My mother has a number of irritating sayings, and “bloom where you are planted” is one of the worst, particularly when I’m struggling with “my life sucks” syndrome. There’s also a horrible poem she used to make us read when my sisters and I fought with each other about how “God made us a family” [...]
September 28, 2005 1 Comment
September 27, 2005 24 Comments
Dell Preferred Accounts are a huge, lying rip-off.
I am going to load this post with as many Google grabbing words as I can. Dell, a computer company, offers financial services to its “customers” called the Dell Preferred Account. This is through Dell Financial Services, or DFS, or as their employees no doubt like to refer to it as Dumb Fools are easily [...]
September 27, 2005 Leave a Comment
Conquering my books.
Mom built me a new bookshelf. “That’s just wasted space behind the door. We’ll put a shelf right there,” she said, and so she did. The shelf is plain pine board, unfinished, and held together with plenty of crazy nailing. In fact, the carpenter who came out later that night to measure my bedroom window [...]
