Our last paycheck was near the end of December, and went to cover our mortgage, electric bill, car note, insurance, cable and internet, cellphone bill, and medications.
The sounds slowed or speeded up according to the pace, and they evolved every block or two, sometimes evoking vibraphones or soft electric guitar notes.
The album includes just nine songs in 55 minutes, and about halfway through comes "You Lust," which marches along for 13 minutes on an unvarying four-note electric piano line.
In "Sex Cog" the music slowly took shape with high, whistling long tones on viola and twinkling electric-piano notes.
He likened the debris cloud, which rose to a height of some thirty thousand feet in ten minutes, to "a parachute which was being blown up by a large electric fan," noting that it "had very much the appearance of a large mushroom".
"What can we make into an E.V.?" When Mr. Straubel first met Greg Bernas, Toyota's chief engineer for the project, Mr. Bernas was leafing through a newly purchased technical primer for electric vehicles, noting that his team members were thinking about E.V.'s for the first time in their careers.
"It essentially works like a diesel electric locomotive," Baggarly notes.
Electric vehicles, he noted, consume 30 percent to 50 percent less energy per mile driven than traditional internal-combustion vehicles, so a large-scale conversion to electric cars could make sense.
The electric utilities, he noted, expected the department to live up to contracts signed in the 1980s for it to dispose of the nuclear waste.
Also, 2004-7 Saturn Ions have been given an extension of the warranty on their electric power steering, noted in T.S.B. 10187A issued on May 23.
He began an advertising campaign about that time, and ads in The New York Times noted electric lighting, telephones in the apartments, all-night elevator service, an iron and glass marquee above the entrance and "door boys".
