It is with heavy heart that I note that tomorrow is the start of the Great NY State Fair (Governor’s Day, so we’ll be graced by the presence of St. Andrew of Cuomo). This means that after today there are only ten more days left of summer. <\/p>\n
Since I know you’re all wondering, let me start out by telling you that this year’s butter sculpture has been unveiled, and the them is “The Great American Milk Drive.” So there you have it.<\/p>\n
Also announced is this year’s entry in the Worst Food Possible contest – the TwinX: A Twinkie stuffed with Twix wrapped in four slices of bacon, battered, fried, and drizzled in chocolate. I could maybe go along with shoving a Twix bar into a Twinkie, but wrapping it all up in bacon just doesn’t sound appealing to me. I guess I’m just weird that way.<\/p>\n
I spent some time this morning putting my monthly income and outgo into a spreadsheet (I tend to start thinking about these things this time of the year as the school tax bill typically arrives during the first week of September). <\/p>\n
No matter how detailed I try to be, I always forget a ton of expenses. For instance, it just now occurs to me that I left off dog food (which is probably about $150 a month). <\/p>\n
Might be time to scale back on a thing or two, what with heating season coming up and all. At least I’ll be able to shut the pool pump off soon (just ordered the closing chemicals today, and the way the weather’s been, I’m not sure I’ll actually get back in again before we shut it all down).<\/p>\n
We’ve had a brief respite from the “Deficit Reduction” plan for the past two months, but come September they go back to stealing 1.6% of my annual gross pay for the next 20 pay periods. So that’s nice.<\/p>\n
Oh well, time to get back to work, I guess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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