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{ Monthly Archives } May 2006

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Wednesday, 05.31.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

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2006 05 31 Salem Gas Prices Comments

What Was in the Mailbox Wednesday, 05.31.2006?

Wednesday, the mailbox contained:

June 2006 issue of American Journal of Nursing (Oral hydration in Older Adults) Spring 2006 issue of Greens of Virginia Newsletter (Arlington Greens Fight Widening of I-66) June 2006 CDW Catalog (It’s always a good time to upgrade) Coupons from SpeeDee Oil Change & Tune-Up An offer from Working Assets Wireless An offer from the Library of [...]

2006 05 31 Mailbox Contents Comments

Pink Eye Day 3

The left, pink, eye isn’t as puffy today.

2006 05 31 Family
Health Comments

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Tuesday, 05.30.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

[...]

2006 05 30 Salem Gas Prices Comments

What Was in the Mailbox Tuesday, 05.30.2006?

Tuesday, the mailbox contained:

July 2006 issue of American Heritage (How Real is ‘Deadwood’?) June 5, 2006 issue of Newsweek (Rethinking ‘The Marriage Crunch’) June 2006 issue of Virginia Wildlife (Are mute swans becoming a royal nuisance in Virginia?) June/July 2006 issue of Mother Earth News (The Cozy Cabin) July 2006 issue of Linux Journal (Ruby Everywhere, Including Rails) June 2006 [...]

2006 05 30 Mailbox Contents Comments

Ranchers, drug dealers uproot rainforest

Slash and burn tactics by illegal loggers, cattle ranchers and drug traffickers in Guatemala are repeating the mistakes of their ancestors and destroying enough trees to fill an area the size of Dallas each year.

One theory for the relatively sudden Mayan collapse 1,200 years ago is that clear-cutting of trees led to widespread erosion and [...]

2006 05 30 Environment Comments

Itchier Poison Ivy Tied to Global Warming

Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison ivy. [Poison ivy])http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_ivy “Wikipedia: in the family Anacardiaceae, is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant that causes an agonizing, itching rash for most people”) grows faster and becomes itchier as carbon dioxide levels in [...]

2006 05 30 Environment Comments

Pink Eye Continues

My left eye continues to ooze…

2006 05 30 Family
Health Comments

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Monday, 05.29.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

[...]

2006 05 29 Salem Gas Prices Comments

Pink Eye

Pink eye is making the rounds in our house. My youngest had it in March. The middle child was diagnosed with pink eye at the beginning of last week, and the oldest at the end of last week. Now, I have pink eye. My left eye is swollen, red, bloodshot, and [...]

2006 05 29 Family
Health Comments

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Sunday, 05.28.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

[...]

2006 05 28 Salem Gas Prices Comments

Hungry Rays Thwart River Oyster Restoration Effort

Cow-nosed rays arrived early this year and ate 90% of the 775,000 oysters in an artificial reef days after they were planted in the Piankatank River to help revive the Chesapeake Bay’s declining shellfish population. The oysters were planted by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and The Nature Conservancy on a man-made reef in the [...]

2006 05 28 Environment Comments

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Saturday, 05.27.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

[...]

2006 05 27 Salem Gas Prices Comments

What Was in the Mailbox Saturday, 05.27.2006?

Saturday, the mailbox contained:

July 2006 issue of Consumer Reports (The right digital camera for you) June 2, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly (All About Their ‘Break-Up’) June/July 2006 issue of National Wildlife (Special Issue: Why nature is good for your mind and body) June 2006 issue of Nuts And Volts (Mail Delivered Detector) July & August 2006 issue [...]

2006 05 27 Mailbox Contents Comments

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Friday, 05.26.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

[...]

2006 05 26 Salem Gas Prices Comments

What Was in the Maibox Friday, 05.26.2006?

Friday, the mailbox contained:

Spring 2006 issue of Oxford American (Best of the South) June 2006 issue of Business 2.0 (How to Build a Bulletproof Startup) Summer 2006 Nature Conservancy Landmarks (Quarterly Report) Coupons from Mailbox Savings

Mailbox

2006 05 26 Mailbox Contents Comments

Alien Iguanas Overrun Florida Island

Twelve thousand non-native lizards – some up to 2 to 3 feet ong – are treating the town of Boca Grande like their personal paradise. Fed-up residents may have to pay an “iguana tax” to banish the reptiles.

Read (National Geographic)

2006 05 25 Environment
Odd Stories Comments

Wildlife Management area hides treasures

Virginia’s Wildlife Management Areas are diamonds in the rough. These large tracts of land, set aside for hunting, fishing and wildlife observation, are also great places to hike, ride bicycles or go horseback riding.

The article has a good description of the 10,300 acre Rapidan Wildlife Management Area, which is located on the eastern side of [...]

2006 05 25 Entertainment
Environment Comments

HIV origin ‘found in wild chimps’

The origin of HIV has been found in wild chimpanzees living in southern Cameroon, researchers report.

It is thought that people hunting chimpanzees first contracted the virus – and that cases were first seen in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo – the nearest urban area – in 1930.

Scientists believe the rareness of cases – [...]

2006 05 25 Health Comments

What Was the Price of Gas in Salem, VA Thursday, 05.25.2006?

Today, the gasoline prices at the BP @ 200 Apperson DR in Salem, VA were:

Grade Price

Regular $2.559

Mid $2.659

Premium $2.759

Diesel $2.799

[...]

2006 05 25 Salem Gas Prices Comments