goat-free simplicity

08.16.07

Simply Amazing! gadgets, goat-free simplicity, humor, simplicity | (0)
Every Thursday is Goat-Free Simplicity day at Living Behind the Curve. Infomercials are sort of awesome. Admit it, every once in a while, when you're drunk or tired or the level of cynicism in your blood is a little low, it's damned entertaining to watch loud men cut through soda cans with table knives. They appeal to our basest instincts on purpose -- if the sparkling, 1 dimensional entertainment doesn't suck you in, it's hard not to gloat a little at the morons the advertisers insist exist that can't seem to accomplish simple tasks without this amazing new invention. They promise ...
08.09.07

500 Bucks Was Apparently Optimistic emergency fund, goat-free simplicity, home improvement, simplicity | (11)
Every Thursday is Goat-Free Simplicity day at Living Behind the Curve. Since Thursday is simplicity day, I've got a real simple post for you. Remember the door we were supposed to buy? We didn't buy it yet. We got an $800 dollar estimate from Lowes, and after several weeks and some breathtakingly bad customer service, I went over to Home Depot to see what they could do for me. The door guy came out and looked at it, and gave me a call to say that it'll take a little more than the standard installation fee to get the door installed, ...
07.26.07

What Goes “Squeak, Squeak, Snap”? gadgets, goat-free simplicity, humor, simplicity | (4)
Every Thursday is Goat-Free Simplicity day at Living Behind the Curve. What goes "Squeak, squeak, snap"? A doomed mouse in my basement. As you may recall, we're dealing with a mouse problem. It's one of those situations that seems like it should be peppered with (ahem) cheesy jokes, but really, all we have in the American lexicon is the mental image of the stockings'n'pearls 50's housewife squealing from atop the kitchen table while a cartoon cat attempts to catch the mouse and only succeeds in bumbling towards his certain doom. Oddly enough, dealing with mice puts me in a rather introspective mood. ...
07.20.07

I’m Sorry, But Your Mother Was Right eleven things, frugality, goat-free simplicity, health and fitness, lifestyle, self help | (3)
Every Friday is 11 Things day at Living Behind the Curve. Are you feeling run down? Tired? Do you have that not-so-fresh feeling? Are you avoiding your friends and coworkers because you are certain that if someone so much as thinks of coughing in the same room as you, you're going to get sick? You could say that the common cold or depression is the great health blight upon the modern world, but I say that it's generalized malaise -- I don't know about the rest of the world, but we Americans don't take care of ourselves at all, and we ...
07.19.07

Honesty, Simplicity, and the Tao of Job-Seeking goals, goat-free simplicity, simplicity | (0)
Every Thursday is Goat-Free Simplicity day at Living Behind the Curve. My stress levels lately have been through the roof -- the new entry on my to-do list, "find a new job", doesn't exactly encourage gentle relaxation. Unwilling to lose sight of my goals for daily living, however, I've made some small (and some not-so-small) changes to my patterns and routines that minimize the stress while maximizing the experience. The first breakthrough came when I realized that the one thing I want most from a new job is time. I focused my search on local companies (within a 5-mile radius) and opened ...

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