Holy Nighthorsie, Gasman*!

[veronica_rich]

Well, this is an argument against sleeping late. I went back to sleep after waking up super early this morning and proceeded to have a nightmare about gas prices. I was in some parking lot or a small diner or something in this town near where my parents live, and every time I looked outside at the big gas sign across the interstate, the price had gone up. It started at $5-something, then a few minutes later went to $16-something. I think when I finally woke up, genuinely alarmed and heart racing, it was up to $23-something.

Then my sister called while I was trying to get back to sleep, and I told her I was having a bad dream about gas being $6 a gallon. "Oh, that's not a nightmare," she sagely observed. "It's just reality."

It's a good thing I like my own company and that of you guys, or I'd really resent being kept at home during vacation by gas prices.

In other ramblings, I had a shepherd's pie last night (made with beef, not mutton) that tasted GOOD. My only experience was in college, and PFM's shepherd's pie was ... decidedly not good. My most vivid memory of it, in fact, was the campus paper that "revealed" in its April Fool's edition that it was baked with underground building materials left over from the renovation of the Administration Building. (I think they were trying to tell the truth and simply put it in the April 1 edition to avoid a lawsuit.)


*It's pronounced "gas-man" despite how it runs together. As soon as I typed it, I was reminded of an episode of "Friends" where Phoebe and Chandler are discussing superhero names and someone makes the misfortune of running "Spider" and "man" together.

Chandler: "It's 'Spider-Man.' He's not Al Spiderman, Accountant."

Comments

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Erm... by my calculations yesterday the cheapest petrol I could find converts to $8.14 per gallon, so don't come to us with your problems, is all I can say! Odd dream though...

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Considering I am thought lucky over here to have a job with any sort of health insurance at all, and four weeks of paid vacation a year, compared to what you probably get, I wouldn't be slapping the "Land of Wine and Roses" label on the U.S. so quickly. ;-)

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Very true - at least we have the NHS (at least at the moment)! I must admit I wouldn't swap, but we really are hurting with these fuel prices right now, especially as I need to fill the tank every week.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You throw in the fact that we have an idiot for a leader and cruel, beady-eyed small men for his advisors, and you really ought to give more pity to those of us who voted against them in the first place!

Yeah, I'm pushing it, I know .......

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

...you really ought to give more pity to those of us who voted against them in the first place!

Listen, we've got problems of our own in that respect (though admittedly UK politicians seem sane next to what you've got running the show)!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, unless yours actually RESEMBLES a two-digit IQ chimp, we've got you beat.

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Fair point!

[porridgebird.livejournal.com]

Gas is over $4 here. Up the road it's $5!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's natural progression?

When Dad started driving, I think he said gas was either 19 or 30 cents, I don't remember. When I started driving over 20 years later, it was around 78 cents (and Regular was still an option!). So in the 20 years between him and me, we went from 30 to 78 (I believe it WAS 30 cents), and in the 20 I've been driving, we've gone from 78 to 329 cents. Which seems higher than it ought to be, still.

[porridgebird.livejournal.com]

My ex-husband used to go nuts at the "high" gas prices... he'd drive all over creation looking for the gas that was a couple cents cheaper, BURNING UP GAS with all the driving. This was quite some time ago. We are talking, like, $0.56 vs $0.58.

"Fifty eight cents! That's highway robbery!"

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Around here, I've seen everything from $3.17 (BJ's member price) for regular unleaded to $3.27 for ru.

I'm dreading driving up to Columbus, Ohio for Marcon over Memorial Day weekend, I'm already expecting at least $3.50 ru gas by that time. If I had the money, I swear I'd get a Prius.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I was in Columbus last weekend, and the gas was 20 cents cheaper than it is here, honestly - and your prices sound similar to the ones around here.

[kahva.livejournal.com]

{Crosses fingers} Here's hoping the same will be true come Memorial Day weekend!

Didn't see a single POTC cosplayer there last year, hopefully will see a few this year. Also hoping that Marc Singer will be as fun as Kevin Sorbo was last year.

[ballincollig.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Ireland, I swore by this shepherd's pie mix by Coleman's...holy hell, was it ever good. I'll look for it for you in Canada, but if I have no luck maybe you can convince ainsoph15 to bring some along for Halloween?

Yum...can't stop thinking about it...

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You could always ask her!

[ballincollig.livejournal.com]

Found it for you in a imports store down the street!

I'll bring it to WillCon!

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

Ver, you know that the Alpine Shepherd's Pie from PFM was made from Alpine Shepherds! *blinks*

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I thought it was made from D students ...

[tesan.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that for the all years I knew you, you didn't like shepard's pie! Blasphemy! :)

BTW, where did you get the shep's pie last night? I'm hungry right now and if I had more energy, I'd run out to the store and buy ingridients to make it.

Tesa - off to forage for food in her empty refrigerator :P

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

If you visit the_dark_snack, in her past 2-3 entries she mentions our dinner last night - mention you're my friend and ask her what she put in it (of course, she can't answer tonight, but I bet she will tomorrow). She used ground beef, peas, baby carrots, mushroom gravy mix (and instead of water in the gravy, she used Guinness beer), tiny pearl onions, mashed potaotes on top, with a sprinkling of cheese to melt on the potatoes. But I don't know specifics. (As a matter of fact, tell her we both want the recipe.)