September 2008

Carnival of Money Stories

September 30, 2008

Welcome to the 78th Carnival of Money Stories! We have quite a passle of entertaining and interesting stories, which I hope everyone will enjoy. Because this edition was delayed a week, we decided to publish two stories per blogger if a person entered more than one post and both were accepted. Entries are listed in [...]

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Does any of this have meaning for individuals?

September 30, 2008

Hard to tell, isn’t it? I just checked my Vanguard funds. Though they lost a little, it’s not enough to drive one out the high-rise window. Doesn’t mean things won’t be worse tomorrow, of course…still, I think it’s best not to study the day-to-day rises and falls of your investments but to keep your eye [...]

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Nifty new toy

September 29, 2008

The Barbecues Galore grill I bought a year or so ago experienced its third truly scary fire the other day, the second that was certifiably dangerous. First time, M’hijito was present. The grill has a drip pan for grease, very nice except it’s about an inch above the propane tank. That caught fire in a [...]

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Thinking about publishing a book?

September 27, 2008

My business partner and I just finished editing a book manuscript for a client of a client. Our client is a book packager (an outfit that puts books together for publishers); the subclient is an on-demand vanity publisher preparing to print a book written by the author of a fairly laughable conspiracy theory. On-demand publishers [...]

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Cutting costs or wasting time?

September 26, 2008

Yesterday my Realtor friend invited me to lunch. I was happy for a break, since I’d spent the morning after a sleepless night drafting a job application. God, but applying for a job has become a complicated mess! Useta be you just sent in your resume and had an interview. Maybe you took some sort [...]

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Unemployment for Christmas?

September 26, 2008

Rumor has it that a big announcement is coming down: along about mid-October, the PtB (Powers that Be) will announce that everyone in my job classification is to be laid off. That’s a lot of layoffs, even for a gigantic learning factory whose student body is larger than the entire populations of most of the [...]

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