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Shenanigans with an insurance salesperson
So I’m trying to get life insurance. Just 20-year level term life insurance. It’s supposed to be cheap and easy to get. Some of the big dogs won’t do online quotes, New York Life in particular. So I agreed to meet with a local agent yesterday morning and let him talk at me over coffee. Yes, coffee, which I don’t go for often. Luckily, it was at Panera Bread, so the coffee was pretty good, although a little aged. We go through the usual rigmarole of “Oh, you used to be a teacher? So did I!” After the meeting, I think I knew pretty well why he ultimately left teaching,…
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A bit less of a slacker
I finally got off my ass and finished moving over my teaching retirement money. I asked them to cut me a check back in February so that I could do a rollover into an IRA. Well, turns out you can only rollover into a traditional IRA, so I got two accounts set up (traditional and Roth) and stalled, and stalled, then moved into the house, then stalled some more… Ah, life. It happens. And the check is chump change in the grand scheme of things, really… Blah, blah, inertia. I’m appreciating a new, larger salary now, though, and have located my inner “gazelle” (although it’s more like a puppy, really)…
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (July 29th)
Links for July 29th from 16:12 to 16:12: JeffreyBarke.net » Blog Archive » Installing the Fileinfo PECL module on a Media Temple dedicated virtual (dv) server – A quick and dirty guide to installing Fileinfo on a MediaTemple server. I really appreciate guides like this when I'm trudging through server admin work.
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“Lina” posted
I’ve got another short up in the Transhuman Congress — “Lina“: “This is the first model of its type!” the voice above us said in breathy, fast voice. We opened our eyes — no. One of us opened his eyes, but we all see, and in that moment, we diverged. He/We looked up at the human, the blushing/flushed/excited/!! human man leaning over us.
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (July 16th)
Links for July 16th from 14:49 to 14:49: Plesk configuration – get open_basedir working for a subdomain – enarion.net – MediaTemple/Plesk/PHP is so obnoxious sometimes.