Category Archives: Musings

Rant: Another Bonehead Government Program

If you are a homeowner, then it's likely you've felt the crunch. The ugly mortgage payments. The fact that your neighbor short sells his house for a fraction of its former worth. Or that the other neighbor up and leaves...giving you a lovely foreclosure in your neighborhood along with a likely case of blight due ...

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Rant: Joint Online Accounts – a trust issue?

Okay, so I've been thinking about this for awhile. But I've never been able to wrap my head around it. What's up with joint accounts? I'm not talking bank accounts. I'm talking email and online accounts, such as Facebook. Why would a couple need a joint account? Is it because they DON'T trust each other and they ...

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A Late Resolution: Couponing

I've always considered myself pretty thrifty. When I shop for clothing I typically take enough time to pick things out and then put them back after talking myself out of spending the money. Time waster? Yes. But money saver? Definitely. I buy an Entertainment book every year at a discount and then always rifle through ...

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Firefox: You SUCK

Seriously? I used to think that all I should have to do is click on an internet icon and just magically (well, you know what I mean) be connected with the world wide web. I was stumbling through life using - gasp - Internet Explorer. I don't even know which version. It was whatever version popped ...

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Yay: a new design!

I was telling the big guy the other day (aka husband) that I needed a diary. That there are these little things that happen in a given day that warrant a sentence or two. Good things. Weird things. You know, the minutiae of every day life. Then it dawned on me. I have a blog. Why ...

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