It's been a good three years since I bought a pack of cigarettes for myself. However, when I smoked I smoked Camels and was quite diligent about saving the Camel Cash from each pack.


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I have a gift certificate to Nye's Polonaise that expires this week. I'm hoping to use it today. Who wants to meet me for a drink later?

You know. I’ve had it with these corporate sponsored arena concerts. The Police are doing a 30th anniversary reunion tour. I thought it would be pretty cool to see them since I never got to see them back in the 80's. I did see Sting at Northrop Auditorium and he was amazing. Tickets don’t go on sale to the general public until March 5th but Best ( Read more... )

Each week when I deliver the City Pages I pick up the left overs from the previous week. At the end of the day I have accumulated quite a pile of papers that need to be recycled. I had been taking them back to City Pages and dumping them in their recycle bin. Today I decided to take them to the Pioneer Paper to see if I could get any money for them ( Read more... )

The universe assisted a drum in finding it’s way to me today. I’ve been wanting to get a djembe for quite some time but a couple of months I really made my desires known to the universe. A new one would cost me between $200 - $300 for what I want. That wasn’t really an option but in my experience things have a way of working out. When I first ( Read more... )

I'm in a grumpy mood. I could go into why I am in a grumpy mood but in the end I am in a grumpy mood because I want to be. Some things have happened this week and I've gotten tired of rolling with it and so now it's time to be grumpy. It is also time for me to reevaluate my finances as some of these things have resulted in unscheduled expenditures ( Read more... )