asking online |

TWO DAYS LEFT!!!

June 28. Day 363.

I can’t believe it’s almost over!! I wrote Day 363 as if it were day 63. Unreal.

In a recent comment, IGC asked if I have any plans this week.

Nothing you can see immediately, but stuff is happening behind the scenes.

Starting July 1, I’m going to publish an analysis of all the data [...]

asking for others |

Best apartment rate? And some much needed advice?

June 25. Day 360.

My dad and stepmom are going to France, and they asked me to help them book a hotel or apartment. They’re on a tight budget, and they want a kitchen, so I went for the Craigslist approach.

Rather than query 20 apartment renters separately, I opted for a more efficient approach. I grouped [...]

asking online |

Improve my credit score?

June 23. Day 358.

Today I emailed a reporter in response to a query I read online. Danielle Gorman, who writes for Money Magazine, was interested in finding people in their 20’s and 30’s with questions about their credit scores, and that would be me.

I recently signed up with Credit Karma, which gives you your score [...]

dining out |

Teach me how to take a man down?

June 19. Day 354.

Mr. A and I rang in our fourth year together tonight.

Since I know you’d rather read about asking and negotiations, I’ll spare you the intimate, mushy, high-res blow-by-blow. (Except you. Yeah, you. I’m sure you’d like to read about it. Well, dream on, perv. We are not interested in that Canola oil [...]

immaterial gains (knowledge or access) |

The great elevator escape.

June 11. Day 346.

Italian elevators, like mediocre wine, are best enjoyed in moderation and ideally not too aged.

Italian elevators are like gnocchi in summertime: sound better than they taste.

Italian elevators are like Stalin. They suck.

Ok, so I’m not inspired tonight. But I think you get my drift.

All this because of the blasted Florentine ascensore of [...]