Posted Freekin’ Cheap: Free Landline Phone Service. We pay nothing for landline service.
Category: Home Living
Shopping at Macy’s
Wild, uninhibited spending on clothes ($144.97). I don’t need to go clothes shopping again until at least 2017.
Freshest Kale
The kale in our yard is looking pretty good, so I picked some for dinner.
Copper River Salmon
It’s that time of the year: salmon from Alaska’s Copper River. Tonight we’ll cook it on a cedar plank on the BBQ.
Freakin’ Cheap: Free Telecom
The typical household pays north of $20,000 over ten years in landline, long distance, and mobile phone fees. In our household, we pay almost nothing for these services. There is a long history behind free telephone service. In the 1960’s and 70’s, phreaking was the art of hacking the public phone system using tone generators called blue…… Continue reading Freakin’ Cheap: Free Telecom
Too Spendy
Cycled to Wedge Co-op to buy morels. Bought criminis instead.
Zen and the Art of Casserole Assembly
Oh, the things I wish I’d known when I was young. Take the ingredients for a basic bake pictured at the top of this post. They look simple enough but for me they represent small lessons learned over decades. Mise en Place I enjoy the calmness of preparing and laying out all the ingredients for…… Continue reading Zen and the Art of Casserole Assembly
Zen and the Art of Casserole Assembly
Posted Zen and the Art of Casserole Assembly. Oh the things I wish I’d known when I was young.
Hita Station
I can add Hita train station, northern Kyushu, Japan, to my “delighted” list. By any standards, it’s a small station. A single train track enters town, and a single track leaves town. At Hita station, the track fans out into multiple tracks, more than enough to handle the three platforms and the boarding of an…… Continue reading Hita Station
Mailboxes on our Tree
Mailboxes on our tree.