March 2010

Vote, vote, vote!

March 23, 2010

Remember to vote for Funny at Free Money Finance’s March Madness competition. Things are getting fierce as we get down to the wire. Right now Funny’s post, “Truth, the Highest Thing that Man May Keep,” is running behind by three votes! The current round ends TODAY! So everyone who wants to support Funny needs to [...]

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Vote for Funny in the next round of FMF’s March Madness!

March 22, 2010

Hey, FMF already has a new round of the March Madness blog contest online. This is the place! Would you please go there and vote for “Truth the Highest Thing”? As Funny moves up the ranks, of course the competition gets stiffer. This week’s round has four (if you count Funny’s “Truth” entry) very nice [...]

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What’s this?

March 22, 2010

Does anyone know what this pretty little plant is? Here’s a better picture of it, in the pot where it volunteered. Click on the image for a larger view. A flurry of these things popped up in the El Niño rains this spring. I thought they were weeds and was about to extirpate them, but [...]

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In the money happens department…

March 21, 2010

This is weird. Yesterday I sent off my tax returns, bearing news to Uncle Sam of the startling amount of money I made last year. Think of this: even though my gross income in 2009 was 2.5 times what it will be in 2010, the net that I’m living on just now is more than [...]

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An attack of asceticism

March 20, 2010

{sigh} Decided to kick the caffeine habit for awhile and so now have a fine caffeine deprivation anemia headache. Today being only the second day of this moment of ascetic virtue, I expect another day or two of migrainish crabbiness. Once when I went off the killer brew, the headache lasted an entire week! Dang. [...]

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Stuff! Where to find storage space for it

March 19, 2010

Frugal Scholar, still one of my favorite bloggers after all these many months, reflects on decluttering and the challenge of living in a historic house with little storage space. LOL! I do recall that the beautiful cottages in Phoenix’s Encanto district could be heavy on charm and light on closet and cabinet space. FS describes [...]

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