As I’ve written about before, we’re too cheap to buy a booster seat for Toddler, so she sits on phonebooks in a grownup chair when we gather around the table to break bread every evening. Today, I noticed she’d shed her drawers for some reason and was sitting bare ass. No big surprise there. However, [...]
Pretty Bride is kind enough to enjoy fixing me a lunch every morning, since I’m too cheap to go out to lunch. Often, lunch is leftovers, and she’ll include instructions for preparation. Today, it was falafel. I went into our breakroom, like I do every day, and I opened my insulated lunch carrier, like I [...]
So, I’m at the grocery store, buying the week’s groceries (plus bananas for poor Muskrat’s tired muscles), and I see in the discount aisle that macaroni and cheese are on sale, four for a dollar. Now, we can eat us some mac n cheese, and 25 cents is a sweet deal. So I tossed a [...]
I made the mistake of leaving work today at 5:30pm so that I could have dinner with the family before Pretty Bride had to teach a class for 3 hours. It took 1.25 hours (4x the usual commute time), so she was gone by the time I returned. I quickly bathed the baby, put her [...]
Ever since Toyota ran commercials with some of its customers taking their cars over 200k miles in the ’80s, I’ve thought it would be nice to hit the bicentenniel (but with a nicer car). A few years ago, I took a 1987 Mercedes 190E to 187,500 miles. I was almost to 200,000. I dropped it [...]
