January 2010

And speaking of buildings and renovation…

January 27, 2010

Check out this lovely rumination, courtesy of BBC: How Buildings Learn Runs about 30 minutes…worth every moment!

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Moments of Fame

January 27, 2010

This week Funny appeared in two carnivals: Festival of Frugality at Ultimate Money Blog, with Kitchens Make It from Scratch at Frills in the Hills, with Alone and Amok in the Kitchen

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More Kitchenry

January 26, 2010

Frugal Scholar continues her discussion of kitchen renovation with tales of cabinetry discovery. And check out Hostess of the Humble Bungalow‘s amazing remake, with pictures of the beautiful cabinetry her husband custom-built. It’s all very  interesting. One commenter at FS remarks on her pleasure at having substituted drawers for all the lower cabinets. I have [...]

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Gas prices edging upward

January 26, 2010

Sunday afternoon I dropped by the Costco near M’hijito’s house. The lines at the gas pumps backed up almost to the entrance—a half-dozen waiting customers at every single pump. Sat around for 15 minutes or so (why do I always pick the guy with a megamonster truck who has to refill two extra-large tanks or [...]

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Financial Freedom: Work

January 25, 2010

This is the third post in a series about aspiring to Bumhood—that is, achieving financial freedom so you can get off the day-job treadmill and gain control over the way you spend your life. Today let’s talk about gainful employment. One of my editors at Arizona Highways told me about the anguish he felt during [...]

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All Alone and Amok in the Kitchen

January 23, 2010

It’s Saturday night and a great deal of work has been done: Blog post written; a jungle of obscure paperwork shoveled off desk, dining-room table, kitchen counter and into wastebaskets or file folders; furniture dusted; floors vacuumed, then floors dustmopped, then floors steam-cleaned; bathrooms cleaned; jeans ironed (yeah…, I know!); stained clothing destained and laundered; [...]

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