So, I'm driving to work and see that gas is up to $3.20/gal
It was $2.99 yesterday.
Then I read this:
10:06 A.M. - WWL-TV: Gas prices expected to rise by as much as $1.10 by this weekend.
Guess I'll be buying gas on the way home tonight.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Aug 31, 2005 7:02:46 am PDT #3002 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2005 7:04:14 am PDT #3003 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I filled my tank yesterday -- it was 10¢ more than on Friday. Friday's the next sensible time for me to fill up -- but since I fill up at Costco and it's the Labor Day weekend, I think I'll need to do it before work, or spend forever there.
tommyrot - Aug 31, 2005 7:06:45 am PDT #3004 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, hopefully gas prices will fall again after this weeked (as it's the big Labor Day weekend). Although that depends on how long people think production and refining capacity in the Gulf area will be affected.
Also, W is going to release some oil from the Strategic Reserves - that should help a bit.
sarameg - Aug 31, 2005 7:08:37 am PDT #3005 of 10002
I tend to not pay much attention to gas prices-as in I just pay'em, they don't make me wince- since I only fill up every couple of weeks, but $1.10 up made me blink. Goodness.
Glad your NO family is accounted for, ita.
sarameg - Aug 31, 2005 7:11:12 am PDT #3006 of 10002
I guess releasing from the SPR is largely a psychological game for the markets. Ain't gonna get the refineries back online any faster.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2005 7:14:59 am PDT #3007 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just can't grasp the weather being so huge. Ours is so much smaller.
Here, too.
Oh hey Nilly -- it's exactly a year since you were here, I realize -- we were hanging out around my orientation stuff, which is happening again this week.
Betsy HP - Aug 31, 2005 7:16:49 am PDT #3008 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Topic!Cindy - Aug 31, 2005 7:21:59 am PDT #3009 of 10002
What is even happening?
Oh Betsy, that just cracked me up.
Kathy A - Aug 31, 2005 7:23:23 am PDT #3010 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love that story of the zombies attending the American Idol audition!
"Zombies, I need you back here!" Lynn shouted. "All you zombies, I need to get a group shot!" The undead complied, waving their bloodied limbs about for the TV cameras.
Even flesh-eating ghouls, it seems, want to be on TV.
Nilly - Aug 31, 2005 7:27:15 am PDT #3011 of 10002
Swouncing
it's exactly a year since you were here, I realize
Allyson got her agent for her book on the date I boarded the plane. I nearly jumped when I read her good news that day, because it looked too well-timed to be the coincidence that it is.
we were hanging out around my orientation stuff, which is happening again this week
Oh, I was so lucky last year with your schedule.
Now I want to sit and wait for you on Barnes & Nobles, making myself take only one book with me to the table so that I wouldn't be tempted to buy more than just the one. Only, this year, the library - where I'd go when you have to be at your orientation - would be open, I wouldn't have to just look at the lions outside.
How is your next year going to be, schedule-wise?
[Edited because "your year" can't be shortened to just the one word, "yoar"]