Asymptomatic

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Cheap Gas
June 08, 2004

I was driving home from school the other day and saw the cheapest gas price I've seen in quite a while on the sign at the new Wawa, a local convenience store.

As I expected, the store was not open for business with such “too good to be true” prices.

Gas Prices
June 08, 2004

Here’s what I know: If gas prices get much higher, I’ll be biking to work. It’s getting to be too much of an expense to fill the car up every week.

Meanwhile, we’re subsidizing Iraq’s gasoline so that they can pay 5 cents per gallon to fill their tanks. That’s $1 for 20 gallons. I wonder what the price of gas was in Iraq before we subsidized the importing.

Venus Transit
June 08, 2004

I totally forgot about the transit this morning. I had heard of it a few months ago when I was looking for some neat stuff to look at through my telescope. I was planning on having a solar filter around so that I could see this, but that didn't materialize, and I didn't even try out the pinhole method that we discussed in class last night.

Oh, well. I guess I’ll just have to wait for the next transit in 2012, when it’ll be easier to remember because it’s happening at sunset. Abby will be 11 then, and possibly interested in seeing it, too.