Magazine mad

November 22, 2007

I love magazines but I hate paying full price for them, so I have devised a number of ways to avoid this fate (which ranks somewhere in my books between eating a sandwich and watching a gory movie):

I subscribe to one magazine (and save 72% off the cover price, or something like that according to [...]

Even good cities have their bad people

March 21, 2007

Every so often something happens that makes me want to collect up all the dregs of society and subject them to 2000 hours of me singing Celine Dion hits off-key.  I really, really don’t like people who indulge in stealing, lying or cheating of other people or corporations; it just gives me a yucky taste [...]

Money money

February 13, 2007

I finally finished filling out my tax form for 2005 on Saturday night, and I mailed it yesterday. Since I’m almost 10 months late, this makes it the first time that I’ve owed money and had to pay interest on it.  It hurts. I’m hoping that that 2006’s income tax season is less harsh on my bank [...]

A little on NaBlo, a little on me

November 1, 2006

It’s day 1 of NaBloPoMo and here I am:  sleepy but afraid that I’ll be too busy tomorrow this afternoon to post an entry and be out of the challenge before it has even begun.  How mortifying would that be?  I don’t yet have a set schedule of posts so I’ll just wing it, perhaps [...]