My Sunday paper will arrive in five hours. Using my psychic powers, I will predict its contents. The Sunday paper will contain 60% advertisements, 10% comics, 3% “Parade” and local weekly magazine, 5% TV section, and 22% news content. The ads Aaron Brothers is having a 1-cent frame sale. For unexplained reasons, I will receive […]
This may seem far-fetched, but I got a paper cut from picking up a cardboard box. The box slipped, and when I grabbed it, my finger brushed against the edge, leaving a large gash in my finger. Okay, maybe not “large,” but it hurt a lot and the cut was big enough that it needed
The Best Recipe is rapidly earning a reputation as one of my favorite cookbooks. Tonight I made Molasses Ginger Cookies, using fresh ginger. This is a great recipe for the little helpers because they can roll the dough into balls and coat them with sugar. The trick with these is to suppress the urge to
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Success! I’ve finally made a decent rice pudding recipe. No longer will I be subject to the whims of Kozy Shack (which makes incredibly good rice pudding, btw).
Cascade has a series of “free” rides called Brother Loves’ Traveling Salvation Show (placement of the apostrophe is theirs, not mine). The one the weekend before last had three notable features: It covers seven trails and five rivers from Seattle to Auburn. I tried to find them all, but only came up with six: Burke-Gilman
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My bank sent me an “Equity Accelerator” flyer. The concept is by paying half my mortgage payment every two weeks instead of the current monthly installment, I will reduce the time to pay off my loan, preserving equity and saving interest payments. Mortgage math is tricky. For example, my first loan’s payment was determined by
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By the time I stopped traveling for a living in early 2001, I had accumulated about a million frequent flier miles. Unfortunately, these were spread among too many airlines (and hotels) to make them useful for any kind of family vacation. I would have been content to hold onto them, but US Airways, Delta, United
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When asked for birthday gift hints, my sister-in-law’s husband said he wanted an MP3 player to replace the outdated Walkman he runs with, and even suggested a specific model that we could all chip in on. That should have made things pretty easy. However, because this is an electronic item, with computers involved, there was
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