Cracker Barrel; Cheap Cheap Gas!

Our new Cracker Barrel finally opened! I went today and yay it's really awesome! It was really crowded, but the food was awesome! I have always loved Cracker Barrel ever since I ate there for the first time in like 2001 when I went to work where the need is great in Kentucky. That was my first experience with the restaurant chain and I fell in love instantly lol. Tonight I got chicken n dumplins, corn, hasbrown casserole and mac n cheese and buttermilk biscuits. On a side note, there were a boatload of gay guys working there. And one who seems to be a manager kept introducing fellow coworkers to a guy he was with that he kept calling "his new husband". Interesting considering In 1991, Cracker Barrel instituted a policy requiring employees to display "normal heterosexual values which have been the foundation of families in our society." Workers were fired because they admitted or were assumed to be gay after the first few months that the policy was created. The company refused to change their policy in the face of protest demonstrations by gay rights groups. After 10 years of proposals by the New York City Employees Retirement System, a major shareholder, the company's shareholders voted 58% in 2002 in favor of rescinding the policy. The board of directors immediately added sexual orientation to the company's nondiscrimination policy. I guess they are trying to change their damaged image? It was pretty obvious lol. But all in all, good food, good service, GREAT location lol and awesome prices. :-)

Now as far as gas prices go... the go down, down, DOWN! Take a look at the line that formed outside one of our gas stations...

... the were tons of people lining up waiting to get gas. Why? Well because just last month as you have seen in previous posts, gas prices were well above $3 a gallon. What are they now? Take a look at the picture below to see! I took that picture as I was leaving Cracker Barrel tonight. And trust me... I wasn't the only one taking pictures of that awesome sight! Look below at the current gas prices here...

... isn't that insanely awesome! Finally something below $2 a gallon! Way below! I'm so excited! If the prices never go down and just stay where they are, I'd be happy... and I haven't said that in YEARS! Yay for the sucky economy! Lol.

Life and Gas

Like the post title? Lol. First off lemme cover what I have been up to the past few days. That is work lol. Work work work and more work. But last night I just went randomly driving around. I went to Arnold, then Pasadena and then Annapolis and then home lol. I feel like a lot has been going on but seriously I can't think of anything! Lol. Anyway, ok then. Oh and Barack Obama was elected President of the United States on Tuesday. That was crazy to see so many people going crazy happy over it. Youtube some videos, its fun to watch.

Gas prices continue to fall... yay! :-D Yesterday in Pasadena I saw a price of $1.98! Thats crazy! But a lot of places here are below the $2 mark. Where I live so far the cheapest is $2.09, I really hope we get below $2 a gallon next week! That would be so cool!

$2.71!

Gas is now down to $2.71 a gallon! OMG! It probably won't go much, if any lower since OPEC is taking measures to avoid further declines in oil prices. But being this much below the $3 mark is awesome :-D

Gas Prices Are Free Falling!

Wow, the state average in Maryland just last week was $3.43, just one week later it is now averaged out at $3.16! That price plummeted! Hopefully it will continue to plummet. However OPEC has called an emergency meeting to see what what they can do about the prices falling like a rock. Lol. They just need to let us pay $1.99 a gallon again :-D

Yesterday (Updated With Video)

OMG! So last night... actually ALL day yesterday was AWESOME! I mean I woke up at 6AM in a great mood and I loved my entire day at work. I couldn't stop smiling and laughing all day while working, it was crazy! I barely even listened to my iPod at work cuz I was just having an awesome time. And then after work I came home and got my video camera and then left and recorded a scene for the "Womanizer" fan club music video, as I headed to pick up April. After I got her, we shot another scene of me driving, this time she was holding the camera and getting the passenger perspective. And then one we got on the Bay Bridge, we shot another time. And then after we got to the mall, we parked in the parking garage and turned up some Katy Perry and opened the car doors and danced right there in the parking garage for all to see! It was so fun! Then we went trapsing through the mall, and then to our new 3 level Target, which by the way has escalators just for the shopping carts! They look like roller coaters! It's so cool! I wanted to hop in a cart and ride the ride! Lol. Then after that we went to eat and then loitering and then to Barnes and Nobles and looked at funny books and then after that, I think we came home lol. Then I watched the world premiere of the "Womanizer" music video. Yay! Awesome awesome AWESOME so much fun time! Oh and guess what!? When I went to work gas prices were $3.09 a gallon... when I came home after all my excitement gas prices plummeted to $2.99! Finally, we made it below the $3 mark again! :-D I was so tired though I barely noticed it lol. And oil closed today at $79.87 a barrel... the lowest it's been in 13 years.

UPDATE: Here's the vid of us dancing in the parking garage.

"Womanizer" Photos; Gas Prices

Okeedokee. So apparently I am becoming a mini Britney fan site because I am getting requests from people to post the latest photos from Britney's new music video "Womanizer", that will be premiered this Friday night on 20/20... SET YOUR TIVO's! Anyway, here are some HOT pictures of Britney. She is DEFINITELY 100% back to her old self. I'm so excited!




