Yeah- but it’s gone from hovering around £1.20 a litre for the last few years (with a drop down to £1.00 during the big lockdown) to £1.50 in the last couple of months. That’s a big jump.
Ok, I’ll admit it. The fact that I bike almost everywhere makes me feel a bit smug that gas prices barely affect me. Now, I’m in the frozen tundra, so there’ll be days coming up when I can’t bike. (It’d be months, but… the parks dept. plows the bike paths, often long before the streets get done!)
Daughter’s moving south, and I’m so tempted to follow her. Anywhere I could ride all year long without wearing arctic gear would be wonderful.
The elite version of not caring about gas prices is to own a Tesla. No, I can’t afford one either. 
The low-rent version of not caring (very much) about gas prices is being retired and driving very little. The nice thing about my particular little suburban enclave is how many of the conveniences I need are all just a few blocks away. In fact, just about all of them. Most of my gas consumption is driving my (literally) high-flying son to and from airports.
I don’t know if I’m “smug” but gas prices don’t affect me much personally either. I do IT for state government and they provide me a van to drive (so that I can haul equipment if needed). When I commute, the government pays for my gas because it’s going into one of their vehicles. I rarely drive my own car more than 15 minutes away from my house, and even then I only do that once or twice a week; most of my driving is down the street for groceries or to drop off my kid at school. And my car is a compact with great mileage. So I don’t have to buy gas all that often.
Thanks to working from home full-time because of the pandemic, I’ve put less than 3000 miles on my car since March 2020. I am literally getting 3-4 months per tank refill.
I retired right before the pandemic hit. Yesterday, I filled up my tank for only the 4th time since February 2020.
Woo-hoo! After limbering up my bad leg a bit, climbed up on a short stepladder just now, thinking it might be the last thing I ever do (“we all miss Wolfpup, who killed himself plunging headlong off a stepladder”) and managed to remove the light enclosure, change the bulb, and replace the enclosure without killing myself. I feel six months younger! Tomorrow, the hallway light!
We’ll see about the smoke detectors, but definitely gonna hire somebody to do the projector and the heavy ceiling-mounted screen. I know my old-age limitations (though my doctor believes the bad leg is probably sciatica and can be managed).
Huge congrats! I know so many people whose job got much more complicated during Covid.
Had coffee with a former coworker* and sure, they like working from home, but simple things like “run down the hall and get Marcy to sign this form” is now a month-long “email Marcy’s bitchy supervisor and beg to get a pdf of the NEW form, then get three electronic signatures on it, then email it to a dropbox that apparently no one checks…”
*“Former”, because I retired just in time myself! … W 0 0 † !
I got to work from home again for a couple of hours yesterday (on account of having to rush home to deal with the fallen tree mess), and it was nice. 
I even changed into my pajamas to commemorate the occasion.
Of course, I had to re-do one of the reports today because for some reason Acrobat didn’t want to reduce the file size when being run on a remote desktop…
What’s funny is that I retired 6 months early because I was fed up with the job. I can’t imagine what the stress would have been like to work there with the pandemic starting. I consider myself very, very lucky that I made the decision to get out of there in January instead of waiting until July.
The single most useless thing about Google is you cannot get a simple answer to the question “Who streams (movie name)?”
Good news, bad news:
Bad news: Your divorce is finalized on December 24th because Christmas Eve is the ONLY date your judge friend can slip you in on her docket in the next 3 months, ‘and since it’s uncontested with no minor children it’s just going to be a simple matter of my approval, right? You’re not taking more than 5 minutes of my time?’
Good news: It was 2019. Had you waited, you may still be married today. 
Yeah. My Wife and I dropped DirecTV and switched over to streaming on ChromeCast. We where able to do it because we got a Starlink dish. We are still trying to figure out if me want more streaming providers or what. It would be nice if there was one place to go to see all (or at least the major providers) and what they stream.
Interwebs to the rescue! If you google “Best movies on ______ December, 2021” (and then “Best shows on ______ December, 2021”) you’ll find sites like Decider and Vulture and Paste that publish lists every month.
And I think you can go to, say, the Netflix .com web site and browse without an account.
Multiple clicks? For a simple Google question?
What are we, barbarians? Is this the world we choose to accept??
I use this website; you may find it useful for finding out who is streaming what:
Cheers.
I just found that my cat left a dead mouse under my bed.
To a cat, that’s the ultimate gift! 
I guess she was hiding it until Xmas.
Pretty sure it’s been there a few days, based on her behavior a few days ago…