April 2011

Here and There around the Web

April 30, 2011

Are you ready for this one? It’s huge. Over at Surviving and Thriving, Donna Freedman is celebrating her one-year blogiversary by running amok with the giveaways. Donna, as we all know, is already the giveaway queen. Last week she sent me a copy of Personal Investing: The Missing Manual , a widely admired guide to retirement [...]

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Sticker Shock at the Grocery Store!

April 29, 2011

So after class yesterday I made a quick run on the Safeway, figuring to pick up enough to tide me over for a week. Not figuring to damn near faint dead away at the price of groceries! Paid $60 for about $30 worth of food. Only food: no cleaning goods, no paper goods, no personal [...]

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Noodling Around: 5 reasons why I prefer a (Mac)/(PC)

April 28, 2011

Infographics! I love them for their sheer sassy silliness. Here’s an entertainment I ran across on Mashable: Mac vs. PC People. Herein we learn that Macinoids are likely to be older than PC lovers; PC enthusiasts are more likely to live in the suburbs than Mac cultists, Mac fans like modern art while PCites prefer [...]

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The Economy: How Pessimistic Are We?

April 27, 2011

The other day we heard reports of widespread pessimism about the economy. Unemployment is dropping, the stock market is up, and the economy appears to be growing. But nevertheless, the number of Americans who think we’re headed for Hell on a skateboard has risen some 13 percent. The price of gold is shooting toward the [...]

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Hold the Phone, Here…

April 26, 2011

Waaaaitaminit! A few belated second thoughts about the pending dental adventure are occurring. I’m driving down the road headed back from campus to the Funny Farm and thinking, “Good grief! Three thousand dollars is more than a fourth of the savings I’ve earmarked to supplement Social Security for the next year. That ‘supplement’ represents half [...]

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Liveblogging the Budget

April 25, 2011

So, here I am, back at the dentist’s office, cooling my heels until he can squeeze me in to deal with the latest little emergency. God only knows how much this will cost. Nothing, I hope. But we don’t bank on hope, do we? Saturday night the filling he installed a month ago—less than a [...]

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