January 2010

Trying to escape from flypaper

January 12, 2010

Getting quit of Arizona State University and the State of Arizona is like trying to pull yourself free of a giant sheet of heavy-duty, extra-sticky flypaper. Below, notes on this morning’s exchanges with a Fidelity 403(b) rep, a Department of Administration rep, and (god help me) another ASU Human Resources rep: Called Fidelity to find [...]

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Please, Big Brother: Protect me from myself!

January 11, 2010

Did you read where the City of New York has decided to save its citizens from the horrors of table salt? Well, all I can say is thank God someone has realized us saltheads need supervision at the dinner table! Disclaimer: I don’t cook with salt (well…except for bread, which is pretty bland without it). [...]

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Listomania

January 10, 2010

One thing that’s fast becoming clear: when your time is unstructured, lists have their uses. Now that I’ve attained Bumhood, it’s amazing how fast time goes by without much getting done! In the past, long before Mary Kay Ash started teaching her acolytes to scribble their entrepreneurial tasks in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, I [...]

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Entrepreneurs: Adirondack Chimney Sweep

January 9, 2010

A chimney sweep in one of America’s warmest cities: Mark C. Keever is the second in Funny’s series of stories about entrepreneurs who find creative and unusual ways to jump off the treadmill. I came across Mark and his business, Adirondack Chimney Sweep, in Angie’s List, where a long line of customers had left ecstatic [...]

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Funny is chosen for March Madness

January 8, 2010

w00t! FMF e-mailed to say that Funny about Money’s rumination on “Truth, the Highest Thing that Man May Keep” has been selected for this year’s March Madness competition at Free Money Finance. Some excellent posts, many by eminent PF bloggers, are included, and so I feel very flattered to have made the cut. FMF posted [...]

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Mortgage loan modification strategy

January 7, 2010

Just sent off a wad of paper to the loan officers at the credit union. My favorite spy there tells me that because I’ve been laid off my job, we have a shot at getting our mortgage payments reduced, at least for a while. I’ve asked to have the principal cut, since the so-called “investment” [...]

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