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Monday, October 17, 2022

Meeting your plant match

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My mother was a plant lady. Coleus. Sansevieria. Cactus. Pothos. Philodendron. Spider. African violets. Orchids. And a spectacular Christmas...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Can I get the clarinet guy to manage my money?

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I wasn't going to look. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty. But last week, I got up in the middle of the night to take a look at my...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

End the Exception? YES!

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If you drive up Route 1 in Mid-coast Maine on your way to Rockland - which is worth a visit if you like Andrew Wyeth (Farnsworth Museum) or ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Cat cafe, you say?

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I am most fortunate to live in a neighborhood with lots of interesting and independent (or small local chain-lets) shops. We have our very o...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

A brilliant career move, if ever

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As jobs go, tech support at a university probably isn't a bad one. It probably doesn't pay a ton, but it's also probably pretty ...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Not Columbus Day, 2022

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It's still a federal holiday, so if you were expecting a big influx of Christmas catalogues today, you're out of luck. And it's ...
Friday, October 07, 2022

Cheat, cheat, never beat. (Live fish, dead fish. Stuffed with lead fish.)

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Well, yesterday's post was a cautionary tale about catfishing. Today's is about a fish of a different color, the walleye pike. When ...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Catfished

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I remembered the story. Vaguely. A prominent college athlete - Samoan kid at Notre Dame having a banner senior year. Grandmother and girlfr...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

End of Season's Greetings

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This afternoon, the Red Sox are scheduled to play their final game of what's been quite a disappointing season.  They've had a prett...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Sneaker authenticator? Now there's a job for ya!

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When I was searching for an image to illustrate this post, I used the term "expensive nike sneakers." What came up first was a pai...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Now this sort of NFT makes sense. Sort of.

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I'm not a big fan of NFTs, and don't understand why anyone would want to pay for a digital image of anything.  A physical work of ar...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Baby CEO? Bleak? You ain't kidding!

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Kids, from toddlers on, have always liked playing "work." For babies, most of the "work" they play at is around-the-hous...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

There's poor folk needy, and then there's TRULY NEEDY

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Mississippi is poor. Really poor. Desperately poor. Dirt poor Nearly twenty percent of their population lives in poverty (nearly double the ...