Woo-Hoo! Football has finally started! Better yet I got to watch my favorite team, The Washington Redskins, on TV(This is a big deal when you live in the middle of nowhere and you only have three channels). But let ye football gods strike me down because I ended up watching more of the US Open than I did the pigskin. The way I figured I only had one more day of tennis left on TV, but I have 20 more weeks of football. Besides every time I turned to the football game, the Giants were kicking butt, so I [...]
Read MoreSeptember 2009
I see from all the TV promos for new shows that the Fall TV season is about to begin. Which is too bad because it feels like summer was just starting. As a kid I remember that all my favorite TV shows would end with a thrilling spring finale with a killer cliffhanger. That way I knew summer had started. The summer would be full of reruns and in the fall all my favorite shows would come back on. I don’t know about you, but I hate cliffhangers! And by hate, I mean that I secretly love them. In [...]
Read MoreI know that probably sounds like blasphemy to a lot of folks out there, but I am starting to feel like it is the truth. As much as I like free markets, they don’t magically solve every problem. We all probably have different definitions of what we think capitalism is, so let’s define it so we all start off on the same page. I am not saying this is a perfect definition, but one that is probably is digestible by all of us. Capitalism – An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods that are distributed [...]
Read MoreIf you’ve been sniffin’ around here longer than a month then you already know that I track my family’s expenses. Here is the tally for August: $840.39 – Mortgage $759.20 – Health Insurance $337.48 – Groceries $225.00 – Preschool Deposit #2 $182.47 – House Painting Supplies $165.06 – Garage Door Repair $135.00 – Student Loan $133.33 – Gasoline $117.88 – Electricity $113.66 – Dining Out $103.85 – Phone & Internet $96.06 – Beauty Products $74.89 – Medical $70.00 – Babysitting $56.00 – Water, Sewer, Garbage $55.00 – Fees $52.31 – Household Misc $43.25 – Kids’ care $26.68 – Lawn care [...]
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