http://blogs.forbes.com/johntharvey/2011/04/26/why-you-are-paying-so-much-for-gas/

I'm totally preoccupied with choosing what apartment to move into in June.  I feel like I should make the decision soon, like before March 17th which is match day and I'll have lots of other residents competing for the same apartments.  I visited 4 of the 6 apartments I'm considering.  The seemed roughly the same, except one was much nicer but a ( Read more... )

The party I had planned to go to was canceled.  Anyone else want to get together ( Read more... )

I was going through files on my backup harddrive and found ad file called Networth.doc
I don't know where I got this info from, but I thought I would post it here.

Expected levels of net worth for individuals  age 25 to 65 = (age * income) / 1

upper quartile = 2 * Expected Net worth

lower quartile = ½ * expected Net worth

Avg American  ( Read more... )

Some more NPR tidbets:

2/3 of Americans will go into debt for X'mas this year.
13 million Americans are still paying the debt from X'mas last year.

Please need to understand better what it is to pay compound interest on the things they buy.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuclear-ambitions/

Thanksgiving is one of the times of the year when I realize how many of my friends live in close proximity to their family.  It makes me think that in the future, maybe it would be important to live close by family ( Read more... )

I was listening to NPR yesterday while driving to and from the hospital and then running errands.  There were a lot of interesting tidbits I learned.  Like the average cost of raising a child in the U.S. is $222,000, not including college.  There was some financial planning seminar for expectant parents, and the people who attended were mostly ( Read more... )

I saw this book sitting by the computer in the ICU a while back and read a bit of one chapter about how health care is funded.  It was interesting enough that I did an interlibrary loan to borrow it from the library and read about half of it.  I recommend it for people curious about the health care system and health care reform.

Public Policy and ( Read more... )

Must make sure to go see:

The Glory of the Painted Page
Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection
November 6, 2010-March 27, 2011

Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011 ( Read more... )