$1654

The amount for this years PFD (Permanent Dividend Fund) check come out yesterday. Alaska residents will receive their checks sometime in October. I will not be receiving a check until 2009 because you have to be a resident for a FULL calendar year before you will receive a check. This years check is a pretty good amount. Record low was around $300 back in the 80's and record high was $1900some in 2000. Apparently Alaska Air runs some really great specials in October so that people will spend their money on airfare. Maybe I'll buy use tickets to Hawaii or something. Hawaii is the place to vacation when you live in Alaska because it is relatively close. Around the lunch table the other day, the guys were telling me that tickets from Anchorage to Hawaii are sometime cheaper than the flight from Bethel to Anchorage.

Also announced yesterday...crude oil has set a new record again...$82 a barrel for October.