2012 Results Just In!
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:45 pm
. . . . . . '05 . . . '06 . . . '07 . . . '08 . . . '09 . . . '10 . . . '11 . . . . 2012
Visits ... 52 ..... 32 ..... 35 ..... 46 ....... 37 ...... 57 ..... 54 . . . . . 48
Gross .. 15.9 ...11.5 ... 11.9 ...15.7 ... 13.1 ... 23.9 ... 20.0 ... 19,460
Fuel ..... 3.9 ..... 2.4 ..... 3.0 .... 4.0 ..... 2.6 ...... 4.0 .... 5.3 ..... 3,462
Ldgng .. 4.0 ..... 2.3 ..... 2.7 .... 3.4 .... 2.9 ..... 4.8 ..... 4.6 ...... 3,418
Net/Call 152 ... 207.... 174 .... 179 ... 213 .... 265 .... 194 ........ 262
Total Miles ................................................... 17,408 ( - 8,973 )
Actual Work Weeks ............................................ 21 ... ( - 6 )
Average miles to each call .............................. 363 ( - 125 )
Average fuel expense per call .......................... 72.00 ( - 25.76 ) ( .20c/mile )
Average fuel economy was ............................... 17.8 mpg @ 3.55/gallon ( - 0.2mpg )( - .05 cents )
Average lodging per call ......................... 71.00 ( - 14.00 )
Average net income per week .................................. 599.00 ( + 212 ) @ 2.2 ( + .2 ) calls per week
Highest net Kubelwagen @ 440.00
Lowest net Will Klein @ 28.00
No calls were a loss this year.
The mandatory full day helped my efficiency (you who got a half day > hush ). The anemic little Chloe turned in only .2 mpg less than the BobD, and did not get in the way of my calls-per-week, which turned out to be 10% greater than last year (the Oregon traverse to pick up Chloe did reduce last year's efficiency). Pokey Chloe did, however, utterly eat up my posting time at Starbucks/Panera/wifi cafes, as this year's lack of stories attest. Apparently, I need to post while the events are fresh, or I demure because I will not do stale recall.
I had an excellent time this past summer. As I chewed through thousands of receipts and did that damn hateful "check-sum" on all of these long long columns of numbers, I was able to conjure the entire itinerary from beginning to end, if I could do a speeded-up time-lapse video of Alexus ripping up to Syracuse then down through Virginia's two calls and Maryland to Atlanta where I picked up Chloe to do a trial run to North Carolina, then back to Atlanta for Sylvester and to get the BobD to rip to Gadsden Alabama for Rumdum call, then back to Atlanta to pick up Chloe to get to Memphis Tennessee for the least profitable call of all due to my terrible inefficiency, then Texas generators at the Blairs! and off to Los Alamos and north of Denver and Utah and Los Angeles and Napa and Nevada and Eureka CA to see Airkooled Chris and the roller derby spirit and Portland Oregon and Camas Washington and Anaconda Montana and Ogden Utah with Vdubluvah before hitting Minnesota beer-lover's gang with the Miz and his horrendous oil leak, zoot off to Wisconsin engine drop where I felt Fall In The Air before going to Chicago and another engine drop and off to Indiana and golf courses and Vermont! Rain! Maine! Past the Freedom Tower in New York City to New Jersey back in Maryland again to adjust valves on a Porsche 356 engine with one of the nicest bunch of people I have met and hot humid Miami Florida and Pensacola with an honorable lawyer then Georgia got chilly then warm at election week then had to pick up ALexus to go to this cold damp foggy mountain lair, really . . . what a summer. Good people too!
Some pictures! Maybe already posted elsewhere!
Currently, I am sitting here:
Just finished writing out the 2012 Itinerary Receipt Reconciliation/Log/Profit-Loss tables.I have hand-written every log entry since 2004, which may seem quaint or insane to you, but it tunes up my fine dexterity muscles after a summer of wrenching, and it helps my neck to remember what it's like to sit at a desk all day:
Must get back to this:
And who sent me this? I did respond at the time, but I can't remember. This little eggshell diorama has endured thousands of miles and storage here and storage there and it has been hanging on my drawing lamp the whole time. Heck, the drawing lamp (coated with backlite foil further up) has been with me since the day I opened up my Rochester New York business. It used to be an executive lamp . . .
