Tuesday, April 9, 2002

Going for a new look at the WSJ Bryce Payne has collected a number of comments and reviews of the new look of the Wall Street Journal. It was mentioned in passing by CSPAN this morning during their morning call-in show, otherwise I would have never noticed. I've been getting my business news from Fortune for the past few years instead. Hmmmm.... on the front page a lot of it is subtle.... not enough change to be jaring ? Did they really spend six years on this redesign ? 11:11:07 PM    Notes [] Tuesday evening, must be a cooking show. Ok.... we're still in rerun hell on my favorite Tuesday show but at least I've got the Naked Chef to watch. Jamie spent the show cooking at a school. Didn't quite get the context other than he gave a speech and presented awards at some event and then assisted in cooking for the prize winners. Hmmm.... I'll have to watch it again Saturday. I'm in the middle of watch the train wreck cooking show "A Cook's Tour". This week he (Tony something) is in London. British food can be very different than what is considered normal in the Northeastern US. Roasted bone marrow ? At least he found someone to make him some real Indian food. Boy can he eat ! 10:59:58 PM    Notes [] Being a stubborn curmugeon takes practice I refuse to get a shopping card at any of my local grocery stores. They don't need to know what I'm personally buying. They get enough information from their cash registers. Maybe if they were willing to pay me for that information.... My daughter thinks I'm strange for refusing to do that... I do what I can to provide amusement. Am I wrong ? When I remember I refuse to give phone numbers or zip codes to people manning cash registers. They don't need that info & I don't more telemarketers calling me at night. 10:51:12 PM    Notes [] Will it ever end ? Two years after she moved out I still get phone calls for my ex-wife (she doesn't have a phone that she is willing to share will non-family and people get confused.), usually bill collectors if she's late paying someone. There's one that calls every month and won't stop until they have been paid in full no matter how much she sends them every month, which I have no control over & keep telling them. I haven't been able to get her name off my phone bill no matter what I try. Seems she is the one who has to ask the phone company to do that and I've been asking her since she moved out to do that and somebody isn't paying attention, most likely the phone company. Ok.... so I'm too stubborn to fight it out with the phone company. Why give them any more money. I pay the phone bill every month. It still works even if it also has her name on it. Since I'm selling the house it didn't seem like there was much point. The electric company & cable tv had no problem putting the bill in just my name. She had to sign something to switch checking and savings accounts out of her name (Ok... sounds odd... but she moved to a town that didn't have a branch of our bank so I kept the old accounts.). The mortgage & property taxes are a completely different matter but the house selling will eventually solve that. 10:36:34 PM    Notes []

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