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Brain freeze

August 10, 2010 – 3:17 pm

To lighten the mood, here's a parable: We were playing host to Jeannie's nephew again this past week, culminating in a trip to Manhattan on Saturday to ostensibly check out some colleges. We went up to the NYU area first, checking first to see if there were any 7-Elevens around the campus. Jeannie and her [...]

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Keep those balls in the air

May 20, 2010 – 11:02 am

The last couple of weeks took an extra helping of crazy, all of it a logical result of several things I set in motion recently. Briefly, after a recent drought, I suddenly had more work than I knew what to do with, between freelance, temp and contract jobs. I'm still in the midst of this, [...]

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A victim of someone's evil plan

August 31, 2009 – 1:53 pm

While I'm running out the clock at this job, I'm trying to use all the resources available to me while it lasts. One big issue is health insurance. Sure, there's some kind of Obama-subsidized COBRA thing but in all honesty I will probably forget to sign the forms or whatever when the time comes. So [...]

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What I look like under a microscope

August 4, 2009 – 2:46 pm

If you thought this site was single-minded before, get ready for "All Job-Loss Talk." As usual, I'm about 18 months behind everybody else on the trends, so you're probably all full up with whining about losing one's job. So maybe I won't do that, even though I sure am thinking about it. I guess I [...]

By Jimmy Legs | Also posted in Job, Money | Comments (4)

She's gonna love me in my Chevy van

June 1, 2009 – 12:12 pm

Lucy makes sure nothing happens to the cat food You people with cars won't understand this, but sometimes we sit around and discuss all the things we could do if we had one. How we could go to Ikea, to Costco, to the Catskills (I don't know why we bring that up, neither of us [...]

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