Gas Up: May 8

No need to take a new photo for me, because gas costs exactly the same this week as last—$1.359/litre or $5.14/gallon.

Other gas price reports
Rey gives us a breakdown of the gas prices he encountered last weekend in New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania:

• PA (where I live) $3.69 a gallon
  
• NJ (Family Stop A) $3.47 a gallon
• NJ (Refuel before entering NYC) $3.58 a gallon
• NYC (Family Stop B: NYC and where I refused to refuel) $3.89 a gallon
• NJ (Refuel before leaving NJ) $3.49 a gallon
  

Violet gives her report from Langley, BC where what you see is not necessarily what you get.

 

What about you? Up, down, or the same? 

 

Update on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:48AM by rebecca

• Candy is paying $3.75/gallon and she blames the Californians.
• See what Dorothy is paying this week in Crystal Lake, IL.

Dorothy says she was getting an error message when tried to comment here. The comments are working for me now, but if you have trouble, too, will you send me an email letting me know?

Update on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 10:32AM by rebecca

From threegirldad, who lives somewhere in the world in Kansas.

Well, prices here shot up almost 20 cents a couple of days ago, so it’s now between $3.50 and $3.55. And to think that I can remember my dad pulling into a full-service station, and paying 19 or 20 cents a gallon for someone else to pump the gas — as well as clean the windshield and check the oil. Wow…

I remember 19¢ gas, too. And penny candy.

Update on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 9:11AM by rebecca

Missm gives us a link to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald about gas prices in her part of the world.

Update on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 9:29PM by rebecca

• Elaine has posted a photo of the gas prices in her little corner of Northern Ireland. Remember, the price listed is in £, not $. (And it’s per litre, not gallon.)
• threegirldad came back to report that gas in his neck of the plains (Kansas) has gone up another 10¢ since Thursday, so now it’s $3.65 per gallon.
• Gas at my little neighbourhood station went up since Thursday, too, by two cents a litre. That means there’ll be a new photo this coming week.
  

Romans 8:18-39: General Procedure

Here’s the general procedure I’ll be using for doing an interpretive paraphrase of this passage.

• Step 1 is to place the passage in context; first, within the book of Romans, and then within the particular section of text surrounding it.
• Step 2 is to divide the passage in paragraphs.
  
• Step 3 is to copy the first verse from the four translations I’m using comparing them and using that comparison to help me decide which words and phrases might be key to understanding the meaning of the verse.
  
• Step 4 is to underline the key words and phrases in the verse. The general guideline I use is to underline all the nouns and verbs and any connecting words for which I see the possibility of different meanings reflected in the translations I’ve used.
  
• Step 5 is to consider the meaning each underlined word or phrase, using a comparison of the different translations, information on the meaning of the word gathered using my Strong’s concordance, and finally (and optionally), what I glean from the commentary.
  
• Step 6 is to write a paraphrase of this verse from what I’ve learned.

I’ll keep doing steps 3-6 until I’ve finished paraphrasing the entire passage.  Yes, it’s a lot of work, but it gets to be less work as time goes on, for at least two reasons. First, like anything, it gets easier with practice; and secondly, a word may only need to be studied thoroughly once and then that information simply reviewed every time the word is repeated in the text.

Hitchin' the Wagon

 
for a couple of days while I regroup.

Mostly I’ll be doing spring yard work and spring cleaning and spring sewing. I’ll be back on Friday with this week’s Gas Up post, and should it rain on my parade, I may get one of the Romans 8 posts up soon, too.