What does business recovery and homeowner foreclosure have to do with Will Smith? I just watched a video clips segments of interviews with Will Smith talking about success. He’s talking about more than his career — he’s talking about the idea of success just walking around in the world as a person. “You have to [...]
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Note to Self: Truth Wins
May 21st, 2010 No Comments
Tags: foreclosure study · overreachers · truth · Will Smith
How ‘No’ Can You Go? The Impact of Wealth on Happiness
April 2nd, 2010 5 Comments
Everyone is about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Except it matters very much where your mind happens to live. Several weeks after reading this review and summary of new and old happiness research, I keep coming back to it. Two new policy books the article mentions argue that Gross Domestic [...]
Tags: G.D.P. · happiness · No Impact Man
I Oughta Haul Off And…My Love-Hate with Hauls Videos
March 8th, 2010 No Comments
People are talking about YouTube “hauls” videos, and with good reason. Here’s my recent Walgreens haul: generic kleenex hair dye Fem HRT prescription (I will let you look that up). Other than, say a 24-hour Web cam on you at all times, could there be anything more intimate than emptying the contents of your shopping [...]
Coming Back Soon
October 20th, 2009 No Comments
Hello. (Hear the echo, run your finger through the dust.) First things first: maintenance. Once I figure out how to upgrade to the latest WordPress version (WordPress updates are relentless) without destroying comments (like last time), I’ll blog again. Meantime, bed for me, as reville is at 5:30 AM.
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Status Update
July 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Don’t you hate when a straightforward ‘to-do’ becomes a quagmire of extra steps? Example A: Do a quick blog post. But I see I need to upgrade my WordPress version. Which means spending some time figuring out how to backup files. And then getting an error message for the upgrade, which is going to require [...]
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A Personal Note
July 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Ok, most of my blog posts are pretty personal. But this one concerns the slowed pace of blogging for me lately. I have been battling fatigue for a few months; I thought it was depression. It probably was. Now I think it’s the med they gave me to combat it. Some days I have normal [...]
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Minneapolis School Board Says ‘Do Over’
May 7th, 2009 No Comments
The Southwest Journal and the Star Tribune report today that the school district’s plan to close and “demagnetize” some schools for fall 2010 is “dead on arrival,” and that they want more specifics on the redrawing of district boundaries — particularly for open areas — before they vote on May 26th. From the Strib: (Board [...]
Insider Grocery Store Tips
April 26th, 2009 No Comments
From the blog Free Money Finance, here’s the best article I’ve read yet on saving money at the grocery store, written by a grocery store staffer as a guest post. Enjoy!
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Math That Makes You Feel Smart
February 25th, 2009 1 Comment
Because I’m on many deadlines this week, but hate to leave the blog just hanging: Verizon Math Fail It’s a fast laugh, even if you’ve already heard this recording of a customer trying to teach customer service reps about decimal points. Favorite line: “.002 what?!”
Tags: fun · Verizon Math Fail
Thanks, Mystery Baby!
February 23rd, 2009 No Comments
This book arrived in the mail over the weekend, along with “Baby Fix My Car,” two in a series of anti-board books by Lisa Brown. I thank you, mystery gift giver. And my kids thank you. Because seriously, they will love these. I love these. They are personal finance as visual haiku.
Tags: Baby Do My Banking · fun
