May 2009

Shamelessly using Roundup, and other ungreen confessions

May 12, 2009

  With delight I rose to the bait when My Small Homestead posted a link to This Garden Is Illegal’s list of seven DIY weedkillers. What I wouldn’t give to have something cheap and handy to beat back the predator vegetables that infest the yard and gardens, especially during rainy season, when they keep me [...]

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Ridiculous day, so far…

May 11, 2009

Okay, okay. I can’t even blame anyone (other than my turkey self) for this day’s launch. It wuz all my fault. Out of the sack at 5:15. Off to M’hijito’s at 6:30, there to meet Bila the Painter par Excellence (or, if not p.e., at least par incredibly cheap), slated to arrive at 7:00 a.m. [...]

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Transfer Limits on Savings Accounts: Or, why I love my credit union

May 10, 2009

Gather Little by Little reports that he ran up against the six-withdrawal limit with an ING Direct savings account he was using as his “firewall.” The bank informed him that the next time he made more than six transfers out of that account in a month, the account would be closed. Take that, you PF [...]

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Flaws in WHOSE health care system???

May 9, 2009

Have you seen this AP story? In it, the reporter uses the swine flu episode to highlight the shortcomings of Mexico’s health care system (which, as anyone who has been injured or fallen ill in Mexico can attest, does have its challenges). As I was reading through it, I thought…this stuff sure sounds familiar… Mexicans [...]

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What’s your favorite comfort food?

May 8, 2009

Food! It’s the best medicine for whatever ails you, right? And comfort food, those often nonnutritional, even junky goodies Mom would slip to us when we were enjoying a day of real or imagined misery, that’s the finest penicillin of all. IMHO. What’s your favorite? Mine, prosaically enough, is chocolate milkshakes. Yah. Ice cream. Chocolate. [...]

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Right-wing legislators, pushed to the wall, raise taxes

May 8, 2009

LOL! What should I notice in today’s paycheck but a $13.43 pay cut? So I enquire of our business manager…whazzat? She forwards the following: State increases tax withholding rates The Arizona state income tax withholding rates will increase effective May 1, 2009. ASU employees’ paychecks issued on May 8 will reflect the new tax rates [...]

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