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Oops, where did the day go?
Jan. 3rd, 2009 09:28 pmGot up, did animal chores, went shopping, came home, did animal chores, and it's bedtime. This doesn't compute. We didn't do THAT much today. Or did we? Well, a fair amount of travel was involved. Got to have lunch at Colonial Cafe in Crystal Lake, which is always nice. Seated next to a couple of elderly women who were very hard of hearing and busy shouting their complaints about their families and health at each other, which isn't so nice. We were yarn hunting. Gary is making me a hat and he ran out of yarn (or is about to.) Fortunately it's a no dye lot inexpensive yarn, but he couldn't remember where he bought it. There aren't a lot of choices, and we hit it on the second try, so now he has enough yarn to finish the project and I'll have warm ears when it gets really cold sometime in the next month, as it always does.
Tried out the GPS a bit while driving around and it works fine for the purpose I had in mind. It's much quicker at recalculating a route than Gary's more expensive model is. His is two years old, now I'm going to have to consider getting him a new one sometime.
Lots of empty storefronts along US 14 in Crystal Lake. I think they were starting to disappear last year around this time.That overdeveloped stretch from Virginia St. all the way to Route 31 is losing restaurants at an incredible rate.
Gasoline prices are all over the map here. I think they've been changing so fast (both up and down) that sellers are having trouble keeping up. Yesterday I heard a radio station out of Chicago announce that the Clark Station on Lake St. in Woodstock was selling unleaded for $1.49. Considering that all three stations in Marengo are at $1.77, this seemed incredible. The three stations in Harvard that I pass daily are all at $1.61 to $1.63. The Clark station there in Harvard tried to break ranks and go to $1.69 on Tuesday, but by Friday they were back down to $1.63. I'm guessing the other stations didn't budge. We went by the Woodstock Clark station today. The price there is $1.69, not $1.49. In Crystal Lake, prices ranged from $1.85 to $1.98. (That last was at a Citgo station that is always higher than the rest. It's hard to understand why anyone would buy gas there when there's A Shell across the street that is consistently ten cents lower.
Tried out the GPS a bit while driving around and it works fine for the purpose I had in mind. It's much quicker at recalculating a route than Gary's more expensive model is. His is two years old, now I'm going to have to consider getting him a new one sometime.
Lots of empty storefronts along US 14 in Crystal Lake. I think they were starting to disappear last year around this time.That overdeveloped stretch from Virginia St. all the way to Route 31 is losing restaurants at an incredible rate.
Gasoline prices are all over the map here. I think they've been changing so fast (both up and down) that sellers are having trouble keeping up. Yesterday I heard a radio station out of Chicago announce that the Clark Station on Lake St. in Woodstock was selling unleaded for $1.49. Considering that all three stations in Marengo are at $1.77, this seemed incredible. The three stations in Harvard that I pass daily are all at $1.61 to $1.63. The Clark station there in Harvard tried to break ranks and go to $1.69 on Tuesday, but by Friday they were back down to $1.63. I'm guessing the other stations didn't budge. We went by the Woodstock Clark station today. The price there is $1.69, not $1.49. In Crystal Lake, prices ranged from $1.85 to $1.98. (That last was at a Citgo station that is always higher than the rest. It's hard to understand why anyone would buy gas there when there's A Shell across the street that is consistently ten cents lower.
