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I recently reacquainted myself with my popcorn maker. Hockey is better with popcorn, for some reason, and if you use that spray butter stuff, it isn’t too bad for you. Of course, I use an awful lot of popcorn salt. So I was in… Continue Reading “Salt”
I have been reading about retailers that have done well during the recession. You know – Wal-Mart, Target, Marshalls, TJ Maxx and Home Goods. Those last three, owned by the same company, I believe, have sprung up everywhere. Everywhere. Any direction on the map… Continue Reading “New Chairs”
I was just talking with some friends yesterday about the concept of a “first world problem”. Stuff that you know that you shouldn’t complain about because your little inconveniences can’t possibly compare to the real problems of the world. But still. For several months,… Continue Reading “HP Tech Support”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002QCJO0M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI remember being warned about the Amazon Kindle: The prices of the books are more fluid. The ones that are showing up as freebies today may not be freebies tomorrow. Fair enough. You might remember that back in January, I downloaded the Sookie Stackhouse… Continue Reading “The Prices Don’t Always Go Down”
Yesterday morning, I kinda wanted to go back to the Little City Book Sale. There were so many tables that I missed and a bunch of inventory that they hadn’t even brought out yet. I figured if I got there right when it opened,… Continue Reading “Return Trip”
This morning, I headed over to Old Orchard Shopping Mall in Skokie to hit the Little City Book Sale. This was the second full day of the sale, which was a change in strategy for me. The past couple of years, I have attended… Continue Reading “The Book Sale Formerly Known as Brandeis – 2010”
Yeah, you read that right. You know I love nutsonline.com. So I was at the website reordering my awesome custom trail mix and then started clicking around for fun. They have this new feature where they will send you a sample of something for… Continue Reading “Organic Gummy Bears”
Publisher’s Weekly had an article about the bestseller list for Amazon.com: “For some in publishing it may be a curiosity, for others a point of contention—Amazon’s practice of including free downloads in its list of most popular Kindle titles. It will soon no longer… Continue Reading “Kindle Downloads”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0812978188&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI am home from Seattle and really tired and feel like I should write something, but I have nothing to say. So I am looking at Blogger and see that they are partnered with Amazon.com to allow for some monetizing on my little blog. … Continue Reading “Monetizing”
Joker the Bunny has gone home and I am gearing up for a couple of business trips. The horrid part about that is Alex and Ainslie are expecting their baby sister while I am gone. I took them to lunch yesterday at Noodles. I… Continue Reading “Random Sunday Night Blathering”