I noticed last weekend was the first time I paid less for a gallon of gas than I had the weekend before ($3.90 vs. 3.93). I've seen nothing in the news to forecast this move. On the contrary I see the Dow dropping and read that it's due to the rising price of oil.
Most every weekend in the summer we drive an hour and 40 mins each way between our apartment and Long Beach Island, NJ. Almost all of the trip is on The New Jersey Turnpike and The Garden State Parkway. Our experience last year was that the trip home Sunday evening turned into 2.5 hours about 50% the time because of backups on the Garden State. This year we've hit that kind of traffic only once (about 10% of the time).
Is this because there are less cars on the road due to the price of gas? Maybe it's because the road construction that was so evident last year is complete? To add to my confusion I read a newspaper article about record crowds at NJ beaches. The article's explanation is that in an age of more conservative spending a local drive to the beach is less extravagant than other vacation alternatives.
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- I am settling into a summer hiatus from work and live in the New York area. Kevie and I have a 14 year old son and have been married for 30 years. I used to want one of everything especially if it was wicked cool.
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J.M. Barrie
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much . . . the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001), THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.
John Webster (1580-1625)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J.M. Barrie
What's not possible is not to choose
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much . . . the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001), THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.
John Webster (1580-1625)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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This is my experience also. Victor.
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