July 2010

Blogging: It takes over your life

July 27, 2010

Do you believe there’s such a thing as an addiction to the Web? Personally, it’s the kind of nonsense I discount as pop-psych woo-woo. These folks, for example, claim Internet addiction is “a growing epidemic,” pretty alarming considering the whole concept stems from a satire. Dubious as the idea seems, sometimes I wonder. There’s no [...]

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Check Out This New Blog

July 27, 2010

Frugal Scholar has announced a new start-up: College Cooking Crash Course. It’s a collaborative project with her young adult kids, to build a cookbook for dorm dwellers. Recently they’ve been exploring the multifarious uses of the rice cooker, a device that appears to be about to take its place as the queen of the dorm [...]

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Interesting Day…

July 27, 2010

Last April my friend KJG’s almost-new RAV-4 was totaled when a speeding chucklehead ran the signal at an intersection as she turned left. Fortunately she was not gravely injured, although she spent a couple of nights in the hospital. The police found witnesses who said the other driver had run the red light, and KJG [...]

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When Is a Splurge a Good Thing?

July 25, 2010

Not, one could argue, when the Splurger is supposed to be pinching pennies to get through a ridiculously tight time. That bit of logic notwithstanding, today I blew $400 out of my monthly diddle-it-away fund, reducing the balance to just over a thousand bucks. After the glasses and the clothes episodes, this might (one could [...]

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Yakeziites in Action

July 25, 2010

This morning I was pretty entertained to find that the ineffable Evan, my favorite conservative PF blogger at My Journey to Millions, created a lively stir with a provocative post, “Why Teachers Anger Me.” He got quite a rise out of Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, another of my fave PF bloggers, who replied with [...]

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Quick Summer Break…and maybe many more

July 24, 2010

Yesterday my friend KJG and I decided to pile our dogs in the car and drive up to Yarnell, the quaint old mining town and wide spot in the road that I covet as a weekend getaway. Perched on the edge of the Mogollon Rim, it’s up out of the Valley’s heat, which at this [...]

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