October 2010

Stormy Weather!

October 5, 2010

Wow, what a storm! Well, make that what a pair of storms! Right now the Interstate is closed in both directions, trees are down, a house is burning, water is up to our knees. It started yesterday afternoon with quite a heavy, sharp rain. These squalls move across the desert quickly, and so within a [...]

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Calculating the College Graduate’s Course of Action

October 4, 2010

M’hijito is contemplating his future and thinking it’s time to go to graduate school, a bachelor’s degree from a  highly ranked liberal arts school fitting one for little more than working in a call center. He points out that some of his colleagues are high-school graduates, and that he’s not going any further in his [...]

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A Bible of Customer Service

October 3, 2010

Frugal Scholar has been holding forth (again) about the sometimes execrable customer service at Chico’s. Really. One wonders where retailers get the people the hire, or if they deliberately train them to turn off the customers. Is it possible that there are some among us they just don’t want to do business with? Some retailers [...]

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Time Management, Revisited

October 2, 2010

If time is money, it explains why I don’t have enough of it. Money, that is: I never seem to have enough time! Friday (was that only yesterday?) I was reduced to spending the entire day cleaning house, having let the pigpen slide way, way too long. Dedicating a six or eight hours to dusting, [...]

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