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My roommate is officially moving out as of the end of the month.

For all intents and purposes, she’s already gone now.  She’s just got a few things left in the house.  She had planned to move out at the end of the year, but due to a family crisis, needed to leave a month early.

It’s [...]

Medical Expenses

Well, I guess it was inevitable. I can no longer access my blog at work. Don’t worry, taxpayers. I wasn’t blogging on work time, but often spent my lunch break drafting up posts. I suppose that’s still an option, if I just email the posts to myself and then post them later, but my track [...]

Equal Knowledge

This morning, I read an article about women and money.  I won’t link it here, but the basic point was “Women usually let the men in their lives take care of the finances, and there are things they should know.”  I have to admit, I felt the whole concept was condescending, but at the same [...]

Olympic Fever

Is anyone else sad that the Olympics are over?  I found myself watching more sports over the past few weeks than normal, like most people, I think.

I think my new favorite sport is the winter biathlon.  Cross country skiing combined with rifle shooting?  Awesome.  Ski really hard, then stop and shoot at a target.  Miss, [...]

Family Finances

The office is a bit slow today, so my coworkers got into a big conversation about marriage (I think it may have started with Tiger Woods).  That morphed into a conversation about family finances, and it was very eye opening.

One coworker thinks that when a couple gets married, each person should put a percentage of [...]