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Peach Chutney

Published in April 17th, 2023
Posted by in How to
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Upon realizing that we need to include more vegetables and fruits in our diet to keep future medical expenses down, I went onto Safeway’s website, entered our zip-code, pulled the “produce” menu and cross-referenced it with the state list of produce currently in season (see here) (*). Here I found some peaches for $0.99/lbs and […]

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Homemade woodworking tools – part 1

Published in April 6th, 2023
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Once upon a time, people regularly made things for themselves instead of buying them … The picture shows a bench hook, a mallet, a saw vise (hard to buy these days) to sharpen my saw(s), and a hacksaw that I made. I plan to make the hacksaw look a little prettier but I couldn’t resist […]

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The salary of a blogger: What you should be paid

Published in April 4th, 2023
Posted by in Work
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It is no secret that our econometric systems only capture “value” whenever there is a transaction. More accurately, they only measure price. So for instance, if I break a window, I create so-called economic value as a new window has to be produced and installed even though the world is poorer for the broken window […]

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