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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been feeling pessimistic about the general direction of the economy lately. It didn’t help that the newspaper had a long article about affordable housing in the Twin Cities suburbs, and how people with incomes very near MFH’s were qualifying for subsidized housing. If we had another child, and I kept staying at […]
I was disposing of some old medication in the downstairs bathroom, and the low-flow toilet there took two flushes just to get pills down.
We’ll be beginning our big move to Eden Prairie next week (we have some overlap with our leases). I’m starting to start to pack.
I got so tired from building the compost bin because I did all the sawing, drilling, and screw-driving by hand. Not that it takes any great strength to do any of these operations with hand tools; even drilling holes with a hand drill is surprisingly easy. It was the cumulative effort over a […]
I spent all day yesterday building a new compost bin, with the help of my young assistant. It is mostly finished, just needs front slide-in panels and maybe another row of mesh around the top. I moved all the compost into it this morning. Today I am very tired.
I’ve quit my job; my last working day was last Friday, and on Saturday I crammed all my work stuff into the car and hauled it over to the office. So that’s why I was so busy last month. I gave my notice at the beginning of the month, and then spent all […]