June 2010

Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Vulnerable…Again!

June 19, 2010

What is it about Americans and American politicians that we think it’s OK to let the rich and the corporations get by with low or no taxes and then cover the deficit on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our society? Our government, much reviled by the right for its new “progressive” leadership, [...]

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Arboricide

June 19, 2010

My neighbor Sally did in the vast Aleppo pine that she’s hated with verve for many years. I understand her issue: they’re radically messy. Aleppo pines, which were very popular here when our houses were built in the 1970s, are fast-growing and more or less xeric. They tolerate heat and drought pretty well. But they [...]

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The Boozicle

June 18, 2010

So, after another long and amazingly workful day, I poured a tall bourbon & water to go with the (pretty remarkable!) spaghetti dinner I whipped up for myself. But could only get around half of it. Needing to take the dog for a walk, I stuck the rest of it in the freezer, thinking that [...]

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Revise That Budget!

June 18, 2010

Summertime, and the living is…darned scary! With no real steady pay flowing from the community college into the money bin, I get nervous, even when I know very well that the vast emergency fund sitting in the credit union will cover a full year’s worth of expenses. To start with, I don’t want to use [...]

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And Now for Something Completely Different…

June 17, 2010

Midnight. It’s been a long day and a rough evening. Finish working around 11 p.m. but don’t feel like going to bed so am cruising the Web, wasting time into the wee hours. Doesn’t sound very auspicious, does it? Well. No, it wasn’t. Closing in on one in the morning, I decide to shut down [...]

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Shopping around…

June 17, 2010

Leslie’s, the pool company I love to hate and hate to love, annoyed me again yesterday afternoon with its ridiculous prices. They propose to charge $75 to fix Harvey the Hayward Pool Cleaner, whose wing sheared off when he hit the loose drain cover that the Leslie’s guy didn’t bolt on correctly. Given that I [...]

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