There’s no question that money is tight for a lot of folks these days. It seems that nearly every personal blog I read talks of that person’s struggles to buy groceries, gas, and other basics for their family, which is depressing to say the least. I’ve also been reading a lot of posts about money-saving [...]
High school seniors base their college application decisions on a number of factors, including, sometimes, how much of a party atmosphere there is at a particular school. That’s why the results of the Princeton Review survey of the Top Party Schools in the country is one of the most anxiously anticipated lists around.
This year, [...]
Football is my favorite sport by far, so now that training camps are underway across the country, all is right in my world again. Of course, the start of training camp always means that a bunch of players will be on the move, as some get cut, are released, or join other teams via [...]
This sounds like something out of The Godfather or The Sopranos, which is probably why the story is making such a big splash online. The daughter of Salvatore Toto Riina, a vicious Mafia godfather who has been behind bars in Italy since the mid-’90s, was married in Corelone, Italy on Wednesday. The bride was [...]
It looks like families in this area are still struggling to pay their mortgages every month, and are either moving to cheaper digs or are losing their homes to foreclosure. It’s getting to the point where I can barely go five or six blocks without seeing one of those big moving pods sitting in the [...]
I don’t know why this always happens to me. I have a consulting gig that I agreed to take on merely as a favor to a former boss of mine. I have no interest in working full-time outside my home at this point, so this gig seemed like a good one for me. It only [...]
I read an interesting story yesterday about a salon in the DC area that has been using “garra rufa” carp, commonly called “doctor fish”, in order to give people pedicures. The fish nibble away at dead, flaking skin, and, according to salon owner John Ho, are more effective than using a razor for the [...]
I’m the kind of person who needs nearly complete silence when I sleep. The slightest noise disturbs me, and sets me up for a night of restless tossing and turning. So you can imagine how freakin’ annoyed I was last night to hear the shower faucets in the master bathroom dripping constantly. Ugh! It was [...]