What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

Buckwoody Egger said:

$4.50 / gal ?!???!  is that at a marina or some kind of non ethanol premium?

could be cheap diesel!

looking around atlanta on gasbuddy.com there are definitely some premium recently climbing up to $4.50.  regular still much lower in the 3’s but… yikes. 

regular is 3.49 where i go which is a highway exit station, but theres one still at 3.29.  bp never dropped there prices after covid and held at 3.69 til this week, raised it to 3.89. i expect they never drop it again.

for the next few weeks, buy crude (and gas for your car) and watch the news concerning Hormuz..it will continue to climb until supply levels....

might as well recoup some of your gas money..

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

$3.49 here is West Texas where we pull the oil from the ground and have a refinery 90 miles away.  I work in the oil industry and don't like paying this, even though it comes back to me eventually.

finding it shocking west texas is paying the same as massachusetts, that never happens

Stopped at the BX for a couple flannel shirts, they had a rack of fleece-lined marked down from $79 to $20.67!  No "Talls" but their sleeves were long enough, had 3 XL's and I bought them all.  

Parts!

Just got back from San Diego. Paid $5.79/gal when I filled the rental. Many places were over $6. I think $6.39 was the worst I saw.

Our forum roofing aficionado @JohnInCarolina approves 

Canugghead said:

Love the roofer friendly low roof.

Finding a ranch home was a big prerequisite when we were searching 6 years ago for a new place. Lose the stairs and if/when I get on the roof I wanted easy. I’m getting old

About six years ago I bought a refurbished Herman Miller Aeron office chair; found a place that refurbished used chairs and I got it about half-price, but still stupid-expensive.  The headrest took me 45 minutes to attach, and it didn't look right and fell off quickly; it never was very comfortable either, I had to bend my neck backwards to even touch it, so when it fell off I didn't worry about it.  
Tonight I started searching; found two different designs for that headrest, and neither looked like mine (the chair had been redesigned once).  Did a search on "HM Aeron chair headrest", and found a refurbishment company who offered a replacement, with a writeup that the original headrest was poorly designed.  It was on sale, and when I entered my email they sent me a code to log in, so it was where I'd originally purchased the chair.  The headrest looks nothing like any photo on the net, so it may be an imposter.   

'Net photo #1:
 

 
'Net photo #2:
 

 
Mine:
 

 
I bought this one from the refurbishment folks:
 
https://www.officelogixshop.com/products/herman-miller-aeron-chair-headrest
 
Anxious to get this mounted; I've been without an office chair headrest so long (since I retired) I'd forgotten they were a thing.  

kl8ton said:

I tried to buy Detroit tigers opening day tickets for my son's birthday. 

Six tickets. Opening day are just under $5,000. 2 days later under $1,000. We are going to go two days later. It will still be a surprise.

Damn!  I am going to Dodger’s vs. DBacks tonight and was upset at the $300 for 2 tickets - especially when I checked seat geek again for same section today and they are $50 cheaper now, but no refunds or returns since it’s third party sale - I hate all the big money players that buy every ticket then resell. 

just looked at opener tickets at fenway.  2k for a seat on the monster wall   400 for a cheap center field 18th row bleacher seat, and we are not even playing the hated yankees

DoubleEgger said:

Picked up a few new rubs today at Atlanta Grill Company 

Found some fresh alepo pepper today. So hard to find here.its weird to say how good that feels

^^^ With a serving size of 1/4 tsp, that's probably a rounding error.