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I opened a checking account at our local credit union last week. (BofA outsources their tech support and charges a $6 monthly maintenance fee, so I’m dumping them.) My box of checks arrived yesterday, wrapped in plastic. Recyclable #2 plastic.
Now that’s the way things outta be. Don’tcha hate plastic that isn’t marked? [...]

Two snippets:
1. One of the friends that came to our second Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago came up to me at school the beginning of this week (we’re in the same grad program). “Joyce, I got some of that milk this weekend, and I’ve had half a gallon in three days! [...]

Cognitive dissonance is seeing a Hummer parked outside of your local natural foods store.

I was tagged by Liz. Guess I’ll have to step up.
I’m supposed to come up with “six weird/unknown things about me”. I’m going to take some writer’s license with this rule. I don’t like conforming to norms anyway.
Here goes:
* I’m a populist that leans moderately to the right, [...]

I’ll be saying more at length over here tomorrow, but I just wanted to pop up and say a word about our dinner tonight. We did local Italian sausage (from Back Woods farm) on homemade hot dog buns, homemade French fries (local potatoes), and salad with local/organic ingredients, and it was all just awesome. [...]

Yesterday, we were in Deep Roots, doing our weekly shopping (since I wasn’t here last weekend, being up north with family for Thanksgiving, we didn’t get our normal farmer’s market run in) [reminds me: this is a placeholder for posting about the Pennsylvania markets]. They still had turkeys available – organic, but not [...]

Marty posing on the couch Originally uploaded by jharbert.
Marty posing on the couch
Ellie napping in the office windowsill Originally uploaded by jharbert.
Ellie napping in the office windowsill