Now as far as gas prices go.. they go DOWWWWWN! And that's a good thing... until you remember that it's cause we are plummeting into the worst economy since the Great Depression in the 1930's! Hopefully it won't get that bad! Anyway, today I filled up at the lowest it has been since last winter, at $3.19 a gallon! And Mary, a girl I work with told me that she got gas in Dover for $3.12. Woot!

Now let's hope they keep going down, and hope that the economy goes back up at the same time! I know, wishful thinking :-P

Totally Got Worse; Oil Prices Plummet

Ok so first things first, last night I said my throat started getting pretty sore... well today I'm pretty much miserable. :-( It got worse and my toxic snot that feels like hot lava is burning my throat! This really sucks. I'm trying my hardest not to call outta work cuz this week is really important. Anyway, I barely made it through today.

Now to oil/gas prices... I'm all types of confused lol. Oil PLUMMETED today to $94.21 a barrel. That's the first time oil has been below $100 since March. The market price for gas also plummeted $.22 to $2.58 a gallon. Now here is where I get all confused. You would think that because of all of this gas prices at the pump would plummet too right? WRONG! Let me put things in perspective before I go on. The last time oil was just below $100 a barrel, gas at the pump was in the $2.90s. Today, gas is at $3.68 - $3.77! What's up with that!? And furthermore, we have about a $.40 gas tax here in Maryland, so our prices really should be in the $2.90s like they used to be when market gas price and oil were this low! So I'm a bit ticked about this and confused.

All Is Good... Not Well

I'm home! Safe and sound. The assembly was great. Gas prices were so cheap there, at least right before Ike hit Texas that is! On Friday the gas in New Jersey was $3.23 on Saturday they shot up to $3.58! I hate when hurricanes do that. Anyway, as you can tell in the title, all is not well. And by that, I mean me. I believe I am getting sick. My throat is getting pretty sore from what I call "toxic snot drippage". Lol. It's not bad yet, but it barely started yesterday, and now from a 1-10 it is a 4 on the soreness level. I'm really really hoping it stays this level and goes down. I can't afford to get sick this week because we are preparing for this huge event at work and all week I need to be in tip top shape! Well I guess I'm gonna go and eat some waffles! It's good to be home baby! Oh yeah and on a side note, I didn't do any shopping that ended in purchasing anything this weekend... so I'm till in dire need of shoes!

HUMONGOUS Udate!

So lots to talk about in this post. I woulda made a video update but I didn't feel like it :-P So here we go, each updated subject will have it's own paragraph.

Phone: I was looking on YouTube and I saw that there is a new software update for the Voyager. It's like a total makeover and would basically be like having a new phone. And I've been itching for something new until I get a new phone, and this would be the prefect remedy. Well I called our local Annapolis Verizon and asked if they had the update there and they said yes but that they've been having issues with it so until next week instead of updating the phone you bring in, they just give you a new phone with the new software already installed! So I might be doing that today. The problem is, because of the big accident on the Bay Bridge a few weeks ago, they are doing reconstruction of the wall and it is causing a 4 hour backup. So once I cross that bridge, I know I will be in extreme traffic coming home. Is it worth it?
7:45 PM Update- I just got the software update, but not a new phone.


Yesterday: I was gonna go across the bridge and go shopping, eat dinner and get the software update for my phone yesterday, but at the last minute I changed my mind and went to Easton instead. I went to Applebee's, then got my haircut, as you can see in the picture to the left. Likey?



Hurricane Gustav: Well it happened, as I said it would on Tuesday. Hurricane Gustav has become a major hurricane. Today it is a Category 4. At this moment it has sustained winds of 145 MPH. It is gonna hit Cuba today and tonight enter the Gulf of Mexico. There it will become a Cat. 5 hurricane and move towards the Louisiana/Texas coast. My grandfather, who works for the electric company, has already been told he is leaving Monday morning and being sent to the Gulf Coast to help restore power in the aftermath. He did the same thing when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the same region in 2005. This also means that all the oil rigs are being evacuated and prices are about to skyrocket. They are in the direct path of this monster.

Gas Prices: Well, as you can imagine, with a huge hurricane about to pound the Gulf of Mexico, oil prices have shot up. Fortunately, atleast here, it hasn't been reflected in prices at the pump. Right now we have the lowest prices in that state, which has been the case this year, and the lowest prices in months. Two days ago I took the picture to the right of gas prices at $3.38 a gallon. That won't be the case as these next few days pass. Will Hurricane Gustav finally force our local gas station owners to raise the prices over $4 a gallon for the first time ever? We shall see.

Shopping Needs: I need to shop. Badly. I need winter clothes, but I still really need shoes. I'm still using the same pair of shoes and they are not comfy at all. Maybe if I cross the bridge to get the Voyager software update I will go ahead and get some shoes.
7:45 PM Update- I got the software update on phone and while waiting for it to finish, I went to the mall shoe shopping, didn't find any shoes I liked so I got frustrated and left. I did get some worthless socks though.

