December 2009

Here’s a cool blogging idea…

December 21, 2009

Check out this clever idea for a year-end blog post at Spend on Life. Comes under the heading of “wish I’d thought of that”…and wish I had enough enterprise to actually do it.

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Surviving in penury

December 21, 2009

Wow, did I get these figures wrong! My take-home salary is far more than what appeared in the original of this post…I don’t know where I came up with a figure of $32,900. I was even sober when I wrote this! Corrected figures appear in boldface next to my original wrong calculations. Well, it’ll be [...]

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Ginger-Pineapple Punch

December 20, 2009

This is one of SDXB’s specialties, something he found years ago in a newspaper under the title “Ivory Coast Ginger Punch.” It’s easy to make and incredibly delicious. Here’s the original recipe: 4 cups unsweetened canned pineapple juice 4 cups water 1/4 pound fresh ginger, scrubbed and cut into one-inch chunks 1/2 cup lemon juice [...]

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Big doin’s comin’ up!

December 19, 2009

Well, this is going to be a busy weekend! We have 15 people coming for Christmas dinner, with another three tenuously invited (they’ll come for wine and hors d’oeuvres, at least). So this weekend M’hijito and I need to get together, buy food and choreograph a strategy for cooking and serving a mountain of food [...]

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Freedom’s just another word…

December 18, 2009

In the “just another word for nothin’ left to lose” department, take a look at this excellent post by Curmudgeon at BripBlap. Aside from having delivered an awesome piece of writing here, Curmudgeon is dead center on target. You don’t want to lose what matters in the pursuit of money or career. Some years ago [...]

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Share your favorite Christmas recipe!

December 18, 2009

What’s your all-time favorite holiday dish? It could be an old family recipe or something postmodern, an all-day production or no-muss-no-fuss. Give a Christmas gift to all your blogging friends: share your all-time favorites for holiday meals. If you’ve posted it on your blog, leave a link in the comments below. If not, either post [...]

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