It's Gone Up To WHAT?!
Never before have I been so grateful to have been watching the 11 o'clock nightly news. The very first thing they stated was, "The rumours are true: sometime tonight gas prices are going to be jumping from just under a dollar per litre, to anywhere between $1.60 to $2 per litre."
Needless to say, Mel and I didn't watch any more of the news. Bad enough it starts on such a macabre and depressing note, but with our tank nearly empty, the last thing either of us wanted was to hand off more than $60 just to fill up for gas. Especially since we'll be making a trip up to a friend's cottage this weekend.
Happily, when we arrived at a nearby gas station about 10 minutes after hearing the unsettling news, the price had barely risen above a dollar. So now we have a full gas tank at nowhere near the cost it would be today...or tomorrow.
On a related note, Mel spent most of the rest of last night looking like she was ready to kill somebody. So if you're reading this and related to the petrol industry...now is definitely not a time to take a door-to-door customer satisfaction survey from us.
In other news, Chance has apparently been doing more than I thought with my sandals. Bad enough he spends most of his evenings cuddling, nuzzling and wrestling with my sandals. Last night I also discovered he's been
eating the velcro. There's an enormous bald spot on my sandals where a strip of velcro should otherwise have been! Now I know Shady doesn't play with my shoes, and I know Mel doesn't even touch my shoes, and I'm pretty damned sure that I haven't been grazing on my own footwear in my sleep. So by default, that leaves....
Thanks, kitten. Every day I think Chance couldn't be any weirder, and every day he keeps surprising me.
Today's Lesson: build your petroleum refineries further inland, you morons!
posted by Phillip at 9:24 AM
