Once upon a time, I saw a compost bin for an incredible steal at a garage sale. Something like $25 or $30 for a large green bin. I noted the price at the time but decided we didn’t have enough room to haul it back, since my roommate and I had a free Christmas tree [...]
I’ve been a bit lazy with both knitting (and obviously blog posting) over the past few months. First my laptop started showing its age, emitting this awful sounding “click click click” noise whenever I started it up, and it took me awhile to ascertain that I just needed to buy a $30 fan on the [...]
“Thirty two bucks to see a guy I hear every week for free?” was my reaction, when I heard that Ira Glass was coming to town. I’m a big fan of This American Life, and I even donate $5 whenever he implores me to each year. But that seemed such a stiff price for radio, [...]
Once upon a time, I thought I did not like beets. I’d only ever had the canned kind, and I have an instinctive distrust of things that come out of cans that are that color. I think I’d probably lumped them in, unfairly, with that atrocious Thanksgiving cranberry jelly abomination – the kind that slurps [...]
