Tuesday, February 1, 2011
So just as I was thanking my lucky stars that this has been a disaster-free year, the bathroom ceiling starts leaking. Mercifully this is not actually a bathroom ceiling belonging to me, but one that I rent. So I called my landlady who told me the ice-breaker man would be out in the morning. Another [...]
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Some times of the year I feel pretty unexcited about my lack of progress in various things. This time of year it feels like a huge success to just be treading water in place or quite possibly taking tiny incremental steps towards getting some things accomplished. A lot of the people around me have a [...]
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I think I usually make this post around tax time, but I kept good track of money stuff last year (thanks Excel, and USAA website) so it’s easy enough to make now. Without giving actual numbers, this is where my income came from last year. Nothing too surprising except that the library sliver is teeny. [...]
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Places I stayed in 2010. You’ll notice the list is significantly shorter and almost all of it takes place in one of three states: Vermont, Massachusetts (Westport, Amherst, Belmont, and Boxboro) and Florida. I only left the country once overnight. Nine different states, one province. This is some sort of progress. This coming year my [...]
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wrapping up a week down in Massachusetts tomorrow and heading back to Vermont on Saturday. My mind is swimming with potential resolutions and end-of-year lists and infographics. For now, I’m typing in a dark chilly room while Jim takes a late afternoon nap beside me and it’s dark and cold outside. 2010 has been a [...]
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
So the Christmas Bird Count went well. I went for a nice long walk in the woods and saw nothing, and then I walked along the road on the way to the supermarket and saw a bunch of the little local birds and one big pileated woodpecker. I even managed to get a photo. The [...]
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Josh recently did this, reminding me that I’ve been meaning to do this. The alphabet, according my browser’s URL autocomplete suggestions: A is for Amazon – because I have a smart keyword set up for it. B is for Paperbackswap.com – for no reason I can immediately understand. C is for Couchsurfing – I hosted [...]
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