Category: Money
Posts about being frugal, getting out of debt, staying out of debt, spending practically and splurging joyfully. This category may also contain posts about hard money and what the government is doing to all that “soft money” it creates.
You may have heard that Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus, let cyberintruders steal data on at least 143 million of their “customers.” (What’s the proper word for people who are in a company’s database whether they want to be or not? “Ccustomer” doesn’t quite describe it.) If you go the the PR site Equifax has set up in response, you’ll find this “news” bolded at the very top: No Evidence of Unauthorized Access to Core Consumer or Commercial Credit Reporting Databases But the moment you dip into the actual statement text you get: The information accessed primarily…
I should have thought of this earlier, but it took a neighbor to put it in my head. She stopped me on the street yesterday and asked if I knew of any local relief organizations in Texas she and her mother could donate to. They didn’t want to send money to the ubiquitous Red Cross because of its high administrative costs. The Salvation Army was a possibility but not what she’d prefer. Did I have any better ideas? Well, of course the best idea was to ask Commentariat member, Texan, and shelter volunteer Larry Arnold. He responded: My church is…
That’s an Indian burial tree, so yesterday’s host told me. I wasn’t able to find out a lot about it, though it resembles Indian marker trees, but with the bend higher up, and I know some tribes did “bury” their dead in trees or on scaffolds. Anyhow, there were quite a few of these around the barbecue pavilion at the house where the cannon shoot took place. All cedars. An archaeologist told my hosts the trees were only about 250 years old and therefore had probably been prepared for burials but never actually used. Somehow that made it slightly less…