Visits ... 52 ..... 32 ..... 35 ..... 46 ....... 37 ...... 57 ..... 54 . . . . . 48
Gross .. 15.9 ...11.5 ... 11.9 ...15.7 ... 13.1 ... 23.9 ... 20.0 ... 19,460
Fuel ..... 3.9 ..... 2.4 ..... 3.0 .... 4.0 ..... 2.6 ...... 4.0 .... 5.3 ..... 3,462
Ldgng .. 4.0 ..... 2.3 ..... 2.7 .... 3.4 .... 2.9 ..... 4.8 ..... 4.6 ...... 3,418
Net/Call 152 ... 207.... 174 .... 179 ... 213 .... 265 .... 194 ........ 262
Total Miles ................................................... 17,408 ( - 8,973 )
Actual Work Weeks ............................................ 21 ... ( - 6 )
Average miles to each call .............................. 363 ( - 125 )
Average fuel expense per call .......................... 72.00 ( - 25.76 ) ( .20c/mile )
Average fuel economy was ............................... 17.8 mpg @ 3.55/gallon ( - 0.2mpg )( - .05 cents )
Average lodging per call ......................... 71.00 ( - 14.00 )
Average net income per week .................................. 599.00 ( + 212 ) @ 2.2 ( + .2 ) calls per week
Highest net Kubelwagen @ 440.00
Lowest net Will Klein @ 28.00
No calls were a loss this year.
The mandatory full day helped my efficiency (you who got a half day > hush ). The anemic little Chloe turned in only .2 mpg less than the BobD, and did not get in the way of my calls-per-week, which turned out to be 10% greater than last year (the Oregon traverse to pick up Chloe did reduce last year's efficiency). Pokey Chloe did, however, utterly eat up my posting time at Starbucks/Panera/wifi cafes, as this year's lack of stories attest. Apparently, I need to post while the events are fresh, or I demure because I will not do stale recall.
I had an excellent time this past summer. As I chewed through thousands of receipts and did that damn hateful "check-sum" on all of these long long columns of numbers, I was able to conjure the entire itinerary from beginning to end, if I could do a speeded-up time-lapse video of Alexus ripping up to Syracuse then down through Virginia's two calls and Maryland to Atlanta where I picked up Chloe to do a trial run to North Carolina, then back to Atlanta for Sylvester and to get the BobD to rip to Gadsden Alabama for Rumdum call, then back to Atlanta to pick up Chloe to get to Memphis Tennessee for the least profitable call of all due to my terrible inefficiency, then Texas generators at the Blairs! and off to Los Alamos and north of Denver and Utah and Los Angeles and Napa and Nevada and Eureka CA to see Airkooled Chris and the roller derby spirit and Portland Oregon and Camas Washington and Anaconda Montana and Ogden Utah with Vdubluvah before hitting Minnesota beer-lover's gang with the Miz and his horrendous oil leak, zoot off to Wisconsin engine drop where I felt Fall In The Air before going to Chicago and another engine drop and off to Indiana and golf courses and Vermont! Rain! Maine! Past the Freedom Tower in New York City to New Jersey back in Maryland again to adjust valves on a Porsche 356 engine with one of the nicest bunch of people I have met and hot humid Miami Florida and Pensacola with an honorable lawyer then Georgia got chilly then warm at election week then had to pick up ALexus to go to this cold damp foggy mountain lair, really . . . what a summer. Good people too!
Some pictures! Maybe already posted elsewhere!
Currently, I am sitting here:
Just finished writing out the 2012 Itinerary Receipt Reconciliation/Log/Profit-Loss tables.I have hand-written every log entry since 2004, which may seem quaint or insane to you, but it tunes up my fine dexterity muscles after a summer of wrenching, and it helps my neck to remember what it's like to sit at a desk all day:
Must get back to this:
And who sent me this? I did respond at the time, but I can't remember. This little eggshell diorama has endured thousands of miles and storage here and storage there and it has been hanging on my drawing lamp the whole time. Heck, the drawing lamp (coated with backlite foil further up) has been with me since the day I opened up my Rochester New York business. It used to be an executive lamp . . .