this is a tape i made for sending to people who were interested in hiring me for weddings, receptions, etc. iirc, i ran an amplified guitar into the line-in jacks on the ever-trusty boombox, so you don't get the 1991 hum and crackle, but it sounds like i'm playing an electric guitar underwater. all the…
investment income back on the move
[this is a ymoyl update.] i updated the graphs for the end of the month and decided to put the investment income line back on the move, just to make progress visible. for the last nine months, when i was mainly paying down my mortgage, i left it at the total i'm actually making on…
a temporary problem of liquidity
[this is a ymoyl update.] i've read john le carré's novels over the last few years, and a phrase from a perfect spy keeps coming back to my ears lately. whenever the shyster father explained why he couldn't (and never would) pay what he owed, he blamed "a temporary problem of liquidity". last summer, i…
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Jeffrey Covey 4 Lodge Road Catonsville, MD 21228 August 6, 2004 Congressman Tom Davis U.S. House of Representatives 2348 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515-4611 Dear Congressman Davis: I'd like to share with you the horrible experience we had when we tried to use the D.C. Metro system today. We're from Baltimore, and we wanted to see an…
the cost of having a car
[this is a ymoyl update.] here's a staggering number: in the first ten months of this year, i paid an average of $287.10 a month for fees, gas, insurance, repairs, and tolls for my car. that comes to exactly one fourth of my expenses for that period, discounting tax and mortgage payments. i only use…
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