May 2008

Dog lives to bark another day

May 28, 2008

Amazingly, Anna H. Banana survived yesterday’s encounter with a vet who was searching for cancer. If she has cancer, it’s not easily detected. Nor does she have megaesophagus, the condition her previous vet speculated was the cause of the heavy breathing—her esophagus was clearly visible in the X-rays, and clearly quite normal. What was detected, [...]

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And the Beat Goes On: 127th Festival of Frugality

May 27, 2008

Despite the concerns about recession, the price of gas, and the cost of food, life goes on and bloggers go on blogging. This week the Festival of Frugality received 67 entries sharing ideas, tips, and reflections on the frugal life. In keeping with Funny‘s theme of simplicity, I’ve not tried to do anything fancy for [...]

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Moments of Fame

May 26, 2008

The Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Canadian Dream: Free at 45. Funny’s post on her Close Encounter of the Real Estate Kind (possibly “of the Catastrophic Kind”?) is included here. Thank you, Be This Way, for your thoughts on the value of time and effort vs. money (my sentiments exactly!). As usual, the [...]

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Review: Blue Shoes and Happiness

May 25, 2008

by Alexander McCall Smith Random House, Anchor Books Paperback, $12.95 A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. —John Adams to his son John Quincy Adams Philadelphia, 1777 For quite a while, I’ve wanted to review books for Funny about Money. Thing [...]

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Are we movin’ on up? Or not?

May 23, 2008

Can I Get Rich on a Salary has an interesting post on the question of whether American society offers real opportunity to provide each of us a believable chance at improving our financial situations. He discusses a lot of research and commentary that is pretty enlightening and reaches the conclusion that we do have a [...]

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Cheap Eats: Dine in, not out! Shoulda had shrimp

May 23, 2008

M’hijito came by the other day to eyeball the house I was thinking about buying. Feeling flush over the $150 his current attempt to kick the nicotine addiction is saving him this month, he invited me out to dinner. I’d just bought a mess of gorgeous shrimp at Costco and offered to cook that. He [...]

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