A Lot More Folks Driving To Work -- March 2, 2022

Question of the day: why are US refineries only operating at 87% of their capacity? And we move on.

Days of crude oil supply, US: had dropped below 27 days in recent weeks, but now back over 27 days.  When the US supply of oil exceeds 21 days, common sense tells me crude oil should not be priced more than $60. There is nothing to suggest the US crude oil will get to less than 21 days supply any time soon.

A lot more folks are driving to work: and the economy will surge this summer. Private sector jobs increased more than expected. Link here. And not by an insignificant amount:

• February, 2022, forecast: 375,000 jobs
• reported: 475,000 jobs
• but look at this revision:
• January: initial report, a drop of 301,000 jobs -- which would have been the first drop since December, 2020
• January, 2021, revised an incredible jump of 509,000 jobs
• that's a swing of 800,000 jobs
• first question: could the February figures be off that much?
• we'll know next month

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Focus On Jeri Ryan

I watched an old re-run of Psych last night during the SOTU address. A familiar face popped up. I recognized her but couldn't "place" her.

It turned out to be Jeri Ryan who guest starred in Leverage back in 2009 where I first saw her. Since then she has gone on to bigger and better things. She has an "infectious" smile, as they say, and reminds me of a very, very beautiful actress of some years ago ... I'll let readers guess.

Whatever.

But this is what caught my attention. I maintain that folks that get to the top in their chosen field are no dummies. 

Jeri Ryan:

Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann on February 22, 1968, in Munich, West Germany, the daughter of Gerhard Florian "Jerry" Zimmermann, a master sergeant in the U.S. Army, and his wife Sharon, a social worker. She has one older brother, Mark. 

Ryan grew up on Army posts in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas.

When she was 11, her father retired from the Army and the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. She graduated from Lone Oak High School in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar), and then attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. She graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in Theatre.

In 1989, Ryan was chosen as Miss Illinois. She competed in the Miss America 1990 pageant, where she finished as third runner-up, winning the preliminary swimsuit competition and singing "On My Own" from Les Misérables for her talent.