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Sunday, July 17, 2005 |
 Pride and Joy: the quintessential Bay Area party band made its annual appearance at Menlo Park's Connoisseur Marketplace Saturday. This arts-and-food-in-the-streets event has become a really fun community exercise. Diverse races, cultures and generations all seemed to be having a pretty good time. Linda and I, with friends Barb and Ruth, sure did. Barb's picnic spread was excellent...Comments 9:46:04 PM 
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First fill-up of the new Ford Hybrid: 333 miles on 12.6 gallons for 26.94 MPG. The EPA sticker shows 29 city, 31 highway: we actually saw very nearly 27 in mixed driving. Compare that to our old Land Rover Discovery: it routinely went 300 miles on 20 gallons, for 15 MPG, and the Land Rover required the highest octane fuel, which goes for (at least) a 20-cents-per-gallon premium hereabouts, versus the lower priced regular the Ford burns. The fill-up was 30 bucks and change versus the nearly $60 that the Land Rover required. At current local prices I'm saving about $25 per fill-up and saving almost half the fuel over the old car. As it happens, my other car, an Audi TT coupe, also gets 26.9 MPG... Comments 9:05:14 PM
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