Going back 30 years to 1980.
JANUARY 1ST
I noted that this was the 4th year of the journal and that this was the fourth decade Liz and I had lived in. (This is now the seventh decade!!!) I was hoping we'd get a break from prices going up like they had during the last five.
Gas had gone up from 33 cents to a current $1.10 a gallon. Home prices had gone up 50% since we bought our house in 1975.
Some events from the seventies:
1973 graduated college, bought first car (1973 Ford Pinto ($2200), got married and started teaching.
1975 bought house in Round Lake Beach for $33,000.
1977 bought Chevy Mailbu
1974 bought used Pontiac Tempest
We slept until 2 PM. Liz got up before me and took down Christmas decorations and cleaned up from last night's party.
Watched bowl games and charged the Tempest battery.
Oh, to Be 28 Again. --RoadDog
Points to Ponder: Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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