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Archive for July, 2008

We just saved 23% on our car insurance….

Posted: Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 @ 8:21 am in General | Comments Off

….by moving to a better zip code. No kidding.

Economy

Posted: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 @ 8:52 am in Foofy, General | Comments Off

Economic pessimism continues, at least for me.
It’s sad when the best economic analysis is coming from The Onion: Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In, which ends with
“America needs another bubble,” said Chicago investor Bob Taiken. “At this point, bubbles are the only thing keeping us afloat.”
The next time I see MFH’s […]

Three weeks of moving

Posted: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 @ 8:29 am in Parenthood, Foofy, General | Comments Off

One week of moving fragile and awkward items, MFH taking a load over and unloading after work every day.
One week of me packing up a room a day, while MFH worked late every night and continued to take a load a day.
One U-Haul loaded to the top, constrained by time, but by then I had […]

Contribution to Science

Posted: Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 @ 5:20 pm in Foofy, Science, General | Comments Off

I was curious and did some googling today (yes, that is a verb in our household) and found that one of my scientific papers from my graduate student career has been cited in Wikipedia. It makes me feel good to know that my years of toil in the basement of the physics building produced […]

Garden

Posted: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 @ 5:16 pm in Parenthood, Foofy, General | Comments Off

Another thing I’m looking forward to with the move is not having to keep up with the gardening any more. This house has flower beds all around it , more all the way down the slope out front, on the boulevard, in front of and behind the garage, and there’s also a small vegetable […]