The Second, Second Best Blog

While I was unemployed, we, my most excellent spouse Patricia and I, kept our fingers crossed that we would not incur any major unexpected expenses. For the most part we did not. But as you might suspect with a thirty year old house, which we have lived in for twenty-three, they cannot be kept in [...]

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Just in case you haven’t yet heard, I got a job! I am now the newest (but not youngest) Software Engineer/Programmer at Versadial Solutions. So I can’t spend three hours every morning with the scrub jays during the week any more. I was just ready to leave for work the other day when Jay came [...]

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Rarely a day has gone by in the last few months without some more bad financial news. Rarely a day has gone by in the last few months without a fresh barrage of presidential campaign ads polluting the airwaves. Today’s financial humdinger was that for the first time since records have been kept, the American [...]

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