Ugh. The Subaru had been doing great until about a month ago when the "Check Engine" light went on - right after a regular maintenance check performed at the dealership ( Read more... )

This morning I was giving Chuck a bit of the third degree about an item on the shopping list - a flat of Honest Tea - because I was trying to be frugal. How quickly did he go through the last one? How many were in the flat? How much was it again? It’s not that it was a bad deal - $10 for a 12 count - but he basically had drunk 1 a day since he ( Read more... )

I am steadily growing more and more impatient with my Visa credit card company. I have a card through a bank in Maryland - my parents had an account there when we lived in Baltimore, and kept the account when they moved to upstate NY. My father opened up a joint account between us before I went to college, so that I could make charges at school and ( Read more... )

- In 2 1/2 weeks I'm going to see Muse again, this time in Milwaukee. I was contemplating getting a hotel room again like I did in Chicago, but when I thought about it some more, that's about another $150 just to sleep. I'll check with Chuck first, but I'm leaning towards just driving back when it's over. That might mean we get back at 2AM, but I  ( Read more... )

Dear credit card company ( Read more... )

You know how every few months I start bitching on here about how expensive life is, and the gulf between what a college graduate earns and how much student debt they carry? Well, this article summed things up pretty nicely on how messed up the finances of the twentysomething set generally are:

"Now, stagnant wages, job insecurity, the decline in ( Read more... )

This is not a time to tune into the news if you’re feeling as averse to contention as I have lately. Between the health care bill, the Let’s Move campaign, studies debunking other studies about how much CO2 livestock produce, and the latest hijinks of the Humane Society, watching/reading/listening to the news is becoming exhausting ( Read more... )

- Credit card bills for the East Coast Revisitation are hitting. Blurgh.

- Taxes. Gotta do ‘em. Started this weekend.

- Trial re-run is looking to be scheduled on the 17th next week. This would be great, except that I’m supposed to be flying to Phoenix for the RCA conference. Technically I *can* swing it, but it’s a good bit of extra cost to our ( Read more... )

Welp, the general public sales for Muse's Chicago gig started at 10 AM today, and I got no hits that weren't in the topmost section despite trying immediately on the hour and many times more for another 30 minutes or so ( Read more... )

MAN. I lost track of my renewal day for the car insurance and it was YESTERDAY. To renew I had to pay an "installation fee" of an additional $70 over and above what my renewal WOULD have been.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE. I was feeling so on top of things until today. Guess I'll never do THAT again.