November 2009

Moments of Fame

November 7, 2009

Once again, I haven’t time to do anything fancy here, but would like to acknowledge the several excellent carnivals whose hosts kindly including Funny’s efforts this week: The Make It from Scratch Carnival, hosted at Make It from Scratch, featured the exotic mansef recipe. The Money Hack Carnival, at The Financial Blogger, included “Theme Days.” [...]

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So this is retirement?

November 6, 2009

With retirement like this, who needs work? I read student papers till 11:30 last night (the result of having loafed half the day before, if reading page proofs can be called loafing); leapt up at 6:00 a.m.; shot across the city with La Maya to an estate sale (nice stuff: too expensive); shot home, delivering [...]

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Job interview?!?

November 6, 2009

This afternoon a phone call came in: one of the westside community colleges. Was I the person at this number who had applied for a full-time teaching job in the English department there? Why, yes… Was I still interested in the job? Absolutely! Seconds later, she had me signed up for an interview next Tuesday [...]

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Six steps to a frugal little Christmas

November 5, 2009

Ah, yes. Costco has had its Christmas merchandise out since Labor Day, a sure sign that a white-plastic Christmas is y-cumin’ in. Some of us suffer from chronic skepticism about the annual merchandising frenzy. But you don’t have to be totally cheap to come up with a pretty Christmas celebration that won’t leave you feeling [...]

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Ads: Credit report monitoring scam

November 4, 2009

A reader e-mailed to say he had come across an ad on Funny for one of those outfits that proposes to provide free credit reports from all three reporting agencies, but which hooks you in to a subscription whereby you end up paying a monthly fee for “credit rating monitoring.” Please be careful. Do not [...]

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Tempus fidgets

November 3, 2009

Time does fly, and with it our little concerns and mores. When I entered a link to one of this site’s “pages” in yesterday’s post and then had some trouble persuading the software not to link to the old WordPress.com URL, I happened to read over the contents of “The Poison Poppy.” Time adds a [...]

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