the accuracy of all the gas pumps about once a year, but I’m not sure. I do wish there were some way to compensate for temperature across the nation and whatnot, but I guess that’s asking a bit much. I saw this guy checking out the pumps at a Rebel station while I was picking up carbonated caffeine

I wonder, just how much does gasoline expand when it’s heated to over 110° in the summer? Remember that a gallon of cold gasoline is more dense and hence has more energy than a gallon of hot gasoline. That means the colder gas will take you farther and you’ll see better mileage.

Oh well, at least I know that they check to make sure that what the pump says is a gallon of gas actually is a gallon of gas

Have fun out there

Kath

September 30th, 2009 at 0235 · Reply

Well, seeing as how he’s using that super-duper modern equipment there — I thought you were going to say something about antiques!!

And, yes, have always been told not to fill up on really hot days, but when you live in Vegas — you got to get gas sometime and it’s mostly always hot. How much choice do you have then?

Jeff, how come your weather thing says Severe Weather Alert? 73 degrees and 18 percent humidity sounds pretty nice. Must be the winds. All that blowing sand. Be careful.

Parrothead Jeff

September 30th, 2009 at 0731 · Reply

Nope, nothing about antiques The old stuff works just fine

Yep, it’s the wind warning that’s the severe weather, but I will be careful

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