This morning, after waking to a cool, 64 degree morning, while driving through northeastern Wisconsin, along the border with Michigan, listening to a track from a mix disk made by one of my favorite techno groups, as I tipped my head back to drink from my caramel mocha and saw a bright blue sky through the open sunroof, the thought came to me; "this could be a good day."

Overall, despite the company I'm working for dicking with my schedule and not having a cell phone signal to call home with tonight, it wasn't a bad day. The sky stayed mostly blue, the weather stayed mostly cool and I stayed mostly on schedule. I did notice one thing though; Northeastern Wisconsin has decided on a price for unleaded gasoline: $2.899. I've seen a total of two variations in this price since yesterday morning: One place had the eight upside down and one place had gas for two cents cheaper.

I knew that Minnesota had an Embarrass, but I didn't know that Wisconsin had one. It turns out Illinois has one too.

So, anyway... This place I was filming yesterday had the TV on while I was there. There was an ad detailing how one could get information on why it was crucial to invest in gold right now by calling 1-800-949-GOLD. This ad was wrong on so many levels. First of all, they just told you that you needed to "buy gold now", then they offer to give you a leaflet that says the same thing? OK, obviously the leaflet tells you to buy gold from them because they have a bunch that they're not using. Which is not only obvious, but leads me to the next thing that's wrong with this ad: Gold always goes up in value when the rest of the economy is crappy and goes down when the economy gets better. Basically, they're telling people to "buy gold now (quick before the price goes down so we can reap our profits because we bought it at the right time years ago)". The bastards.

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