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Signs that gas prices are going up

I ordered some computer hardware to upgrade some of my servers so I could fit more photos onto them, and have been tracking the packages as they creep closer and closer to Portland. Today, I checked the package progress and saw the following:

Package Progress:
   
Date/
Time		 Location Activity
Sep 29, 2005
7:45 A.M. 		PORTLAND, OR, US ARRIVAL SCAN
Sep 28, 2005
6:00 A.M. 		PORTLAND, OR, US A LATE TRAIN CAUSED THIS DELAY
Sep 26, 2005
9:27 P.M.
SYLMAR, CA, US
DEPARTURE SCAN
8:29 P.M. SYLMAR, CA, US ORIGIN SCAN
8:16 P.M. US BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

I don't pay that close attention to exactly how UPS generally ships things, but I'm much more used to seeing the package hop from sorting center to ON TRUCK to sorting center to ON TRUCK to sorting center to (eventually) DELIVERED. It looks like they just rolled the truck up onto a train, and let the Southern Union Pacific ship it up to Portland instead.

—orc Thu Sep 29 12:26:50 2005