November 6, 2009Open enrollment for health plans starts at my day job soon. Now that I have a child, I’m looking at the HSA (Health Savings Account) combined with a HDHP (high-deductible health plan) with a high deductible versus the PPO (traditional) health plan option again, and with a few changes that have been made in the [...]
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Read the full article → October 13, 2009A few months back, I purchased a server on eBay. I contacted the seller multiple times asking for shipment status, and after receiving tracking numbers that were obviously false, after about a month I opened a dispute with PayPal. That finally prompted the seller to ship the server; however, it was missing two hard drives [...]
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Oh Passat, how I will miss thee… (or, “my tale of a new car”)
April 26, 2010Our beloved 2007 Passat just came up on lease end, which means that it was time to decide if we wanted to keep it, or if it was time to go car shopping.
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