Blog: So I didn't want to make a separate post just for this so I will include it in this one for obvious reasons. When August 2008 ends, it will be the busiest month ever for my blog. For the first time in the over 2 years I have had this blog, I might actually reach the 30 posts in 1 month threshold! June of this year was the first time I reached 20 posts in a single month, and now just 2 short months later I may make it to 30. Either way, this will still be "most posted" month ever since the previous record is June 2008 with 22 posts, this is already the 28th post of this month. Awesome!

Hurricane Gustav... Crap!

Above is the forecast path to what will be a major hurricane. Hurricane Gustav is hitting Haiti right now, however as soon as it moves off the coast, it is expected to stay over warm Caribbean water and is therefore expected to rapidly strengthen, and explode into a major hurricane. That's not good at all. It is then forecast to enter the Gulf of Mexico Saturday and continue to strengthen. We are potentially looking at a Category 5, the strongest there is, churning in the Gulf. As you see, the forecast has it aimed straight for the oil rigs of the Gulf coast. If Gustav, as forecasted, hits them with such stregnth, our gas prices will easily skyrocket to and possibly over the $5 a gallon range. Right now gas is $3.46 a gallon.

July; Poison Ivy; Gas Prices

Ok so I was thinking about it, and July 2008 has been the most intense, insane, crazy month I have ever lived! I mean looking back, the emotional insanity that I went through, and how things jolted up and down, left and right for me was unbelievable. My life has completely changed in many ways because of last month. In the beginning of July I had no idea what was in store for me. And as I exited the month, I was finally starting to fully recover from all that had just happened. Man, intense. I am grateful that I have the family that I have, and that now life is to what the new normal is for me after last month :-D I'm very optimistic as to what is coming for me in the near and long term future.

So unfortunately I got poison ivy last week and it is just getting really bad now. It's especially prevalent on my right foot, around my ankle and up my leg, and then there's another patch on my upper right leg. I guess there is a down side to hiking on my lunch break at work! Lol.

And finally, the subject I'm obsessed about, and will touch on many many times to come, gas prices lol. So oil has "plummeted" to around $114 a barrel. And in doing so, you would think that gas prices would too right? Well they did. I took this photo of gas prices at #3.49 a gallon last week. The only problem is oil prices have fallen more than $10 since that picture was taken, and gas prices have actually increased to $3.60 today. Now, I'm not really gonna complain because when the price was $3.49 here it was $3.75+ everywhere else. So I'm not complaining. And still, what it is now is still way cheaper than everywhere else. Why we have the cheapest fuel, I don't know. But I sure as heck don't mind!

Gas Price Update Lol

Yeah so I was wrong again... thankfully. Gas actually went down. It is actually now $3.61 a gallon for regular. Yay! I haven't taken any pics. Oh and luckily, right where I live is where the cheapest gas prices are in the entire state! I have a screenshot of marylandgasprices.com. They list the cheapest locations to get gas. And as you can see Stevensville is the cheapest! Everything in a red box is on Kent Island. Woot!



P.S. Just for comparison, the national average for regular is $3.90 a gallon, the state average in Maryland is $3.88... so as you can see, we are extremely fortunate here!

Ok Ok Ok... More On Gas Prices

Sooo, I was wrong before when I talk about gas prices, but I'm gonna be correct this time! So far gas prices have not hit $4 a gallon for regular. As a matter of fact they hit $3.99 last week, but have since fallen to $3.75! Well, you would think that gas prices are on their way down for good right? WRONG! Tensions between Iran and the USA have skyrocketed over the weekend with threats of sanctions and stuff. So since oil and gas prices aren't traded on the weekend, we haven't seen the effects of all this crap going on. However, I guarantee tomorrow the oil prices, and subsequently the gas prices will go up, possibly shoot up. Could this possibly be what takes the price of gas over $4 a gallon here on Kent Island? We've been extremely lucky to have gas station owners who have so far refused to cross the horrible price mark... but will they now? We shall see. So I can look back a remenis about $3.75 a gallon, I took a picture after I filled up of the gas station lol. I don't know what picture looks better so I posted both lol. It just stormed so it was all dark and wet with the Sun trying to come back out so the lighting was horrible. It's the same station though. Just different lighting.

Click On The Picture To See This Weeks Oil and Gas Information... It's Not Purrty

Here We Go!

Buckle up and get ready for an insane jump in gas prices this week! Just in time for the 4th of July week, Iran says it might shut down it's oil lines in prep for launching bombs at Israel this coming week. This is HUGE. Gas prices very well could jump $.50 in a weeks time with this situation. We shall see. Knowing what gas prices are about to do, I took some pics with my phone to remember what it looked like to see $3 something gas prices... a soon to be former luxury... and that's hard to believe. Sad. Click pictures to make them bigger and open in a new window.

Gas Prices

Ugh. Oil went up more than $5.50 today. Just when one of our gas stations dropped their price of gas to $3.88. We have yet to reach the pivotal $4 per gallon threshold here on the Island, but I'm pretty sure that barring a huge fall in oil prices tomorrow, that by this weekend, or even tomorrow we will unfortunately finally cross that mark. And a year from now, if we are still living in this system, $4 per gallon for gas will probably seem dirt cheap! That's really, REALLY sad.