May 2010

Free at last…to work some more

May 15, 2010

A vast haystack of deferred work around the house has piled up while I’ve been struggling to get out from under the mountain of paid work. (And though grades are now posted, I still have paying work to do for two clients, but today I’m playing hooky for a few hours.) Last night I managed [...]

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w00t! School’s out!!!

May 14, 2010

Heaven has arrived. Just climbed out of the pool—the first dip in the water of the season. Soooo heavenly! It’s still a little on the brisk side, this spring having been unusually temperate. Even today, it’s not hot enough outdoors to turn on the air conditioning. Weather has been mixed: a day or two of [...]

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Another Day at the Grade Inflation Factory

May 13, 2010

Hm. This is retirement, eh? Interesting experience. So I started grading 50,000 words of student efforts after breakfast this morning, right around 7:00 a.m. Racing along as fast as I could read, making no comments except for a few overall observations attached to the electronic rubrics I post in the terrifying BlackBoard, I finished sometime [...]

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Surprise! Money happens again

May 12, 2010

Yesterday while I was laboring through a client’s large project, in comes an e-mail from the dean of academic affairs at the college where I’m teaching adjunct for handsful of pennies and no benefits. She reminds me that I’m supposed to make an appointment for web development coaching with one of their online curriculum staff [...]

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Moments of Fame

May 12, 2010

Money Relationship hosts the Carnival of Money Stories this week. Funny’s rumination on the cost of commuting appears here.  Quite a few of this week’s entries are very good. Check these out: Free Money Finance posts another chapter in the Comquest saga. Good grief! It reminds me of the monster runaround I got when Qwest [...]

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The Cat’s-claw That Ate Philadelphia

May 11, 2010

Good grief! This winter’s El Niño rains have so over-excited the cat’s claw that it’s decided to take over the swimming pool. The hanging garden that inhabits the back wall and adds about three feet to its height—quite spectacular at certain times of the year—has sent out a battalion of tendrils, which are marching steadily [...]

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