Just over there
The T is spending her spring/April vacation here this year instead of us going to see my mother. (Usually she visits for a week or so during the summer.). So I need to do some cleaning of the apartment. It isn’t messy but things get cluttered when you live by yourself…
an excuse to procrastinate with the doing of taxes.
This year, due to several factors, US Federal taxes are due on April 17th, NEXT Tuesday. I’ve had this years TurboTax sitting on my desk for 3 weeks now. Maybe I should install it on a computer? Before Tuesday?
That would be the price of gas in the US creeping upward without a pause for station identification. All those excuses the oil companies give? I don’t believe them. Not sure if it is a conspiracy of the middlemen hoarding gas to keep the price high that several “energy analysts” are claiming– that sounds kind of fishy.
Filled up the buggy tonight. Right on schedule… a tank lasts me approx. 2 weeks.
When I filled it up two weeks ago (end of March), I paid $2.56/gal for the gold plated stuff my car requires (Yes, REQUIRES. If the manufacturer says, in the manual for the car, that it requires a certain kind of gas to perform the way it is supposed to, that’s what I’ll put in it. And not something cheaper just because some people believe there is no difference between different octanes of gas. Sure, if you have some Detroit or Japanese econo-box designed for the cheap stuff – putting in high octane gas isn’t going to make any difference.)
Tonight… it was $2.89/gal for the same stuff at the same gas station. So topping off the tank (13+ gallons tonight) cost me $4 tonight than it did 2 weeks ago. And it’s only the middle of April. I’m thinking $4/gal gas by August…
