Archive for September, 2009

Puppies for nothing and your chicks for free

Friday, September 25th, 2009

We just arrived in West Virginia to visit my wife's parents and her grandmother who's visiting them.  We're bringing along a three-month-old puppy that we got a few weeks ago from a friend. We stopped at Five Brothers for dinner and ate outside so that Taffy could get out, too.  While ...

Just try to smell like a different-smelling man

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Cube farms are great for overhearing little bits of random quotable goodness, like this gem from one of my (male) co-workers while he was talking on the phone with his wife (I can only assume): I like to smell like a man, but sometimes I like to smell like a different-smelling ...

Review of Bill Schultheis’ The New Coffeehouse Investor

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

The author's marketing company kindly sent me a complimentary company of Bill Schultheis' latest reworking of his book: The New Coffeehouse Investor.  According to the "about the author" section in the book, Mr. Schultheis is an investment adviser with Soundmark Wealth Management, LLC, a fee-only registered investment adviser located in ...

Ladies: Can someone tell me precisely why I’m out of touch on this point?

Friday, September 18th, 2009

OK, so I'm reading the July, 2009, issue of U.S. News & World Report that my mother-in-law left the last time she visited, and I happen on an article called "Frugal Forever?" written by Kimberly Palmer, senior editor at U.S. News and blogger at Alpha Consumer.  (She had several articles ...