Katy’s Weblog
A year-long study by the Business and Media Institute found that news reports about the American economy have been grossly distorted with twice as many negative stories as positive ones. Moreover, the negative reports were often aired in full-length segments, where as the positive stories only got a brief mention. The worst offender of the big three networks was CBS – fully 80% of its reporting on the economy was negative.
(from Gary Bauer‘s End of the Day report)
In our little suburban town of 30,000 people, the annual Walnut Family Festival held last Saturday is one of the highlights of the year. The local Boy Scout and Girl Scout troups, Little League and soccer teams, City Council members riding in vintage automobiles, local businesses, the water department, and a “clean” trash truck from the waste disposal company were some of the participants featured in the parade.
Say, you’re 22 and spend $5 a day on fancy coffee. By retirement (62, for example), you’ll have gulped away $72,800! Put it in an IRA instead, and with interest, you’d have $179,256 (based on 4% APY).
Coffee is no good for you anyway.
Google saved me a lot of money this week.
1. The office printer Phaser 8200 wasn’t working. The code on the machine says to call for repair. So I called an authorized repair shop. Can you believe they charge $150 per hour – the hourly charge begins when the repairman leaves the shop to the time he returns to the shop! I decided to see if we can fix it ourselves.
I am half way through reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I am not going to read the rest of it. I don’t like the book.
Is it ok to dislike a book that is suppose to be a literary classic?
In our local library there is a Classic section. I like to read something from…
This comparison struck me today.
Mike and I drove to USC to have breakfast with Elliot this morning. When we left the house, my mother-in-law also went out at the same time. She wanted to walk to the swapmeet at the high school a little over a mile away. We drove about 35 miles to USC, had breakfast with Elliot at the Intervarsity Trojan Christian Fellowship group, and drove 35 miles back. We got home within a minute of my mother-in-law.
Have you heard of Kay Arthur and Precept Ministries?
After 10 years of Bible study with BSF, I am making a change this year.
I joined a Precept Bible study group for women held at my friends church in Chino Hills. We will cover the book of II Timothy.
This is to remind myself what I can make for dinner when I can’t think of what to make:
Spinach stuffed sole
Meatloaf
Veggie Lasagna
Seafood alfredo
I am kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. :)