Our Tipping Point

Our tipping point is apparently $4/gallon.  We're not canceling any trips or anything, but we are definitely economizing our car usage.  I'm planning on ONE trip out to do a whole list of errands this week (instead of running out a couple of times during the week - always combining trips, but not on this scale).  We're starting to plan such that the car only makes one trip downtown every day - depending on our schedules, M will transport TRex to or from school via public transit.  Often I drive to the train station to pick them up when they take the train home, but yesterday I walked to meet them and brought a stroller (she is not up for walking over a mile by herself yet).  If it's not raining this afternoon, I expect we'll do the same today.

One of this week's errands is dropping my bike off for a cleaning & tune-up, and we are thinking about getting either a trailer bike or a seat for TRex.  Her friend J apparently did really well on their trailer last weekend - maybe once my bike is tuned up we'll see if we can hook their trailer up and try it out sometime.  (One concern is that my kid has extra-short legs... J is a good 2-3" taller than her.)  With a way to transport TRex by bike, we can bike to the library, to the farmer's market (which opens this weekend), to the playground, etc.

Next time I go out, I have to put gas in the car.  I am NOT looking forward to that.  The first time I paid over $4/gallon was when I filled the gas can for the lawnmower last week.

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iTunes meme

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line [or two or three] from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold/Strike out the songs when someone guesses title and artist correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

I culled ones that there was no way anybody was going to know (local bands from high school days, electronica by fellow academics). And a lot of them I had to look up to make sure I wasn't giving you bad information. And I went with the first REAL lyrics, not filler stuff... Oh, and for bonus points, there are two songs on here for which I have reproduced the complete lyrics. Which ones are they?

( The list... not really embarrasing at all )