August 2010

Shave and a Haircut…

August 23, 2010

…six bits! Anyone remember that little ditty? Okay. Can anyone remember when a shave and a haircut actually cost six bits? That would be 75 cents, for those of you born in the latter third of the twentieth century. Well, the new version is “Shave and a haircut…forty-five bucks!” No joke, gents. Saturday, in search [...]

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Dumb Tax: Monster Morning!

August 22, 2010

Yesterday, after an amazingly hectic day during which I fell off the wagon big time (a glass of wine and two beers!!!), I tumbled into the sack around 10:00 p.m. Weary of awaking at 3:00 a.m., as had happened again in the wee hours of yesterday morning, I dropped an antihistamine hoping to drug myself [...]

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Charging Costs to Your In-Home Business

August 21, 2010

So over at the Depot I got these nifty (read “cheap”) motion-sensitive coach lights for the front of the house. Yesterday Dave the Electrician came over, hard-wired them, and got them working right. The equally cheap nifty lights I installed when I moved in here five years ago are crumbling away under the radioactive Arizona [...]

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How volunteering can help your business

August 20, 2010

Little knowing what I was getting into, a while back I agreed to help with the program for the Arizona Bach Festival, a new musical series featuring internationally known classical musicians and the Grammy Award-winning Phoenix Chorale. When I said “help,” I was thinking “editorial help.” But what really happened was that I got volunteered [...]

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Half-Off Challenge Day!

August 20, 2010

If you’re following the Half-Off Challenge, don’t forget to come on over to the site and leave this week’s statistics at the Friday Half-Off Challenge Post!

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Student Performance: Is there any question?

August 19, 2010

Lordie! Yesterday I went to a workshop on how to identify students who are high or drunk in class, and what to do about it. Thought I was pretty wise to the use of dope and booze among the kiddies. Wrong! Some of the stuff people ingest for “fun” defies belief. A psychologist who specializes [...]

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