September 2010

Friday Torpor

September 10, 2010

Well, only ten more days to go in this month’s discretionary budget cycle, and I’m well on target, for the first time in months. Now that I’m finally getting paid, now I’m staying on budget! Every single month this summer I’ve gone over budget, with too little money coming in to cover base expenses even [...]

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Hurrah! Summer’s almost over

September 9, 2010

The first cool morning of the fall—at last! At quarter to five, it’s 68 on the back porch. Too bad I can’t enjoy it: in 45 minutes I have to schlep through the rush-hour traffic to Scottsdale, to a breakfast meeting of the networking group I joined. But it’s one of various small harbingers. Not [...]

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Real Estate: We thought it couldn’t get worse…

September 8, 2010

Homes in my neighborhood are now selling in the $150,000 range. I paid $232,000 for mine…before the bubble. About 17 years ago, I bought my first house in this neighborhood—same model as the one I’m in only not updated, no pool, smaller lot, and close to two hideously noisy main drags. I paid $100,000. The [...]

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Ant Wars: The Battle of the Front Stoop

September 6, 2010

Okay, the last battle may or may not have been won, but the war has yet to be lost. You’ll recall the previous foray between the human and  Armies of the Ondt, yes? The fight lasted about 24 hours, but ultimately the invaders were repelled. The little Amazons were undefeated, though. Yesterday evening some of [...]

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Lordie! This woman can write!

September 5, 2010

You should ramble on over to Surviving and Thriving, where Donna Friedman has written another of her amazing posts. Every now and again, she gets on a roll that won’t quit. This is one of the best posts I’ve read in any blog, anywhere. In passing that along to you, it occurs to me that [...]

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Hurrah! Another One Is Back!

September 4, 2010

Be This Way, proprietor of the bodacious blog, Are You Going to Be This Way the Rest of the Time I Know You?, e-mailed to say she’s coming back to the blogosphere. This is great news, for BTW is an entertaining writer with an ongoing story that tends to keep one’s attention. This is another [...]

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