I saw my first robin of spring a few days ago. It looked terribly confused and was freezing its tailfeathers off. Brrrr….
Author: allisonstein
Perhaps the one clear message I remember from my college economics class was the concept of “opportunity costs” — for every penny you spend on something, you sacrific the opportunity to spend that penny on something else. From an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times: “…the money spent on the war each day is enough to enroll an additional 58,000 children in Head Start for a year, or make a year of college affordable…
It’s warm and sunny today. I’ve opened up the doors and windows to get some fresh air into the house. That means the door to the porch is open, and the Trouble Twins are curious and eager to go explore it after being cooped up in the house for months. There’s just one problem: the wind. We’ve always used puffs of canned air to discipline the kitties, so with the wind blowing in great gusts,…
In honor on a 70-degree March 1, I indulged my craving for Spring food: fresh asparagus and eggs poached in chicken broth, topped with Old Bay, sea salt, and five kinds of shredded Italian cheese. Yum. I also took the accumulated glass to the recycling center and washed the car. Both were way past due.
I prefer to write without my word processor trying to assist me, so my first drafts are often written in the text-based Notepad. Through the years, I’ve managed to strip down the MS Word icons and auto-“features” to give me as much screen real estate — and as little “assistance” — as possible. Well, this week I came up in the IT department’s rotation for the upgrade to MS Office 2007 and IE 7. Some…