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“You don’t seem the type.”

Yesterday, at lunch, I was in the office kitchen heating up my lunch (delicious leftovers from the dinner I cooked Sunday night) and a co-worker I rarely run into at lunch wandered in.

“I guess I have to get used to bringing my lunch,” she said.  “My husband saw the credit card bill and got mad [...]

Backups? Still important.

Edit: Please see the note added at the end of this post for a comment from the CEO of Carbonite.

Last year, I wrote a post about how important it is to back up your computer.  I stand by that information.  That said, I have to edit my product review.

At that time, I recommended Carbonite as [...]

How much would you make elsewhere?

Yesterday, Lifehacker linked to a very cool calculator at CNN Money.  This calculator takes your salary and location and tells you what your comparable salary would be in another part of the country.  As someone living in the DC area (note – to find DC, select Virginia as the state), I was very interested to [...]

More no spend failure

Well, this week just gets more and more expensive.  Yesterday, the Metro was still down in my area due to the horrific accident, but the commuter rail line was back up, so I decided to take that route.  I picked up a one way pass… for $4.  It’s a whopping 13 minute ride.  Then I [...]

Plan Fail

So remember the other day when I said this week would be a no spend week?

Yeah, didn’t manage that.

Yesterday, due to all of the transportation issues, I opted to take the day off from work (I had Friday scheduled off and just switched the days).  I took advantage of the weekday off and decided to [...]