Many years ago I signed up to volunteer with a refugee organization in Denver. I guess I had this idea of which ethnicities I preferred to work with, like picking things out of a catalog, or browsing which classes I wanted to take next semester. So I was surprised when instead I was assigned to […]
Month: December 2019
Failure to Give
It’s been a rough couple months. Budget-wise. I spent the whole month of November on a massive spending bender. I don’t remember the last time I spent all the slack in my paycheck on various crap, but it definitely happened. Some might say that was long overdue, I’d say it was long over-stupid, but at […]
Nostalgia
Several weeks ago, I bought a Lego set. But it wasn’t just any Lego set: it was the best set you could have purchased in the mid-90s. And I bought it brand new. Mint. Sealed in box. I had been tracking it for a few months, waiting for a good deal, and the right deal […]