We’re doing Christmas gift-opening a couple of times this year because we’re traveling around to see family. Tonight we spent some time opening part of our gifts. Yesterday after work I had only a few last-minute Christmas gifts to get, and it was a fairly fast and painless process, even at the start of the … Read more
Sooner or later most of us will need to find out our credit score. This can be a perilous journey if you don’t know what you are doing! If you’ve looked online you will already have seen a number of websites offering free credit reports. Finding your credit score for free by using one of … Read more
My wife and I have been enjoying a couple of localized Facebook pages that serve as ongoing virtual yard sales. People know each other to some extent, people post pictures, people raise their hand if they want something, and people deliver the goods. We’ve gotten some neat things, and we’ve gotten rid of some of … Read more
Some of my wife’s Facebook friends posted some pictures the bumper-to-bumper traffic into the local mall / retail area today. It’s definitely not the best time to run in and out of stores for a few things, being a week before Christmas and all that. So we stopped at our local antique mall this afternoon. … Read more
Baker posted a link on his Google+ profile to this CNN Money article. Denise Townley received a letter from Discover Card less than two weeks after her mother had passed away seeking to settle her mother’s debts. It would be an understatement to say that Ms. Townley wasn’t pleased by this behavior. The Discover letter … Read more
(Hah … the WordPress text editor is telling me that it’s “Saving Draft” … that’s actually what I’m going to talk about!) This past weekend I took a trip to Costco to pick up a few things. Some places my wife and I hesitate to get generic (store) brand because it was weak, didn’t work, … Read more
My wife and I were chatting about why she had sold more Amazon Kindle versions than paperback versions of her new Civil War historical fantasy. Granted, the Kindle version is only 20% the cost of the paperback version, but I had said that $14.99 was a bit much to pay for a paperback. “Since when?!” … Read more
This past week, my wife published a 430-plus page novel she had been working on in one way or another for the past twenty-two years. It’s quite the milestone, and we’re keenly interested and very excited in how things progress from here. For a time, though, I had resigned myself to the prospect that her … Read more