June 2011

Tardy Roundup: Dishwash detergent edition

June 15, 2011

Finally am climbing out from under the mountain of work. Monday the last of the five courses I’ve redesigned and rewritten went up onto their new sites. Yesterday I gave myself a vacation day. Soooo…. More work has already started to accrete: Haven’t written the newsletter that was supposed to have been done last week; [...]

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Gorgeous Summer Schedule

June 14, 2011

Even though daytime temps have risen into the 100s, early mornings out here on the back porch are beyond gorgeous. This is, bar none, the best time of the day during the summer. Evenings are pretty darned spectacular, too. This morning for the first time in forever I rolled my lazy tush out of the [...]

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Credit Report Check

June 13, 2011

If you don’t already know it, take note: Going online to get annual credit reports is amazingly easy and fast. The site to visit is Annual Credit Report.com, because it does not try to sign you up for any gimmicks or paid recurring reports. You get what you order here, with no hassles and no [...]

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Car: To Buy or Not to Buy…

June 11, 2011

Well, the verdict on the car is it’s leaking oil from the head gasket (or something like that, which I’m not very clear about) in addition to needing a new timing belt. To keep it running is going to cost around $1,200 or $1,300. Rather more than I’d like to spend on a car that’s [...]

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The Empty Garage

June 10, 2011

{sigh} It’s strangely disorienting to walk into the garage to toss the trash in the recycling bin and find the darned place empty. Vacant. Lonely. The Dog Chariot is down at Chuck’s Auto Service, there to have its oil leak diagnosed. Weird, isn’t it, how one develops an affection for inanimate objects? (Or does one? [...]

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Why EVERYONE Needs to Learn How to Manage Money…

June 9, 2011

…Especially women. Today I met a sweet and kindly lady in the course of a volunteer project I signed up for. While we were figuring out what we were supposed to be doing, we of course struck up a conversation, during which she came to tell me her life story. At 60, she’s struggling financially: [...]

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