Wow. I decided it was time to renew my U.S. Passport. I’m not planning any trips at the moment, but it still had me pictured as a perky 16-year-old, and it expired not too long thereafter. I filed the paperwork on Feb. 29. It was processed on March 7. I received it today. Count ’em — 10 days. This time last year, it would have taken months to process. At any rate, it’s good to…
I saw my first robin of spring a few days ago. It looked terribly confused and was freezing its tailfeathers off. Brrrr….
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…
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…
