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Give or take.  Onequartlow.com turned a year old at some point in April.  Yeah, most on line types do a big party type celebration whenever their site rolls past any landmark.  I still crack up when I see folks patting themselves on the back when they make it a month, two and so on.  Not much has changed with OQL over the past year with the exception I guess of a much better host and more professional blog appearance.  Both really courtesy of the Ninja!

Otherwise, OQL has pretty much been a consistent site with pretty good generic traffic and customer base.  I won’t throw my arm out patting myself on the back, but we have jumped up in certain traffic circles quite nicely.  Although the Google Page Rank thing seems to change more frequently than some change clothes, I am happy to report a pretty decent Alexa rating currently of 78,196.  This blog has been a pretty consistent page rank 3.  I would like to thank my loyal readers and patrons.  Along the way I’ve developed some great friendships and probably also irritated a few, but all of you remain a part of  the history of the site.

Thanks and Happy Mother’s Day to All you Mothers out there!

One of the unintended consequences of trying to do what oil producing nations are trying to do to America is that they’ve out-priced the infrastructure.  At first look, those who don’t understand may say, “so what?”  Well, the pumps that mom and pop stores around this great nation of ours deal with are calibrated to a certain level.  They only allow gas prices to go so high…Apparently 4.00 was a tipping point.  Guess what.  Most of the pumps will cost $700 or so to get updated computers.  Some of this cost will remain being paid overseas, but much of it remains here in the US.  Couple that with Dub’s stimulus package, and the States just got a bit of reprieve.  I’m frankly tired of the “America haters,” and find it entertaining when the consequences of actions against us take unexpected turns to our advantage.  I’m happy business owners are able to spend their stimulus package on something other than fuel.  This, “I’ll bleed it out of em with oil” argument is growing boring and tiresome.

Well our 1,200 arrived last night and I got to thinking about how to best “stimulate the economy,” but then my wife said, “didn’t we already do that?” I suppose it may have been the 1,000 dollar Kirby Sentria, or perhaps the 200.00 mother’s day gifts, or maybe the brand new DVD player, or maybe the 700.00 per month I spend in gas, or maybe it ….oh nevermind…..It’s obviously long ago been spent as I suspected it would be! Oh well, I suppose this will solidify the biggest income month we’ve had in some time and I’m sure the economy is thankful! I know I am!

And A Little update on “Lil Red.” We’ve passed the 10,000 mile mark early this week (shooting by two conventional oil changes…without blinking–or changing the oil) as we work on the third one (on my way to bypassing 8 count em 8 conventional oil changes)! Running like a top and the gas mileage is starting to creep a little deeper into the 30’s with a couple of fills coming in at 32 MPG. Can Your Oil Say So Much?

I’ve received a few requests and questions so I thought I’d try to get the application guide up here for you Harley fans.

Happy anniversary, my love:
After all these years, my lover still!
Perhaps we’ve come this far by force of will;
Perhaps by what sweet winds within us move.
Years alone do not decisive prove,
As time’s a box that holds both good and ill;
Nor can one long be loving without skill;
Nor long be cool below and warm above.
In you I’ve found a shoreline for my sea
Vast enough to hold me in its arms,
Embracing both the turbulence and deep,
Reconciling me to limitation.
So may you find a wilderness in me,
A place of windswept waves and rippled calms,
Restoring you to realms you cannot reap,
Yielding neither home nor destination.

One of the advantages of posting on a topic long before the national consciousness really gets it, is that it’s been on line for a while. The vast majority of my traffic for the first time in years is now a result of a single, solitary post that seems to redirect most all searches on this topic. It’s really fairly interesting. Normally my posts don’t generate much by way of search engine traffic. This one however, has shown me what the search engines can bring. Even after this long I suppose you can at least show an old dog a new trick!

It’s a bit funny, if not offensive to see politicians and the like talk about how Gas prices are something beyond their control. Here’s the end game.:

Exxon Mobil, the world’s biggest oil company, posted a 2007 profit that was almost twice as much as that of the next company on the list of the top 10 corporate money winners, General Electric.

It is the highest-ever annual profit from a U.S. company, a record Exxon also set in 2006 and 2005.

Earnings rose 2.8% from 2006 on a sales increase of 7.4%.

These guys are just fine with gas prices. They make no excuses. They don’t care. It’s American Ingenuity/price gouging at it’s finest. Although I certainly have issues with what they do, in the long run they’re doing me a favor. As well as others. Without knowing or checking, I’d guess this company is a bit “old” in nature….They don’t care about the next generation….They just want their’s….oh…and they’re getting it…LOL