Gas

Got this email from someone...thought it was pretty good.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer, gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

2. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank so you're getting less gas for your money.

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

4. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'

haha!

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"

The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

John Waller "The Blessing"

I heard this song on the radio today and really liked it, so i bought it on itunes and decided to share the lyrics with you! Enjoy!

John Waller - The Blessing
From the album The Blessing

Chorus:
Let it be said of us
While we walked among the living
Let it be said of us
By the ones we leave behind
Let it be said of us
That we lived to be a blessing for life

Let it be said of us
That we gave to reach the dying
Let it be said of us
By the fruit we leave behind
Let it be said of us
That our legacy is blessing for life

This day
You set life, you set death right before us,
This day
Every blessing and curse is a choice now
And we will choose to be a blessing for life

Let it be said of us
That our hearts belonged to Jesus Let it be said of us
That we spoke the words of life
Let it be said of us
That our heritage is blessing for life

For your Kingdom, for our Children
For the sake of every nation

CRAZY WEEKEND!

Ok, so here's how it started, we leave Longview around 10:30, and what do we find...SNOW, in APRIL, in TEXAS...already a weird start to the trip.

Then we get outside of Dallas, have lunch with Phil Taylor's G-pa and on our way to hang out at a mall we get rear ended by a girl who doesn't have insurance, doesn't have her driver's liscense on her, isn't wearing shoes, and was already late for a job she was going to get fired from anyways for being late too many times. Much to Phil's dismay, he was very pleased that the interior of his car would forever smell of dunkin' dounuts coffee.

We then go to Target and sample stuff from the febreez/lysol isle and get some window wipes to clean up his car.After all of this we uneventfully, thankfully, head over to the ball park at Arlington. We find our seats, second deck, second row from the top (not gonna happen). At the start of the game they announce that today was the coldest starting game time temperature the Rangers have ever had at that stadium, 38 degrees, and that was while the sun was still out. So we sit in our seats for an inning before we move down.

The game ends and the Rangers win!On our way back we stop to get gas. Phil fills up the car and as we're about to leave his car won't start, nothing, no noise, nothing! So, phil says he knows what the problem is, it's just that it's under the hood, and he can't pop the hood. So on a whim we start opening doors and turning the key and in the end we get it running. The rest of the trip is uneventful and i'm just thankful to have made it back in one peice and alive!

Spring Break 2007 Video

Spring Break 2007

Dear Friends and Family,

First off I want to thank you all for your support and prayer during this journey I went on! God truly moved not only in the lives of those we helped, but in mine as well. My team and I accomplished many things, but none of that would have happened had we not gotten there.
My journey begins back here in Longview. We were supposed to leave around noon on Friday March 9th. We were first told that the buses would be late, which was understandable, then a little late turned into 2 hours, which turned into another 2 hours, and so on. Finally around 11:30pm the VP of student affairs came and said “look, the buses aren’t here, so why don’t you guys go back to your rooms and go to bed, we’ll figure this out in the morning.” So we went back to our rooms not knowing until the next morning that the buses had shown up at 12:30am. After basically what turned into a 24 hour delay we were on the road!
The trip to Guadalajara was uneventful which was good. We made it there in about 30 hours, that’s one long bus ride! We arrived to the place where we thought we were staying; a very nice church in what I was told was the richest part of Guadalajara. So, as you can imagine, I was pretty comfortable with this; a nice safe neighborhood, we each would get a mattress, and Starbucks was just down the road! So, after we had everything moved in a lady came out and said that we weren’t staying there. I was pretty disappointed, not only was the place really nice but we had moved all of our stuff inside. So after talking with some people we loaded everything up into 3 trucks and drove to the place where we would be staying in the slums of Guadalajara. If you recall I wanted to get out of my comfort zone on this trip, the first place didn’t do that, this place did. It was a two story pieced together house the church was hoping to use to house groups such as ourselves; we were the guinea pigs. Just the guys stayed there. We ended up sleeping 5 guys in a room about the size of a dorm room all on the floor in sleeping bags. There were two showers in this building, but little water pressure and no hot water, but plenty of cold water (I am now more grateful for warm showers!)
Once we got settled in we went down to the church to see what we would be doing. The church was only a few blocks away from the missions, which was nice because we wouldn’t have to drive to the church, we could just walk. The pastor showed us what he wanted us to do; build a bathroom. There was already an existing men’s bathroom, they wanted us to build a women’s bathroom. He also wanted us to start working on a sitting area/pastor’s study next to the church. We ended up putting in a new window and getting the roof nearly complete before we had to depart. But the bathroom was our main goal.
Working on the bathroom consisted of digging a couple of large holes for footings, pouring a foundation, and slapping concrete onto styrofoam and metal framed sheets. Working on this project was frustrating at times because I don’t know Spanish and I don’t understand engineer language, so there were parts of this project where I just stood there and wondered what the heck they were talking about as the engineer major in our group talked to the translator who talked to the Spanish speaking pastor. Then all of a sudden we were doing something. But, in the end we completed the project and it is now ready to be painted and plumbing put in!
We were supposed to do VBS but that never happened because something wasn’t communicated, which was fine because we still got to interact with the kids during lunch, random breaks, and after we got through for the day. The last night we were there we also had plenty of time to play with the kids.
Our last day there we got to go to downtown Guadalajara and do some shopping. While in downtown we had a guide show us a couple of buildings before we went to the market. The market was a three story building filled wall to wall with any and everything you can imagine. It was intense! But at the end of the day I walked out with a t-shirt and a hammock which I’m still trying to figure out where to put.
After our time at the market we went back to the church where they had dinner for us. After we ate and played with the kids some we gathered in a circle and the pastor and the people of the church gathered told us how grateful they were for us and all the work that we had done. It’s always touching when you can see how the people you help react to the work that you do, even when it’s something like building a cement bathroom.
In the end God taught me a lot. While I didn’t necessarily get the spiritual mountain top experience I was looking for I did gain a lot more respect for the blessings that I have. Having a government regulated roof over my head and walls around me is truly a blessing I never really thought of (they don’t have building codes in Mexico). Having a water system that filters out all of the bad things that made much of my team sick during the trip is another blessing I’m truly grateful for. I’m also grateful for hot showers! I think if anything God gave me a gut check that showed me how blessed I was to live in America, to attend a Christian university, and to be surrounded by an amazing support system of friends and family. I am truly blessed to know each and every one of you and I am so thankful for your support not only in this trip but in my life!

In Christ Alone,





Adam Pautsch

Please feel free to contact me with any other questions or comments you may have, you can contact me through:
o Email: adampautsch@letu.edu or Apautsch@comcast.net
o AIM: theonlyamp12
o Phone: 651-269-6450

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