Psychotomy

Got back from our trip this evening. Cost a little less in tolls on the way back, although delaware did it’s level best to cover the difference.

I swear, DE is bitter about the fact that no one lives in the state and that they exist solely as a tax shelter for companies. The full ~120mi length of the NJTP: ~6$. The ~80mi in MD that we drive (and, I think, most if not all of the tolls in the state until the new toll hov lanes are built and the new cross county connector that, near as I can tell, connects two places you wouldn’t really need to get between). Anyway, 80mi in MD: 7$. NY does it’s share for those coming in from NJ (8$ for the Washington bridge, and I think 7$ if you take the Tappan Zee instead); but they let you leave for free, so really only 4$ average.

DE? 4$ at the MD/DE border. 3$ at the NJ/DE border, although I don’t recall paying that on the way to NJ Saturday. But 7$ for ~5mi of state!!!

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Took us about 7 hours to get back. We left at 10:30, arrived at 7:30. Stopped and had brunch with a friend from a forum of kiir’s, left that ~12:15 to drive down. on the NJTP, it took us an hour to go 15 miles. Put another way, it took us 50 minutes to go 5mi. Because there was some big accident yadda yadda complete stop etc yadda etc. SUCK! Babe woke up for that, of course :/

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Gas in MD: 3.73$ ; gas in NY: 3.95$ ; gas in CN: 4.09$. Gas at the full service stations on the NJTP and Garden State in NJ? 3.64$. We tossed a couple gallons in in CN when we left to make sure we had enough to make it to NJTP :)

Apparently Kiir’s car gets ~350mi to a tank, not bad really. Of course, we started and finished each time with half a tank. Costco’s Debit readers were broken saturday, so we didn’t fill before leaving, filled in NJ. tossed a couple gallons in in CN and saved 45c/ga and filled in NJ again :o

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DK slept for ~5hrs of the 7hr trip, yay for that. He was awake for and hour and a half in the middle (from 3-4:30 in the trip) wherein we stopped for gas and let him run around the service mall and eat some lunch. Thankfully he fell asleep after screaming at the traffic jam for 20 minutes. Woke up again just North of Baltimore again, and kiir gave him her iPod with Word World on it. He didn’t want anythign to do with the headphones, but he watched for a while :)

Kiir slept for ~3hrs of the trip, I think, although she tended to wake up every 15 minutes or so, so it probably wasn’t very restful.

They both went to bed just now. I’m waiting for the diapers to finish first dry cycle so I can set them up for second. I put my work pants in the wash, and I’ma need them tomorrow :o

Soon as that’s done, K and I are going to bed too. I’m TIRED.

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