Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
The New York Times has an article about Alexandra Jarrin. Alexandra has spent the last couple years on unemployment. She exhausted her benefits and now is struggling to make it day to day. She has a college degree and was working on her masters but ultimately lost her job as “Director of client services†in March of 2008. It’s always quite interesting to read about
I watched an interesting Dateline show last night that highlighted the suffering of various people in Ohio as they live their way through the Great Recession. Here is a link to the coverage on their website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38382773/ns/dateline_nbc-america_now It’s definitely worth checking out. I found myself feeling very lucky and a little bit guilty to have so much while others have so little. It reinforces my
Well, not trenches actually. It’s more like a report from my neighborhood. As long time readers know, I keep a close eye on the real estate that’s for sale around my house. It’s really been a fascinating experience to watch houses fall in to foreclosure and then sit for many months unoccupied as the lawns grow out of control. I’ve often wondered what the circumstances
Don’t watch this if swear words offend you. Otherwise, I think you’ll laugh. A lot.
As I posted earlier, I was recently shopping for a clothes dryer after ours decided to quit working. I have to say, it was not an enjoyable experience. In the end, I managed to avoid the purchase and pick up a used one for nearly nothing from a neighbor, but the process that I went through to get to that point sucked. When I first
It never fails. We renew our commitment to build our savings to a higher level and things start breaking. In this case, our dryer decided to stop working. Knowing that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work on a dryer, I did some testing and discovered that the main control board in the dryer was shot. I researched the price for the
I found myself over at Get Rich Slowly today reading his post called: “Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Remembering to Appreciate What I Already Have†and a number of things came to mind. First the synopsis. JD took the long route home yesterday which included walking past a number of large “mansion†type houses. As he walked along, he found himself thinking about what it would
It’s finally summer around here and I’m thrilled. The months of cold blustery weather seemed to go on forever and I can easily recall longing for the days of warmth. While the weather hasn’t exactly been “epic†heat or anything so far (in fact it’s been uncharacteristically cooler in May and June in the Pacific Northwest), the weather is still much better than the typical
Well, now that it’s been a couple days, I’m happy to report that the Iphone has magically turned on!!! I’m still going to give it a couple more days to dry out but it seems to mostly work. (It seems to have a delay when placing calls). Just in case it doesn’t come back to life fully, I’ve wiped it clean so I can feel
As you know, we ran my Iphone through the clothes washer yesterday. While that was traumatic, I think dealing with AT&T today has actually been worse. While the customer service agents have been pleasant, they haven’t been helpful. You see, I’ve run in to illogical business rules from AT&T. A friend of mine happened to offer me his old 1st generation Iphone to get me