I Hope You Stayed.

If you were at Rogers Centre this afternoon I hope you didn't leave the Blue Jays game early.  Seeing Steve Pearce hit his second walk off grand slam in 4 games on TV was amazing.  I'm sure it was even more amazing to see it in person.  I suspect that no one will be throwing anything hittable to Pearce if the bases are loaded for a good while to come.

Gas In Saskatoon, July 28, 2017.

What has gone up, has come down.  Gas in Saskatoon has dropped to 92.9 cents a litre at most locations.  But don't be surprised if it goes up again next week.

More Paper.

Back in October of 2016 I received a 5 dollar paper bill as part of my change.  I speculated at the time I might not see another paper Canadian bill again.  I was wrong, as I received a paper ten dollar bill in change today.  Somehow it's managed to stay in circulation years after it was decided to pull all Canadian paper currency.  Presumably it simply hasn't ended up in a bank in a long time, as banks will send old bills like this back to the Bank of Canada for destruction.  I know I won't be putting it in a bank, but instead will spend it to help it continue its journey.

Gas In Saskatoon, July 21, 2017.

Yet another week where we saw a small decline followed by a big jump.  Gas in Saskatoon dropped at the beginning of the week to 90.4 cents a litre, only to jump to 97.9 cents a litre Thursday.  I'd love to see the justification for such price jumps, but I doubt I'd be pleased at what I read.

Goodbye, Commander.

Veteran actor Martin Landau has died at 89.  If things had worked out a bit differently Landau might be known as a cartoonist instead of an actor.  He was still a teen when the New York Daily News hired him as a cartoonist, but five years later he decided to quit to pursue acting.  A student of Lee Strasberg, Landau's big break came when Alfred Hitchcock saw him in a play, and cast him as the villainous Leonard in North by Northwest, leading to a nearly 60 year career.

My first real exposure to Landau was as Commander John Koenig in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999, where he starred opposite his then wife Barbara Bain.  In memoriam here's the Space: 1999 episode "The Black Sun," one of Landau's favourites.

Gas In Saskatoo, July 14, 2017.

Last week's big price jump has almost reversed itself.  Gas in Saskatoon is now 91.9 cents a litre at most locations.  But I'll be entirely unsurprised if it goes up next week.

I'd Better Hurry Up.

Recently I noticed that I'm approaching the 3000 post mark.  So I got to thinking that I could reach that milestone this year.  But, as you can see from my recent output I'm really going to have to speed things up to make that happen. 

Gas In Saskatoon, July 7, 2017.

A pingpong week to report this time, and not in a good way.  Gas in Saskatoon dropped to 90.4 cents a litre at the start of the week, only to jump midweek to 99.9 cents a litre.  Hopefully it will drop next week, and not jump past the one dollar a litre mark.