I recently got a raise.

A whopping 35 extra cents an hour.

This is right around the time that gas prices around Portland shot up an additional 75 cents per gallon.

And a few weeks before my insurance rates went up.

My employer giveth and my mobile taketh away.

It's high time I pursue other means of transportation. Since Tri-Met can't get me to work and back, I'm thinking of buying a unicycle.