January 2010

Thank You, Mrs. Micah!

January 23, 2010

Again! This afternoon Mrs. Micah spent half her day migrating The Copyeditor’s Desk from WordPress.com, whose proprietors had noticed that, yea verily, it’s a commercial site in violation of their ToS and so taken it off the air, over to Bluehost, present home of Funny about Money. She accomplished this in a few hours, in [...]

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Kitchens

January 23, 2010

Frugal Scholar is doing an interesting series about her experiences remodeling a kitchen on a budget. I love it! I seem to have spent my entire life remodeling houses, and so I’ve developed some strong opinions on the subject. Frugal proves how brilliant she is by happening to agree, more or less, with those ideas. [...]

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Typhoon! Are you insured?

January 21, 2010

Head for the bunkers! Batten down the hatches!! The local Play-Nooz is having a field day with today’s rainstorm. Now we’re being told there’s a tornado watch in effect until 10:00 p.m. HO-lee mackerel! Well, when you go to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s weather watch pages, you indeed find notice of a hazard…in [...]

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Weather

January 21, 2010

So…do you risk your life, limb, and (even more precious) your beloved wheels for two hundred bucks? Raining here. Raining, raining, and raining. It’s almost 8:00 a.m. but the skies are no brighter than the dusk of predawn. The pool water is up to the coping. If it rains steadily for another two days, as [...]

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w00t! Under budget!!!

January 20, 2010

A miracle! In spite of the $200 charge to drain and refill the pool, in spite of paying the hair stylist the tip I forgot to give him the last time, and in spite of running amok at Ikea the other day, as the monthly billing cycle ends I’m under budget by $83! That improves [...]

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My Error!

January 19, 2010

Hey, Senior Choir! I made a mistake in telling you that Funny’s “Truth” post would be up at Free Money Finance’s March Madness competititon yesterday. Apparently only a couple of dyads go up at a time, thereby drawing out the event over time. That’s different from what I interpreted FMF’s description of the contest to [...]

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