63%
My flaw apparently is attempting to get to my family. But I'm confident that unless it was a Class 3 Outbreak or above that I'd at least have a sporting chance of making it especially if I planned to go shooting after work (lots of guns & ammo with me)
Just an FYI to those in Chicagoland...
From Crains Chicago:
Sonic Drive-In, the fast-food chain with a 1950s flair, complete with roller-skating carhops, is coming to the Chicago area.
From its headquarters in Oklahoma City, Sonic Corp. has rapidly become the fourth-largest U.S. fast-food chain after McDonald's Corp., Burger King Corp. and Wendy's International Inc. Sonic has 3,300 restaurants in 35 states. Its Illinois sites include Downstate Springfield, Pekin and Mattoon.
Sonic is scouting restaurant sites and is close to deals in suburbs including Algonquin, Vernon Hills and Lake Zurich. Company officials confirm that the first locations will open here by summer, with as many as a dozen over the following two years. For now, Sonic has no plans to come into Chicago.
"We're already inking deals for real estate in metro Chicago, and we expect to break ground on our first store by April or May," says Drew Ritger, Sonic's senior vice-president of development.
"Chicago could hold a number of stores for us, but for now, we're going to build them just one at a time. We have no target number," Mr. Ritger says. He did note that Sonic has more than 250 in metro Dallas alone.
Sonic's menu encompasses burgers, chicken, hot dogs, fries and onion rings and an extensive lineup of beverages and desserts. Sharon Zackfia, an analyst at Chicago-based William Blair & Co. who follows Sonic, swears by the company's breakfast burritos, tater tots and cherry limeades.
"I don't see any reason why Sonic won't do well in Chicago," she says. "Their breadth of beverages is far superior to what other restaurants already here offer. Items like their tater tots are simply craveable."
From CNN...
It's official. Grand Theft Auto IV is a video game blockbuster, with gamers around the world buying up more than 6 million copies of the gritty, urban action title in its first week of sales.
The dual figure of unit sales and revenues makes the launch the biggest ever for video games, and one of the biggest opening weeks in all of entertainment.
Sales of the game generated more than half a billion dollars, the publisher, Take-Two Interactive, said.
"Grand Theft Auto IV's first week performance represents the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment, and we believe these retail sales levels surpass any movie or music launch to date," said Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick.
Analysts had long expected a solid opening for the game, which hit the stores on April 29, but none ventured sales of this magnitude.
Grand Theft Auto IV's sales surpassed those of last year's best-selling title from Microsoft, Halo 3. That title established a new, single-day sales record of $180 million dollars.
Take-Two estimates that on its first day, GTA IV sold 3.6 million copies and generated $310 million in sales, far surpassing Halo 3's performance.
After perusing a couple Nissan forums I've read some tips on how to great the best gas mileage out of my new Sentra.
According to the sticker I should be getting...
City: 25
Highway: 33
Average: 28
I'm going to strive to get as much out of the car as I can. The Sentra has a built in computer that calculates the average MPG based on your driving. You can reset this at any point so you can calculate certain legs of your trip if you want to.
After filling up ($50) this morning I reset the AVG MPG and drove to work. Roughly 17 miles.
Here's that trip...
Obviously the less you gun it, the better mileage you'll get. But you can also gain more MPG if you try to keep the RPM's lower than you normally do. I try to keep my RPM's under 3,000 in a normal commute (parts fast [highway] parts stop & go [city])
Periodically I will post some images via my iPhone to show how well I can do.
We're near $4.00 a gallon here and that SUCKS!!
Parts of this is so funny it had me in tears!
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=CharlieAndBergs&page=2
Watch all of the parts!
The McHenry County Board took aim at any state legislation that would infringe on the Second Amendment on Tuesday night by signing onto the Pro Second Amendment Resolution.
The measure was adopted with unanimous support from the 23 County Board members at the meeting – MaryLou Zierer was absent – and means that the county would oppose the passage of any bills that would put limits on the right to bear arms.
McHenry County is the 75th in Illinois to adopt the resolution, and the only one in the Chicago area to even consider a vote on the matter,
