December 2010

The Organizeder I Try to Get, the More Disorganized I Am

December 21, 2010

What is it about basic organization that I seem incapable of mastering? I imagine I’ve kept careful records, I delude myself that four drawers full of carefully categorized file folders have organized every important piece of paper that comes into the house (and thousands of faintly important, maybe-important, and irrelevant pieces of paper). In my [...]

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Here and There around the Blogosphere

December 20, 2010

Well, let’s start the week with a look around to see what’s going on. • Biggest news in the PF blogosphere is J. Money got canned! He’s not crying, though. He had himself prepared and even is set up so he can regard it not as a disaster but as an opportunity. Go for it, [...]

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The Squeaky Wheel Gets the (Hamburger) Grease

December 19, 2010

My father always used to say that: “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Guess it’s some sort of Texas catchphrase. Well, the local Safeway just made that saying come literally true! The bargain basement turkey having proved inedible for the human and indigestible for the dog—she barfed up a pile of it all over the [...]

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What Will Your House Be Worth in 15 Years?

December 18, 2010

Okay, CPAs and math whizzes, tell me this: Am I right in thinking that projecting the value of a piece of real estate into the future is roughly akin to figuring compound interest? That is, the two calculations are similar in that they entail repeatedly adding a percentage back onto a base value, which increases [...]

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Job Opportunity: To work or not to work?

December 17, 2010

The Great Desert University is advertising a job opening at the Tempe campus. They want a business writer who can do PR for their business services branch. It’s a job I could do in my sleep, and it pays $50,000 to $52,000. Fifty grand, though it’s only three-quarters of what I was earning, would go [...]

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A Holiday Feast that’s Easy and Good and NOT Turkey

December 17, 2010

Where is it written that holiday dinners have to feature turkey? Right here it’s about to be written that they should not feature turkey! Yesterday I cooked a turkey that I’d found at Safeway for a good price. As you know, I feed Cassie the Corgi real food, a mix of about half starch & [...]

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