Close, but not close enough

Well, baby... we thought we'd see you this week, but my blood pressure came back down with some time off work and we're hanging in there.


This week we've been watching the price of gasoline come down (slightly, but we haven't seen that for a while) and I thought I'd do a post of other interesting things about life right now.


Average price of a gallon of gasoline: $2.00. (This is pretty significant because earlier this summer it was close or over $4.00 a gallon).


Movie tickets: $8.00 about $5.50 for a matinee.


Utah's poplulation is about 2.5 million, and the US has about 300 million people.


Minimum Wage is $6.55 an hour


Current President is George W Bush, President Elect is Barack Obama.


The US has the highest national debt ever: 10,586,881,875,335.10 (sorry)


Average price of a new car: $28, 715

Average price of a private four-year college degree $25,143

Average price of a public four-year degree $6,585 (your dad and I went to a private university for undergraduate)

Church membership worldwide is over 13 million

Closer to Home:

Midvale, Utah has about 30,000 people

Midvale's average household income is $51,500

Midvale's average home price $225,000