September 2009

On blogging and money

September 4, 2009

One of my favorite sites is Problogger, a blog on blogging. Alas, I’m guilty of not visiting often enough: I rarely do subscriptions because there’s too little time to keep up with them all, and when it comes to proactively visiting various sites, I get distracted easily. No doubt, though, if a person read the [...]

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Moments of Fame

September 3, 2009

The Carnival of Money Stories appears this week at Dough Roller, who kindly included Funny’s squib on preparing a guide to your financial affairs in case someone needs to take over for you. This week’s round-up contains a particularly rich selection of good, actual stories, most of them very interesting. I liked many more than [...]

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Mexican water

September 3, 2009

When I served up the recently invented bubbly lemonade to M’hijito, he observed that it’s a variety of Mexican water; and when I described the version I made with watermelon, he said that’s classic Mexican water. So…what’s “Mexican water,” besides something you shouldn’t drink or brush your teeth with? It is in fact very similar [...]

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How bad public policy and other people’s foolishness cost you and me

September 2, 2009

Am I the only so-o-o-cialist in the world who is annoyed at the way my homeowner’s insurance floats ever upward to cover the cost of homes that people deliberately build in harm’s way? Does anyone else wonder why local governments issue building permits in disaster-prone areas and why state and federal governments do nothing to [...]

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Ecologically friendly give-away contest

September 1, 2009

Simply Forties, now comfortably ensconced in Virginia, is celebrating her blogiversary with a very nice giveaway prize: EcoSmart’s essential oil-based insect-fighting products that are billed as 100 percent nontoxic to humans. Visit and comment on her site this week, or tweet about it, for a chance to win a package of these intriguing products, just [...]

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How to deal with ants

September 1, 2009

They’re b-a-a-a-a-c-k! The little myrmidons who think my yard is their empire are moving in on the house again. I had a little frenzy the time they got into the kitchen, where they evinced great joy at their discovery of the dishwasher, a rich new world heretofore unknown to the Ant Queendom. And then, after [...]

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