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Excel Quickie: Gas-hole

My previous job paid for my gas.  But i used my car for things other than work, like driving to my other job, or driving to interviews for new jobs.  So the gas that they paid for was kind of a bonus, and i wanted to know exactly how much it added to my total compensation package.  So... gas bonus = total spent on gas - cost of gas used for legitimate business travel ...and... cost of gas used for legitimate business travel = miles * price of gas / MPG of my Cavalier LS For my job, i traveled to and from various clients' houses all day.  So i threw together this little chart as a quick reference for the exact mileage getting from one place to another.

YEAH, SURE, BOOKS ARE GREAT...(no--use the internet! books are stupid!)

Ohhhhh, hello!  Guys--GUYS, have you heard of the LIBRARY?  It's amazing!  It's free, and if you know how to work the website, you can suggest that they purchase books for you! "If i was looking for a book on astrophysics, where would i find one?" "Off the top of my head, i'd have to say a bookstore.  Or a library." While physical books are stupid, downloadable audio-books are the best thing to happen to my commute since i got my AC fixed!  And the library buys the majority of the books is suggest.  For this reason, i now have 122 books on my wish list. But how does one decide the order in which to "read" them?  My first logical choice would be to read them in the order i added them to my wish list.  But The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (book #7 on my list) for example has 0 available copies, and 2 people on the waiting list.  Now i hate waiting as much as i love audio-books, and i flat out refuse to sit in traffic without s