August 2011

Whoa! Money happens!!

August 12, 2011

Criminey, I go from feeling poor as a church mouse to rich as Croesus. My life is a symphony of clichés. The community college district extruded a paycheck today: $1348.75 that I don’t need to live on this month or next  month. According to my excruciating calculations, all the bills for this month are now [...]

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Summer Budget Overruns: When that sneaking feeling is right…

August 12, 2011

This summer I’ve had the same feeling that I had last summer: as soon as the weather gets ultrahot and the power and water bills head for the stratosphere, that’s when everything goes expensively wrong and you get a hailstorm of unplanned bills. Last summer I spend $3,348 on unexpected costs after all was said [...]

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w00t! Over the Blackboard Wall and Free at Last with WordPress!

August 11, 2011

Wow! This is too good to be true! With the English 101 students out the door, I thought I’d take a few hours to at least get a start on preparing my wildcat WordPress website for the fall semester. This would mean discarding the summer session’s blog comments and replies (hundreds and hundreds of them!), [...]

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Life before Lemon Laws

August 10, 2011

Sooo… After extracting some success from Adsense by lacing a post with a high-ranking keyword, I thought I’d try again, this time with the term “lemon law.” That, apparently, is hot just now. As I was wondering how to decoct a few not-too-eyeglazing words on the subject, it occurred to me that I actually have [...]

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The Markets of 2011: 2008 déjà vu?

August 9, 2011

A few words from one of my financial managers… The events of the past few weeks have unfolded in a most unflattering way for the financial markets.  Outside of gold and U.S. Treasuries, investments have lost a significant amount of value recently, giving back some of the gains garnered during the rebound of the last [...]

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Songs of the Times

August 8, 2011

So I’m driving home from campus, a-listenin’ to the radio. Got a fistful of errands to run before I can come to light back at the Funny Farm, so I need the radio to keep me company for a while. Seemed like half the day that NPR had been moaning on while Rome burned (again!). [...]

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