January 2011

Budgeting for a Windfall

January 18, 2011

Things are looking up. The departmental chair has assigned me not one but two summer courses, God bless him! Even though it appears the magazine writing course will not make, that’s still seven sections for 2011 (assuming three sections materialize in the fall). Pay for seven sections amounts to $16,800, or a net of $13,272. [...]

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Darn It! How to repair a hole in your sock

January 17, 2011

Have you ever noticed how whenever you realize you really like a piece of clothing or household object, it immediately wears out and you can’t, under any circumstances, find another one like it? Especially if the object is a sock. Who would think styles in socks were so fleeting? Women’s socks no longer seem to [...]

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Moment of Fame

January 17, 2011

The only carnival Funny entered this week was the Carnival of Personal Finance, which appears today at My Personal Finance Journey. Proprietor Jacob kindly includes the post on ways to cope with “bag lady syndrome.”

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Sunday Afternoon This and That

January 16, 2011

We’re having a brief warm spell, the days in the 70s and the nights dropping not much below 50 or so. Very pleasant, and a fine excuse to tidy up the garden after the winter’s depredations. Not too much was lost, mostly because I dragged almost every pot indoors as the Big Frost approached. It’s [...]

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Smoggy Talk! Smoggy Talk!

January 14, 2011

Speaking of dogs (as we were indirectly in contemplating the Late Great Dog Food Question), I’ve been reading an entertaining book by psychologist Alexandra Horowitz called Inside of a Dog. In it, she proposes to help us appreciate the canine umwelt—the dog’s unique way of experiencing the world—by understanding what and how a dog sees, [...]

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Canned Dog Food: Anyone Tried This?

January 13, 2011

Has anyone tried Hill’s Science Diet Canine Mature Adult 7+ Savory Chicken Entrée Canned Dog Food? If so, do you know how many cans come in a case? La Maya and La Bethulia’s aging dachshund has now lost even more of his teeth, so they’re going to be reduced to feeding canned dog food. They’re [...]

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