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home buying
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social security - attitudes and expectations
I received my yearly Social Security statement recently, and going through it was an eye-opener as to just how much graduate school retards one's immediate earning capacity. The administrators of Social Security must have given up on me years ago as a deadbeat. For fifteen years my earned income averaged about $3K a year, sometimes up to $9K but ( Read more... ) -
vacation to SE Asia
Long time no post. Vacation was awesome, but it's good to be back. Luckily despite it being rainy season we didn't have too many issues with the weather ( Read more... ) -
Reflections on dog ownership
I meant to post this after a month of dog ownership, and tomorrow will be a whole 5 weeks, so I'm a bit behind. Seems like free time is a bit in short supply lately. :-)
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Sleep!
Finally, an 8 hr chunk of sleep! I nearly forgot what that felt like with Flummox in the house. :-) M was promising me I would learn to take naps again, like he does, but it hadn't happened yet. I had just been getting by on a limited number of cylinders and forgetting things. This weekend I did a load of wash and didn't realize that I had ( Read more... ) -
shifting to a morning schedule
I've been trying to shift to getting up earlier for a while. We run in the morning, and when we had that heat wave a little back it was tough for me to deal with the heat and sun running at our usual time. Additionally, I've been trying to get in at a consistent time for work for collaborations with coworkers several days a week, which has ( Read more... ) -
Flummox'd
We've got our dog! He's adorable, a beautiful fawn-colored Great Dane. We left work early on Friday to drive out the two hours to the meeting point to retrieve him. His old owner got a little worked up about saying goodbye to him, and provided us with stories of his puppyhood (plus pictures), his medical records, more pictures of him with her in ( Read more... ) -
"One Nation Under Dog"
Cute title for a book, isn't it? I heard about it on NPR and chatted with some friends about it a while back. Well, now I'm about to be a dog owner myself, and the comment about dropping a few hundred bucks on the first day of dog ownership is relevant. M and I went shopping yesterday for dog gear even though we don't pick up the dog until ( Read more... ) -
A walk in the park
To celebrate the holiday weekend in our traditional style, today we went for a nice walk in the park. My friend E always calls it a walk, regardless of the distance involved or the number of hills. :-) If it had been an outing with anyone but E and L, we would call it a hike. We followed ten miles of trails through a number of different types of ( Read more... )